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Wet damage but dc power light and battery status green.

Hello, so my daugther decided to "clean my laptop" and pour water while she was watching cartoons in it. I was at work, minutes later my daughter complained to my wife that the computer wasnt working. :) So, I have remove most of the components. Removed battery as it was old anyway and dont holding charge, remove logic board, memory, hard disk, everything except: the dc little board and keyboard and track pad. All the components I removed, put them to dry with rice. Once dried, I took them out I cleaned thm with fast drying contact cleaner to remove any corrotion. wait for a couple of hours and I installed everythihng back again. Now, the green led on the dc cable comes green( so I guess that the dc board is working?) the battery status is coming green but blinks and then go off as I am testing without battery, but the fan doesnt come on when I tried to start the laptop. The hard drive SSD is working as I pluged it to another laptop with an usb adapter and it came on and was able to see content (phew!) the memory mayb survived as i didnt see any water nearby when I first took it apart. So I am guessing that its the logic board that is just gone. Is there anything other test I could do ? suggestions? Thanks in advance.

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Geez, I really do not know but it might be the logic board. Take it into an Apple Store, because it is probably an extensive repair ahead. I am surprised no one has answered this yet, so probably just take it into an Apple Store. Sorry about that. :/

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@ajcooke01 Apple will not work on it as it is over 6 years old. They will call it a Legacy Machine. All they will try to do is sell you a new one.

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@mayer You’re right, I thought it was a 2016 or 2018 MacBook, it helps to read item descriptions thoroughly. Thanks for the correction.

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Your keyboard is probably shorted out. If so, your machine gets no signal to power up when you press the ON button. Let’s try a spontaneous reboot, bypassing the keyboard command to test. Disconnect the mag-safe. Unplug the battery. Press and hold the power on button for 10 seconds. Hook the battery back up, then the mag-safe. If the logic board is good, you should get a spontaneous reboot. Let us know your results. Was there liquid on the logic board?

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Hello there mayer, sorry for the delayed response, I managed to get hold of some guys here in England which did a fantastic job. Here is part of his response:

'The final problem was not an area affected by the liquid damage but on a related power rail. The main cause was a shorted tantalum capacitor on a USB line. '

I would put their name here but I dont know the rules of the forum etc. So very greatfull to these guys.

P.S: I came back to this site because my partner which have a macbook pro 13 inch touchbar 2016 has now spilled coffee over the keyboard :D blodyhell! so I came back to this site to find more info, just to find out that model repairability score is 1 :o , and also just found(thanks to this wonderful site) out that uses a particular P5 screw . Why is that Apple need to put these pointless screws to its product? its so annoying.

Anyway, end of the rant. Thanks for the advice though.

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