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PC water damage - tech heads please help



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guysy

I need some help as ive cocked up royaly, my computer is down to the left of my desk, below it and i keep my drink to the left of my desk directly aboce my computer, ive always worried about it but stupidly just tried to be careful, well 2 years later ive nocked a glass of coke over, it hit the top of the computer just on the plastic part, only a small spool on top but where it has a top hole for a fan a few drops went in and sat on the fan housing.

the fan is a side mounted arctic cooler, none of the water was sprayed by the fan a few drops just dripped down and sat on the graphics card but also a few on the motherboard, so it was all still working fine as i was panicing and i turned it off... opened it up and cleaned the small drops of water mainly on the graphics card...

So i went to turn back on, s**t... all im getting is the fan spinning for about 2 seconds then dying...

This is after cleaning most stuff with isopropyl alcohol, so im pissed off, dont know whats gone or not and i cant afford to buy most or all of the stuff just to see which part it is..?

Help me please!!
 
Darren S

Darren S

ClioSport Club Member
You'll be lucky to get that resurrected if you spilt Coke. Containing s**t-loads of sugar, it instantly goes sticky with the heat of the PC and you'll have a hell of a job removing it.

Water - yes, you can sometimes get around that. But I've come across two incidents of Coke being spilt on a PC and it was curtains for both devices.

D.
 
G

guysy

I dont have a spare graphics to test atm, i was in such a s**t mood last night but thinking back now think it was lemonade if it makes any difference haha, yeah its obviously shorted something and fucked something up

If i hold the mem test button it keeps the fan spinning but no graphics from what i can tell

I hope and dont thnik its the memory, i think the main bit that i damaged was one of the square capacitor looking things on the motherboard?

The graphics card wouldnt make the cpu fan stop and start will it?

I just need to know which part to replace, at this time i cant afford to be guessing on which parts without propperly knowing,

help appreciated
 
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dum1983

  rs 200
From the fan spinning up and then stopping after a few sec's it sounds like the problem is with your MB.
 
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guysy

Ive found a second hand almost identical motherboard, slightly better anyway so maybe a bonus for 50 quid,

I really hope it is the mobo,

When i was holding the mem test button to patch and the fan was spinning as normal, could this be that ive just shorted a capacitor for the memory? and not definatly fucked the ram as well?

What a pain in the arse! currently on a computer slower than ive ever experienced,

Symptoms at the moment: power button powers the fan for 1 second, it dies, without pressing start button again it will die then start, then die and start...

Holding mem test makes the fans work, but no display on monitors, guess it could be mobo and possibly graphics card, not a good day for me.
 
welshname

welshname

ClioSport Club Member
take the GFX card out (if you have onboard graphics too) and try turning it on again. Also take your ram out. ram errors can cause the fan coming on.

if you unplugged the mobo make sure the ATX power cable is back in (assuming its an ATX motherboard)
 
G

guysy

It doesnt have on board graphics, ive just bought 2 old/new pcs of mates, using this one at the mo if its got a graphics card i will try it,

Ive tried swapping the ram around it didnt do anything,

Ive never taken the mobo battery out, does it just reset the CMOS? not that ive even ever looked into what that does...

EDIT: just tried either and no sticks of ram at all, still getting the pulsing fan, also tried no graphics card... still the same problem, so i gues its either the mobo or the psu...

PSU is a fairly new corsair, so wouldnt have thought it was that, just hope its the mobo and it hasnt taken anything else with it!

Might upgrade my graphics card now, its old and crap, think its currently has 256mb on onboard memory... 512 or 1gb onboard would be good... i need twin VGA (or DVI im currently using adapters) and under 50 quid im on a tight budget... any suggestions please?
 
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Damo_Sport

  Nothing at the mo :(
Take out the RAM completely and try starting the machine.. also try doing it with just the basics

So PSU, motherboard and CPU... You dont need RAM for teh PC to actually stay on so try it without the ram
 
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guysy

Cheers Damo just tried that and yeah ive ruled it down to the mobo or psu?

Had a psu f**k up before the fans where stopping and starting abrubptly (spelling) this time it just feels like the mobo is at fault... wish it had one of those fancy fault displays!
 
Gareth

Gareth

  Turbo'd MX-5 MK4
Do you get any beeps at all when switching on? those are your clues to finding the faulty part. It does sound like the mobo is gone.
 
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guysy

Nope no beeps

Also on my board is: Asus P7P55D LE... Every time since the install i turn my computer on the red light next to the ram flashed on and off, did that mean there was a problem with it? i ignored it tbh because the computer worked perfect...

