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A couple days ago a tragic (small amount, but bad enough) water spill took out the keyboard in a MBP sitting on top of my T61p...

Not sure exactly how much got in there, but enough to mess things up. A small but decent amount would have made it in the vent next to the VGA port as shown below.



Unfortunately I think the computer was sleeping when this happened and I did not respond as quickly as I should, so power was still probably going thru the machine.

When I try and turn it on, the device access light stays lit up, and the computer will reset itself a couple times before giving up. Does this sound like I am in need of just a new motherboard, or is it worse sounding than that? Later today I will remove the hard drive and see if that survived the spill.

Thanks in advance. Hope to get it back alive soon

Take the board out, let it sit in rice for a couple of days.

Re-install it and see what happens then.

Good luck.

Thanks. It's worth noting I can only get it to recognize external power if I remove the battery then plug in power. Regardless I will try the rice and see what happens, I just took the MacBook out of the rice...