Hello everyone!
Last weekend I decided to thoroughly clean and dust my Early 2015 13" Retina MacBook Pro. To do so I removed the bottom plate, disconnected the battery from the logic board and carefully blew away the dust using compressed air. In order to keep the battery connector from accidentally re-attaching I put a small piece of paper from a flyer (see attached photo) between the connector and the plug.
Now, unfortunately, when putting everything back together I forgot to remove that piece of paper, i.e., I reassembled the MacBook without re-connecting the battery. This I only realized about 10min later after noticing that the CPU didn't clock higher than 1.3GHz. Fortunately, there seems to be no immediate damage and my MacBook is working normally for now, but ever since I'm a little concerned for the following reason:
When reassembling the MacBook for the first time, I put quite some pressure on the bottom plate in order to make those two latches in the middle of the plate snap back into position. As you can see on the photo this resulted in the battery connector leaving a noticeable indentation on the pice of paper, and I can only imagine how much force was exerted on the logic board itself while pressing down on the bottom plate.
The question now is: even though everything seems fine now, what are the chances that I caused any long term damage to the logic board?
Cheers,
Daniel
Last weekend I decided to thoroughly clean and dust my Early 2015 13" Retina MacBook Pro. To do so I removed the bottom plate, disconnected the battery from the logic board and carefully blew away the dust using compressed air. In order to keep the battery connector from accidentally re-attaching I put a small piece of paper from a flyer (see attached photo) between the connector and the plug.
Now, unfortunately, when putting everything back together I forgot to remove that piece of paper, i.e., I reassembled the MacBook without re-connecting the battery. This I only realized about 10min later after noticing that the CPU didn't clock higher than 1.3GHz. Fortunately, there seems to be no immediate damage and my MacBook is working normally for now, but ever since I'm a little concerned for the following reason:
When reassembling the MacBook for the first time, I put quite some pressure on the bottom plate in order to make those two latches in the middle of the plate snap back into position. As you can see on the photo this resulted in the battery connector leaving a noticeable indentation on the pice of paper, and I can only imagine how much force was exerted on the logic board itself while pressing down on the bottom plate.
The question now is: even though everything seems fine now, what are the chances that I caused any long term damage to the logic board?
Cheers,
Daniel
