Water Droplet on Mobo

[Revoire]

Need help.

 

I accidentaly splashed water near my pc. And some small droplet were found in the mobo (The black dot were about their sizes and location). The PC was off when the accident happen. I removed the psu plug and got a cotton swab and started cleaning it up and easily got soaked. 

 

Im letting the pc sit for a day having a thought of it drying of? Will these droplet cause a huge problem like the pc not turning on/ glitches or through time cause problems/glitches

 

Sorry in advance pc living on the floor becoming dusty lol

[Hinjima]

8 minutes ago, Revoire said:

Need help.

 

I accidentaly splashed water near my pc. And some small droplet were found in the mobo (The black dot were about their sizes and location). The PC was off when the accident happen. I removed the psu plug and got a cotton swab and started cleaning it up and easily got soaked. 

 

Im letting the pc sit for a day having a thought of it drying of? Will these droplet cause a huge problem like the pc not turning on/ glitches or through time cause problems/glitches

 

Sorry in advance pc living on the floor becoming dusty lol

If it looks and feels dry then it shouldn't cause any issues  

 

[Murasaki]

A cotton swab with some isopropyl alcohol should help absorb whatever droplets are left in there and evaporate along with the alcohol. Give it a few hours and it should be fine. It's very good this happened while the machine wasn't powered on.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

A day should be enough to get rid of all the water

 

Wipe with some tissues or whatever else to get rid of most of the water so drying wont take forever

[Beerzerker]

6 hours ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

A day should be enough to get rid of all the water

 

Wipe with some tissues or whatever else to get rid of most of the water so drying wont take forever

Not even a day is required.
It really depends on where the water went but normally you can wipe/soak it up with a paper towel, rub the spot(s) where it was with alcohol and let that dry.
Once the alcohol itself is gone, it's ready.

If it got under a component or heatsink, that's when you'd need to do more but know the board's PCB is sealed so water can't just get into the circuitry, it's when it bridges a connection between components you'd have a problem to worry about.

If really worried about it just set the board under a fan for a few hours or even overnight if you want to, that will take care of it.

[Dedayog]

Don't motherboards have a Conformal Coating like all circuit boards?

[Beerzerker]

Usually, it's a standard for them to be coated.

I've dunked several in the diswasher before with good results after they were cleaned and dried properly, more than once I've had them up and running again within a few hours after all that.
I normally let them dry overnight but I can speed things up if I want/have to.

[Dedayog]

1 hour ago, Beerzerker said:

Usually, it's a standard for them to be coated.

I've dunked several in the diswasher before with good results after they were cleaned and dried properly, more than once I've had them up and running again within a few hours after all that.
I normally let them dry overnight but I can speed things up if I want/have to.

So if they're coated, a drop of water sitting on a sealed surface is a non issue.

[Beerzerker]

19 hours ago, Dedayog said:

So if they're coated, a drop of water sitting on a sealed surface is a non issue.

On the surface of the PCB itself, yes - It's an non-issue.

If it's making contact between two or more components on the board, it can be a problem.
Also there are some exposed spots where components could be attached, those might be a problem as well. That's normally where you'd see spots of solder there but nothing attached to them.

These can be power measuring spots on the board too for checking things in that way.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

11 hours ago, Beerzerker said:

Not even a day is required.
It really depends on where the water went but normally you can wipe/soak it up with a paper towel, rub the spot(s) where it was with alcohol and let that dry.
Once the alcohol itself is gone, it's ready.

If it got under a component or heatsink, that's when you'd need to do more but know the board's PCB is sealed so water can't just get into the circuitry, it's when it bridges a connection between components you'd have a problem to worry about.

If really worried about it just set the board under a fan for a few hours or even overnight if you want to, that will take care of it.

Huh

No wonder why cleaning with water and leaving to dry is viable

 

But i keep having bad luck with broken boards that should be able to work but more stupid issues like vrms deciding to short out on their own and die on me or dirty amd socket and now i have to take the fucking socket cover off and thats annoying as shit cause alot of these use the shitty foxconn design and not the lotes sockets that you can pull the lever back the opposite way and just pop off with no damage

 

i really need to find a better way of making money cause these broken boards really piss me off with the amount of random issues that can happen =p

for now the only 2 ways i see would be forex trading and crypto but thats about it for alternatives

[Dedayog]

3 hours ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Huh

No wonder why cleaning with water and leaving to dry is viable

 

But i keep having bad luck with broken boards that should be able to work but more stupid issues like vrms deciding to short out on their own and die on me or dirty amd socket and now i have to take the fucking socket cover off and thats annoying as shit cause alot of these use the shitty foxconn design and not the lotes sockets that you can pull the lever back the opposite way and just pop off with no damage

 

i really need to find a better way of making money cause these broken boards really piss me off with the amount of random issues that can happen =p

for now the only 2 ways i see would be forex trading and crypto but thats about it for alternatives

No jobs where you are?

[Somerandomtechyboi]

1 hour ago, Dedayog said:

No jobs where you are?

Nope dont think so

 

Kinda leaning towards forex cause it seems like there are some quick gains to be had there though obviously high risk, but it seems like you can start with 5-10$ and trade your way up and i dont really mind losing a few $ when im losing overtime anyways due to these stupid boards having a bunch of random issues =p

 

Crypto is mainly interesting due to airdrops

 

theres also just stock trading but i havent looked there that much

 

Basically just looking to flip my money up so start small at 5-10$ and convert that into 100$+ in a rather short time period with high risk methods like forex, cause even if i only profit 10$ in an hour or 2 thatll still be alot faster than looking around for broken boards, actually getting them shipped to me, and fixing them if they are even fixable in the first place

 

Then i can start actually investing cause i have some actual money cause 100$ dont do shit for long term safe investment

 

 

I already have somewhere around 150$ worth of computer parts so i can buy ryzen if i really wanted to and i intend on doing so cause there does seem to be a few listings with failed bios flashes and those are pretty easy to fix

 

But im more interested in actually being an enthusiast and buying shit that i actually wanna buy and not just a buncha malfuctioning piles of crap that like to have random issues or impromptu commit suicide on me or have more random issues that pop up after awhile even though they seem fixed (p7p55d with cmos issues where it wont detect cmos battery, ecs h81 with random reset issue when stressed but goes away after cpu remount and comes back again after restart, giga h61 that shelf died on me and has random shutdowns midway through post, another giga h61 where most of the ports are fucked, asrock a68 vrms up and died on me whilst trying to fix its 00 error, giga m68 vrm also suicided and didnt wanna turn on even if i short ps_on, full dead asrock n68, asus fm2 that gets stuck on 32 code so needs a socket cover removal which is even more painful on fm2 than am3, asus h61 works for a few moments and gets into windows but after that constantly stuck on code 32/3b unless i leave it alone for awhile, yea a buncha POSes that have random issues)

 

150$ is still not enough for my x58 shenanigans since theres a g1 assassin and also an ftw3 that recently popped up and those are like 80-90$ combined but i also dabble with ddr4 oc now cause theres already a listing for a z97x + g3258 for 17$ with a few minor issues and with haswell high freq ddr3 is really easy, once i get a golden nehalem chip and a good gulftown/xeon w alongside a board with a good 3rd channel x58 will be done, after that llano fm1 and the rest of the fm2 chips alongside ddr3 clocking on the am3+ amd fx chips, and thatll be it for ddr3 since ddr3 oc is really easy even at high freq, after that gotta move to ddr4