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Hi! As title. Yesterday a great mourning has come upon our dwelling. My MacBookPro is dead. I have already organized the funeral home and the obituaries :) The cause? A damned quarter of a glass of water that I accidentally bumped into and let water in from the back. It initially stayed on but as soon as I placed it in position to let the water out, it went out. Forever. Let’s start with the symptoms: No powerNo chargingNo battery indicator (pressing the side button)the Magsafe LED is dim and only on one side, the other side is off. No bright green, no bright orange, just faint green What I did immediately: Run in my rescue zone.Open the Mac.Disconnect the battery (too late).use my partner’s Dyson Airwrap, in lukewarm mode and at a safe distance, trying to dry non-visible liquids.Crying hard while looking for solutions on iFixIt What I did next: Reset SMCRemoved the motherboard (my first time in a Mac)Started to look at every single component to find oxide. I didn’t have any magnifying glasses with me so I used this app (use it in Flight mode ON to avoid banners).After hours of research I found some oxide (not visible to the naked eye) on some components, I think they are capacitors, right in the area where the water would have entered. Sorry but I’m not into electronics, I’m a software developer. Heres some images:

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I have not found anything else visible. What can I do? Change the MoBo? Thanks in advance

UPDATE /w battery check For readers: this check is after the resurrection of the MacBook.

Good news The baby running again. Thanks to a friend of mine who insisted: “Before you buy a new one, let me have a look” he said. The response was: the oxide is a good conductor and it had created a short between the capacitors. A little contact cleaner (I don’t know what but it smelled like gasoline), a toothbrush, a spray of compressed air (in the MoBo there was the mite festival), tester and lots and lots of luck. After the first clean and the the tester (I never heard the BEEEEP of the short), we connect the magsafe and… BOOM! The Mobo starts working again, the fan starts and the magsafe turns bright green. Like New. One of the best days of my life. And he doesn’t deal mainly with computers, but he is a digital tachograph technician. I hope this experience can help someone. After all, it was one of the steps to be performed indicated by iFixIt, but if you have never done it before, you are afraid to touch an object where you keep your life inside. Best

You are at a cross-road! I personally love the older Unibody systems as they are a tank! So I would love for you to get this baby running again. Now you need to look as your pocket how many coins do you have to spend? What we know is the logic board will either need repairs or replacement, Your battery is likely gone given its age and it too might have been damaged by the spill. Both are costly! Does it make sense to make the big leap to one of the M1 based systems? These look very enticing! Or look at getting a used system to save some money.