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Hi people,
My brother (no seriously, it wasn't me!) recently spilt half a pint of cider over the keyboard of his 3 year old MacBook Pro. We let it dry for a few weeks, then I took it apart and cleaned with damp cotton buds some of the sections I knew would be ok to clean.
It was then left to dry for a few more weeks before I put it back together again and tried to turn it on. When pressing the power button, the light comes on for a couple of seconds before making a fairly high-pitched electronic fail noise and then nothing else happens. The hard drive wirrs slightly between turning the unit on, and it dying.
Thinking the problem could be in the hard drive I tried all kinds of methods I could see to make it boot from the CD drive but nothing would work. In fact, it won't event accept a CD.
Can anyone help? Does it sound like the hard drive needs replacing or is it more serious than that?
Thanks in advance.
My brother (no seriously, it wasn't me!) recently spilt half a pint of cider over the keyboard of his 3 year old MacBook Pro. We let it dry for a few weeks, then I took it apart and cleaned with damp cotton buds some of the sections I knew would be ok to clean.
It was then left to dry for a few more weeks before I put it back together again and tried to turn it on. When pressing the power button, the light comes on for a couple of seconds before making a fairly high-pitched electronic fail noise and then nothing else happens. The hard drive wirrs slightly between turning the unit on, and it dying.
Thinking the problem could be in the hard drive I tried all kinds of methods I could see to make it boot from the CD drive but nothing would work. In fact, it won't event accept a CD.
Can anyone help? Does it sound like the hard drive needs replacing or is it more serious than that?
Thanks in advance.