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Recently I've spilled coffee (with a little sugar and milk in it) on my desktop. My PC was sitting at the side of my desk, and it has a radiator/fan opening at the top that I'm not using. I was able to get everything cleaned up, only having to replace the motherboard as it has some residue leading into the CPU socket. I tried booting it, and it stay on for a solid 5 minutes before shutting off, afterwards the PC wouldn't boot other than just having the motherboard flash on then off again. I have replaced the motherboard and it seems to be working fine, but there is residue on the GPU and I'm afraid that the residue will fry it. I have used a pressurized container with a mixture of Ethnol, Isopropanol, and Hexane multiple times on the GPU, with it's residue remaining. At this point, should I try to clean off the GPU properly, or should it be fine.

I accidentally spilt soda on my ASUS ROG Strix G17 (2020, i7-10750h, rtx 2070). I turned if off immediately while cleaning up the soda. I know to leave it off for 24 hours, but I'm worried about it. There are no ASUS service centers around me. I pried off the space bar and noticed that there's a clear film and there's little to no space for the soda to seep through. Is the G17 liquid resistant? Will I just have to worry about sticky keys or should I take it in for a cleaning? It was about 5 to 15 seconds between the soda spill and the clean up. Most of the soda was under the spacebar/on the track pad I think btw.

hey i . spilt dr pepper on my tower like a fool. i am pretty young so i have no fuckin clue what to do. my brother is pretty good with computers so he’s trying to help. it mainly got on the fans and mesh on the case i believe, and it did not shut off and turned on when we tried. i’m very concerned now though cause a) i am prone to spilling shit a lot and b) this was an expensive ass tower . and i don’t want it to only last a year because i was dumb

Hello, Long story short: my girlfriend spilled a lot of coffee all over her laptop (Asus F540L) and now we try to fix it. The laptop turned itself off in seconds, immediately tried to boot automatically but turned itself off again even before windows was loaded. After most of the Liquid was drained the laptop spun up for a few minutes but the screen stayed black and you couldn't force a shutdown I already disassembled the laptop removed the front-cover with keyboard, battery, HDD and optical drive because Asus customer support declared that the warranty isn't voided by opening up the computer. We removed the all coffee stains with distilled water and Q-Tips and are now planning to go to the next pharmacy to get rubbing alcohol for proper cleaning. I now want to ask if there are any other recommendations to assure the best possibility for the computer to be still working after proper cleaning and drying. Thank you in advance! Greetings, Markus.

I need some help here. I spilled ramen on my Strafe RGB keyboard. My computer then started to freak out, my first response was to unplug it and start pulling keycaps. I washed all of the keycaps and dried off the keyboard to the best of my ability. Is there any thing else I can do to improve my chances of it working again?

A long time ago i spilled cola over my laptop, not a little but like half a litre. I spilled it all over my keyboard and my laptop didn't work but magically worked after a day. My keyboard is all sticky and makes a lot of noise, i thought about taking my keyboard out and cleaning it under the sink and letting it dry. is that a good idea? should i use destilled water, demineralized water or wil normal water do the trick? how long should i wait aferwards to let it dry? Laptop: msi cx70 Thanks.

So about 30 minutes ago I spilled a glass of lemonade on my laptop. I attempted to turn it off immediately, but the computer went through with a windows update while I wiped a ton of my drink off the keyboard. It rebooted after the update, and when it restarted, the mouse pad was acting funky, which I expected because it wasn't perfectly dry yet. When I tried to press the power button, it wasn't responding. Everything else seemed to work fine. I managed to turn it off via the software, then I opened the back panel and saw that there was tiny bits of liquid inside, but nothing that would have shorted any of the important components. Currently the laptop is opened fully and upside down, laying on a towel. My question is: Is there anything else I can do? Is it possible that the power button will start working again? Because right now I can't get it powered on.

