Spilled water on unplugged pc

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ethan.law1234

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I spilled water on my old desktop pc while it was off and unplugged, water didn't get on the mainboard but got on a few power cables that were out and all over the outside of the case. How screwed am I?

(Afraid to plug it in, PC is not a big deal, pentium from Windows XP era, but don't want to damage wiring in house.)

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shmoochie

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May 10, 2018
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You should let it dry for a long time before starting it up. Maybe leave it in the sun for a day or two. You could also lightly rinse the components that got wet with 90% alcohol and then let it dry. You should be okay as long as there was no residual charge in any of the components when it got wet.

 
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ethan.law1234

Aug 6, 2018
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PC was off for ~1 month before this happened; been using it as a media streaming server using apache with a self-signed cert.
 
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