Spilled water down top of pc!

[K-mac]

Cpu: ryzen 7 3800xt

Gpu: 5700xt

Motherboard: asus tuf x570

Ram: 32gb gskillz , 16 corsair ballistic 

 

 Spilled water down the top of my pc. Hit my aio radiator and fell through on top of the gpu, RAM sticks and some even making it to the PSU. Immediately powered off and started pulling parts and drying. Got a little over zealous and powered it back up early and got no display signal and a solid orange light on the motherboards DRAM. Currently everything's out drying. I assume I'm screwed so what parts am I gonna have to replace? Or is this still salvageable? 

[SavageNeo]

So you have all the parts installed and still no post?

[stage]

oh boy ... well you have to test each component one by one with the help of another system. From nothing to just the VGA to all can be the answer.

 

Was the PSU with fan top or down? If up, there is a chance for most dmg.

[mariushm]

Let the parts dry.

Then make sure you connect all the power cables back where they should be. 

Then make sure you have a monitor connected to the video card. 

 

Only the parts that were splashed with water have a very low chance of failure, unlikely the motherboard or the CPU died.

Since the you saw the orange led on the dram focus there.... inspect the slots and make sure there's no water in the slots, there's no crap in the slots, inspect the memory sticks and make sure there's no damage to the contacts on the memory stick. 

 Try with only one stick, try with the stick in various slots (maybe you damaged one slot but you could use the other slots and still have a working computer)

[K-mac]

7 minutes ago, mariushm said:

Let the parts dry.

Then make sure you connect all the power cables back where they should be. 

Then make sure you have a monitor connected to the video card. 

 

Only the parts that were splashed with water have a very low chance of failure, unlikely the motherboard or the CPU died.

Since the you saw the orange led on the dram focus there.... inspect the slots and make sure there's no water in the slots, there's no crap in the slots, inspect the memory sticks and make sure there's no damage to the contacts on the memory stick. 

 Try with only one stick, try with the stick in various slots (maybe you damaged one slot but you could use the other slots and still have a working computer)

 

8 minutes ago, stage said:

oh boy ... well you have to test each component one by one with the help of another system. From nothing to just the VGA to all can be the answer.

 

Was the PSU with fan top or down? If up, there is a chance for most dmg.

PSU was fan down. 

[K-mac]

8 minutes ago, mariushm said:

Let the parts dry.

Then make sure you connect all the power cables back where they should be. 

Then make sure you have a monitor connected to the video card. 

 

Only the parts that were splashed with water have a very low chance of failure, unlikely the motherboard or the CPU died.

Since the you saw the orange led on the dram focus there.... inspect the slots and make sure there's no water in the slots, there's no crap in the slots, inspect the memory sticks and make sure there's no damage to the contacts on the memory stick. 

 Try with only one stick, try with the stick in various slots (maybe you damaged one slot but you could use the other slots and still have a working computer)

I really hoping it's not the CPU but that's the one thing I haven't taken off to check. I'm letting it all dry over night and will test it in the morning then move onto testing parts individually. 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Killing parts with small splashes of water is pretty hard cause of protections built into them

 

I think i did that to my ds4p while taking off my garbage water block off it, ofc sprayed the socket with isopropyl alcohol to make sure thats not the problem and leaving it to dry for a day and it works fine, though i do have help from my pci debug card (basucally a post card with status leds), in my case water had hit the power delivery somewhere so it acted like there was no cpu installed telling by the status leds on my debug card and the obvious 00 aka board isnt even trying to post

 

You atleast have some idea of whats going on by the board leds but no postcode, just assume the board isnt trying to post cause usually when this happens they dont try to post (00).

 

If dram led is on then its either the power delivery to the rams or the rams themselves got hit by the water, let it dry for awhile and see what happens once you are sure its really dry, if dram is still on then i suggest dunking/spraying some 99% IPA on both cpu socket and ram slots to make sure theres no filth there and clean the gold ram contacts, if dram is still on after that then rams may be fked so dunk em in isopropyl for abit and see if you can revive them

[K-mac]

9 hours ago, K-mac said:

Cpu: ryzen 7 3800xt

Gpu: 5700xt

Motherboard: asus tuf x570

Ram: 32gb gskillz , 16 corsair ballistic 

 

 Spilled water down the top of my pc. Hit my aio radiator and fell through on top of the gpu, RAM sticks and some even making it to the PSU. Immediately powered off and started pulling parts and drying. Got a little over zealous and powered it back up early and got no display signal and a solid orange light on the motherboards DRAM. Currently everything's out drying. I assume I'm screwed so what parts am I gonna have to replace? Or is this still salvageable? 

Everything dry with one stick in. Still have the dram light on with no display to monitor.

[K-mac]

1 hour ago, K-mac said:

Everything dry with one stick in. Still have the dram light on with no display to monitor.

Gpu fans do not spin on boot up. Is it dead?

[K-mac]

Well I figure it out. After testing each slot with one ram stick I thought all my slots got shot when I reality the stick I was using is the issue. 3/4 sticks I have run with no issue. Everything boots and reads. Thanks all for the help.