Fluid spill with pics!!! :eek: and a question

[deadpixels]

hello all, my little brother had an 'accident' involving his powerbook and some ice tea, here is two pics of the damage, beside that the machine works just fine he says. has anyone experienced the same thing? and where do you guys think the ice tea is? can it go inside the lcd? i would think it's between the lcd and the alu lid but the fact the the ice tea is lit make me think it's not that simple??

 

[macbwizard]

Yes! I have experienced the same thing with my MBP. I'll try to find some photos. It happened to me just with water and eventually, after about a month most of it had dried. I still had to replace the LCD though (through techrestore).


edit: photo


unfortunately I don't have an 'after' photo, but most of the horizontal lines vanished and there was only slight darkening at the end. I'm not sure exactly where the liquid was, but good luck trying to find it.

 

[iMacBook]

Do you still have AppleCare?

If so, go get another.

 

[deadpixels]

Yes! I have experienced the same thing with my MBP. I'll try to find some photos. It happened to me just with water and eventually, after about a month most of it had dried. I still had to replace the LCD though (through techrestore).


edit: photo


unfortunately I don't have an 'after' photo, but most of the horizontal lines vanished and there was only slight darkening at the end. I'm not sure exactly where the liquid was, but good luck trying to find it.

if it dried after a while, why did you replace the lcd??

 

[aaron.lee2006]

Do you still have AppleCare?

If so, go get another.

AppleCare does not cover fluid damages.

 

[deadpixels]

Do you still have AppleCare?

If so, go get another.

get another what? lcd? this kind of damage isn't covered besides applecare is over on this machine

 

[dex22]

It look like you'll be buying a replacement panel off eBay and installing it yourself in the not-too-distant future.

Alternatively, you could deduct the estimated cost of repair, and sell the MBP with that discount - I know a string of people who would like it, myself included.

 

[eenu]

This should dry out..... the only danger is if it leaves some form of residual which will leave you with slight discoloration permantely. ie if you spilt water it would dry no issue but as soon as you start spilling juices you are going to get drying marks.

 

[deadpixels]

It look like you'll be buying a replacement panel off eBay and installing it yourself in the not-too-distant future.

Alternatively, you could deduct the estimated cost of repair, and sell the MBP with that discount - I know a string of people who would like it, myself included.

it's my brother's machine and it's not a mbpro, it's a alubook 1.25ghz. but you might be right about having to change the lcd.

 

[Sbrocket]

Once you get liquid soaked up behind/inside an LCD screen its usually pretty done for as far as having a pristine screen goes. Same reason you never want to spray something like cleaning solution directly on an LCD screen, since it might drip down into the bottom of the casing and capillary action soaks it up into the screen. I highly doubt that will dry out...where's the water gonna go? Magically disappear?

 

[rectangular]

spill a crapload more onto the screen and sell it as new age art! I bet you could sell it for more than it was worth new

It will be the next big art niche.