MacBook undergoes trial by water...

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I stupidly packed my things away after a lecture and put my water bottle (with sports cap) into the same bag as my macbook. I realised my mistake when someone tapped me on the shoulder at some traffic lights and pointed out that my bag was 'leaking'.

Opened it up and found my gimp sleeve very damp on one end, took the macbook out and it seemed ok so I turned it on. It booted up and immediately froze.

Discovered at this point that water was coming out of the little vents at the back so I held it vertically and got a taxi home, resting it on my I jeans I realised how much water had got into it as a small damp patch was forming on my legs.

Got home, turned the heating on, spread a towel over the radiator and put the macbook on it vertically so any water could drain out of the vents and it would dry out.

two hours later and I'm writing this post using it :) First time I booted it the screen was VERY dark, but output to my external was fine and it was functioning perfectly (no slow down or anything).. after a restart the screen was back to normal and it's all good.

I consider myself pretty lucky it still works! No more sports cap bottles for me..

Felix
 
Seriously though why the hell did you turn it on straight away? Thats breaking the basic rule of electronic suff + wet = fail. You got lucky.

Next time just take the batt out and put it somewhere warm and you will be unlucky if it does not work after. Especially if the machine was turned off at the time as only a very small part of the machine will be powered while its off.

At the time I didn't realise it was as wet as it turned out to be, but yeah it was a bad idea I know! I'm hoping however that there won't be a next time..

only thing I've noticed is it now seems to be running a bit warm, 52C just seeding a torrent and with safari, mail and itunes open. cpu is 90% idle..
 
well it's insured for all risks but obviously I would have been gutted if it had been screwed. I've been running it with the battery out and just plugged into power but it wouldn't turn on at all a minute ago. Put the battery in and it's booted, I think it might end up being an Applecare job yet though :(
 
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