The solution is simple: Buy a new MacBook! On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 8:46 AM Paul Londoner <[email protected]> wrote:
> IT RAINED ON MY THREE MACBOOKS!! > > > I’m really devastated after a moment’s carelessness has resulted in all > three of my MacBooks getting soaked by rain! I’m so careful and keep > telling people never to put drinks on the same surface as a computer. I’ve > also read a lot about “liquid damage” on Apple products which makes me > think that they’re specially designed by Apple to be more sensitive to > liquids, to make them break down and try to get Apple users to buy new > ones. I can’t believe this has happened to me. I wouldn’t have had it > happen for the World, but unfortunately one thing changed in my home a few > days ago which has caused this. > > > I should explain that I’m living in a place with only skylights instead or > normal windows. They’re by a company called VELUX who I despise for making > them the way they are. I wasn’t able to open these until finally getting a > special pole designed for them, which arrived only a few days ago after > over ten months of living like that. This meant there was no real > ventilation and it felt fairly stuffy. I was also infested with small flies > which fly spray didn’t get rid of, so I also got a solid fly killer > containing Citronella, which I heard is banned from being advertised as an > insecticide, only as a perfume, so it sounded really good. It works, up to > a point! > > > I was waiting five hours for an engineer to come and fix a problem with my > Broadband and phone. I had the skylight in the living room open to > encourage the remaining flies to leave. During all that time, no one came! > I was sitting in a chair for most of the time, using one of my three Macs, > while the other two Macs were closed and on top of each other on another > chair. After all this, I felt like I needed to go and lie down in bed for a > little while. > > > I can’t remember how long I was lying in bed. I got up and went back into > the living room. When I arrived there, I got a big shock to see that it was > raining through the skylight! The MacBook Pro (mid 2012, 8Gb RAM) had been > soaked by rainwater and there was also rainwater on my MacBook Air (early > 2014), as well as on my other MacBook Pro (mid 2012, with 4Gb RAM)! I was > shocked that I didn’t hear the rain falling onto the closed bedroom > skylight. > > > > I immediately took action by closing the living room skylight and placing > the Macs keyboards facing down onto the sofa. After this, I tried to turn > on each Mac and found out that only the MacBook Pro (mid 2012, with 4Gb > RAM) would turn on. This is what I’m using to type this now. > > > I recently bought lots of screwdrivers of various types to enable me to > unscrew all of my Macs and upgrade one of the MacBook Pro (mid 2012) > computers. Unfortunately, it seems that none of these screwdrivers will > work on the MacBook Air (early 2014) screws, so it looks like I’ll have to > go shopping locally for the right screwdriver tomorrow. I read it’s called > a Pentalobe P5, but I think this may also be another name for a type of hex > key. > > > The MacBook Air (early 2014) shows no sign of life and the charger light > doesn’t come on when plugged in. > > > I’ve unscrewed the bottom of the MacBook Pro (mid 2012, 8Gb) and found > some water on the bottom of the Logic Board, which I’ve soaked up using > kitchen paper, but obviously there must be some more water inside this > computer on the other side of the Logic Board for it to get there in the > first place. > > > I really need some advice about what I can do to save at least one of my > two Macs that won’t currently turn on. I don’t think that the MacBook Pro > (mid 2012) model is supported for repairs by Apple any more. As for the > MacBook Air (early 2014), it officially runs Big Sur and I think it’s > supported by Apple for repairs, but I’ve heard a lot of horror stories > about this. I bought this MacBook Air for about $400, so I’m fairly sure > that an Apple repairer would charge me more than that to repair it. In that > case, it would be better just to buy another one from eBay. > > > While typing this message, I’ve found out that there are problems with my > MacBook Pro (mid 2012, 4Gb). These problems are not only affecting the > built in keyboard and trackpad, but even a USB keyboard and a mouse I’ve > plugged in. Lots of keys on the lower row of the internal keyboard don’t > seem to be working and it now seems quite difficult just to click on > anything using the trackpad or even the USB mouse. A normal click usually > comes up as a right click! I’ve had to turn on Accessibility/Mouse Keys and > use the 5 key on my USB keyboard numeric keypad instead. > > > I hope someone can help me! It was just a stupid mistake. Surely I haven’t > destroyed two of my Macs and ruined the input on the other one? What can I > do now?! 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