Hello, welcome to another episode of the iboot guide today. I have a
[Macbook] [pro], it's A 13 inch and
This one had gatorade spilled on the motherboard after which it died a pretty quick death
and so what we're going to be doing today is a complete disassembly all the way down to the motherboard and
With any [luck] maybe we can fix it. We'll see as
Always when you're taking apart a laptop I recommend that you have something like this
that you can label with a dry erase marker and put your screws in because there's going to be a lot of different kinds of
Screws, and you don't want to lose track of when it comes time to put it back together
[you] [can] typically pick these up in the craft section of places like Walmart Target or [container] [stores] stuff like that, [okay]?
First thing to do is turn the laptop upside down, and you'll see [ten] screws on the bottom
These are all Phillips screws, and you'll need a fine-tipped Phillips screwdriver
However these three screws here are longer than the rest so as usual make sure to keep these labeled and separated in your container
Okay at this point. You should be able to remove the bottom plate
You can see the corrosion all over the logic board from the spilled Gatorade
if all you needed to do is get to the ramp you can already do [that] if
You want to remove the hard drive you'll just need to remove these two screws here
And then you can pull this little retaining bracket out
Then you can just unplug the Sata Connector
Okay back on our mission to remove the logic board first unplug the battery by gently prying upward on this connector here
Now we'll remove the fan start by unplugging it from the board
You'll need to pry straight up
next remove these three screws
From this point on you're going to need a t6 Torx driver
Okay, you should be able to lift the fan up and out of the computer now
Okay now to unplug the video connector. You'll probably need to peel off this little cushion
Then lift this little lever and fold it over then just pull the cable straight out like this next undo this screw
and
another one hiding right by the video cable
Okay, remove this cable here pop it straight up
Okay, remove the cushion from this cable and pull it straight out
For these next three cables just lift them straight up like this until they pop [off]
Okay, this next connector is a bit strange. You need to rotate the back of it upwards like this, then pull the cable straight out
The next connector is very small, but works exactly the same but first you'll need to remove this little cover
Okay, back over by the battery again remove this little connector next remove these two screws [here]
Then get the ones on either side of the ram modules
Okay, you have three more screws in the logic board
Then you have these two screws here for the power Connector board
Okay, time to unscrew the battery pack. This is where you'll need that funky Tri wing driver
Once you lift out the battery. You should be able to remove the logic board
okay, so now the goal is to clean all of the gatorade off of everything [I] can feel the sticky remains on many parts of
The computer most of the surfaces are pretty easy to clean
For the logic board I'm going to use pure alcohol and a plastic brush to scrub the corrosion off the board
Then I'll rinse with water to remove all of the sugar left over by the gatorade
Contrary to popular belief water will not hurt
Electronics as long as they are not powered up and as long as it dries before it has a chance to corrode anything
I'll use a hairdryer to the final drying process
All right
So a note about the hairdryer believe it or not these things are actually
Hot enough that they can melt solder in the components could fall right off the board
In fact some people use it for that on purpose
Sometimes when they're trying to remove surface mount chips so what you want to do is try to put it on the low heat setting
And then try not to keep the hairdryer focused on any particular
Part of the board for very long keep it moving around as much as possible so you don't focus the heat
Okay in order to clean this thing out there are still a few more things to remove such as this cable for the hard drive
and the power indicator, led
You actually have to carefully peel this up
Next I'll remove the optical drive now. I can start working on the keyboard
I'll remove all the keys [that] are gummed up with gatorade and then I'll rinse the whole keyboard assembly in the sink and dry it
I
Know this is going to be a little bit anticlimactic, but here's a laptop. I have put it back together and
unfortunately
This still doesn't work
Now the truth is though. I have done the same procedure on other laptops that had liquid spilled on them
And they did come back to life, so it's not a complete total waste of time
Just because it didn't work in this case
I just don't have any video of that time so at least now
You know how to clean them off if should you need to do that all right? Well, thanks for watching
I hope you enjoy the video. [I've] got some really interesting stuff [coming] up in the next videos for example
I'm going to show you this old first generation apple TV and some interesting things you can do with it running linux on it
[I'm] also going to be building what I hope to be the ultimate computer disk
I'm going to probably do a video about that and I've got some vintage electronics
I'm going to be showing you an upcoming video as well. That's pretty interesting so till then