04-18-2022, 10:19 PM
Gareth wrote:
There's probably 3 ways to fix a liquid damaged laptop:
1. clean and hope. Clean off the affected components with 100% isopropyl alcohol and hope it starts to work and continues to work. Not sure a shop would use this approach, but I've done it as a home remedy.
2. Replace the affected parts (i.e. logic board). Probably the most common and expensive approach, but may not make economical sense since the cost could approach that of a replacement laptop.
3. Component level repair, where they replace only the affected parts on the logic board, which is uncommon and you'd have to find a shop willing and able to do this, and that assumes parts are available for the damaged components.
drawbacks of #s1 & 3 are that the repair may work, but minor corrosion of working components continues and may become major corrosion and may lead to more problems on down the road... #2 is what apple would do