Backlight gone; cannot find backlight IC chip

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2015年初 MacBook Air 11"

2015年三月发布的MacBook 11吋使用第五代intel i5/i7处理器，並且拥有比前代稍佳的性能与电池寿命。

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Backlight gone; cannot find backlight IC chip

I've a A1465 macbook air, and it's a custom board. This has introduced some head-scratching when the backlight suddenly stopped working. No drops or spills. I looked at all of the online resources I could find, like board schematics, and none of them were able to provide the location of the backlight chip, or the fuses etc. Might you please highlight where the IC chip is, and its part number, so I can replace it. Same for the fuse. Any further advice would be appreciated!

Below are photos of the region around the display cable, and nearby chips, and further photos of the overall board.

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Picture 1 above the connector is a fuse (orange) with a 'P' in it, I believe this is the BL fuse....

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Thanks for that! I'll check the conductivity of it this evening. My question is, if that is the source, and it's blown, what is the actual fuse as I'll need to get a replacement one. Do you know what the fuse is called?

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@falcon16 F7700 I believe @oldturkey03

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It seems that the fuse is fine. I checked the resistance and it's 0.04 ohms.

Must be the backlight chip. I thought it would be as there was no reason for the fuse to blow. But thanks! Any suggestions?

由 Falcon 16 完成的昨天2026年1月3日

@falcon16 I have encountered this a few times before and for me was always this fuse. Calling@danj @oldturkey03 they may have another idea.

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Picture 1 above the connector is a fuse (orange) with a 'P' in it, I believe this is the BL fuse.... — livfe
@livfe

Thanks for that! I'll check the conductivity of it this evening. My question is, if that is the source, and it's blown, what is the actual fuse as I'll need to get a replacement one. Do you know what the fuse is called? — Falcon 16
@livfe

It seems that the fuse is fine. I checked the resistance and it's 0.04 ohms.

Must be the backlight chip. I thought it would be as there was no reason for the fuse to blow. But thanks! Any suggestions? — Falcon 16
@falcon16 I have encountered this a few times before and for me was always this fuse. Calling@danj @oldturkey03 they may have another idea. — livfe

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Backlight driver is this one right here.

It's a Texas Instruments LP8550 backlight driver. But I would check for shorts on anything that comes out of that chip

The fuse is the one here with the P on it. Although in my experience, the fuse is generally not the issue. It's more likely to be a bad capacitor, or the backlight driver itself if the board is the issue (rather than the display or the cable).

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oldturkey03 @oldturkey03 声誉积分: 838.2千 1.3千 943 2.4千 · Answer 2 · 2026-01-03T06:07:12-07:00

@falcon16 I would not worry to much about measuring resistance on the fuse but measure for continuity, and most importantly measure for any voltage. You know, multimeter in VDC mode (somewhere in the 30V range) Black probe to ground and red probe to the contacts of the fuse. What makes this "it's a custom board"? What is the 820-xxxx number on your board? Also, check the voltage on L9701 That is one of those inductors that likes to fail :-) That is the grey square looking component that has the numbers 150 408 printed on it.

That voltage itself will give you a pretty good idea about what is going on with your backlight. If the backlight is ~45V or more that means there is no load on the backlight circuit. That may be because of the screen or the display cable/connector. If the backlight voltage is 25V-40V then the boost circuit is working and teh no backlight issue could again be a connector, cable, and LCD issue. If the backlight is PPBus voltage your boost circuit isn't working. Check the feedback trace, LCD driver, and make sure that your backlight enable gets power. Finally, if the backlight voltage is 0V, check for a short by working your way back to the PPBUS_S0_LCDBKLT circuit

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Backlight gone; cannot find backlight IC chip

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