MacBook Pro 2012 Liquid Damage - Have to Bypass SMC
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I have a Macbook Pro Mid 2012 with liquid damage (Sugary workout drink). Only a small amount got on the logic board from what I can see but one of the chips was covered in the stuff. I cleaned off the one side of the logic with distilled water and isopropyl alcohol and when I disassembled it I didn’t see any corrosion on the side where the heat sink is so I didn’t bother cleaning that side.
Anyway it won’t boot up unless I hold down the power button to bypass the SMC. I can’t run diagnostics because I wiped the hard drive but doing the apple web recovery diagnostics it doesn’t detect anything wrong. (I tried downloading the apple hardware test from GitHub but installing it on the system and making a bootable usb doesn’t work, it gives me an error: Error: 0x8000000000000003, Cannot Load 'EFI/Drivers/TestSupport.efi'
Status: 0x00000003[br]
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The memory slot 1 sensor can get up to 90 degrees so I tried running 1 piece in each slot and switching different memory sticks to see if that was the issue. It didn’t make any difference. TG Pro says that the battery is outside current. Would it make any difference replacing the battery or is the power section on the logic board probably messed up?
MacBook Pro 2012 Liquid Damage - Have to Bypass SMC
crwdns2934249:0crwdne2934249:0:
I have a Macbook Pro Mid 2012 with liquid damage (Sugary workout drink). Only a small amount got on the logic board from what I can see but one of the chips was covered in the stuff. I cleaned off the one side of the logic with distilled water and isopropyl alcohol and when I disassembled it I didn’t see any corrosion on the side where the heat sink is so I didn’t bother cleaning that side.
Anyway it won’t boot up unless I hold down the power button to bypass the SMC. I can’t run diagnostics because I wiped the hard drive but doing the apple web recovery diagnostics it doesn’t detect anything wrong. (I tried downloading the apple hardware test from GitHub but installing it on the system and making a bootable usb doesn’t work, it gives me an error: Error: 0x8000000000000003, Cannot Load 'EFI/Drivers/TestSupport.efi'
Status: 0x00000003[br]
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