Not all liquid spills can be repaired but if you do everything correctly there is a good chance to get your computer back to life.In the following example I am working with a MacBook Pro 13-inch but all following steps will be the same for all MBPs.VERY IMPORTANT: After you spilled something on your laptop turn it off right away. Do not try to turn it on! Even a minor corrosion can affect the functionality of the computer.STEP 5.Clean up any liquid damage/corrosion using a toothbrush and isopropyl alcohol.If you spilled something sticky or sugar containing drink (milk, coffee, soda, liquor, etc) you can use regular hot water to clean it up.If you find wet areas on the motherboard, dry them out very carefully using a soft cloth (without rubbing the motherboard). After that clean these areas using a toothbrush and alcohol.STEP 6.Inspect hidden areas on the motherboard, like an area under the speaker.If any liquid damage found, clean it up.STEP 7.Inspect external ports and connectors on the side of the motherboard.STEP 8.Inspect both memory modules and memory slots.STEP 9.Inspect all connectors on the motherboard.STEP 10.Inspect all cable connectors for liquid damaged. If found, clean it up with the toothbrush and alcohol.Be careful, some cables are thin and easy to rip.After the cleaning is done you will have to wait until the motherboard and other internal components are completely dry.If you used DeoxIT contact cleaner as mentioned in the step 5, it might leave some residue but it’s normal.You can use a hair dryer or air compressor to dry them faster.

Assembling back together.It is important how to assemble the laptop back together after you cleaned up the liquid damage.You will have to assemble everything back together one step at a time and test after each step.Before installing the motherboard back into the case and connecting anything, plug in the AC adapter into the MagSafe board.The LED on the power plug has to turn on and remain solid green. Following your instructions I did mange to get the Macbook to start.

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It rebooted, very slowly into Safe mode. I haven’t tried an external keyboard yet. But I cannot currently log in as the keyboard is stuck in caps mode and thus the normal password doesn’t work.

The battery power is indicated at 94% in upper right of screen, but if I remove the mag safe plug, the mac dies immediately.Can the keyboard be cleaned or serviced? Also whats up with the battery bit? Thanks for any insight you might have. I disassembled a 2012 MacBook Pro that had liquid damage. I cleaned all traces of liquid damage from the Logic Board w/isopropyl alcohol and reseated the processor with fresh thermal paste.

The green light will stay on when the MagSafe adapter is plugged in. However, the unit will not fully power on. The fan just spins and slowly increases in speed. No difference when keyboard is unplugged or when trying to power on via power-on pads. Not sure what to do next. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi,I actually managed to get my MacBook Pro working again after a spill by drying it as well as possible then connecting an external keyboard and mouse, because the keyboard won’t work now.My laptop kept going into what seemed like sleep mode (black screen) if left idle for about 10 minutes and I had to power on with the power pad to restart it. Today I made the mistake of powering on when I thought it had shut down – heard a zap – and now can’t start it from the power on button at all. Have I completely ruined my MacBook?I removed the bottom cover and had a look – no obvious damage, and only a very small trace of dried liquid near one end of the cover.

Water spilled into my MacBook Pro keyboard about 6 months ago (I wish I had found this site back then). Everything seems to work with an external keyboard and mouse plugged into the USB ports.

If I try using the laptop keyboard it just produces special characters (but nothing different is selected in the keyboard viewer). The touch pad makes the mouse jump around the screen.I was wondering if I should try to clean everything as described on this page at this point. Or if the keyboard itself needs to be replaced or maybe the upper case assembly needs to be replaced.I have a MacBook Pro (non-retina) 2012.Thank you!.

After a thoroughly cleaning my 2011 MBP started up just fine. I connected my external apple 27″ display and I was good to go. I was able to watch movies from bed, shut down, restart and sleep exactly as before. About a week later, laptop was working just fine then I heard a weird buzz and saw my external monitor get weird zig zag lines so I disconnected it. Laptop still was displaying properly.

I rebooted and ran tech tools to check the hardware and ram. Restarted fine, reconnected the external monitor. Again problems so I disconnected, shut down and rebooted. I get to the login screen, select user and enter my password. Continues to startup, but the black progress bar gets about 1/3 of the way then goes to a white screen. I also noticed my user login icons have faint horizontal lines going across. Could this be my graphic card?

I read 2011 mbp had problems with the graphic cards or is this related to spill? I tried resetting pram, starting in safeboot, starting from backup recovery drive without any luck. I’m running Yosemite. Any ideas on what to try?. Hi IML Tech,I followed the guide and cleaned the logic board as this is the where I was having the problems but still having trouble yet. My 2 USB ports, thunderbolt port & SD card slot won’t work, but the rest does (headphone jack, FireWire magsafe).

Any other ideas on what I could do to get these working? I’m still under warranty also but I know apple won’t cover liquid damage, but thinking If I can clean all liquid/corrosion signs and the liquid sensors haven’t been affected I might be able to get away with it?Thanks!. Thanks for the detailed repair guide. I cleaned up my macbook as instructed and it powered on without the hard rive connected in step 13, but once I connected the rest of the cable and powered on my macbook and it automatically started to boot in safe mode and that too unsuccessfully. The progress bar would take ages to fill up and when it did the macbook would just shut down.

