Something has burnt here, anybody knows which part is it?

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eyup_acar wrote:

Hello there,

Firstly, when I turned on my MacBook Pro 2017 it entered to critical software update loop, which is mainly about Touch Bar for these models. After attempting many ways it somehow opened and everything seemed OK.

Then I saw this and when I touched it, my Macbook shut downed suddenly. It is smelling cable burn.

Does anyone know which part is this?

Thanks in advance.

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It heat has damaged the Mac, and something is actually burned, only an Apple Genius will be able to tell you definitively what component was damaged. But since the fix will likely be to replace the entire logic board, I'd guess no test will be done to determine exactly which individual component failed.

You can open the Mac, but that may create warranty issues and likely won't tell you anything specific.