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spilled water on my macbook pro and now the mouse/trackpad doesn't work. also i can hear the fan constantly running. (loudly)
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
STEP BY STEP SOLUTION:
You will need: Printer or notebook paper, rice (or silica gel), and a small, sealable box that can hold your laptop (preferrably, the cardbord box in which your laptop was sold).
(1) Turn off the computer; disconnect power cords.
(2) Blot off any water that got on your laptop. Quietly mutter swear words to yourself (optional), but know its going to be okay because you are following these instructions.
(3) Tear off a small strip (~2 in. x 0.5 in.) of paper from a piece of printer paper.
(4) Feed the strip of paper into the gaps between the trackpad and the laptop body. Doing this will absorb water that got into the computer and under the trackpad.
(5) Repeat steps 3 and 4 on all sides of the trackpad, until the paper is no longer picking up any water.
(6) Open your box, and take out anything in it.
(7) Put your laptop in the small box, with the screen propped open.
(8) Spread an handful of rice onto the trackpad and the gaps between the trackpad and the laptop body. Pour a few cups of rice into the box around your laptop. (Explaination: Rice is a desiccant, so it will aborb the humidity in the air and dry out any residual water that may be in your laptop.)
(9) Close the box. You may need to lower your laptop's screen to make it to fit inside the box.
(10) Leave the box and laptop undisturbed at the very least overnight, if not a full day. Your rice-box is now a dehumidifier. Let it do its thing.
(11) Open the box, wipe the rice off your laptop, and remove your laptop. Turn your computer on. **If your curser is moving about erraticly, turn your laptop off and repeat steps 7-9.
(12) Open Safari, go to this thread, and give this post a thumbs up.
I was very skeptical about this working, but it totally works! Not sure if it's actually the rice or the waiting 12 hours, but my trackpad is working like normal after putting rice on it. Very happy!
spilled water on my laptop, trackpad doesn't work
