Hello guys.
3 Days ago I left home to spend the weekend on my parents'. Left the window to my room open where sits my desk and my computer, right by the window, I came back on Sunday morning after a stormy Saturday night to find the desk on my room drenched with water, my computer was ON with the fans spinning wildly like it was about to take off, I saw it all wet and I immediately unplugged off the wall as if expecting I could still save it. I opened it and the components inside were filled with droplets of water, the GPU, motherboard, CPU fan, drops of water everywhere, the PSU which sits on the lower part had the most water, with a small pool formed on the bottom right by the PSU.
"This computer is dead". so I thought. I knew there wasn't much I could do so I disassembled it, part by part, and left it out to dry by a heater. Then comes next day, after a hard day's work came back home and I assembled everything, tried to power on and the fans take off, the GPU sounded like it was trying to fly away to mars with that speed, got scared and tried to power on again a few times, no signal on monitor, no lights, just fans spinning out of control. That's where I came to the conclusion this computer is done for.
So 3 days later, today, I decided to cool down and get technical on this, I'll try to diagnose which component is not working anymore, that is, if everything isn't dead by now. So without removing or doing anything I power on the PC, and fans are normal, monitor shows signal, it boots to desktop, like nothing ever happened. I'm there mind struck and I start messing around with it and how everything is normal, gaming is normal, everything is working as if this PC has never ben drenched with water after leaving by the window on a stormy night.
What happened here? How did the computer survive? Are computer hardware that strong nowadays?
My mind is blown off.
Hello guys. 3 Days ago I left home to spend the weekend on my parents'. Left the window to my room open where sits my desk and my computer, right by the window, I came back on Sunday morning after a stormy Saturday night to find the desk on my room drenched with water, my computer was ON with the fans spinning wildly like it was about to take off, I saw it all wet and I immediately unplugged off the wall as if expecting I could still save it. I opened it and the components inside were filled with droplets of water, the GPU, motherboard, CPU fan, drops of water everywhere, the PSU which sits on the lower part had the most water, with a small pool formed on the bottom right by the PSU. "This computer is dead". so I thought. I knew there wasn't much I could do so I disassembled it, part by part, and left it out to dry by a heater. Then comes next day, after a hard day's work came back home and I assembled everything, tried to power on and the fans take off, the GPU sounded like it was trying to fly away to mars with that speed, got scared and tried to power on again a few times, no signal on monitor, no lights, just fans spinning out of control. That's where I came to the conclusion this computer is done for. So 3 days later, today, I decided to cool down and get technical on this, I'll try to diagnose which component is not working anymore, that is, if everything isn't dead by now. So without removing or doing anything I power on the PC, and fans are normal, monitor shows signal, it boots to desktop, like nothing ever happened. I'm there mind struck and I start messing around with it and how everything is normal, gaming is normal, everything is working as if this PC has never ben drenched with water after leaving by the window on a stormy night. What happened here? How did the computer survive? Are computer hardware that strong nowadays? My mind is blown off.