Well this is interesting.
I literally found a Macbook Pro sticking out of my neighbors trash can. I went to go have a look at it, and it looked like it was perfectly fine, so I went to my neighbors and asked them, why was that poor Macbook in the trash. They told me it was covered in water for hours (the wife left it outside, and we had some really bad storms a while ago). She said it didn't work at all, wouldn't do anything at all. Apparently right as she got it out, the first thing she tried to do was turn it on, when it was still soaking with water. Then she plugged it in and let it charge for like 2 days, while still being wet. When it wouldn't work, she just threw it in her closet, and about a week later she just threw it in the trash.
So I took it home, took it apart, and it was awful. Corrosion everywhere, there were burn marks, and it looked awful. So I took the logic board out and used a toothbrush to clean it off with some water. I cleaned it pretty dang well, and all the corrosion and burn marks were gone. Put it back together, tried to turn it on. Nothing. No signs of life in that poor laptop.
I tried to clean it more, and messed around a bit with it, but it just wouldn't do anything. Threw it in my garage and didn't touch it for a couple days.
Then, one of my friends was talking about how he had to stick his xbox in the oven to fix the RROD, and I literally just got a random idea, lets shove the old Macbook logic board into the oven. I took it apart, and I found some rubbing alcohol. I heard about how it can apparently help clean up corrosion on circuit boards, so I poured some on the motherboard, and wiped it off. Then I stuck the motherboard into the oven for about 10 minutes or so. After that, it was hot, so why not stick it in the freezer? Just so everyone knows, I wasn't expecting this to work, I was just fooling around at this point.
Then I put everything together, and plug it in.... and.... nothing.
So i just left it there, and a minute later... I heard a grinding noise and a disc just came out the drive. Then the macbook turned on. It actually turned on.
Only 2 problems, the battery didn't work, and the screen was totally messed up. However, the macbook is working perfectly fine so far besides those issues.
Anyways, anyone know what I can do about the screen? It has some pretty bad water damage, I'll post a pic. But yeah, I'm really surprised this actually worked lol. Sorry for the large wall of text there, just excited that I got this to work.
I found the specs: It's a 2010 Macbook Pro, with a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4gb of ram, and a 250GB Hard Drive
I literally found a Macbook Pro sticking out of my neighbors trash can. I went to go have a look at it, and it looked like it was perfectly fine, so I went to my neighbors and asked them, why was that poor Macbook in the trash. They told me it was covered in water for hours (the wife left it outside, and we had some really bad storms a while ago). She said it didn't work at all, wouldn't do anything at all. Apparently right as she got it out, the first thing she tried to do was turn it on, when it was still soaking with water. Then she plugged it in and let it charge for like 2 days, while still being wet. When it wouldn't work, she just threw it in her closet, and about a week later she just threw it in the trash.
So I took it home, took it apart, and it was awful. Corrosion everywhere, there were burn marks, and it looked awful. So I took the logic board out and used a toothbrush to clean it off with some water. I cleaned it pretty dang well, and all the corrosion and burn marks were gone. Put it back together, tried to turn it on. Nothing. No signs of life in that poor laptop.
I tried to clean it more, and messed around a bit with it, but it just wouldn't do anything. Threw it in my garage and didn't touch it for a couple days.
Then, one of my friends was talking about how he had to stick his xbox in the oven to fix the RROD, and I literally just got a random idea, lets shove the old Macbook logic board into the oven. I took it apart, and I found some rubbing alcohol. I heard about how it can apparently help clean up corrosion on circuit boards, so I poured some on the motherboard, and wiped it off. Then I stuck the motherboard into the oven for about 10 minutes or so. After that, it was hot, so why not stick it in the freezer? Just so everyone knows, I wasn't expecting this to work, I was just fooling around at this point.
Then I put everything together, and plug it in.... and.... nothing.
So i just left it there, and a minute later... I heard a grinding noise and a disc just came out the drive. Then the macbook turned on. It actually turned on.
Only 2 problems, the battery didn't work, and the screen was totally messed up. However, the macbook is working perfectly fine so far besides those issues.
Anyways, anyone know what I can do about the screen? It has some pretty bad water damage, I'll post a pic. But yeah, I'm really surprised this actually worked lol. Sorry for the large wall of text there, just excited that I got this to work.
I found the specs: It's a 2010 Macbook Pro, with a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4gb of ram, and a 250GB Hard Drive
