- Sep 30, 2015
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Hello all,
So last night I accidentally spilt water into my PC whilst I was using it. The monitors went fuzzy, stopped responding and there was a distinct electrical burning smell.
It was a tiny amount of water, no more than a few drops. I opened up the PC and it appeared that my graphics card had took the few drops. I still had my old 600 series Nvidia handy, so I replaced it with that and it booted up fine. Once it had all loaded I noticed that the ethernet was not working. So I tried to reboot but the PC would not come back on. It would power up for a few seconds and then turn off.
So I stripped everything out and left it overnight. This morning I rebuilt it and noticed that the small socket part of the PCI-E slot looked like it was tarnished. I tried anyway and I just kept getting an error from the BIOS telling me that overclocking failed. So I pulled the battery for 5 minutes but that error remained. I went into BIOS settings and restored defaults, still the error remained.
I've stripped everything out again and took the battery out and left it whilst I've come to work. I also tried to clean the tarnish with a little isopropanol, but it's difficult to do. Being a week from payday after a 5 week month I'm hoping I don't need to replace anything. Is there anything else I can do to help my chances?
Thanks
So last night I accidentally spilt water into my PC whilst I was using it. The monitors went fuzzy, stopped responding and there was a distinct electrical burning smell.
It was a tiny amount of water, no more than a few drops. I opened up the PC and it appeared that my graphics card had took the few drops. I still had my old 600 series Nvidia handy, so I replaced it with that and it booted up fine. Once it had all loaded I noticed that the ethernet was not working. So I tried to reboot but the PC would not come back on. It would power up for a few seconds and then turn off.
So I stripped everything out and left it overnight. This morning I rebuilt it and noticed that the small socket part of the PCI-E slot looked like it was tarnished. I tried anyway and I just kept getting an error from the BIOS telling me that overclocking failed. So I pulled the battery for 5 minutes but that error remained. I went into BIOS settings and restored defaults, still the error remained.
I've stripped everything out again and took the battery out and left it whilst I've come to work. I also tried to clean the tarnish with a little isopropanol, but it's difficult to do. Being a week from payday after a 5 week month I'm hoping I don't need to replace anything. Is there anything else I can do to help my chances?
Thanks
I've spilled sugary coffee and laptop became pricy mug heater. 
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