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The Official "I spilled liquid in my MacBook, what do I do now?" Thread
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<blockquote data-quote="BarbMac" data-source="post: 1740527" data-attributes="member: 169293"><p>So I am joining the ranks of those who've spilled liquid on their laptops, and am suitably mortified. My spillage was orange juice. I immediately mopped it off the keyboard with tissues but I would imagine some still got under the keys and inside my MacBook Pro. I turned it off after I got over the initial shock and left it tented over a towel overnight. This morning I decided to open up the back and remove the battery - I am pretty much a novice and although I've removed the back cover before that's about it. My other half is very experienced with taking apart and putting together electronic equipment but as luck would have it, he's overseas for the next 2 weeks. So I figured I have to get the battery out at the very least, and probably the hard drive?</p><p></p><p>So I found various tutorials online but was stumped at the point of trying to get the battery unscrewed as it uses fiendish trilobe screws, and we have no suitable screwdriver at home. Anyway I can order one online, at least the cover's off (can't see any sign of liquid there on the bottom at least, but no knowing what's underneath). Obviously I don't want to fry anything on top of whatever else I might have done to the poor laptop, so once I have the right screwdriver I have no idea what to attach an anti-static wrist strap to. We do have one but I can't find any definite advice online I want to follow! I was hoping someone here might be able to advise?</p><p></p><p>And if I do get that far, should I attempt to remove any other components such as the motherboard, because right now I can't see any liquid so it has to be on the underneath of what I can see so far, if you see what I mean.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BarbMac, post: 1740527, member: 169293"] So I am joining the ranks of those who've spilled liquid on their laptops, and am suitably mortified. My spillage was orange juice. I immediately mopped it off the keyboard with tissues but I would imagine some still got under the keys and inside my MacBook Pro. I turned it off after I got over the initial shock and left it tented over a towel overnight. This morning I decided to open up the back and remove the battery - I am pretty much a novice and although I've removed the back cover before that's about it. My other half is very experienced with taking apart and putting together electronic equipment but as luck would have it, he's overseas for the next 2 weeks. So I figured I have to get the battery out at the very least, and probably the hard drive? So I found various tutorials online but was stumped at the point of trying to get the battery unscrewed as it uses fiendish trilobe screws, and we have no suitable screwdriver at home. Anyway I can order one online, at least the cover's off (can't see any sign of liquid there on the bottom at least, but no knowing what's underneath). Obviously I don't want to fry anything on top of whatever else I might have done to the poor laptop, so once I have the right screwdriver I have no idea what to attach an anti-static wrist strap to. We do have one but I can't find any definite advice online I want to follow! I was hoping someone here might be able to advise? And if I do get that far, should I attempt to remove any other components such as the motherboard, because right now I can't see any liquid so it has to be on the underneath of what I can see so far, if you see what I mean. [/QUOTE]
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