My macbook (13" unibody, early 2009 running SL) has started doing strange things... here is a summary:
--Last week I was in Italy and used my (UK) charger with a standard European plug adapter. After a couple of days (22nd sept) I noticed that the macbook wasn't recognizing the battery, the green light on the magsafe adapter was very dim but it was working fine on AC power. When I got back to the UK I reset the SMC as advised here and that solved the problem, battery is behaving normally again.
--Last Wednesday (24th sept) and again today (27th sept) the macbook crashed and I got the message saying "you need to restart your computer. Hold down the power button until it turns off, then press the power button again". I did this and both times it restarted fine, and I saved the error report but don't really know how to interpret it (I can post them if it is helpful). It is behaving normally after restarting.
Something that may be relevant is that 2 months ago I spilt some apple juice on the keyboard. I immediately switched it off, cleaned up as much as I could, did everything you are supposed to in these circumstances and took it to my local apple premium reseller the next day. They checked it out, said there was zero damage to the logic board, said that the spill detectors hadn't even been triggered, and ran all of their checks and it was 100% fine. But now I'm paranoid that maybe they missed something and this isn't going to be covered by my applecare. Yes, I know it's my fault, the spill was completely stupid, but I thought by getting it professionally checked and cleaned the next day that would have prevented any permanent damage!
do you think that using it in europe could have damaged it? I didn't use an official Apple converter for the magsafe, but the voltage difference shouldn't matter, right? Maybe it's just a coincidence that these things started happening after my trip...
If anyone has any ideas what's going on I'd be really grateful - I'm planning to take it back to the reseller tomorrow but I'm worried if they missed something the first time they might not be too competent...
Is the battery problem related to the crashing? I'm thinking it might be the logic board?
Also, is my Applecare still valid if the reseller repair person declared it to be undamaged by the spill?
thanks in advance for any advice!
--Last week I was in Italy and used my (UK) charger with a standard European plug adapter. After a couple of days (22nd sept) I noticed that the macbook wasn't recognizing the battery, the green light on the magsafe adapter was very dim but it was working fine on AC power. When I got back to the UK I reset the SMC as advised here and that solved the problem, battery is behaving normally again.
--Last Wednesday (24th sept) and again today (27th sept) the macbook crashed and I got the message saying "you need to restart your computer. Hold down the power button until it turns off, then press the power button again". I did this and both times it restarted fine, and I saved the error report but don't really know how to interpret it (I can post them if it is helpful). It is behaving normally after restarting.
Something that may be relevant is that 2 months ago I spilt some apple juice on the keyboard. I immediately switched it off, cleaned up as much as I could, did everything you are supposed to in these circumstances and took it to my local apple premium reseller the next day. They checked it out, said there was zero damage to the logic board, said that the spill detectors hadn't even been triggered, and ran all of their checks and it was 100% fine. But now I'm paranoid that maybe they missed something and this isn't going to be covered by my applecare. Yes, I know it's my fault, the spill was completely stupid, but I thought by getting it professionally checked and cleaned the next day that would have prevented any permanent damage!
do you think that using it in europe could have damaged it? I didn't use an official Apple converter for the magsafe, but the voltage difference shouldn't matter, right? Maybe it's just a coincidence that these things started happening after my trip...
If anyone has any ideas what's going on I'd be really grateful - I'm planning to take it back to the reseller tomorrow but I'm worried if they missed something the first time they might not be too competent...
Is the battery problem related to the crashing? I'm thinking it might be the logic board?
Also, is my Applecare still valid if the reseller repair person declared it to be undamaged by the spill?
thanks in advance for any advice!