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Slight Water Spill; need help to determine what's dead

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February 2, 2014 6:12:44 PM

* Mobo: MSI z77A-g45
* CPU: i5 3570k
* GPU: PNY GTX 560ti
* PSU: Corsair Builder Series 500w
* RAM: Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz

Title says it all.

I have a Corsair 200r case. The front 120/140mm vents do not have a fan, or a protective mesh over them. A very little amount of water went through this hole; I'd say under 50ml?

Heard my speakers go all funny, screen went green, then everything turned off.

Immediately turned off the power, stripped my mother board and proceeded to try it off with a towel.

The only area's the water touched where the right side of my motherboard, around where the 3rd cpu fan header, and down the side where the 24-pin rail is. The 24-pin connectors were not wet and no water was inside either connectors when I disconnected it. No water could've gone inside my PSU, as the fan grills are pointing to the underside of my case (vent grills there). Only the tiniest drop touched the back of the PCB on my GPU. I couldn't tell if any droplets of water went inside the 2 unused RAM slots, but there was a drop of water on the plastic cover of my RAM sticks. A little tiny bit of water also went on the front-panel connectors, outside the case.

I let it try for a few hours, got a hairdryer and put it on cool air, just to blow off any excess water/dust anywhere and decided to test the Mobo. There is 0 blown capacitors, or any marks on the motherboard. I checked the 24-pin connector on the mobo + the PSU, all looked fine as well.

Power LED Flashed, no power. Instantly decided the Mobo was dead, but I wanted to test the PSU just in case, so I switched in my Gigabyte B75-D3H mobo to check my PSU was safe. Again, LEDs blinked, 0 power. Reseated my RAM, again, no boot.

Is it safe to say that both Mobo + PSU are dead? Or is there any hope that my Mobo could be okay, and that it's just my PSU dead?

Worst case scenario, could my entire computer, including the CPU be killed?

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