This is a mid-2012 model.
On Sunday, January 12, 2014 2:45:30 PM UTC-8, Vic wrote: > > Hello all. > One of the most ordinary situations but the one I need your help with > (especially if you live in California). > My wife spilled some coffee on her Macbook Air and, naturally, the machine > stopped working. > At first, the machine wouldn't boot up, but after a day or so it > eventually did. However, now we are getting three long (repetitive) beeps, > blank screen and no further activity. In reading various forums (those on > ifix.com as well), we discovered that the hardware problem could be > anything from a thermal paste that needs to be reapplied to possible > problems with RAM module. In any case, it's a hardware issue, most likely. > unfortunately, her machine was not hooked to a Time Capsule, a mistake we > now realized, but it's too late to worry about it now. > We went to a local Apple store but they told us that the national repair > store will be replacing the whole board, most likely, and will not be > taking care of our data. > > So, questions: > - does anybody know a place where I could send the machine to be inspected > first? Perhaps there is an easy fix and no need for the board replacement. > - If we do have to go the data recovery route, has anyone done that and > how reliable such a process is? Will they actually recover your whole OS or > just certain files? > > Thanks for any ideas, pointers and suggestions. > Best, > Vic > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