I thought it might be because of faulty keyboard, so i tried to boot using external keyboard and mouse and disconnecting the internal keyboard and trackpad and I still have the same problem.Please Help!I have an Early 2011 macbook pro 15inch. Ii have a new maxbook air, last night my dog ran into my table and tipped the table causing the macbook to fall off and a vase full of water to spill mostly on it. It was on when this happened. I did not realize it because it was in sleep mode and a few minutes later as i was drying it The screen started flashing so i turned it off immediately. This morning i tried to turn it on and it does not work, but when hooked up the light turns green, then amber. Do you think it still has a chance to be fixed?. I have a 2012 13″ MBP (non retina) that had water spilled on the counter that pooled around it and some seeped into the bottom (don’t ask how).

I have taken it apart, cleaned it with alcohol, baked it to ensure it is dry and now almost everything works.The odd thing is that the keyboard and trackpad will work during system boot to, say, reset PRAM or boot into safe mode or select any other combination; however, when the system boots into the OS (or recovery mode, etc) the keyboard and trackpad stop working all together. I can connect an external mouse and keyboard and it works fineI installed a fresh HDD with a fresh copy of Yosemite and still have the same symptoms.I doubt it’s a hardware related issue since they both work on startup, but for the life of me I can’t locate the issue that prevents them from working.

I have turned off BT, reset PRAM and SMC, reset by holding power button in for a long time after shut down, all with the same results.What’s interesting is if I keep pressing caps lock while the system is booting (press once per second) the keyboard and mouse will work after boot, but then stop after a minutewhich is some progress I guess. I am going to try and reinstall the OS one more time and see if that makes a difference.I have reached the end of google and am out of ideas.anyone have any thoughts they would like to share? I may also make an appt with the apple store and see if the geniuses can get me pointed in the right direction (or they may just say replace the logic board). This guide was great! I spilled beer onto my keyboard and near the screen of my 13inch pro.

I immediately powered off and let dry. Took apart laptop and cleaned with ethyl alcohol to the best of my ability. Cannot lift motherboard without correct tools and am planning to do so this weekend. As of now, my laptop starts and functions fine however the computer has been consistently asking me if I want to restart with an error that reads something like: Are you sure you want to power down? If I hit cancel enough times it goes away for a bit then pop backs up. This is extremely frustrating.

Do you think it could be my logic board? Think all hope is lost?Thanks!.

Hi,I spilled coffee on my 2011 MacPro the other day and it shut off on me. I got all of the coffee out and cleaned the inside; allowing it to dry for more than a week. I replaced the keyboard (and the associated backlight) as well as the RAM. The disk drive and hard drive were unaffected. Mostly, it is working fine with a few exceptions. (1) certain keys on the keyboard aren’t working, delete, 2 of the arrows, caps lock, etc. (2) I get the “no hardware” error when I attempt to connect to wireless internet.

Are there any solutions I could try to fix my keyboard and internet problems? I bought the replacement keyboard from a reliable online source and it arrived in immaculate condition.Thanks!. Hi, thanks for this guide.A 2-yr old spilled water on my mid-2012, 13″ MBP. I followed your cleaning/ drying instructions. I examined the logic board with a magnifying glass and polished it with iso-propryl and small amounts of contact cleaner. When it came time to test the logic-board it would only start after several tries using the Power-On Pad method (step14), and the screen appeared with the question mark. So then I attached my boot up drive, attached the touchpad cable and reattached the keyboard cable deeper than I was able to during my first attempt.

I was excited to find that it started right using the “on” button. My desktop appeared and I opened a program. But it suddenly shut off after a minute. Now I cannot seem to get it to start using the on button or the Power-on pad method. It shut off before I was able to try typing. @ Keith,But it suddenly shut off after a minute. Now I cannot seem to get it to start using the on button or the Power-on pad method.

It shut off before I was able to try typing. Thoughts?I would disconnect the battery and let the logic board to dry for a day or two. It’s possible you still have some water under components. You can use an air compressor to blow off the logic board.I’ve seen it happening exactly as you described before.

Hopefully, after the logic board is completely dry it will start again. University of california irvine hematology oncology fellowship. Hello,I have a MacBook Pro from mid 2009, I have read up on your articles pertaining to liquid damage and I am thankful for how much information is on your site. I have broken down my MBP to inspectf for visible liquid damage and was able to save just about every thing except the key board and I don’t know what else. My power button did not work but to my surprise, when I connected the charging cable to the MBP it booted but it was unable to charge even though the side charge indicator states “full charge” so I’m lost.Might it be a battery issue? Also I actually shut down the MBP now obviously won’t turn on.

So if I’m correct based on your expertise and articles I need to replace the keyboard / power button and I’m assuming the battery or charging dock. The MBP charge indicator states “full charge” connected or disconnected from the charging cable. I spilled orange juice on my MacBook Pro a few days ago.

I immediately flipped it and cleaned up as much of the mess as I could with paper towels. After that, I put it in front of a fan for several hours and then proceeded to take it apart. I removed all of the components and did not find any liquid damage or corrosion. When I plugged the MagSafe charger into the logic board, the green light turned on and remained solid, but the power button did not turn the computer on. I tried to find the power pads to force start the computer, but could not do it on my model. I assumed, at this point, that the keyboard must have been fried, so I bought a new one and tried again to start the computer with only the keyboard, fan, and video cable plugged into the logic board. Again, nothing happened.

What should I do?. 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. 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. 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!!.

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