water damage on asrock z77

[elon]

I recently dusted off my z77 water cooled build with a Asrock z77 pro4 motherboard installed for myself after leaving for my holiday house. when I turn it on, water from my GPU block mount came shooting out, straight on my bios chip, shutting down my pc admittedly. 

After dring it with a hairdryer, I went into the bios with some surprise. All my fans are shown spinning at 65565rpm?! still not finish yet, vcore at 2.04v?!(multimeter check with 1.45v WHICH I DIDN'T SET) and other crazy stuff. bios flash doesn't work. I just want to know why does this happen, already planning on a new motherboard.

[Crunchy Dragon]

I would guess something got screwed up when the water got on the board, messing up all the readings and whatnot.

 

I wish you the best of luck in sourcing a Z77 board for a good price, those boards are way too expensive in my opinion.

[elon]

yea, thx

[elon]

btw, is a z68 good for a 3770k?

[Crunchy Dragon]

2 minutes ago, elon said:

btw, is a z68 good for a 3770k?

If the BIOS supports it, then it will work.

 

I'd look for Z77 though, no reason to go with an older board unless you have to.

[NelizMastr]

43 minutes ago, elon said:

btw, is a z68 good for a 3770k?

Any 6-series or 7-series board will work. The only chipsets that allow overclocking are P67, Z68, Z77. The 6-series boards have less features and only support Ivy Bridge chips after a BIOS flash, should they still rock their original versions.