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Motherboard + cooling liquid = Dead?

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Ok, so this is what happens when you're the guy that everyone goes to when shit breaks on their PC xD

 

Basically i'm tech support :P

 

Ok, so a buddy of mine had a water cooler CPU, made it himself, didn't buy those premade closed ones, it worked fine until one day one of the seals came loose a bit and poured the cooling liquid all over the mobo, he put the mobo out and dried it, then cleaned it with just a Q-tip since he didn't know if he can use 96% etanol on it. He left it a bit longer and tried it out, the lights are on, but when he presses the power button nothing happens.

I'm guessing it's dead, tho i wanted to ask here if there could be a solution?

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Probably dead. He should have left it to dry for days, maybe even a week.

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If its been completely dried out (like put it on top of a heater, or something for a few days) and it still doesn't work, they it is most likely never gonna work again.

When in doubt, re-format.

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Dead

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D-e-a-d

Most things don't survive water or coolant 

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Sorry, I think he killed the mobo. 

 

Mind telling us what the coolant was?

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Not exactly sure, will ask him when he comes back from his trip, i think it was red, what brand/kind, not sure

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Also, a chip on the mobo has some red-ish, rust like stuff around that chip, can get it off with a q-tip, not sure if it means anything tho

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Did your friend connect the front io connection

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Ofc he did, we even tried to shorten the pins, no luck.

Haven't tried something else tho, which i heard of but looks too dangerous to do. Putting tweezers into a Black ground wire (GND) and the Green (PS_ON) cable on the 24-pin connector. That should force start it, tho unlike the on pin which delivers the right amount of power, this delivers all of it at once and could fry the board even more.

 

Thoughts on that?

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