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A while ago some water was spilled onto my pc. ive replaced every part exept the case, it's practically a new computer. Yet everytime I boot it up the led lights on, one of the fans has to be manually started and the hard drive makes a clicking sound. all this before shutting down, then booting up by itself just to start the whole process again. It wont even stay on long enough to run a BIOS investigation.

h170 gaming 3 motherboard

Geforce GTX 1060
Gpu

16 gb hyperx
Ram

Seasonic s12 bronze 120ii
Psu

WD blue 1.0 tb
hdd

intel i5 processor
 
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Main one being...the one on the case? Some main light on the mobo? Something else?
If none of the debug lights I've indicated to you are lighting up at all, then seems like your cpu, memory and gpu are okay, making this likely a hard drive failure.
I'm not sure why you can't get into bios if that's the case, but I would try booting with a ubuntu live usb drive (nothing gets installed, as soon as you reboot and take out the usb key, linux is gone). If it's able to boot up into it, then it's definitely hard drive, and you may try to access it from ubuntu and get some of your data backed up, but if it's not seeing it, then only professional data recovery off of your drive may get important files back for you. If you have nothing of...
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Main one being...the one on the case? Some main light on the mobo? Something else?
If none of the debug lights I've indicated to you are lighting up at all, then seems like your cpu, memory and gpu are okay, making this likely a hard drive failure.
I'm not sure why you can't get into bios if that's the case, but I would try booting with a ubuntu live usb drive (nothing gets installed, as soon as you reboot and take out the usb key, linux is gone). If it's able to boot up into it, then it's definitely hard drive, and you may try to access it from ubuntu and get some of your data backed up, but if it's not seeing it, then only professional data recovery off of your drive may get important files back for you. If you have nothing of supreme importance on it, then just get a new hdd.
 
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