my neighbor had a 15" macbook pro in his closet because a couple months after he bought it, he spilled a drink on it. Since this voided his warranty and the machine would not boot or do anything at all - this caused him to buy another.
He was going to throw it away, but I asked him if I could have it b/c I was curious if I could get it working.
success!! after carefully reading some threads on water damage I figured this thing was a brick anyways so I took it apart (all the way apart) and spent a couple hours w/ isopropyl alcohol and q-tips cleaning up any spec of sticky drink residue that I could find on all the pieces - logic board, frame, etc... After some fanaggeling and putting it back together it now works just fine - no problems. Score 1 for a free mac!
Here is my question. While taking it apart I pried on the wrong part of the mount that the cmos battery (i think this is what its called) clips to on the logic board.
You can see what I mean by looking here in step 16. Here is a larger picture as well.
The battery is the blue disc in the bottom right hand corner (its a panasonic 3V battery) the mount that the wires snap into came completely off the logic board - it broke the soldering. therefore after putting it all back together, this piece got left out.
I tried setting the clock when the machine booted and then shutdown all the way and started it up again - the clock time stayed intact.
Does anyone know the ramifications of not having this piece in place? Am I heading for a disaster down the road?
He was going to throw it away, but I asked him if I could have it b/c I was curious if I could get it working.
success!! after carefully reading some threads on water damage I figured this thing was a brick anyways so I took it apart (all the way apart) and spent a couple hours w/ isopropyl alcohol and q-tips cleaning up any spec of sticky drink residue that I could find on all the pieces - logic board, frame, etc... After some fanaggeling and putting it back together it now works just fine - no problems. Score 1 for a free mac!
Here is my question. While taking it apart I pried on the wrong part of the mount that the cmos battery (i think this is what its called) clips to on the logic board.
You can see what I mean by looking here in step 16. Here is a larger picture as well.
The battery is the blue disc in the bottom right hand corner (its a panasonic 3V battery) the mount that the wires snap into came completely off the logic board - it broke the soldering. therefore after putting it all back together, this piece got left out.
I tried setting the clock when the machine booted and then shutdown all the way and started it up again - the clock time stayed intact.
Does anyone know the ramifications of not having this piece in place? Am I heading for a disaster down the road?
