Hi Tommy, I'm about to start fault finding on my own A2159; can I ask you where to source the schematics? Sorry I cant contribute to your particular fault at this stage.

Thats really good advice right there.

Hi, I’ve joined so we can share technical information on component level repairs. I’m retired now - I used to work in IT and was originally an electronics engineer; I worked on computers back in the early 80’s, to component level. Right now I fancy repairing my MacBook Pro 2020 intel based model myself - for fun. It died suddenly while I was using it. Completely dead. No usual warnings of low battery. I’ve charged the battery for 18 hours. It’s still dead. So I’m getting my workbench up to date with the right tools. I need circuit diagrams, block diagrams, schematics etc and reading...