greetings

my mid-2015 15" macbook pro had become pretty slow and was running quite hot, and the battery was long-overdue for replacement. so i ordered some thermal paste and a fresh battery from ifixit - and spent half a day cleaning out the dust and scraping the old battery off the case and redoing the thermals.

i was very careful and everything seemed to go fine, but when i booted it up, the fans kicked in immediately and kernel-task was consistently sucking up 500% of the CPU. apple diagnostics identified a problem with the SCM - maybe 006 or 007? i can't remember the exact one - and said it was likely water damage. i ran a code (pmset? maybe) in terminal and it produced a report on the thermal throttling situation. it should be 100/100 if nothing is happening, but mine was fixed at 21/100 : OMG ! meanwhile, the computer is cool to the touch, and i installed tg pro which shows that none of the regions it monitors is above 40 degrees.

since then, through a very long and boring and sloooooow-motion week, i disconnected the battery and the trackpad and reattached them again. no change. i reset the SCM and the PRAM. no change. i also read 8723 articles online discussing this problem, and it seems like the best solution for me is to sack all the firemen and close down the fire station so they can't sabotage my life any more (or to put it less metaphorically, to de-activate the system which monitors the temperature and creates pretend work in kernel_task so as to stop me from doing any real work which might heat things up again - because this system is clearly broken, and has become like an autoimmune disorder rather than a sensible protection).

my question, then, is how to do this now we have big sur? there are umpteen tutorials online but they all date back a few years, back to when the OS was less paranoid about people poking around in its thermal underwear. a step-by-step guide for people who don't normally open up the terminal and run commands in it. or maybe some other suggestions how to solve this problem which weren't covered in the 8723 articles i already read, and won't require a repair which costs more than a new mac mini with apple silicon.

if you actually submit a winning answer, and my beloved computer lets me start doing (long-overdue) things again, i'll send you a bottle of wine. many thanks in advance...

ben

Hello again

And many thanks for your support. And sorry for being slow

I redid the diagnostic test. PFM006. I'm not aware of having had any spills myself, but the notes that accompany this diagnostic say “usually the result of liquid

I tried to find the smc chip as per your photo, but I refused to let myself believe that the not exposed section meant the underneath. So I took out the SSD and looked underneath it and I also removed the heat dissipating bar again and looked under there

I guess I'll watch some YouTube disassembly tutorials in the next few days and see if I'm brave and competent enough to get to where I'm meant to be

In the meantime, the attached photo will show you how brave I've already been

Many thanks again

Slow Ben

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With little hope left, I went where everyone with a problem with no easy solution go: to the internet. I found that Face ID parts are linked with some kind of ID to the original display of the phone. But the guys who repaired it told me that they tried with the old display and it still will not work.

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I will be traveling to the US (if COVID let’s me) on October. So I’m willing to get the replacement parts and kit from you if they’re available.

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