Dear 2009:

[etherial]

Die in a fire.

kthxbye

Edit: specifically, a glass of grape juice had a tragic encounter with my computer. If anyone out there can help me figure out what, if anything, can be done to salvage my poor mac mini, please call my cell or leave a comment here.

Comments

[pezzonovante.livejournal.com]

Amen!

[calygrey.livejournal.com]

Soon. Thankfully!

[dirkcjelli.livejournal.com]

I'd suggest cleaning with rubbing alcohaul and letting it dry for a week.

The internerd may have more specific and more well-tested advice.

[stillking.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I mean, at this point there's very little to be lost by the disassembly/isopropyl method. I might suggest booting up the hard drive in someone else's chassis (or putting it in an enclosure to boot as an external drive, or putting it in another chassis' secondary slot as an extra drive), purely for data-recovery purposes; Linux and BSD machines should be able to mount this without too much trouble. (I am less confident wrt Windows.)

-- Sven

[eridun.livejournal.com]

Mac mini? Get online from another computer if you can and get the take-apart for it. It's available online. Don't disassemble the main components, but take apart the case so that the inside can dry. Rubbing alcohol is a good idea, make sure the connections are clean and check to see if it's gotten past the EM shield (a thinish aluminum shell around the inside of the unit) - if it has, then remove that too and clean again with the rubbing alcohol. Past that, let it dry and give it about a week unplugged to dry out.

If (IF) the warranty is still intact then you have two options: 1) send it to Apple and have them fix it because disassembling a warranty unit will void the warranty or 2) don't worry about the Apple warranty and go for it yourself.

Did you shut it down immediately? Or did it run for a bit? Also, did it fizzle out or did you just shut it down without any sizzling?

Good Luck from your friendly Apple certified tech & sales LJ friend!