Hi I'm new to this forum and Mac's in particular, dare I say am a PC guy, I was asked by a customer to have a look at his mid 2011 iMac that was having issues, he was having problems with it starting from the power button then eventually it wouldn't start at all even with every reset known, when I opened it up I discovered there was water damage (corrosion) to the logic board especially around the smc chip.
I cleaned the best I could but with still no joy, but I discovered that if I remove the Pram battery ( I call it the cmos battery) and reinstall it and plug the iMac into the main power the machine boots to its desktop and runs without any issues
I have taken some pictures from an area on the board that looks suspect to me and I've replaced the power supply with a new one so that's ruled this out, the power button also checks out with the multimeter so no issues there
any you guys shed some light on the issue
Thanks in advance
Sorry the board is a 820-2828-a 27" mid 2011
Ed
I cleaned the best I could but with still no joy, but I discovered that if I remove the Pram battery ( I call it the cmos battery) and reinstall it and plug the iMac into the main power the machine boots to its desktop and runs without any issues
I have taken some pictures from an area on the board that looks suspect to me and I've replaced the power supply with a new one so that's ruled this out, the power button also checks out with the multimeter so no issues there
any you guys shed some light on the issue
Thanks in advance
Sorry the board is a 820-2828-a 27" mid 2011
Ed
