Hi,
I spilled some tea inside my macbook pro, something I'm quite familiar with :/ I disconnected it, opened it up, drained the water out and disconnected the battery. I didn't have a triwing with me (was at work), so I couldn't remove the battery entirely. I put it to dry in the oven at 50 C. I wasn't used to that oven, so I think it got a little too warm (it felt more like 70C inside there, not that I can tell very much). After noticing that, I removed the macbook from the oven and let it dry a few hours on top of the heating. I plugged it back in, and it came up alright, but the battery says "Replace Now". I did all the SMC reset voodoo, and was mostly happy with having to buy a new battery. I suspect the battery may have "died" due to the water (!?), or due to the heat in the oven later on. It reports as being charged, but having 0 charge.
However, I noticed today that the macbook won't step up its speed at all, the CPU VCore stays at 0.8V according to iStatMenus, and the whole thing feels like a G4. It barely breaks the 2000 in geekbench, while it should hit 9000. Even the SSD can barely achieve 60 MB/s, while it used to hit 220. I tried the SMC reset thing a few times, rebooting, powercycling, tweaking around and stuff. On the upside the fans *never* go on anymore
They still work fine though, I tested that.
I'm going to get a new battery at the apple store on saturday, and I am going to clean the beast a bit more thoroughly tomorrow on the mobo. Worst case however would be that I killed something on the logic board, which I think sounds a bit improbable as everything seems to be working smooth, except the battery. Best case: battery reporting nonsense -> smc playing it safe and putting everything on slow-mo, switch battery or clean up things -> smc happy again.
I wanted to know if someone has had a similar experience:
- water spilled or some stupid user-induced mistake like that
- SMC going haywire / battery dead
- laptop not being able to speed up / being slow like a powerpc
And maybe if you managed to fix it?
I spilled some tea inside my macbook pro, something I'm quite familiar with :/ I disconnected it, opened it up, drained the water out and disconnected the battery. I didn't have a triwing with me (was at work), so I couldn't remove the battery entirely. I put it to dry in the oven at 50 C. I wasn't used to that oven, so I think it got a little too warm (it felt more like 70C inside there, not that I can tell very much). After noticing that, I removed the macbook from the oven and let it dry a few hours on top of the heating. I plugged it back in, and it came up alright, but the battery says "Replace Now". I did all the SMC reset voodoo, and was mostly happy with having to buy a new battery. I suspect the battery may have "died" due to the water (!?), or due to the heat in the oven later on. It reports as being charged, but having 0 charge.
However, I noticed today that the macbook won't step up its speed at all, the CPU VCore stays at 0.8V according to iStatMenus, and the whole thing feels like a G4. It barely breaks the 2000 in geekbench, while it should hit 9000. Even the SSD can barely achieve 60 MB/s, while it used to hit 220. I tried the SMC reset thing a few times, rebooting, powercycling, tweaking around and stuff. On the upside the fans *never* go on anymore
They still work fine though, I tested that.I'm going to get a new battery at the apple store on saturday, and I am going to clean the beast a bit more thoroughly tomorrow on the mobo. Worst case however would be that I killed something on the logic board, which I think sounds a bit improbable as everything seems to be working smooth, except the battery. Best case: battery reporting nonsense -> smc playing it safe and putting everything on slow-mo, switch battery or clean up things -> smc happy again.
I wanted to know if someone has had a similar experience:
- water spilled or some stupid user-induced mistake like that
- SMC going haywire / battery dead
- laptop not being able to speed up / being slow like a powerpc
And maybe if you managed to fix it?
