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Long Story short:

My little one tiped her glass of lemonade on to my PC and now it stopped working. 

 

I immediately unplugged the PC. 

 

My question is how can I try to repair my System? 

Because straight up buying a new one, would be pretty much a wasted 2.5k Euros. 

This being said my System is about 2 months old. 

 

I would appreciate any ideas you may have for repair

 

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1 minute ago, HuntADemon said:

Long Story short:

My little one tiped her glass of lemonade on to my PC and now it stopped working. 

 

I immediately unplugged the PC. 

 

My question is how can I try to repair my System? 

Because straight up buying a new one, would be pretty much a wasted 2.5k Euros. 

This being said my System is about 2 months old. 

 

I would appreciate any ideas you may have for repair

Take it apart and clean all components with alcohol and a toothbrush (you don't intend on using for dental hygiene anymore).

Water is bad, but sugar is worse; as that does not dry away and it can be electrically conductive, which may cause a short in the system.

 

Depending on how much lemonade got into the system, you may need to replace the thermal paste on your video card or other devices too, because if the liquid got into there, that's bad news.

"We're all in this together, might as well be friends" Tom, Toonami.

 

mini eLiXiVy: my open source 65% mechanical PCB, a build log, PCB anatomy and discussing open source licenses: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1366493-elixivy-a-65-mechanical-keyboard-build-log-pcb-anatomy-and-how-i-open-sourced-this-project/

 

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