PC Water Spills

[jackjayatherton]

Hi just wondering if I where to accidentally spill some water over onto my components, could I use silica gel desiccant ( I have the colour indicator ones) to dry the components? 

[whatthe_fuzz]

only if its distilled water. 

 

pretty much anything conductive youre screwed

[Lil Chillbil]

DON'T ******** TURN IT ON!!!!!

 

 

LEAVE IT DRY

 

sorry to be so harsh, 

Edited August 25, 2013 by Windspeed36

[Excon]

I always used a bag of rice to dry components. There's a good chance your fried your stuff though

Edit: Yea, don't use bags of DO NOT EAT to dry the stuff.

[Volbet]

I usually just use rice. Silica begins to vaporate the water really quickly once it saturated.

[Guest]

Water on components is 100% safe when there isn't any current flowing through them. However, if there is current flowing through and you spill water then you're going to have an issue. I know people who have had success with submerging things in rice to dry them. 

[WoodenMarker]

[Hoppa]

You can completely submerge a motherboard in water, let it dry for a few days and it will work.

Depending on how much water you spilled on it, (if you spilled a lot) you should probably take out the cmos battery out and just let it evaporate... maybe even use a hairdryer to help it.

[jackjayatherton]

You can completely submerge a motherboard in water, let it dry for a few days and it will work.

Depending on how much water you spilled on it, (if you spilled a lot) you should probably take out the cmos battery out and just let it evaporate... maybe even use a hairdryer to help it.

 

 

 

 

Water on components is 100% safe when there isn't any current flowing through them. However, if there is current flowing through and you spill water then you're going to have an issue. I know people who have had success with submerging things in rice to dry them. 

 

 

I usually just use rice. Silica begins to vaporate the water really quickly once it saturated.

 

 

I always used a bag of rice to dry components. There's a good chance your fried your stuff though

Edit: Yea, don't use bags of DO NOT EAT to dry the stuff.

 

 

DON'T ******** TURN IT ON!!!!!

 

 

LEAVE IT DRY

 

sorry to be so harsh, 

 

 

only if its distilled water. 

 

pretty much anything conductive youre screwed

PEople I k now all this stuff, the question was would silica gel be effective in the quick drying of them!

[Excon]

PEople I k now all this stuff, the question was would silica gel be effective in the quick drying of them!

Then why bother asking if you already knew a tried and true method?

[_wky]

If it's off then don't turn it on!

 

But yes, put a load of DO NOT EAT in a tub and submerge your component in there for a day or two to dry it out.

I keep a bunch of DO NOT EAT in my drawer just in case.

[Fearful Reaper]

Hey people, first post, hopefully someone can help me out. I spilt water on my k60 mechanical keyboard and after drying it for several days tried it out to see if it still worked. For the most part it did but unfortunately there are about 6 keys which register additional keystrokes ( pushing space gives me a space with a 7 " 7" like that) so I was wonering if anyone here was had any experience in fixing this issue. I have heard of submurging the pcb in deionized water and was wondering if anyone could tell me a bit about that.

P.S Sorry if there are typos in my writing, I am using my spare keyboard which has a broken 'd' key you have to hit really hard lol.

[mgsstar]

Hey people, first post, hopefully someone can help me out. I spilt water on my k60 mechanical keyboard and after drying it for several days tried it out to see if it still worked. For the most part it did but unfortunately there are about 6 keys which register additional keystrokes ( pushing space gives me a space with a 7 " 7" like that) so I was wonering if anyone here was had any experience in fixing this issue. I have heard of submurging the pcb in deionized water and was wondering if anyone could tell me a bit about that.

P.S Sorry if there are typos in my writing, I am using my spare keyboard which has a broken 'd' key you have to hit really hard lol.

Please do not steal people's threads to ask your question. I would suggest you to create a new thread in Peripherals/Troubleshooting in order to get this problem solved. I never heard of the method and personally I would not do that.

[Fearful Reaper]

oh sorry, I don't really know how forums work.

[BigD1970]

My girlfriend fried the labtop keyboard twice.Yes 2 times spilling pop on it and it was a goner in 0.0 seconds.

[A/C]

oh sorry, I don't really know how forums work.

 

Nah man, It's fine, the OP has his answer. Its often better to ask on an existing thread then stard a new one with the same question. You made a good decision. If you started a new thread, people would just bash you for not "using the search button". You can't humor all the people.

 

 

Anyway, my friend once came drunk home and vomitted in his case. To make matters worse, he keeps the side door open.