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Macbook Water Damage

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HelioX

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Dumped my glass of water on sisters macbook. The screen went white and the bottom flickered/froze. Turned it off.....dried it, turned it back on and it booted with the screen flickering then froze.

Rebooted again, screen seems to be OK now....the keyboard/track pad do NOT work. Plugged in a mosue and can use the laptop just fine...

Chances of the keyboard/trackpad drying out/working again?
 
That's questionable. You probably fried something. I'm surprised the laptop works at all. I'd take it to an Apple store.
 
Topcases are absurdly easy to change. They are also quite inexpensive on ebay, so there's always that option.
 
Apple looked at it..said there was water still inside, saw some corrosion on the logic board, said itd spread/fry/get worse and prolly just totally die. Offered to do a repair for 450, tier 2 or something...tier 1 was 750 to replace etc...get it back in 3-7 days.

Took it home, started a time machine backup and the trackpad/keyboard started working and its been on/functional ever since.
 
Had something similar happen with my iPod classic.... friend put a glass of water in the same cupholder I kept it in while listening in the car, and it took a dunk. packed it in rice for 2-3 days and it worked just fine after.
 
yea, corrosion will probably ruin the laptop,... however I'd recommend packing it in rice for 24hours just to be safe as there is no guarantee moisture still isn't in the laptop.
 
Yeah back that shit up ASAP and get it in rice... I know it's a bunch of rice, go to costco! Keep it in there for at least a day or two.
 
CKMorpheus said:
Yeah back that shit up ASAP and get it in rice... I know it's a bunch of rice, go to costco! Keep it in there for at least a day or two.
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My recommendation is about 3-7 days with some heat on it constantly.
 
lol rice? I've never heard of that before. Does it really work?
 
Zinn said:
lol rice? I've never heard of that before. Does it really work?
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Uncooked rice absorbs water. It's a fairly proven method to resurrect waterborne electronics... that is if the primary problem is short circuiting due to water. Of course like it has been mentioned in this thread, corrosion is the real killer.

Another factor is complexity. The rice method works the best on (relatively) simple electronics such as cell phones and media players (iPod's etc), although it can also work on more complex electronics such as motherboards (which can often have unfortunate accidents with improperly installed water cooling rigs) and laptops (which are prone to environmental disasters while being moved or spilled on like in this case.)
 
HelioX said:
Dumped my glass of water on sisters macbook. The screen went white and the bottom flickered/froze. Turned it off.....dried it, turned it back on
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that was your second mistake. thinking you dried it.

water on a latop means you do two things:

1. pull the battery immediately
2. dry it out for days (or... a bag of rice)
 
Macbook is still working just fine, no heat issues, no stability issues...

Never did the rice/drying really...just wiped it off, took it back from the store and used it again.
 
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