MacBook Pro + 1/2 litre of water
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Unsurprisingly it doesn't work anymore due to a small accident with some liquid, was actually bubble-making liquid so has some soap or something else in too.
Powered off and stripped down straight away and it appears that no water went into the main case, hard-drive, DVD, logic board all dry, but keyboard, trackpad, power button soaked.
Will leave to dry for a few days but suspect it short-circuited already due to it switching off as soon as the water went in.
Powered off and stripped down straight away and it appears that no water went into the main case, hard-drive, DVD, logic board all dry, but keyboard, trackpad, power button soaked.
Will leave to dry for a few days but suspect it short-circuited already due to it switching off as soon as the water went in.
If there was soapy stuff in it, and it doesn't work when dried, then you may be able to get it back by washing it (carefully) with do-ionised water.
However if the short caused at the time of soaking was relevant, you may be in the hands of repair people or new machines.
Sorry to hear the news.
Oli.
However if the short caused at the time of soaking was relevant, you may be in the hands of repair people or new machines.
Sorry to hear the news.
Oli.
Best tactic is to whip the battery out immediately rather than just power off - there's still power going round the thing unless you remove the battery.
Removing the keyboard and upper case on an MBP is a pain and tricky to do, but if the water had anything potentially conductive in it, you're best off rinsing with distilled / deionised water before leaving to dry thoroughly.
If the worst comes to the worst, I have a virtually unused rev A MBP for sale cheap if you want a quick replacement... my ordered-5-seconds-after-announcement first MBP overheated like a Hillman Imp, so I returned it to Apple. As it was my main work machine, I bought a black MacBook to use whilst waiting for the new MBP to arrive - I ended up preferring the MacBook for portability and its keyboard (oddly) so all I did with the new MBP when it arrived was soak-test it with Cinebench to ensure it didn't have the same overheating problem (it doesn't), so if you want it, it's up for sale
Removing the keyboard and upper case on an MBP is a pain and tricky to do, but if the water had anything potentially conductive in it, you're best off rinsing with distilled / deionised water before leaving to dry thoroughly.
If the worst comes to the worst, I have a virtually unused rev A MBP for sale cheap if you want a quick replacement... my ordered-5-seconds-after-announcement first MBP overheated like a Hillman Imp, so I returned it to Apple. As it was my main work machine, I bought a black MacBook to use whilst waiting for the new MBP to arrive - I ended up preferring the MacBook for portability and its keyboard (oddly) so all I did with the new MBP when it arrived was soak-test it with Cinebench to ensure it didn't have the same overheating problem (it doesn't), so if you want it, it's up for sale
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