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3 I need help to locate where the smc chip is the logicboard.
I have an issue with fan spinning when the iMac is shutdown. SMC and PRAM reseting does not help. From the forum, someone have similar problem with bad smc component on his imac 21”. But as the logicboard design is different than the iMac 27”. Anyone got a boardview so that I can locate the smc part, so that I can take a look if there is some bad component and check it for contuinity?
Update
The logicboard has a history of problems. There were a blown L4400 a 120 Ohm 3A fix inductor (ferrite bead) which I have replaced with new one. This fixed fan spinning while the iMac is on. Now the only problem is that it is on while the iMac is shutdown. Beside that the iMac have 2 defective ram slot. Not to mention a brokken glass screen. It is a problem child, but it works at least normally while it is on.
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Hi Thien ,
did you manage to locate the SMC? That type of chip is it and did you succeed in replacing it ?
thanks in advance , ciao bart
par bart koens
@bart koens - This is not an SMC chip issue! The cable was inserted backwards!
If SMC was bad then TG Pro would not be able to gain access to the sensor data.
par Dan
please expand which cable ?
par solos
@bart_be - The display cable which connects just above the damaged components in Thien Khanh Nguyen picture above.
par Dan
I couldn't find a solution to the problem. The board works for a while and died in the end.
Dan - The LCD cable are designed and placed on the LCD in such a way that you cannot plug in the cable backwards. You need to bend the cable to be able to plug it in backwards and you will immediately see that is wrong.
The reason I was looking for the SMC chipset, was that someone in Louis Rossmann thread mentioned the problem above, with fan spinning while the iMac is off could be due to defective SMC chipset. I could not go further as the Motherboard died on me after a while.
par Thien Khanh Nguyen
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