I wake up and get ready for a long day of studying put my coffee on my desk and go to grab my pencil, knock over my coffee cup and it all flows into my tower. Everything has been working fine after I dried it with compressed air and a dehumidifier, except my graphics card. It will power on and spin its fans when its just in uts PCIE slot, but when i actually plug it into the power supply, my computer wont power up at all. do you guys have any idea what I can do to fix it, i dont think its dead, it may just be shorting out. Any help is appreciated.

Hey guys, I got this Corsair K70 (RED switch) a few years back. Because of conversion rate, shipping, etc . . . I had to pay around $180. Last year, accidentally I spilled some milk tea on the left side of the keyboard (Point to be noted, it's very sticky when dried up). Immediately I disassembled my keyboard and cleaned it as best I could. It worked fine for 3 months . . . Then some switch on the left side started giving up. Left Ctrl, Windows, Alt stopped working. The switches were actually OK (I tested with a multimeter) but keys were not registering. So I paid local repair guy ~ $20 to "fix it". He said the contact was rusting and it was causing the trouble. So, he rewired the Left Crtl, Windows, Alt with Right Ctrl, Windows, Alt. Another month passed by. Everything was fine and dandy. Then suddenly all the bottom key got shorted (my guess). It was like I was mashing the bottom row keys. I stopped using it for a while (~ 1.5 weeks) and it fixed itself and worked perfectly fine for a week or two before the issue reappeared. This is a continuous cycle. If I don't use it for a while it fixes itself and then stops working again after a day or two. From my understanding, this looks like a PCB issue. It pains me greatly to throw away ~$200 like that. It's a great keyboard and I still want to use it. I looked for aftermarket PCB but could not find any. Although there are many custom PCB available on the internet, I could not find any that could be used as a drop-in replacement. Considering how popular K70 is, I was a bit shocked. Is there any hope? Do you have any suggestion? Please, let me know. Also sorry for shitty bad English.

I bought my MSI GS65 last December and I registered the product. Last Thursday a friend spilled coffee all over my keyboard and I thought that I was done for. After doing a little research I found about the Accidental Damage Coverage from MSI. I called MSI and apparently I do apply for the warranty, they gave me an RMA numer and I'm sending it as soon as I can. Has anyone had any experience with the accidental damage coverage from MSI? Did you have to pay anything? I'm just wondering if this is too good to be true, I can't believe that MSI covers for accidents like these...

Are there any good grease proof aka doritos friendly mechanical keyboard out there that is worth buying?

So I moved to a new place yesterday and my father helped me. For whatever reason, he decided to place food above my computer in the car. Among the different food items was a particularly leaky bottle of soy sauce. The sauce managed to escape the bag and drip onto the top of my PC cabinet. A very tiny amount managed to drip through the holes for the top fan. I hadn't noticed this until I plugged everything in and started my PC. It made a loud noise, which I thought was a cable pushed against a fan. I tried to shut the PC off with the power button, but it didn't want to do so. I held the power button for a good 30 seconds before deciding to pull the plug instead. When I took off the side panel to inspect the insides, I didn't notice any lodged cable. I put the side panel back on and tried to boot it up, but it wouldn't. At this point I noticed that there was a sticky substance on the cabinet. I removed the side panel again and started to inspect the different components for soy sauce. A drop landed on the motherboard's circuitry. Another drop landed just below the first RAM slot, but it didn't seem to land inside it. None managed to hit the heat sink or the graphics card as far as I could tell. And it definitely wouldn't have been able to make it to the power supply. When I press the power button, the fans don't spin and no lights flash. There aren't any noises such as beeps either. It's like it isn't receiving power at all. Though if I hold the power button for about 10 seconds, a blue light starts flashing for a bit on the motherboard. I googled it and it seems that it means that the CMOS is being cleared (I also tried clearing it by removing the battery). I've tried to shift the RAM sticks around and try different channels. I tried to the jump the motherboard, by shorting the power switch headers. I also tried removing the graphics card and booting with onboard graphics. Nothing i did helped. Today, I went to a friend's place to try my graphics card on his test rig - it worked perfectly. Unfortunately, his motherboard didn't take DDR4 RAM, but I'm guessing that my PC would at least start and show an error message if there was a fault with the RAM. He also didn't have a motherboard that had the right socket for my processor, so I couldn't test it either. I also tried to plug his power supply to my motherboard, but it still didn't power up. My guess is either that the motherboard or the processor is fried. I'm not sure what the next step should be. I'm considering purchasing a new motherboard tomorrow as I don't have a warranty on mine, but I'm afraid that I'll waste money on a new motherboard, when it might not be the faulty component. The build is two years old as of this month. Motherboard: MSI Z170A Gaming M3 Droplet below RAM: https://imgur.com/glhPx4h Location of blue flashing when holding down power button: https://imgur.com/IZEiEIU

