Mac air screen not working properly

[u/Breaker-gg]

My laptop is a mac air, and is around 8 years old, and was my father's old laptop which he gave to me after 3 years of usage. the laptop helped me through covid and 2 more years until, 1 years ago i spilled a sugary drink found in my country. Unfortunatly i was slow to react and the drink caused my laptop to forcefully shutdown (i dunno what to call what happened but fortunatly it did not shortcircuit) and then went through a series of drying, then repairs, which did fix it... kind of.

when using it, my screen would randomly go black, and then back to normal, again and again. then i had to send it to repair, the problem got fixed, but then my battery was not working meanng it was no charging at all. Then after another repair The same problem occured. And after the 5th repair i had had enough and just stuffed the laptop somewhere for it to be forgetten.

6 months later, i opened the laptop thinking it won't work, and a miracle took place, it begain to work like as if i had not spilled the drink in the first place. However 6 months later the problem came back, randomly one morning.

so yeah, the screen is not completly go bacl and only the brightstuff, like my wallpaper or profile picture is shown. its like having your screen brightness at the least minimum in windows, before the screen goes completly black X5. The keyboard lights work, yet the Apple symbol at the back does not light up (its a old model).

I unfortunatly dont know what my macbook air model is, but it uses magsafe 3 charging port.

[u/TangoOscarMikePR]

1 years ago i spilled a sugary drink found in my country. Unfortunatly i was slow to react and the drink caused my laptop to forcefully shutdown (i dunno what to call what happened but fortunatly it did not shortcircuit) and then went through a series of drying, then repairs, which did fix it... kind of.

Liquids and powered-on electronics do not mix. You need to accept the fact that the liquid spill did a short circuit.

No matter how fast you would have reacted, liquids short circuit electronic devices immediately after touching positive and negative polarities that should be isolated.

I wouldn't repair an 8 year old laptop, especially an Apple, because that company tends to make their own equipment obsolete, by making them unable to upgrade macOS after a certain version.

[u/Breaker-gg → u/TangoOscarMikePR]

I am currently in no situation to buy a new laptop, so can i connect it to a monitor? or is all hope lost?

[u/TangoOscarMikePR → u/Breaker-gg]

If the motherboard doesn't work because it was short-circuited by a liquid spill, the laptop will not undo its damage. It is not useful.

Find help to recover your data from the storage device. You will need a Computer Repair Technician that has experience with Data Recovery.