My mid-2009 white MacBook decided to shut itself off abruptly while sleeping in my laptop sleeve. I tried turning it back on, and got that old heart warming chime boot up, followed by about a minute of white screen, then the grey apple. Approximately three seconds after the apple, the computer abruptly shuts off. I tried resetting the PRAM, put a different known working drive in, booting from the original install discs, and still got nothing. In my four years of repairing MacBooks, I've never seen anything like this. I
did try cleaning the screen earlier today with a rubbing alcohol/window cleaner mixture which I've used dozens of times before and apparently some seeped in between the backlight and the screen, but it was working fine besides a little blotching on the screen. Does anybody have any helpful hints or advice? I have a paper coming up soon and it would really help to have my computer working. Thanks in advance.
EDIT: I had most of itdismantled at the time of this writing, and thinking there could be a possibility of water damage, I let it sit. Just tried turning it on again and all is well. Must've been some of my aquatic foe.
did try cleaning the screen earlier today with a rubbing alcohol/window cleaner mixture which I've used dozens of times before and apparently some seeped in between the backlight and the screen, but it was working fine besides a little blotching on the screen. Does anybody have any helpful hints or advice? I have a paper coming up soon and it would really help to have my computer working. Thanks in advance.
EDIT: I had most of itdismantled at the time of this writing, and thinking there could be a possibility of water damage, I let it sit. Just tried turning it on again and all is well. Must've been some of my aquatic foe.