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Spilled beer on MacBook
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Hi
I'm not sure if anyone can help here but basically my wife and I were watching a movie when I accidentally knocked a beer over and a little beer went on the macbook. It immediately turned off. There was probably 1/4 of a bottle on the mac. We immediately put the macbook on it's side and the beer rolled off. We mopped the rest off and stupidly tried to reboot. There was no response.
I'm sure there is no way to save the working capability of the mac but will the harddrive be ok? She is starting teaching a class on Tuesday and all of her teaching materials are on the computer.
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(Last edited by Cold Warrior; Jan 27, 2008 at 10:05 AM
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The hard drive should be fine.. and it's easy to take out. Just buy a cheap SATA USB enclosure or get a SATA to USB adapter and you can get the files you need off it. The computer though... likely you friend the MLB (logic board... also known as motherboard). That's the main circuit board with all the brains of the computer on it.
Apple will charge about $900 to fix, which probably isn't worth it... or you can sell it broken, as-is... In that case I might be interested to purchase it off you for parts... just let me know.
Good luck with it... let us know how it goes...
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Originally Posted by Cold Warrior 
"Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms."
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Can you tilt the macbook over your mouth and save the beer? 
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Thanks for all the replies. After drying it out the computer turned on and we were able to get copies of all the files. The only problem is that the keyboard doesn't seem to work. Other than that it is runnig ok for now. Not sure whether to buy a new keyboard and clean other parts or just run it with a keyboard from our old imac.
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Use it for a bit to make sure other things work reliably. No point in spending money on it if there turn out to be other intermittent problems. If there aren't, then a keyboard replacement from eBay for $50 or so is probably a good way to go.
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And stop wasting beer like that!
As jamil points out, you can clean spills out of parts like your keyboard using rubbing alcohol (I use 90% isopropyl because it leaves no residue and evaporates quickly). If the keyboard is all that seems to be inoperative right now, take it out and clean it thoroughly. See the link jamil posted for instructions on how to get your keyboard off and disconnected. Expect to use a couple of pints of alcohol-be really free with it so that any residue from the beer is dissolved and rinsed out. Then let it sit overnight so all the alcohol evaporates completely.
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