when doing the step of removing the plastic cover from the screw that connects the battery to the logic board with metal tweezers as instructed in the guide (step 6 in the battery replacement guide), it was difficult to get off and apparently while i was trying to do it, the tweezers went too far under and i believe made contact with the screw underneath? there was a zzz noise, an orange flicker and a little stream of smoke that came out. i freaked out and put everything back together to see if the laptop even still worked, it turned on and everything but died right away (i drained it before doing the repair anyway, so i was surprised it turned on at all).
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[image|2562292][image|2562291]when doing the step of removing the plastic cover from the screw that connects the battery to the logic board with metal tweezers as instructed in the guide (step 6 in the battery replacement guide), it was difficult to get off and apparently while i was trying to do it, the tweezers went too far under and i believe made contact with the screw underneath? there was a zzz noise, an orange flicker and a little stream of smoke that came out. i freaked out and put everything back together to see if the laptop even still worked, it turned on and everything but died right away (i drained it before doing the repair anyway, so i was surprised it turned on at all).
i finished the battery repair and did several other things while in there. i charged it all the way as recommended and then used internet recovery to do a fresh OS install (i upgraded the ssd and had to format it etc). at first everything was going fine but it got stuck for hours when i tried to migrate the data. i stopped the migration and restarted the computer. started the migration over but it got stuck again. after restarting it again, it gets stuck at the apple logo with the “loading” meter under it. it shows the meter “full” as if it is finished booting and should bring me to the welcome screen again but it just gets stuck there.
could someone explain to me what could’ve happened with the spark and the possible consequences? or if it sounds more like a software issue rather than hardware. thanks for any help
when doing the step of removing the plastic cover from the screw that connects the battery to the logic board with metal tweezers as instructed in the guide (step 6 in the battery replacement guide), it was difficult to get off and apparently while i was trying to do it, the tweezers went too far under and i believe made contact with the screw underneath? there was a zzz noise, an orange flicker and a little stream of smoke that came out. i freaked out and put everything back together to see if the laptop even still worked, it turned on and everything but died right away (i drained it before doing the repair anyway, so i was surprised it turned on at all).
i finished the battery repair and did several other things while in there. i charged it all the way as recommended and then used internet recovery to do a fresh OS install (i upgraded the ssd and had to format it etc). at first everything was going fine but it got stuck for hours when i tried to migrate the data. i stopped the migration and restarted the computer. started the migration over but it got stuck again. after restarting it again, it gets stuck at the apple logo with the “loading” meter under it. it shows the meter “full” as if it is finished booting and should bring me to the welcome screen again but it just gets stuck there.
could someone explain to me what could’ve happened with the spark and the possible consequences? or if it sounds more like a software issue rather than hardware. thanks for any help