Today I made the mistake of drinking a liter or so of iced tea right next to my freshly purchased tower. I then played fortnite only to make myself rage, and then proceed to go for the force shut down button on my PC. I knocked my iced tea over and immediately turned the PSU off and unplugged it. I removed the side panel window and the dust filter at the top to find that there was water on every single component. I dried it off with a hair dryer on cold and I am currently letting it air out. I was wondering if there is anything else I should do. I saw a little bit of corrosion on the power phasers and I was wondering if that was going to be an issue. Update: I left the PC to air out all night and this morning I ran Unibench Heaven and Superposition. They both worked flawlessly and the PC has yet to crash. I will keep you guys posted if anything happens though. Thanks, Robert

Hi! I already posted this to mechanical keyboard fan club, but still no aswer. Sorry for teh double post.As the title says: Is there any way to make a mechanikal keboard spill restistant? My Fnatic Gear rush g1 keyboard leaked recently, because the perspiration from my hand. Im trying to find a method to how can I make it spillproof, but I cant find any safe and sure solution, still. Someone told me about Plasti Dip, but I'm not sure about the outcome... The plan is about the next one: Cover the keyswitches moving parts, then spray some clear plasti dip to the keyboard (because of blacklighting), and repeat it 4-5 times. Is this going to works? Please help, I cannot find any existing examples of this, or any other methods. If anyone have a sure solution, please tell me. (The English isn't my native language, so please forgive me for the grammar mistakes.) Thank you! I also placed this question on reddit, but I get only such answers, like "replace the keyboard" or "replace the keyswishes by soldering/desoldering". None of these are options. So no corsair k68 buying, no keyswitch replacing, just a sealing method around the swiches. Is it possible? thanks!

My friend gave me his Gigabyte GTX 1070 and told me I can keep it since it broke (he spilled orange juice over his computer and built a new one already). I took it home, took it apart, and cleaned it with 91% Isopropyl Alcohol and it seems to only have gotten on the back side of the board (no backplate) its been a few months since it happened and when we tested it before cleaning it wasn't working but one of the LED indicators lit up so we had hope. If anyone has advice for this it would help! Also, I don't have any new thermal paste at the moment to try the card after I've cleaned it and was wondering if it would be okay for me to test the card just for posting without any or if I should just wait 2 days for Amazon to mail me some.

So, guys , I have a predator 17x on which I spilled a coffee a days ago. I was in school when it happened so after 5 mins it happened I got a blue screen of death. As a response, I unplugged my power supply and cleaned off my laptop with a towel. I rushed to the computer store/ repair shop at my college. So finally, should I worry about saving up for new parts or just relax and wait for their response.

