A ship without a captain has nowhere to go. We can think of motherboard failures as the same concept as losing the captain of our ship. Some professional sound equipment also falls under the same category. because for the fraction of a replacement cost you can have your existing motherboard repaired and ready to use. So It only makes more sense to repair these motherboards purely for the cost factor. For a 2016 MacBook pro, 15 inch motherboard apple authorized service center will quote you $1700. Unfortunately, this scenario doesn’t apply to many laptops, especially when it comes to APPLE’s MacBook laptop range. This may seem like a viable option if the motherboard of the device is easily available and cost of repair is far greater than the new replacement motherboard. All that needs to be done is remove the non-working or damaged motherboard from a computer or a laptop and install a new one straight out of the box. You don’t need to be a technician to replace a dead or faulty motherboard. The motherboard in itself is made of off layers and layers of channels, lines, in which the components communicate and make the whole unit work by sending signals, voltage, currents. Motherboards have many integrated components soldered onto it. In saying this with the expert technician any motherboard can be repaired. Becuase moving any other motherboard components or damaging the motherboard could be catastrophic. Only a trained micro soldering specialist should perform this work. Once the faulty chip is identified the next stage is to remove the faulty chip and solder the new chip in its place. To find the faulty part, manufacturer specification motherboard schematics is used.

Replacing the faulty components is not as easy it may sound because firstly, one has to know which IC or filter is faulty. A microscope is required to see the components in order for fault diagnosing. It’s like a mega city shrunk to a size of an A4 paper. Each component has a unique function to carry out.

If one component fails usually the whole motherboard fails. Motherboards are printed circuit boards which allow all components to communicate (signal) to each other. Laptop & Mac Motherboard Repair (logicboard)

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