I've been inside the MacBook. It appears some water got in near the USB port and shorted out the battery connector. The USB port was nonfunctional for a while, but it's functioning now (fingers crossed). The old battery connector was (IMO) clearly fried; there were burn marks near the connector to the motherboard. I replaced it. I won't know whether the motherboard connector is damaged, however, until I try to charge a known good battery.<div>
<br></div><div>Jeremy, thanks for your offer. I'll bring Sharon's Macbook on Tuesday and we'll pop a battery in and see. Shouldn't take more than five minutes.</div><div><br></div><div>KAI<br><div><br></div>
<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Matthew Nuzum <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:newz@bearfruit.org">newz@bearfruit.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Jon Thompson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jon@mac-consultant.com" target="_blank">jon@mac-consultant.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">
Sounds to me like the macbook has been sitting in a puddle. I have<br>
seen two macbooks that run fine, just as long as you don't use the<br>
battery that were the result of water below the unit. It is not the<br>
battery, it is the logic board, as I have done the same test.<br>
<br></blockquote></div><div><br>But that's not 100% certain. I've seen other computers indicate the same problem from a failed battery. There's some circuitry inside the battery that can fail for numerous reasons and cause this.<br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin, <a href="http://identi.ca" target="_blank">identi.ca</a> and twitter<br>
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