Hi guys,
My first post here, felt I had to share a positive experience with my water damaged Macbook air (13 inch, early 2014).
So the back story... Walking to a lecture and my bottle of water emptied into my bag. Felt I had a wet leg, devastated to see the Macbook in its case was sitting in a few inches of water.
Immediately ran back home and stupidly unfolded it so it tried to turn itself on. It rebooted immediately and ran Windows as default from my bootcamp partition.
The screen had water visibly inside it and before I could shut it off, it shut itself down. I thought at this point it was gone.
I left the macbook on its side and opened with the side the water entered from facing down for three days.
I also ordered a pentalobe screwdriver to have a look inside, voided warranty yes but the product was already not covered by my apple Pluscare warranty as it was a liquid spill
Open opening, there was clear white residue (limescale?) on the logic board around the memory card and lightning port. After disconnecting the battery, I removed the logic board from the macbook.
I used cotton earbuds and a toothbrush to gently clean the area and remove all residue completely, there was a small amount of liquid around the battery that I dried off. No other water was in that part of the machine.
So I connected everything again and powered it on... It was alive! Everything booted and worked fine, however I lost half of my backlight LED's on the left of the screen and there was a lot of water clearly inside the LCD somewhere.
I then left the macbook sat up against a heater overnight, and upon turning it on in the morning my backlight was fully functional again.
This brings me to where I am now, a fully functioning macbook air again with a much smaller water stain on the screen.
I will leave it against the heater now and wait for the rest of the water to evaporate.
This topic has been covered again and again however I just wanted to share a positive experience and let you know that there is hope for your water damaged macbook. Best advice would be definitely do not turn it on straight after and allow it to dry for as long as possible. Sorry for the wordy post, just felt I had to share the story.
Cheers,
Josh
My first post here, felt I had to share a positive experience with my water damaged Macbook air (13 inch, early 2014).
So the back story... Walking to a lecture and my bottle of water emptied into my bag. Felt I had a wet leg, devastated to see the Macbook in its case was sitting in a few inches of water.
Immediately ran back home and stupidly unfolded it so it tried to turn itself on. It rebooted immediately and ran Windows as default from my bootcamp partition.
The screen had water visibly inside it and before I could shut it off, it shut itself down. I thought at this point it was gone.
I left the macbook on its side and opened with the side the water entered from facing down for three days.
I also ordered a pentalobe screwdriver to have a look inside, voided warranty yes but the product was already not covered by my apple Pluscare warranty as it was a liquid spill
Open opening, there was clear white residue (limescale?) on the logic board around the memory card and lightning port. After disconnecting the battery, I removed the logic board from the macbook.
I used cotton earbuds and a toothbrush to gently clean the area and remove all residue completely, there was a small amount of liquid around the battery that I dried off. No other water was in that part of the machine.
So I connected everything again and powered it on... It was alive! Everything booted and worked fine, however I lost half of my backlight LED's on the left of the screen and there was a lot of water clearly inside the LCD somewhere.
I then left the macbook sat up against a heater overnight, and upon turning it on in the morning my backlight was fully functional again.
This brings me to where I am now, a fully functioning macbook air again with a much smaller water stain on the screen.
I will leave it against the heater now and wait for the rest of the water to evaporate.
This topic has been covered again and again however I just wanted to share a positive experience and let you know that there is hope for your water damaged macbook. Best advice would be definitely do not turn it on straight after and allow it to dry for as long as possible. Sorry for the wordy post, just felt I had to share the story.
Cheers,
Josh