Disaster: Help?

Logla · Jul 6, 2004, 12:32 PM

Ive spilt water onto my motherboard whilst topping up the water cooling.

one of the clips on the cpu block had somehow come loose and a small amount of water leaked out onto the graphics card.

I have managed to blow most of it out of the agp and pci slots with compressed air and then soaked it up with tissue paper. I'm now drying the board off above a radiator.

Is there anything else I need to consider before powering the system back up.

Oh and the comp was switched off when this happened.

EDIT: Its all back together now with no visisble traces of water showing. I have used nearly a full can of air on the board so I think I'm ok. It seems to run fine apart from the power button which seems to be working intermitantly. I'll leave it for a day or so before giving it a real workout.

I also nearly killed the cpu by dropping it and bending about 10 pins. It took me an hour just to get them all straightened again.

Malus · Jul 6, 2004, 04:18 PM

Sounds like a rough day. The water should evaporate sooner or later I suppose, so it shouldn't be too much of a problem.

dipstick · Jul 7, 2004, 01:50 AM

Yeah, just let it sit overnight before you turn it back on. Also you got lucky with the cpu, I wasted a 3400+ not long ago by doing the same thing lol. Be carefull

Zelig · Jul 15, 2004, 11:46 PM

Heh, I actually spilled a glass of water into one of my old keytronic keyboards once, and managed to save it, by yanking it out of the comp as fast as I could, and letting it dry.

No_Style · Jul 17, 2004, 05:32 PM

You're a lucky guy! How you guys drop such an "expensive" piece of hardware? I guess it's AMD so they're cheap and replaceable right?

Haha~ J/K I never carry a CPU. As soon as I remove it I set it down somewhere (usually in it's original box with the holder). Bending pins on a P4 ain't cool

On another note, I carried a P4 CPU in breast pocket of my jacket in an AMD CPU plastic holder for an entire day and not a thing happened to it.

Logla · Jul 18, 2004, 06:37 PM

Should of mentioned that its all working fine.

No_Style, I dropped the cpu as I was removing it from the ZIF socket - it was only about 3-4cm above the work surface when it slipped.

Jul 6, 2004, 12:32 PM	#1
Logla HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 3,311 Rep Power: 0	Disaster: Help? Ive spilt water onto my motherboard whilst topping up the water cooling. one of the clips on the cpu block had somehow come loose and a small amount of water leaked out onto the graphics card. I have managed to blow most of it out of the agp and pci slots with compressed air and then soaked it up with tissue paper. I'm now drying the board off above a radiator. Is there anything else I need to consider before powering the system back up. Oh and the comp was switched off when this happened. EDIT: Its all back together now with no visisble traces of water showing. I have used nearly a full can of air on the board so I think I'm ok. It seems to run fine apart from the power button which seems to be working intermitantly. I'll leave it for a day or so before giving it a real workout. I also nearly killed the cpu by dropping it and bending about 10 pins. It took me an hour just to get them all straightened again. Last edited by Logla; Jul 6, 2004 at 03:13 PM.

Jul 6, 2004, 04:18 PM	#2
Malus BSD SMASH! Join Date: May 2002 Location: A rabbit hole. . . Posts: 1,170 Rep Power: 0	Sounds like a rough day. The water should evaporate sooner or later I suppose, so it shouldn't be too much of a problem. __________________ quad (FreeBSD/amd64 8-CURRENT): Intel Q6600 - Asus P5E-VM HDMI - 2x2 GB Kingston PC6400 DDR2 Ram - Seagate 320GB 7200RPM HD - 2xSeagate 1TB 7200RPM HD in RAID 1 via ZFS - Lite-On 20x DVD Multi Recorder - Coolermaster Centurion 5 router (FreeBSD/amd64 8-CURRENT): Intel E4500 - Intel D945GCNL - 2 GB PC6400 Mushkin Ram - Lite-On 48x24x48x16 - Seagate 320GB 7200RPM HD - Silverstone SST-SG02-F wanderer (FreeBSD/i386 7-CURRENT): Lenovo Thinkpad T61p mini (OS X 10.5): Intel Core 2 Duo @ 1.8Ghz, 4 GB Mushkin PC5400 Ram - Headroom MicroDAC Portable sound: Rockboxed iPod Video -> Westone UM2's Not-So-Portable Sound: Headroon MicroDAC -> Singlepower PPX3-SLAM -> Grado RS-1's or Beyerdynamic DT-880's Very-Not-Portable-Sound: Squeezebox v3 -> Denon AVR-1507 -> B&W 683's & Sunfire HRS-10

Jul 17, 2004, 05:32 PM	#5
No_Style Styleless Wonder Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Ottawa, Ontario Posts: 6,034 Rep Power: 0	Holy Jebus You're a lucky guy! How you guys drop such an "expensive" piece of hardware? I guess it's AMD so they're cheap and replaceable right? Haha~ J/K I never carry a CPU. As soon as I remove it I set it down somewhere (usually in it's original box with the holder). Bending pins on a P4 ain't cool On another note, I carried a P4 CPU in breast pocket of my jacket in an AMD CPU plastic holder for an entire day and not a thing happened to it. __________________ "The Best Style Is No Style" Specifications Here

Jul 7, 2004, 01:50 AM	#3
dipstick HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: USA Posts: 3,609 Rep Power: 71 System Specs	Yeah, just let it sit overnight before you turn it back on. Also you got lucky with the cpu, I wasted a 3400+ not long ago by doing the same thing lol. Be carefull

Jul 15, 2004, 11:46 PM	#4
Zelig HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Canada Posts: 3,187 Rep Power: 71 System Specs	Heh, I actually spilled a glass of water into one of my old keytronic keyboards once, and managed to save it, by yanking it out of the comp as fast as I could, and letting it dry.

Jul 18, 2004, 06:37 PM	Thread Starter #6
Logla HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 3,311 Rep Power: 0	Should of mentioned that its all working fine. No_Style, I dropped the cpu as I was removing it from the ZIF socket - it was only about 3-4cm above the work surface when it slipped.