Last night I knocked over a glass of water on the keyboard of my MacBook. I immediately turned it upside down, dried off the water, and left it upside down with a space heater blowing warm air underneath it. (At this time, I also took out the battery, wiped the tiny amount of water off it, and replaced it.) When I first tried to turn it back on, it wouldn't respond. After about 4 hours of "space heater" treatment, I plugged the power cord back in, and tried to play a DVD (which it did) and access a Word document (which it did).
I was really relieved that it worked, until I got it to work today and it won't play using only the battery for power. The battery was fully charged before the water spill, but now the computer won't repond at all -- it's like the battery is completey dead.
Anyone heard of this? Ideas about what to do? My warranty doesn't cover accidental damage, so I'd like to minimize the cost of fixing it is possible.
2007-03-28 09:49:28 · 3 answers · asked by Who Knew? 4 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
First, I want to say that whenever you spill something like water on your laptop, you want to let it dry for DAYS, not hours before you try turning it on.
The space heater was not the best idea either, that causes the water to evaporate faster and can cause the vapor to condense onto other parts of the laptop potentially damaging it more.
You got very lucky that nothing really bad happened other than the battery.
I would try removing and reseating the battery several times and testing to see if it will turn on each time.
Then I would take a multimeter to the battery connections on the laptop while it is plugged in. Check and see if it supplys voltage to the contacts. If not, it probably fried the traces that connects the battery to the laptop.
If that is the case, you will probably want to take it in to at least have it looked at.
2007-03-28 09:56:42 · answer #1 · answered by Bjorn 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hard to say, but it could be that your internal abttery charger is damaged, or the battery was damaged .
You need to try two things.
1) A different battery
2) You battery in a different Macbook ( to see if it charges ).
I hope this helps !
2007-03-28 09:54:50 · answer #2 · answered by Multi_expert 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i guess the water has killed the battery by connecting the + and - terminals short circuiting it...your battery has gone to heaven....time to buy a new one.....they arnt cheap......
read this.....lots of things not to do with a battery !! http://www.able-battery.com/faq.html
2007-03-28 09:55:27 · answer #3 · answered by deanally2001 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