Due to a rube goldberg machine involving my headphones and cord, my chair, and a mostly empty cup of water, water dripped into my PC. The way my desk is, it's put together in parts and the water spilt onto a crack where it goes together. I had no clue the crack had a little gap in it where anything could drip through, and then on top of that, I got a large fan on the top of the computer, and the water dripped right into the opening. The computer was just starting up, and I'm not sure if the fan was on or not, but anyways, the computer was on for like a full minute after the water spilled and dripped in while I made the realizations that I had even spilt anything, that it was infact dripping between the cracks, and that it was dripping into my computer. From what I could observe, there was maybe a little less than half a tea spoon of water that had just dripped directly onto the back of my video card, and then some had dripped over the back of that, and down to my power supply. I don't know if any actually got into my power supply, but there was some on the edge of the opening, but it didn't look like it was dripping in there, but I wouldn't rule out that a drop or two did make it in there as well. My motherboard I couldn't see any indication anything had gotten on it, and it was sideways so it seemed pretty out of the way. I carefully dabbed up the water off my video card, then off the edge of my power supply, I didn't see any more water or anything so I blasted in a bunch of compressed air to help air dry it, then because I had to go soon anyways, I left it off and unpluged and left for two hours. Now it won't turn on. The green lights on my motherboard and video card are lit up when the power is plugged in and on, but my computer power button does nothing.
I'm just wondering how absolutely screwed I could be. Is my video card shot? Assuming that water did drip into my power supply, could that be my problem on why things won't turn on? How does it affect the rest of my computer, would it fry everything else in it as well, or just the components that got wet? Do the green lights on my videocard/mother board indicate anything, could those be fine?
I'm hoping that at worst I'll just have to get a new power supply, but what do you guys think... I'll be completely destroyed if I have to get a new video card, I literally just got a 760 this month.
I'm just wondering how absolutely screwed I could be. Is my video card shot? Assuming that water did drip into my power supply, could that be my problem on why things won't turn on? How does it affect the rest of my computer, would it fry everything else in it as well, or just the components that got wet? Do the green lights on my videocard/mother board indicate anything, could those be fine?
I'm hoping that at worst I'll just have to get a new power supply, but what do you guys think... I'll be completely destroyed if I have to get a new video card, I literally just got a 760 this month.
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