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Matters involving physical computer components, circuitry and parts, as opposed to matters of software or computer programming

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I recently bought a MacBook Air M1 with a broken display, planning to repurpose it as a headless system. During the disassembly process, I may have inadvertently damaged the logic board because the ...
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I had a problem arise with my iMac [2021 M1, 4 ports] mid-September and called Apple Support. They suggested making an appt. at the Apple store and I did, and brought it in for review. The following ...
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We know every MacBook has a serial number printed on the underside of the laptop case and that number matches the serial number used in the operating system as seen in the General > About page of ...
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I have bought a used Macbook 2015 (12" Retina) to replace my own which died. Under 10.10 and 10.11 it runs very well without any problems, but upgrading to 10.12 and above (both supported and ...
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My iPhone 6s accidentally fell headfirst into the (clean) toilet water two days ago. It didn’t remain in the water for more than 1.5 seconds; I immediately took it out. I focused first on the charging ...
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The original iBook G3 has two holes on its bottom side. Those holes allow to directly reach a couple gold-plated connectors on the mainboard. That looks very, very much like a docking connector. What ...
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I am trying to mod an old iMac 21" late 2009 with an Intel CPU and repurpose it as a monitor. I was hoping to find the PSU pinout, which is a 14 pin one. My further goal is to allow the button on ...
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I own since many years a Mac Pro early 2008. Few days ago it stopped working. It starts, fans spin, but no chime. Initially, I thought it was a RAM problem, but soon understood that the problem is &...
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I spilled a glass of water on my 2019 MacBook Pro. I immediately turned it off, then left it to drain for 48 hours. After turning it on, the display remained black, but first I saw the whole Touch Bar ...
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While running a CPU intensive task (solving a linear programming model), my 16-inch MacBook Pro suddenly restarted and then displayed this error: panic(cpu 2 caller 0xfffffe003dfdd994): Sleep ...
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After a recent repair my MacBook Air M2 was working good as new. I used it 5 hours and shut it down. The next day after start up the keyboard was unresponsive. Touch pad was okay but no key worked. ...
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I just switched from a Windows PC to a Mac Mini M4. When I open a few apps, I notice the GPU temperature gets to around 80-90 degrees Celsius (seems to me pretty high). I saw people recommend using a ...
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I need to recover data from a Samsung MZ-JPV5120/0A6 SSD (12+16-pin PCIe NVMe, 512GB) from a Late 2015 iMac. It’s not detected despite multiple hardware attempts. Details: SSD: Apple proprietary 12+16-...
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I have a Macbook Pro Retina 13" Late 2012, with macOS Mojave / Ubuntu 24.04 dual boot installed. A few days ago, while using Ubuntu, suddenly, the screen was striped black and white. I forced ...
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I recently picked up an iPhone 8 that someone had thrown away, since I have one myself and I don't turn down free original spare parts. Two days later I crack the back glass on mine... Since the spare ...
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