Comments on: Fix MacBook Pro liquid spill yourself

By: y

Tue, 03 May 2016 12:43:58 +0000

My mbp had bleach spilled directly onto the keyboard. Turned it off for a couple days, dried it with a blow dryer. It turned on, worked fine for an hour then shut off. Now it shows a faint green led on the power light but won’t turn on. I haven’t even looked at it now for six months. Am I Sol?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 04:02:52 +0000

My macbook air continues to auto restart at times and audio sometimes get distorted then goes back to being ok, what may be the issue?

By: Ricky

Ricky — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 04:42:32 +0000

I have followed the instruction, the LED lights up, the battery lights has response, but even short the power pad or press the start button, the board has no response. any idea?

By: Mel C

Mel C — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 23:34:39 +0000

I spilled a full mug of coffee with cream onto my MacBook’s keyboard yesterday and the screen went black before I even turned it over. After slapping myself and cursing loudly for a few minutes I removed the cover and gently mopped up after disconnecting the battery. Without removing any components, I slowly poured an entire bottle of isopropyl alcohol directly onto the exposed circuitry and some onto the keyboard, then propped it up to drain with a fan blowing onto it overnight. This morning it started and seems to be working fine. I’m sure it would have been worse had I used sugar in my coffee. My mug now sits on a small side table. I had called a local tech and he estimated $900 to repair the “fried circuitry”. The alcohol costs $3!!

By: Seth

Seth — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 20:48:53 +0000

Hi I managed to spill milk shake not much and I had a keyboard cover so not much went into that section. I powered it down my self flipped it over so the keyboard was facing down and opened the back and removed the battery connector. I cleaned it up as much as possible and left it near a heater and half hour later I decided to re connect the battery. It comes on battery at 43%. When I connect the charger it show instant charged to 100% and does on stay on switches it self off after a few mins. Any advice what gone is it just a case of replacing the power safe board.

By: David K

David K — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 17:12:01 +0000

I repair Mac at component level and it is a good example to prevent serious damage if an electronic got liquid contact. It will work for a while if there is no damage occured to the components. After a while the machine will start to act up as the corrosion build up and the machine totally stop working one day.
The answers posted about Retina are not 100% correct. If you know how to work on the machines, the battery on retina macbooks are glued to the case and it can be removed.
But there is no way of telling what kind of damage caused to the logic board unless you did proper tests.
As a repair guy, I would not want to repair any machine being cleaned and tempered because it become nightmare to trace the place of damage occured and which circuits are effected.
I would suggest to disconnect the battery and just soak the board in 99.9% alcohol. Do not use the pharma grade alcohol as it is 70% alcohol and 30% water.
Let the repair person handle it but not the self titled repair guys just use a heat gun to destroy the chips and tell you to get a new mother board.

By: Valerie

Valerie — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 00:24:07 +0000

Hello! Is it possible for you to post a better picture of the power pads? I’m not quite sure which ones to press, thank you!!

By: john clarke

john clarke — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 23:13:25 +0000

Hi, 2011 macbook pro 13″ ribbon cable for the keyboard will not connect to board connector, is it possible to change the board connector?

By: ggeckle

ggeckle — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 21:13:08 +0000

daughter learned that water bottle and macbook pro in same bag is a bad idea. I followed the instructions on this page and … the laptop is back!! I felt a little foolish trying this, because everyone told me that it was a waste of time, but in the case of this laptop, it actually worked. THANK YOU!!

By: Logan

Logan — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 21:01:25 +0000

I went through these steps, and the light on the charger stays green, but I cannot turn it on via the keyboard. I tried shorting it from the 5th to 29th pins and the green light would go off when i did that while the battery is unplugged but if the battery is plugged in there is a ticking that stops when i short those. Regardless it did not turn on. Any recommendations?