Macbook Air Boot failure after SMC reset. HELP.

Hi all.
So, my brand new macbook air may have encountered some water or something, i seriously dont know, but i booted it up this morning and the fan was rather loud, like seriously loud, so i check out activity monitor and the CPU usage was a solid 80% consistently even with no applications running. So i go for an SMC reset, and as i do the reset the charger falls out, literally (useless magnets), anyway i go to turn it on, and all that happens is the LED on the magsafe goes from orange to green then back to orange with no sound, no "tone", no nothing: dead silence.
Im a little concerned to take it in to an apple store as this alleged encounter with liquid that i was told about by my brother makes me fear that the LCI's will make it out of warranty.
I mean it was working fine about ten minutes ago and so surely some wierd SMC hitch cant have completely mucked up the whole thing?
Its the latest model (as in early 2014).
Thanks in advance
Billy

Try a PRAM reset. If that doesnt work, reboot back into that same recovery partition and reinstall the OS, you can use either your old disk or an internet recovery. You will most likely loose your data however so you may want to try and back it up. You can do so through another Mac computer with either an ethernet/firewire cable and an app called "Migration Assistant".
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