Friends have given me their Macbook A1342 to try and fix. I do many repairs on PCs and Laptops, but I'm hardly an expert and of course, Macs are a different story.
Apparently they spilled some water on their Macbook. They dried it out - but I don't know the exact details of how they did that.
The Macbook DOES boot. There is the sound, but the display lights up white with vertical lines. Sometimes these vertical lines gradually disappear and they change each time the display is closed/re-opened with shift-ctrl-eject. I already tried resetting the PRAM, but it didn't change anything. I don't have a mini display port cable to connect it to another monitor, but I have the feeling that if I did, the display would be fine. I tried blindly clicking on the invisible desktop and it seems that a program opened.
I opened the underneath of the laptop and everything appears fine, no traces of water or residue.
What should I do to determine exactly what the problem is?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Apparently they spilled some water on their Macbook. They dried it out - but I don't know the exact details of how they did that.
The Macbook DOES boot. There is the sound, but the display lights up white with vertical lines. Sometimes these vertical lines gradually disappear and they change each time the display is closed/re-opened with shift-ctrl-eject. I already tried resetting the PRAM, but it didn't change anything. I don't have a mini display port cable to connect it to another monitor, but I have the feeling that if I did, the display would be fine. I tried blindly clicking on the invisible desktop and it seems that a program opened.
I opened the underneath of the laptop and everything appears fine, no traces of water or residue.
What should I do to determine exactly what the problem is?
Thanks in advance for any help.