PC got wet

Jose Carlos · February 9

I had a water leak in my apartment that caused my electronics PC and other devices to get wet. I dried everything as much as I could at the time, and I know that even if I try to dry it as much as possible there is always the possibility of long term damage. The PC was on when this happened, it was frozen when I saw it. I find it strange that it didn't cause it to black out or worse, cause a fire since it had power. I tried to turn the raspberry pi I had as well weeks after I dried it and it cause sparks the first time, caught me by surprise lmao. Now it just freezes when I type something to fast or in the web. As well as the pc, it gets like frozen for 2-4 secs when I am tryping something and then the text appears after it unfreezes. Games become really slow and laggy specially minecraft lol.

I contacted my renter’s insurance and opened a claim. They’re asking for a diagnostic report from a repair shop, which costs $120 per device. I search that even after submitting this, the insurance company could still ask for a second opinion from another shop if they don’t like the report — meaning another $120 per device again. Devices are about 10 so its $1,200 per shop something that I don't have in had right now. I know they refund these diagnostics if the claim goes through but to much to pay in one go.

Has anyone dealt with this before?

Is it normal for insurance to require multiple paid diagnostics?

Is there a way to limit this to one report?

Any advice on how to handle this without spending money I don’t have? lol

Kisai · February 9

48 minutes ago, Jose Carlos said:

I had a water leak in my apartment that caused my electronics PC and other devices to get wet. I dried everything as much as I could at the time, and I know that even if I try to dry it as much as possible there is always the possibility of long term damage. The PC was on when this happened, it was frozen when I saw it.

Well, it might still work, but I'd make sure it's really dry first.

Damage from water depends on what it made contact with. Since a lot of towers have open vents on the top, that means the water either made contact with the CPU heatsink or the back of the GPU.

It's more likely the keyboard is malfunctioning if it got wet, keyboards you need to take apart to clean.