MacBook Pro Mid 2012 Liquid damage
A friend of my wife's MacBook Pro got something spilled on it. Since then (don't know how long ago it happened) the computer will shutdown unexpectedly after a few minutes of running. After it shutsdown, it wont finish startup before shutting down again.
She took it to the Apple store, they reformatted her harddrive as they said it was a OS issue. That obviously didn't help, don't know if they even opened it to see the liquid marks inside or not. They told her it would be $500 for them to continue to diagnose, not sure what their plan was...other than they told her there was no guarantees it would fix it.
Anyway, that's when I ended up getting involved. I didn't know any of this was going on until she asked me what Apple product she should get to replace it, another MBP, Air or iPad. I asked her what was wrong with hers, she told me the above story, but didn't mention the liquid damage, don't think she knew at this point. i asked if I could take a look at it, thinking I would try one of my old hardrives and/or RAMin it to see if that was the issue.
When I got it today, I started it up and it ran perfectly for about 3-5 minutes, then shut down. Once it shuts down, it won't restart unless you let it sit for 5 minites or so. The case does not get warm at all. I decided to open it up to try our spare hardrive in it. Once I got the bottom off, you can see visible staining on the inside of the bottom and on the logic board, which shows some corrosion. It's obvious this is the problem, not the hardrive (I tried it anyway with the same results).
My question is, is it possible to clean the board? Or is it replace the board or get a new computer at this point?
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