- Sep 4, 2017
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Yeah, first post here as with many people is because I had a blockheaded moment. Some water (about 30 ml or so if I had to guess) got spilled on the top of my desktop, and leaked through some cracks onto my GTX 980. Within a few minutes the screen displayed some heavy artifacting and went brown.
I know what I should have done - power down, disconnect the GPU, dry it out with compressed air or something...bottom line is that I didn't act fast enough and now I think it's done for. I did take it out after the incident and let it dry for about 36 hours.
Upon reinstalling it, I can get to the logon screen, however as soon as I enter my password and attempt to logon the screen will go black, brown, or a weird tan color. Starting in safe mode works, but of course it hardly even utilizes the card, and uses the Microsoft Basic Display driver. Uninstalling and reinstalling the appropriate nvidia driver has no effect.
Now for my question and my main concern: seeing as the card is almost completely dead, will simply replacing it solve the issue? The water seemingly only damaged the card itself, as it just leaked over the top and around the HDMI connection. My fear, though, is that some water might have dripped onto the area in and around PCIe connection. Would a very small amount of water ruin that area of the motherboard as well? I would hate to fork out hundreds for a new card only to find that the issue still exists.
If I could test another GPU (or test my current GPU in another computer), I would have definitely done that already, however any friends with a suitable PC or GPU are hundreds of miles away. Thanks for any advice/feedback.
I know what I should have done - power down, disconnect the GPU, dry it out with compressed air or something...bottom line is that I didn't act fast enough and now I think it's done for. I did take it out after the incident and let it dry for about 36 hours.
Upon reinstalling it, I can get to the logon screen, however as soon as I enter my password and attempt to logon the screen will go black, brown, or a weird tan color. Starting in safe mode works, but of course it hardly even utilizes the card, and uses the Microsoft Basic Display driver. Uninstalling and reinstalling the appropriate nvidia driver has no effect.
Now for my question and my main concern: seeing as the card is almost completely dead, will simply replacing it solve the issue? The water seemingly only damaged the card itself, as it just leaked over the top and around the HDMI connection. My fear, though, is that some water might have dripped onto the area in and around PCIe connection. Would a very small amount of water ruin that area of the motherboard as well? I would hate to fork out hundreds for a new card only to find that the issue still exists.
If I could test another GPU (or test my current GPU in another computer), I would have definitely done that already, however any friends with a suitable PC or GPU are hundreds of miles away. Thanks for any advice/feedback.
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