Is this motherboard fried?

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Bellaflica

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Hello Tom's!

Recently, my friend spilled water inside his computer and left it running. After about a minute or two, it stopped working completely. It mostly landed on his GPU we believe, which we tested and indeed it was fried.

We bought a new motherboard and video card and it works fine now. However, we never tested the old motherboard (the one which his GPU died on).

So my question is this.. is it worth testing his old motherboard to see if it still works, and is it safe to do so?

Or did it likely get fried along with the GPU and as such not worth the effort to test?
 
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It's probably worth testing, so long as you don't do the testing using your primary hardware. CPU, GPU card (If necessary), power supply, etc. should all be expendable just in case the motherboard IS damaged and decides to take something else out with it. I would not use my primary hardware on a questionable motherboard.

I recently had a client who spilled an entire 32 oz cup of flavored, sweetened coffee, from the convenience store right down through the top fan vent all over the motherboard and GPU card. GPU card was toast (GTX 740). Client wanted to replace the entire system, so we did, but I allowed the unit to dry out, cleaned it using isopropyl alcohol, a very soft fine brush and shop air, and it was fine. I'm using that board...
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It's probably worth testing, so long as you don't do the testing using your primary hardware. CPU, GPU card (If necessary), power supply, etc. should all be expendable just in case the motherboard IS damaged and decides to take something else out with it. I would not use my primary hardware on a questionable motherboard.

I recently had a client who spilled an entire 32 oz cup of flavored, sweetened coffee, from the convenience store right down through the top fan vent all over the motherboard and GPU card. GPU card was toast (GTX 740). Client wanted to replace the entire system, so we did, but I allowed the unit to dry out, cleaned it using isopropyl alcohol, a very soft fine brush and shop air, and it was fine. I'm using that board which was an ASRock 970 Pro3 as a bench test board for other hardware right now. SO clearly coffee containing sweetened creamer is going to probably be worse than water, and it was ok, so yours MIGHT be, but it very well might not be as well.
 
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It's not. If you can find a cheap cpu, whatever the least expensive CPU model is that will fit that socket, and a single stick of cheap RAM, you can probably get away with using the power supply you already have in order to test it. Plus, then you would at least have some kind of additional hardware for use with testing for the purpose of elimination if you ever have troubles with your current hardware going forward.

Used hardware would be perfectly fine for this and is usually relatively inexpensive, so it's worth a though if you're even remotely interested in keeping that other board.
 
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