libertylove
macrumors newbie
I have read all the posts about water spills here, so please bear with me posting a new thread. This is just extremely puzzling. I spilled some water on the top of my less-than-a-year-old 13" MBP a few days ago. We did all the right things to dry it out and then the first thing we did was pop my hard drive into my husband's 15" and everything booted up fine, worked like always, and we backed up the entire HD on an external drive.
We replaced the HD and this is what happens when you boot it up:
1) you get the usual grey screen with apple and turning wheel graphic
2) goes to blue screen
3) goes black.
It has actually made it to the login screen a couple of times before going black, but only for a split second. One really odd thing is that you can hard power it down all the way till you hear the "click" and it goes silent, but then when you hit the power button again it will start at the grey screen with the little progress bar graphic you get when it's coming back from sleep. So it's like it's going to sleep instead of powering all the way down. Weird, right?
We ran the hardware check disc and did both the quick and extended scans and both reported no problems. The screen never shut off during that process. Also booted it in single-user mode and the keyboard works fine, the screen never shuts off. Also tried reinstalling the OS, the disc worked and the screen never shut off, but it lagged at the grey apple screen indefinitely. My husband then reinstalled the OS successfully in firewire mode, and was able to boot it up successfully on his computer in firewire mode.
He used the ifixit guide to take the back case off and remove and examine the logic board. There were no signs of visible damage anywhere, though there was a fair amount of dust which we cleaned off with compressed air.
Oh and we also tried replacing my 4G RAM with my older 2G RAM from before The Incident and there was no change in behavior.
I would love any advice or insight into what kind of problem we might be looking at, fixes, or what we might expect to have to replace. I am a professional photographer, so as you can imagine it's pretty vital that I have a working computer.
Thanks so much for reading and taking the time to respond.
Liberty
We replaced the HD and this is what happens when you boot it up:
1) you get the usual grey screen with apple and turning wheel graphic
2) goes to blue screen
3) goes black.
It has actually made it to the login screen a couple of times before going black, but only for a split second. One really odd thing is that you can hard power it down all the way till you hear the "click" and it goes silent, but then when you hit the power button again it will start at the grey screen with the little progress bar graphic you get when it's coming back from sleep. So it's like it's going to sleep instead of powering all the way down. Weird, right?
We ran the hardware check disc and did both the quick and extended scans and both reported no problems. The screen never shut off during that process. Also booted it in single-user mode and the keyboard works fine, the screen never shuts off. Also tried reinstalling the OS, the disc worked and the screen never shut off, but it lagged at the grey apple screen indefinitely. My husband then reinstalled the OS successfully in firewire mode, and was able to boot it up successfully on his computer in firewire mode.
He used the ifixit guide to take the back case off and remove and examine the logic board. There were no signs of visible damage anywhere, though there was a fair amount of dust which we cleaned off with compressed air.
Oh and we also tried replacing my 4G RAM with my older 2G RAM from before The Incident and there was no change in behavior.
I would love any advice or insight into what kind of problem we might be looking at, fixes, or what we might expect to have to replace. I am a professional photographer, so as you can imagine it's pretty vital that I have a working computer.
Thanks so much for reading and taking the time to respond.
Liberty
