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I spilled water on my macbook!!! PLEASE HELP
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I accidently spilled water on my macbook. it shut off and i turned it upside down to let the water drain out.. also took out the battery. i sprayed in out with air and am letting it sit to dry out...any ideas im hoping it will work...prolly a stupid thread but im not sure on what to do.
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i've heard that the rice thing works well. my friend said that when he went swimming with his phone in his pocket, he took out the battery and put them seperately into a bowl of rubbing alcohol and it seperated the water from the phone and battery and when he let it dry it was fine. might be risky with a computer though
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That doesn't even make any sense... you sort of owned yourself there.
How was skipping skiing two weeks in a row to play on your DS for 14 hours in a row?
/ownage
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if it makes you feel any better I did that to my powerbook. Water was dripping out the bottom. I took out the battery and dried everything off and it still works.
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I spilled a full 32oz powerade on my ibook before i just let it dry out and it was fine
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I didnt know mac users were even smart enough to know how to pull out their battery~
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we need to take it in to do that~
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you are such a douchebag~
fuck you and your bullshit period key story~ i've seen you use it before, you're just so dumb that you love your fucking tilde key~
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So raged~
Oh and theres nothing wrong with my period key. Just one of the many legends born from my famous exploits. Probably something thought up by one of my followers~
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BIG BOWL OF RICE. the exact same thing happened to me, and i am typing on the comp now.
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i dont know if any one has said this but put is a bag of dry rice the rice will absorb all the water it worked for my cell phone when i went wakeboarding with it
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i'm just honestly sick of all of your posts. just stop being such a douchebag
..and you actually had told me yourself that you didnt have a period key, so dont flatter yourself by claiming that you have "followers"
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Its ok my child, all can be answered within. You need only to take your first step. Pledge yourself to me, and find the truth of the world. Become one with the cult of Scott, and cease spending your life as a poor lost, raging soul~
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put it in white rice...replace it with a pc
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..who likes you on this site again?
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Yes, let the hate consume you! Strike him down!~
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did you just cast a spell on him? are you a fucking wizard?
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lol
you are just too funni
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lvl 50 with rank 2 magic missile~
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Wait, hold on just a second... is that magic missile or red rocket?
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seeing as im on the recieving end im hoping its a red rocket
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Dude... do the rubbing alcohol thing. it works. My phone was at the bottom of a pond for five minutes while I looked for it in murky-ass water and it has had NO PROBLEMS since. Fuck man, you give a guy good advice... Why do you still want to fuck with Apple when you have a cheap, quick, easy solution? I don't get it...
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because i dont want to try this shit and then have it fuck up my computer anymore guess it doesnt matter cuz this thread went to shit. thanks everyone im hopin for the best. end thread
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It can't POSSIBLY fuck your computer up more, not using rubbing alcohol will fuck your computer up more. Rubbing alcohol is completely safe for computer components, water is corrosive. Any remaining water is rusting your components as I type this, and believe me, there IS remaining water because there's no way it evaporated by now. Good luck though...
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Not disagreeing because I've never tried it, but does it evaporate as quickly? I donno, I use rubbing alcohol for fucking everything so I'm partial to it. I have huge jugs of it in my room at all times.
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Shitfuck, that's awesome. Do that then...
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haha it was rainwater, and lots of it too.
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ok so im gunna bump this thread because i think my screen is blown. it runs like it supposed to but nothing shows up on the screen. i can shut it down and turn it on my holding the power button.
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is the screen pale blueish/grey? and can you hear the hard drive but nothing happens?
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yeah i can hear it run and all that good stuff...but the screen shows nothing no color or anything...i figure i might as well send it to apple and see if they can fix it...cuz it charges and the light in the front is on.
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yeah at this point that would be ur best bet, if they call you out on water damage you probably wont be any worse off than you are now besides postage
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yeah exactly what i might do is take it to a computer place that fixes macs and ask if there is possible signs of water damage.
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The good news is the screen is replacable. Even if the warranty wont recover it you could shell out a few hundred and get it replaced professionally.
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id wait like a week until you reopen it
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