Spilled coffee on top of Mac Pro

[n8mac]

I just spilled coffee on my desk and a little bit spilled over to the top of my 5,1 Mac Pro. I cleaned the outside up with a damp rag asap. The machine is working fine so far but I'm curious if any could have leaked along the top edge and cause havok later on.

Awhile ago my cat spilled some water under my Mac keyboard and it was fine until a few days later keys stopped working one by one, so just being cautious.

If any did spill inside the crease, then i'm guessing it would be hard to clean as it is opposite the door.

 

[tsialex]

I just spilled coffee on my desk and a little bit spilled over to the top of my 5,1 Mac Pro. I cleaned the outside up with a damp rag asap. The machine is working fine so far but I'm curious if any could have leaked along the top edge and cause havok later on.

Awhile ago my cat spilled some water under my Mac keyboard and it was fine until a few days later keys stopped working one by one, so just being cautious.

If any did spill inside the crease, then i'm guessing it would be hard to clean as it is opposite the door.

Remove the DVD cage and check inside, seems the place where it can flow down.

 

[n8mac]

I took out the DVD/cage and it looks like no coffee fell inside. The top holes are clean (except dusty). Thanks.

Opening that part up made me think of what can be upgraded there. I assume that an SSD can be put under the DVD drive? I still use the DVD from time to time. Plus the other drive slots are all full.

I have both MacOS and Windows bootcamp on the same SSD and the Windows partition is getting small. If I can put an SSD in the second DVD slot, can I just clone Win7 to it and erase the old partition on the MacOS drive?

 

[pl1984]

Turn it upside down for a little while just to be sure?

 

[h9826790]

I took out the DVD/cage and it looks like no coffee fell inside. The top holes are clean (except dusty). Thanks.

Opening that part up made me think of what can be upgraded there. I assume that an SSD can be put under the DVD drive? I still use the DVD from time to time. Plus the other drive slots are all full.

I have both MacOS and Windows bootcamp on the same SSD and the Windows partition is getting small. If I can put an SSD in the second DVD slot, can I just clone Win7 to it and erase the old partition on the MacOS drive?

Install an extra SSD in the optical bay is easy, literally plug and play. But clone Windows may be harder. AFAIK, WinClone can only serve as backup / recover purpose. It cannot really clone Windows to another hard driver.

Clonezilla (Linux) may able to do that, but I never try that.

P.S. You can install the SSD in the lower bay. I move the optical drive to the lower bay simply because the lower bay's door is more smooth on my cMP. Not really for the SSD to sit on top.

 

[crjackson2134]

AFAIK, WinClone can only serve as backup / recover purpose. It cannot really clone Windows to another hard driver.

Clonezilla (Linux) may able to do that, but I never try that.

Yes it can do a Volume <==> clone. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. I’ll look into whyit doesn’t always work when I get a chance. There is a logical explanation, but I haven’t really dug deep enough to this. I think it has to do with drive UUID and hardware configuration changes.

I cloned a Bay1 spinning-rust drive to a PCIe Mounted SATA SSD. It took 3 reboots before the drive would load windows. When I physically tried to locate the SSD in another location, it wouldn’t boot no matter what. As soon as I put it back, it booted as though there weren’t ever a problem.

I believe if I had done another Volume <==> Volume clone, it would have worked. I think WinClone makes adjustments to the new Windows clone to allow it to boot, but it fails sometimes like a failed bless command, but it’s actually an altered file within windows (my theory).

I’m pretty sick right now, and writing from my iPad, so I can’t test anything until I get back on my feet. I think I may need surgery in a few days, so I don’t know when I can get to it, but I will sooner or later unless I wind up dying pretty soon (which may be the case too). We’ll see what happens.

 

[jbarley]

If I can put an SSD in the second DVD slot, can I just clone Win7 to it and erase the old partition on the MacOS drive?

Word of caution here..
do a google search, seems I remember something about issues with "BootCamp" and the optical drive bay location.

 

[DPUser]

You can install the SSD in the lower bay. I move the optical drive to the lower bay simply because the lower bay's door is more smooth on my cMP. Not really for the SSD to sit on top.

I moved the optical drive for the express purpose of using it as a shelf for SSDs. Works great!

 

[h9826790]

Word of caution here..
do a google search, seems I remember something about issues with "BootCamp" and the optical drive bay location.

Some users claim that only HDD bay 1 can boot Windows. But I’ve tested it on my cMP. The SSD can boot in all HDD / Optical bay regardless EFI or legacy mode.

 

[Synchro3]

In my case Windows 7 can only boot reliable and each time in bay 1.

Though Windows 10 has no problems booting in each bay.

 

[crjackson2134]

I’m booting it from a Apricorn Solo X2.