Need sugestions for a cheap dual monitor graphics card please?? im out of touch...
 
Gareth

Gareth

  Turbo'd MX-5 MK4
guysy said:
Nope no beeps

Also on my board is: Asus P7P55D LE... Every time since the install i turn my computer on the red light next to the ram flashed on and off, did that mean there was a problem with it? i ignored it tbh because the computer worked perfect...

Need sugestions for a cheap dual monitor graphics card please?? im out of touch...
Click to expand...

Possibly a voltage indicator, but if it went red then off I would have thought that was ok (it's if they stay red it's an issue). If your getting no beeps I think it's new mobo time.
 
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guysy

dum1983 said:
Try the psu in one of the other computers you have ?
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Good plan i will, my head goes to mush when im trying to solve things

Gareth said:
Possibly a voltage indicator, but if it went red then off I would have thought that was ok (it's if they stay red it's an issue). If your getting no beeps I think it's new mobo time.
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I thought i possibly had them in the wrong channel but i dont, possibly yeah i can build computers no problems but heading off in cetrain directions i lost interest because theres to much to keep up with,

No bleeps so yep im still on the mobo fucked thought, hope this replacement turns up soon, then i could possibly have the problem of a fucked grapics card but ill test that too..

Cheers for the help... Graphics card anyone please?
 
panbot3000

panbot3000

  Swift Sport
Not sure about graphics cards with dual output for under £50, I'd guess you would be looking second hand. Cheapest I found was a 4650 which was about £65. I have an old 4870 1GB that's gathering dust but I'm not sure how much it's worth. Might be a bit overkill for what you want, I dunno.
 
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guysy

My current is a nvidia 6600gt, think it was about £60? anyway yeah £65 is ok ill have a look into that... im sure there are some dual output cards for £50 just need a reccomendation or to find one,

Hopefully the graphics card is alright but not sure
 
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guysy

Currently posting from the computer that was broken, now is working, however i have some problems and need some help quickly...

I couldnt get it to boot at first, boot is IDE and i have 2 slave SATA drives for data... with the 2 satas plugged in the ide isnt booting? whats going wrong?

The motherboard was 2nd hand so i thought he might have been running raid or something which im clueless about or had the setting changed, so i removed the battery from the board and booted... should be standard settings now, however i had the same problem with the SATAs plugged in.

The only changes to the board now are the fact i didnt realise i had an 8pin 12v power to the board tucked away (when i first did the build i obviously missed it) so i swapped the 4pin power to 8pin power that the board and psu supports... thats the only changes...

When im trying to install the mobo cd for drivers on 2 accounts the computer has just turned off and rebooted? whats going on there?

Temped to do a new install of win7 but its so long backing up stuff...

Quick help needed please
 
D

Damo_Sport

  Nothing at the mo :(
guysy said:
Cheers Damo just tried that and yeah ive ruled it down to the mobo or psu?

Had a psu f**k up before the fans where stopping and starting abrubptly (spelling) this time it just feels like the mobo is at fault... wish it had one of those fancy fault displays!
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Like i said. Plug in PSU motherboard and ram and turn on the plug * Not the Power button.. the plug socket so there is power entering the motherboard*

Do you have a light on the motherboard? If so this will light up when the PC is not turned on but with the plug socket on

if you have no light on but there is space fora light.. then im gonna say new motherboard
 
G

guysy

Ah okay maybe ill have to do that then, only got a 250gb external and 400gb of data... FML

Have to get the SATAs working to copy some data over...

Im running the IDE drive now... it just seems to not work when i power up the SATAs... ill have another try..

Anyone else a yes for a new install or could i make it work?

boards are pretty much identical
 
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wozzaa

  Monaro VXR
Fresh install is the best way to do it.

But make a partition just for the OS this time on the drive.

Quick format the drive then set a 50GB partition for windows and office etc. Games, files etc save on the other drives / partitions.
 
G

guysy

Im going to do a fresh install :) could do with one and what with the new mobo,

Hopefully will fix the issue with the SATA drives and the mobo cd wont make the pc crash, 2hours 10 mins for the firs 221gb then probably another 1.5 hours for the other 156gb to backup first...

Using the 3.0usb ports but currently its on a green light so 2.0! need to turn that on then the next backup will be faster.

Cheers for the help
 
G

guysy

wozzaa said:
Fresh install is the best way to do it.

But make a partition just for the OS this time on the drive.

Quick format the drive then set a 50GB partition for windows and office etc. Games, files etc save on the other drives / partitions.
Click to expand...

Ive never created a partition for the OS itself, i just format and install the OS on the new partition.

Whats the advantage of the OS having its own partition?
 
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