Iced Tea in my Newly Constructed Desktop

[RobertMatejczyk]

Today I made the mistake of drinking a liter or so of iced tea right next to my freshly purchased tower. I then played fortnite only to make myself rage, and then proceed to go for the force shut down button on my PC. I knocked my iced tea over and immediately turned the PSU off and unplugged it. I removed the side panel window and the dust filter at the top to find that there was water on every single component. I dried it off with a hair dryer on cold and I am currently letting it air out. I was wondering if there is anything else I should do. I saw a little bit of corrosion on the power phasers and I was wondering if that was going to be an issue. 

 

Update:

 

I left the PC to air out all night and this morning I ran Unibench Heaven and Superposition. They both worked flawlessly and the PC has yet to crash. I will keep you guys posted if anything happens though.

 

Thanks,

Robert

[-rascal-]

15 minutes ago, RobertMatejczyk said:

Today I made the mistake of drinking a liter or so of iced tea right next to my freshly purchased tower. I then played fortnite only to make myself rage, and then proceed to go for the force shut down button on my PC. I knocked my iced tea over and immediately turned the PSU off and unplugged it. I removed the side panel window and the dust filter at the top to find that there was water on every single component. I dried it off with a hair dryer on cold and I am currently letting it air out. I was wondering if there is anything else I should do. I saw a little bit of corrosion on the power phasers and I was wondering if that was going to be an issue. 

 

Thanks,

Robert

 

If you are seeing corrosion, and CAN confirm it is corrosion, then that might be a big problem.

The sugars, sediments, or sticky residue in your Iced Tea drink can cause short circuits --- which will DEFINITELY kill your component(s).  

 

Best thing to do is to completely disassemble the system, and clean the spilled/wet spots on each part thoroughly.

Use 99% rubbing alcohol with anti-static / microfiber cloth, and/or with Q-tips to reach the hard-to-reach spots.

 

You most like won't NEED to disassemble...say the video card...completely.

Usually the liquid is only on the top, where the PCB is; the fans and heatsink itself if usually fine.

 

You *MIGHT* need to disassemble the motherboard; it depends on how much liquid got onto the motherboard.

Did it get into the CPU area?

Did RAM slots get wet?

What about the power phase / VRM area, around the heatsinks?

[GDRRiley]

basically wash Motherboard, GPU, and ram with 99% alcohol it should force any water out.

[dizmo]

Hilarious. Post of the day.

[PokiDaSpitz]

43 minutes ago, RobertMatejczyk said:

Today I made the mistake of drinking a liter or so of iced tea right next to my freshly purchased tower. I then played fortnite only to make myself rage, and then proceed to go for the force shut down button on my PC. I knocked my iced tea over and immediately turned the PSU off and unplugged it. I removed the side panel window and the dust filter at the top to find that there was water on every single component. I dried it off with a hair dryer on cold and I am currently letting it air out. I was wondering if there is anything else I should do. I saw a little bit of corrosion on the power phasers and I was wondering if that was going to be an issue. 

 

Thanks,

Robert

Wipe it using 99% alcohol or pure distilled water then let it evaporate for at least a few days just in case. 

[W-L]

1 hour ago, RobertMatejczyk said:

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As suggested if it's soaked into everything I would give it an isopropyl bath to help displace any soda, scrub off and clean any corrosion and that would be your best bet. If you can take off heatsinks and covers to ensure everything is clean.

[RobertMatejczyk]

12 hours ago, -rascal- said:

 

If you are seeing corrosion, and CAN confirm it is corrosion, then that might be a big problem.

The sugars, sediments, or sticky residue in your Iced Tea drink can cause short circuits --- which will DEFINITELY kill your component(s).  

 

Best thing to do is to completely disassemble the system, and clean the spilled/wet spots on each part thoroughly.

Use 99% rubbing alcohol with anti-static / microfiber cloth, and/or with Q-tips to reach the hard-to-reach spots.

 

You most like won't NEED to disassemble...say the video card...completely.

Usually the liquid is only on the top, where the PCB is; the fans and heatsink itself if usually fine.

 

You *MIGHT* need to disassemble the motherboard; it depends on how much liquid got onto the motherboard.

Did it get into the CPU area?

Did RAM slots get wet?

What about the power phase / VRM area, around the heatsinks?

The vrm area was the only real spot I'm worried about, everything else was pretty dry. It was unsweetened so I don't think it could've corroded that badly.