Awhile back(just over a month ago now) I had some water damage to my pc. My gpu stopped working for a while but after letting it dry for a few days everything seemed to be fine....or so I thought.
Today after gaming for 45 minutes I had pinkish looking boxes appear on my screen, a loud screech, and then the screen went blank for a few seconds before running again. Assumed it was the game and tried to carry on, happened again and I got nervous and turned off the game and just tried surfing the web in the mean time.
After 10 mins my screen froze and turned blank for the final time. I have not been able to get anything to show on my monitor since then. I think my system is fine cause I checked my mobo and after the usual post numbers it starts showing CPU temps since my mobo has temperature monitoring. Unfortunately I have no mobo speaker so I cant listen to the post beep. Exact same sequence of events happened the last time when I had the water damage so Im fairly confident that this problem is isolated to the GPU.
With all that said, I need to know if its safe for me to go ahead and put an order in for a new GPU. Is there anything else I can do to make sure nothing else is the issue. Some water did spill on the PSU as well so I wonder if that could also be the culprit and not supplying enough power to the GPU. If that where the case the GPU still should power up under no load, right?
Since that time I got the PC running again after the water damage till today I have not had any other issues with the PC; no BOSD, no PC hangs, not even any noticeable performance issues.
Looking for advice on what to do next.
Thank you for reading my very long post.
PC:
i5 2500k
GTX 570
Biostar mobo
Seasonic 620wtt PSU
Today after gaming for 45 minutes I had pinkish looking boxes appear on my screen, a loud screech, and then the screen went blank for a few seconds before running again. Assumed it was the game and tried to carry on, happened again and I got nervous and turned off the game and just tried surfing the web in the mean time.
After 10 mins my screen froze and turned blank for the final time. I have not been able to get anything to show on my monitor since then. I think my system is fine cause I checked my mobo and after the usual post numbers it starts showing CPU temps since my mobo has temperature monitoring. Unfortunately I have no mobo speaker so I cant listen to the post beep. Exact same sequence of events happened the last time when I had the water damage so Im fairly confident that this problem is isolated to the GPU.
With all that said, I need to know if its safe for me to go ahead and put an order in for a new GPU. Is there anything else I can do to make sure nothing else is the issue. Some water did spill on the PSU as well so I wonder if that could also be the culprit and not supplying enough power to the GPU. If that where the case the GPU still should power up under no load, right?
Since that time I got the PC running again after the water damage till today I have not had any other issues with the PC; no BOSD, no PC hangs, not even any noticeable performance issues.
Looking for advice on what to do next.
Thank you for reading my very long post.
PC:
i5 2500k
GTX 570
Biostar mobo
Seasonic 620wtt PSU