Nearly three weeks ago I (shame on me) spilled some beer over my MacBook and it instantly shut down. I removed the charger, put it on the side and let all the fluid run out. Waiting one day, I opened it and cleaned everything I could see, which was not that much. Lucky me it worked again and since then I had no problems at all, although I was using high performance (gaming, hd movies etc). Two days ago, I ve seen that it was shut down, however I did not do it. I tried to restart it but nothing happened. I just got a black screen, nothing else, the small white indicator at the right front shows a permanent light, i can hear the hd and the fan. The keyboard shows no sign of life either, as the CAPSLOCK does not turn green when I press it. Since then my mac started once for a couple minutes and than without warning shuts down. Everytime I boot it, I guess I hear the same noise as when it restart itself but nothing more. I do not know what I can do and what problem I have, so I am desperate and hope any one out there can help me.

Thanks in advance

⟐ Commented May 27, 2011 at 9:30 am -0700

First off, the battery % indicator doesn't seem to increase when on the charger. For example, my wife had 55% battery power when she went to sleep and put the phone on the charger. When she woke up, still 55%. She restarted the phone, which then dropped the battery level to 22% (even though it had been on the charger all night).

Now the phone is randomly restarting by going black, then immediately to the startup screen (white Apple logo). It restarts very often.

Obviously something is very wrong. Could it be that the battery we received was a lemon? I had no trouble with the installation. The phone does make and receive calls, when it's not randomly restarting.

I reinstalled the old "quick to drain" battery, and the problems stopped. The phone no longer randomly restarts, and the battery indicator level (%) does increase while being charged. It's looking like the new battery itself is the issue.

Please help! My wife can't live without her iPhone.

⟐ Answer deleted May 15, 2013 at 9:31 pm -0700