A customer brought me a Macbook Pro. It's his daughters. She spilled some sort of liquid on it. I told him the sooner he brought it, the better, but it took him about 3 months to get it to me (she doesn't live in the same area as us).
Anyway, I order a genuine trackpad and keyboard / backlighting.
I put it all together. Last night, he sends a text asking if I can backup everything and redo the computer as well. I said I need the password. He gives it to me, I log in, and guess what? Some of the keys don't work. The J, M, stuff like that. If I hit them enough, for example, the m key, it'll type a bunch of letters like cbn and some weird characters.
Anyone have any experience with these? I'd like to try to test if it's a faulty replacement keyboard or if there's some sort of damage that occurred to the motherboard. I'd like to add, after removing the motherboard and examining it, it doesn't appear that the liquid made it down that far. It was some sort of red coloured liquid (like wine or juice). The keyboard had it on there and then the backlighting plastic stuff, but that's it. Not sure if it somehow sorted something out on the keyboard that then shorted something out on the motherboard or if it's just a bad replacement keyboard.
I'm going to try to reseat it, just to see what happens, after the backup finishes copying.
Thanks.
Anyway, I order a genuine trackpad and keyboard / backlighting.
I put it all together. Last night, he sends a text asking if I can backup everything and redo the computer as well. I said I need the password. He gives it to me, I log in, and guess what? Some of the keys don't work. The J, M, stuff like that. If I hit them enough, for example, the m key, it'll type a bunch of letters like cbn and some weird characters.
Anyone have any experience with these? I'd like to try to test if it's a faulty replacement keyboard or if there's some sort of damage that occurred to the motherboard. I'd like to add, after removing the motherboard and examining it, it doesn't appear that the liquid made it down that far. It was some sort of red coloured liquid (like wine or juice). The keyboard had it on there and then the backlighting plastic stuff, but that's it. Not sure if it somehow sorted something out on the keyboard that then shorted something out on the motherboard or if it's just a bad replacement keyboard.
I'm going to try to reseat it, just to see what happens, after the backup finishes copying.
Thanks.
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