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Do coolant spills void Motherboard warranty?

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Hi,

I received my Gigabyte 450$ motherboard faulty on arrival; it kept switching between BIOS chips which reset my overclock settings between boots. 
It just died on me recently, refusing to boot and as I was removing the motherboard from my PC, I accidentally poured some of the colored coolant on the motherboard and it stained the S/N sticker.

 

Does that effectively void the warranty? 

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since the coolant didn't cause the defect, just don't tell them you spilled and clean it off.

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8 minutes ago, Fasauceome said:

since the coolant didn't cause the defect, just don't tell them you spilled and clean it off.

But it’ll be obvious that there was a spill (on the SN sticker)

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Laptop: MacBook Pro 13" (Early 2015) || Motherboard: Gigabyte Aorus x299 Gaming 9 || CPU: Intel i7-7820x (38% OC- 5.00 GHz) || RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB 8GB @ 3466 MHz (x4)- DDR4  || GPU: MSI  Geforce GTX 1080 Ti Lightning X || Storage: Samsung 960 EVO NVME SSD 500GB || OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro || Chassis: Thermaltake The Tower 900 || Cooling Solution: Custom open loop water cooling system with a 560mm radiator and a CPU water water-block || Display: ROG Swift PG279Q || Pointing Device: Razer Mamba (2016) || Keyboard: Razer Blackwidow Chroma V2 || Headset: Astro A50 Wireless ||

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Then it looks like you're gonna have to tell them what was happening and then what happened during the tear-down.  It's gonna be up to them to do the right thing.  

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