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MagSafe light is not turning on/charging following liquid spill

Two weeks ago my son spilled a small amount of juice in the back of my laptop. I did not realize he had and booted it up a few hours later only to have a few issues occur:

-The magsafe light does not turn on and the battery does not charge

-Some of the keyboard keys began typing multiple characters

-The laptop shut off randomly

I left the laptop off, opened it and cleaned what sticky residue I could from the logic board/internals and left it to dry for a week. Upon restarting it, everything works back to normal with the exception of charging.

I tested my Magsafe adapter on another laptop and it works well. My laptop is able to run off the battery power (though it is fading fast). I ordered a Macbook DC-inboard (from IFixit) and installed it with no change and I tried resetting the SMC (before and after installing the new DC-inboard).

So my question is....is there anything else I can do besides replacing the logic board? I hate to see everything else working so well and I can no longer use my laptop because I can't recharge it. Is there any way to externally charge the battery to buy more time to try and fix it? Any help would be appreciated. As an aside, the new DC-inboard will spark at times when disconnected which the old does not so I've put back on the old one for the time being. THank you for your time.

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I know of no external charge system for the non-removeable batteries.

The easy DIY fix would be a logic board replacement (an advanced project as you basically have to completely disassemble then reassemble the laptop). One the services from e-bay maybe able to repair the damaged board (you'd have to discuss that with them).

Trying a new or replacement battery might be worthwhile... the damge may be on-board the battery. Today's batteries have circuit-boards and routines that control charging... it's not like back in the days of putting a camera or flashlight niCad in a wall charger.

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I don't think I would have a problem replacing the logic board (I've already disassembled and pulled out the logic board to clean it). I just don't think it would be cost effective to spend $1000 on a logic board for a computer that is 4 years old when I can get a new laptop for not much more.

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Cost analysis is completely up to you and your accountant. You could part out the box on e-bay take that $ and the 1K for a logic board and you could buy a refurbished newer Mac from Apple (like new warranty) or a brand new machine.

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