Cancelling Internet recovery?

Hello,

So I actually have several problems with my Macbook Pro at the moment, but here is the most urgent: I started Internet Recovery, and it's taking forever. Can I quit it safely?

The reason I went into it in the first place is that my computer wouldn't accept my password after doing a PRAM zap, so Recovery seemed the easiest way to get back in. Boy, was I wrong!

Is it normal that a PRAM zap would reset my password? Or is it messing with my keyboard?

I appreciate any help, thanks!

Early 2011 Macbook Pro 13 inch Maverick

What password are you referring to ? The logon password or the hardware password ?

Cheers ... McBie

The login password

Maybe this will help

OS X Mavericks: How to Easily Reset the Administrator Password - The Mac Observer

Let us know how you get on.

Cheers ... McBie

And an Internet Recovery can be very, very slow. Basically you are downloading the entire OS to reinstall, about 6GB or so. Then it will do the reinstall. So, yes, IRs are slow.

And no, a PRAM reset does not reset the login password.

bobtomay said:

And no, a PRAM reset does not reset the login password.

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Thanks for your responses.

What do you think has happened? It's showing me the same old password hint and I know it's going in correctly. There was some water damage to the internal keyboard, but I'm using an external one now and it has been working fine. Could it be that there's some damage to the motherboard that's crossing signals from the keyboard, so to speak?

I am going to take it apart and clean it and dry it out soon.

bobtomay said:

And no, a PRAM reset does not reset the login password.

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FortyOunce said:

Thanks for your responses.

What do you think has happened? It's showing me the same old password hint and I know it's going in correctly. There was some water damage to the internal keyboard, but I'm using an external one now and it has been working fine. Could it be that there's some damage to the motherboard that's crossing signals from the keyboard, so to speak?

I am going to take it apart and clean it and dry it out soon.

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Oh and to update: I did a hard shutdown during the stalled Internet recovery and everything was fine (unless it's not, and maybe that's my password problem)??

To add onto everything else, it's now shutting itself off in Guest Mode. I ran the quick Apple hardware test, which said everything was ok, but when I tried the extensive one, **** thing shut itself off before it could finish. Am I doomed?

There was some water damage to the internal keyboard

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You may have severe damage to the main logic board that is directly under the keyboard. Water on the keyboard is bad not only for the keyboard, but for the entire machine. And if you haven't done anything to dry it out completely, the problem is going to multiply. I think you have a dying or dead machine.

Dear God say it isn't so! I did put in in front of the fan for days, turning it every once it a while so the water wouldn't pool. But that clearly wasn't enough. It's crazy because it was really a tiny amount of water, just a couple drops.

Alas it is so and quite normal for logic board damage to take up to a couple of weeks to emerge as the corrosion starts to increase. One drop in the wrong place is a drop too much.

Oh God. Well I'm going to give it an isopropyl alcohol bath and clean it a littlewith a toothbrush and then pray, I guess.

I'd say no bath and no toothbrush. Just open the case, blow some warm, not hot, air on it and let it sit for a while to air dry. Parts and traces on the circuit boards are tiny and very easy to damage.

MacInWin said:

I'd say no bath and no toothbrush. Just open the case, blow some warm, not hot, air on it and let it sit for a while to air dry. Parts and traces on the circuit boards are tiny and very easy to damage.

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That sounds wise. Maybe I'll just replace the keyboard then, it was making nothing but crazy symbols. I wonder if I could just clean it instead?

Just realized I touched internals without wearing an anti static bracelet. Is that wildly risky?

Others may disagree but to me working on the machine without a static strap is the least of your worries at this point. My guess is that the keyboard replacement will only improve things temporarily if a all.

It does still power on...that's kind of a good sign, right? It just shuts itself off occasionally. I can get to the guest account, recovery, etc...it doesn't seem to want to go into Terminal though, which is making my life very difficult.

Should I replace the keyboard and see what happens? Not much else to do at this point, right?

Just trying to hold on to some hope

FortyOunce said:

It does still power on...that's kind of a good sign, right? It just shuts itself off occasionally. I can get to the guest account, recovery, etc...it doesn't seem to want to go into Terminal though, which is making my life very difficult.

Should I replace the keyboard and see what happens? Not much else to do at this point, right?

Just trying to hold on to some hope

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When I removed the logic board, the heatsink cable was stuck to what was underneath, the backlight. Removing it caused a rip in the backlight. So maybe there was heat damage. The plot thickens...