butterfries

Does anyone know what the component is in the attached pic? The marking on top is N6. I think it may be related the gas...

I have a mid 2011 11” Macbook Air that appears to have an issue with the battery or the dc power board. I have a few...

In my experience the red flash is usually a nand issue. I have resolved it by pulling the nand from the board and formatting it and then doing a DFU restore. I just received a new lot of A1701/A1709 10.5’s and I’ve come come across one that is still wrapped in the plastic, perfect condition, and it shows the red flash before the screen turns black. The first attempt to restore the device saw the progress bar get near to the end of the restore before failing and rebooting into recovery but now every subsequent attempt results in the red flash before it even gets to the part where the progress bar appears. I was hoping I wasnt going to have to remove the plastic from this one but it looks like I’m going to have to crack this thing open. I’ll update once again to advise if a simple nand replacement/wipe did the job!

You probably wont find a “replacement part” but you should easily find a broken display with the cables still attached. I usually snip the redundant cable where the connector protrudes from the inner layers and then grab a display out of my junk pile, pry it open, steal the cable and then retrofit/adhere it to the shield on the back of the display.

This is some pretty bad advice, while the keyboard may work initially, you will likely end u p with a lot of corrosion on the motherboard and a dead battery at some point in the near future. If you arent willing to open it to properly clean it then at the very least use pure isopropyl alcohol instead of water. In a pinch you can use dill pickle juice instead of the isopropyl but make sure you strain the juice if it was the variant with garlic added.