So just an hour ago I spilled water not a lot though in my keyboard. I've removed the key caps cleaned the keyboard, dried the keyboard with an electric fan, an waited for a while (of course removing the power). now the out come is not so good, mainly most of the number pad when clicked a bunch of numbers will appear or enter a lot of times (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, +, . are the keys that does these stuff) If you know how to resolve this, please help, I don't want my pretty expensive keyboard to go to waste and go to my old A4TECH keyboard

Hi guys I know there are many posts about this subject but i still can't find the reason to why my computer won't turn on so I kinda need some help

Yesterday I accidentally poured oatmeal drink over my CM Storm Quickfire Rapid, and immediately unplugged It, and proceed to open It and drain all the liquid, but as It is well known oatmeal drink is extremely sticky, and mine actually was dissolved with chocolate, whatever, I cleaned as good as I could the keyboard with ethylic alcohol and well It was still sticky but much better, washed the keycaps with soap and water, dried them, rearm the keyboard, and plug It, It actually worked pretty fine, however, the keys felt a bit hard to press, they seem to get stuck because of oatmeal. Today I tried to use the keyboard on the morning, It turns on, but does not respond (I think is important to mention that I changed the connector from USB to PS/2), and well yesterday when I turned off the PC the keyboard seems to stay on, to be precise the Mayus keycap light was still on. The keyboard is almost unusable today, the keys are extremely hard to press, as they are stuck by glue or something; I am desperate to find a solution, I looked in some sites, that I can wash it in distilled water or rubbing alcohol, but I am not so sure I will dare to do It, If someone knows what I can do, if it is safe to wash It in distilled water or rubbing alcohol? I would be very grateful. Here´s how It looks now, It is pretty clean, but It doesn´t freakin´ responds and it is sticky and really hard to press each key.

I have a graphics card that has gone through a couple drink spills (orange juice and pepsi, idk if it matters or not) and im wondering if there is any way to clean it and remove the gunk that is on it. it worked fine after the spills once everything dried on it.

So, be prepared for a sleepless night... It was a regular night. I was watching some documentary in 480p from youtube. I have three monitors, but only the middle one was on, displaying the program. I had a big glass of some cheap cola with ice in front of me. Between me and my Corsair k95. When the documentary got really boring, and I decided to quit watching it, I raised my right arm to turn on the monitor left of my middle monitor. And a disaster strikes. The glass of soda is all over my desk, mainly on the almost new keyboard. Computer is going crazy, programs opening by themselves. When I realized what had happened, I turned the keyboard upside down, and unplugged it. The computer stopped doing crazy stuff. I had a very expensive and very dead keyboard that cost me almost two months salary. (coz I'm a poor student living home and not spoiled by my parents) I spent the whole night up trying to dry it. I disassembled it, carefully drained all the liquid inside. I had to take apart the section where the macro/lighting mode keys are, because the substance had got between the two contact surfaces under the buttons. In the morning I plugged the keyboard in. It worked. Backlighting worked just fine. But when I tried to write my password, I couldn't press the buttons. They were stuck. With some amount of force I got them moving, but mainly unusable for writing or gaming. not all of the switches were stuck, Only some on the left side of the keyboard. wasd was stuck, esc was stuck, all the G-keys were stuck, Left control, shift and Alt were stuck. And a couple keys around them. At this point I promised to myself to never again drink or eat anything, or keep liquids or food on my pc desk. I arranged a side desk that is lower than my pc desk for food and other substances that may be harmful for electronic devices. I was NOT going to put the keyboard into dishwasher. Or submerge it into anything. Taking apart the key mechanisms, turned out to be impossible without soldering, because of the led's. I stayed up the next night reading stuff about cleaning mechanical key switches from the internet. Q-tips soaked in rubbing alcohol do nothing for me. De-soldering and replacing the switches is the last option, I could totally do that, the switches just aren't quite inexpensive enough for me, and there is always a risk of doing something very wrong and ending up with totally useless keyboard. Methods that I'm using now to free the the switches: 1:1 mix of warm water and rubbing alcohol, that I place inside the mechanism with a drinking straw. Then just spam the switch for a minute or so. Then I leave them do dry for a couple of days. Finally I try to find some lube that does not conduct electricity or destroy plastic, and carfully apply it inside the switches. I know that I'm not the only person who has done this. And many still will do the same. It would really help if Linus or one of his crew members tested mechanical keyboard/keyswitch cleaning methods and published some sort of video guide about it. Please share your own keyboards survival through liquid spill if it has survived. PJ out, thanks for your mental support.