Macbook Air SSD not detected motherboard repair

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[BudLarsenjr]

I always enjoy the smile after a repair. Everything is awesome!

[rodblod]

You needed that time off, you work hard and deserve it.

[chrisjustinmatias]

Family is so important. Ive been away with my fam now for almost 7 mos to work overseas. All our hardworks is for our family’s future

[mohannadsadeddin]

This is the most extreme fix i've seen in your channel, how did you manage to know that adding this resistor would fix the problem!! I really enjoy this masterpiece of efforts 👌

[yaroslavkagan]

it always amazes me how adding or removing 1 resistor fixes almost all the problems

[griparian]

I love seeing the delight on your face when you find a simple answer to what could potentially have been a complex problem for anyone else.

[DimitrisPhd]

Hope you have a great time with your family! I wanted to say that I LOVE how you get happy when you repair boards. I do the same stuff on car ECU's and I always feel the same excitement when I repair things. Great to have you on youtube and as a fellow technician. Respect!

[apurvamathur]

What a great way of troubleshooting the issue...no other repair shop will do such kind of troubleshooting...hats off to you

[hazzardpt]

It's always great to see a paperweight come back to life. Looking back I wonder how many things I threw away that needed a tiny little resistor put back in place.
Thanks for the content!

[bogdanmustata]

Wow ... how important it is to have the product layout. How much easier your job is. I can't get enough of forgetting what you post I wish you good health from Romania.

[buntykainth]

Alex, thank you for all your content, I have been following you for a while, a silent follower. I must thank you very much, iv learnt so much from you and have recently repaired things for customers I would previously never have dreamt of, micro soldering repairs such as flex cable trace repair, remote control fob repair. Your content is amazing and extremely useful to people like us. Thank you again and please keep it up.

[TomsTechRepair]

Welcome back. Hope you enjoyed your holiday. We all need a break now and then when we work for our selves.

[RedmiNote-ndhm]

One of the best repairs from you, I love how much knowledge you need to fix Macbooks.

[manISnoGOD]

Iam a plasterer by trade but I find watching you fixing electronic so complete I got no skills but my heart say I must go in repairs can You advice a 50year-old guy always a pleasure to see your videos may your business go from strength to strength God bless

[TheOneAndOnlyRandy]

part of me wishes I had a job like this. it seems very rewarding

[dafalzonAUS]

Great to have you back Alex, I was having withdrawal symptoms, which is not good

[mohsentabouna]

Haha, this is what repair is all about.
the troubleshooting part got me into repair.
I understand plenty were a bit disoriented by what's going on, rewatch the video and pause to understand the thought process of fault-finding.
now when it comes to the repair:
something is pulling down the 3.3V SSD_Enable rail to 0.5-0.2V
now Alex notices there is a second path for 3.3V SSD_Enable and opened the gate of this closed path by adding the 100K resistor

[I_SuperHiro_I]

I’ve been trying to stay more positive like you always do. I gotta tell you, I am feeling better every day.

[javiermitchell]

Alex I always enjoy you videos. I was able to for your logic to find the problem, however in this case is not clear why you had to add an extra 100K resistor to enable the SSD power. I understand what it does, but was the cause of the problem?. Surely the 100K resistor did not run away by its own!.Why did it stop working?
Thanks and keep doing what you do

[stvnseegal]

I always watch your videos in my “Morning Routine”, which is around 3:00 PM here, and missed your videos last week. As I’m watching it on my Smart TV I can’t see or write comments so I was unaware about your holiday. Sounds like you had a great time with your family and you’ve deserved it. I even think your holiday should be longer for all your hard work, but that will only the workload and stress as the “Mail-inn’s” keep piling up.
Glad to have you back though though!