April 10, 2014

Spilled water bottle in a mac book air

This is not a test. It's only a story about what happened today to my mac book air.
Spilled bottle water on my macbook air.
No hard damage, it seemed. But the internal speakers don't work.Recommendation



  1. Do not keep water bottles and pc in the same bag
  2. Do not TURN on YOUR COMPUTER before driyng the water.Dry well, maybe with a hairdryer (in distance and ambient air), put the computer in a ventilated place and wait a few hours.
  3. Use keyboard protective films and neoprene covers. Neoprene is not waterproof but prevent the direct water contact


If your computer is on standby:

  • Dry the pc from drops of water. 
  • Check that there were no damages related to hardware fault (just like warnings or system alerts)
  • Turn on pc.
  • Check your system functions. Keys, screen video audio (jack and internal speakers). 

What happened to me:

  • The internal speakers did not work. Reason? Perhaps a few drops of water inside of the jack prevented the system to tell if earphones jack were inserted or not.
  • I cleaned with a cotton-bud the jack.
  • I opened video editing and conversion programs to increase the processor temperature and activate the cooling fans, hoping that this could dry the residual drops.
  • Rebooted, audio was ok. 

Good luck.