MacBook failing on startup after beer spill
On Sunday I spilled beer on my MacBook keyboard. I quickly turned it off, cleaned up the keyboard, and opened the bottom case to clean it up. I disconnected power and battery and used a dry cloth and some alcohol to dry up any beer I could find. The only place I found beer was around the sub-woofer, so I focused there. I let the machine dry for a few days and Tuesday tried to power it up.
It begins to boot up, I get the chime and the apple and the spinning pinwheel thing for about 8 seconds, and then it goes black. I took it to an Apple store and they want $755 to refurbish the thing. Before I fork over the $$ I would like to try whatever you experts think might help diagnose whether my board is fried or what the main issue might be. The machine charges, and I have plugged the HD into an adapter and am able to access the data, etc. It seems to be functional. What's next?
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There was some liquid in the corner by the sub-woofer, but nowhere else that I could see. I didn't tear it all down though. Maybe that is the next step.
Julia 의
Alcohol (beer) created the problem and Alcohol (rubbing) solved the problem :) This was my second spill (first coke 2 yrs back, then beer 2 weeks back) and after the beer spill, my MBP 13" 2011 processing speed and trackpad was slow like !&&* (battery was fine). I removed the logicboard and battery as per the ifixit.com users' guide. Most time taking part was identifying appropriate screwdrivers so I had to buy one toolkit "Mastercraft Precision Electronics Screwdriver Set" 66 pieces (057-3624-4) that served my purpose. I cleaned the logic board and battery with rubbing alcohol (with a toothbrush). Kept near table fan for half hour for drying. Then I reassembled the whole unit and it works even better than before. There were previous spill marks (from coke) and lot of dust inside. Thanks ifixit.com team - you saved me $500-$600 that I was considering to spend in a windows machine.
Sud Tiwari 의