a little japanese girl spilled water all over my macbook today, it wont turn on . besides leaving it dry out naturally and hoping for the best is there anything else i can do?
a little japanese girl spilled water all over my macbook today, it wont turn on . besides leaving it dry out naturally and hoping for the best is there anything else i can do?
Leave it for a few days in a warm place and you could be lucky. Happened to me once and it turned on after 3/4 days.
a little japanese girl spilled water all over my macbook today, it wont turn on . besides leaving it dry out naturally and hoping for the best is there anything else i can do?
Dont turn it on until it has been allowed to dry out!
You could short the circuits on the motherboard easily that way.
ANd yeah, leave it in a hot place for the water to evaporate a bit.
maybe use a heater of some sort to blow air into it,
a dehumidifier might be a handy thing to have in the room too, but thats easier said than done!
Serves you right you materialistic twat! Fucking mac users!
There is a langers forum for a reason, that reason is for you and your comment. Take off now, bye bye. If you ever need help on a technical issue come back. Don't spoil it for yourself now by even replying unless you have something constructive to say (an apology would be good) but I suspect that your not big enough to do that.
People on here will help you when your stuck with said tech issues, which you very well might have, bear that in mind.
a little japanese girl spilled water all over my macbook today, it wont turn on . besides leaving it dry out naturally and hoping for the best is there anything else i can do?
Probably to late now but I'd take out the battery to stop all the circuits, then turn it upside down (water runs 'down' to it's lowest level i.e. off your macbook) to allow the liquid to run off (gravity is your friend). Maybe use a hairdryer to dry out possible water cross circuits effect. Leave it for as long as possible then try to turn it back on.
I think the key is to not turn the computer back on untill you are absolutely sure that it is dried out. Then make sure that all the keys work afterwards. Good luck.
Never ever, ever try to turn electronics that have gotten wet back on. They usually have a protection circuit that'll shut it down in case of water damage, it's the attempting to turn them back on, in the majority of cases, that breaks them.
Also, it's best not to apply direct high temperature to electronics, unless you know exactly what you're doing (most people on here don't. Not an insult, oyu've just never designed consumer electronics before). Using the hair dryer on it can seperate glues and, as it's not at all unusual for glue to be used for electrical connections on some shoddier/cheaper pieces of equipment, actually break something that wasn't broken in the first place.
Not to mention the fact that cases nowadays are frequently glued, Apple are particuarly bad for doing this, as I found when I replaced the battery on my girlfriend's iPod.
Sorry, can't really offer any advice. Your harddrive is sealed so it should be ok. The most likely thing to have blown is the power supply, which should be relatively easy to spot.
Best of luck with it, leaving it for a week or two is the best move.
Never ever, ever try to turn electronics that have gotten wet back on. They usually have a protection circuit that'll shut it down in case of water damage, it's the attempting to turn them back on, in the majority of cases, that breaks them.
Also, it's best not to apply direct high temperature to electronics, unless you know exactly what you're doing (most people on here don't. Not an insult, oyu've just never designed consumer electronics before). Using the hair dryer on it can seperate glues and, as it's not at all unusual for glue to be used for electrical connections on some shoddier/cheaper pieces of equipment, actually break something that wasn't broken in the first place.
Not to mention the fact that cases nowadays are frequently glued, Apple are particuarly bad for doing this, as I found when I replaced the battery on my girlfriend's iPod.
Sorry, can't really offer any advice. Your harddrive is sealed so it should be ok. The most likely thing to have blown is the power supply, which should be relatively easy to spot.
Best of luck with it, leaving it for a week or two is the best move.
don't take this the wrong way, but i'm not so sure you've designed consumer electronics before either
the giveaway is that you think the power supply lives IN the machine... don't you mean the battery?
water all over my macbook - any help
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