damaged components

Forum discussion tagged with damaged components.
  1. Artisxn

    Question Is my CPU still functioning as intended or is it partially-damaged?

    Hello, I've recently had some trouble with is what I assumed to be an upgrade to my PC system, I recently obtained a used i7 9700k from a friend of mine and had it replace my previous CPU (i5 8600k) on the motherboard which is a Gigabyte B360M H. On intial boot after installing the new CPU...
  2. 17madman

    Question MSI Z490 EZ Debug CPU light on after water damage ?

    I had some water spill into the top of my desktop tower while it was on, and after turning it off, taking everything apart and drying it off its unable to start up again. I switched out my GPU to make sure that's not the issue, and now every time I turn on the computer I get no display (although...
  3. P

    Question Water damage question

    About 2 weeks ago a spill caused water damage inside my pc and fried my gpu. After cleaning everything that got wet with alcohol swabs (gpu, ram, cpu heatsink, some spots on the mobo), my network card was not recognized. Replacing the gpu with a spare, I was able to keep a stable 120+ FPS in...
  4. MelonHusk

    [SOLVED] Motherboard, CPU and GPU with bad PSU. Seem undamaged but are they really?

    Bought a prebuilt PC with a used PSU, that turned out to be bad, and after first 2 months the HDD(used) died, then another one (new), then finally SSD(new) became read-only. I had no idea whats going on at first, since its the first PC I bought myself . So I stopped using the PC until I can...
  5. K

    [SOLVED] Artifacts -> Graphics card failure?

    Hello. My screen started to show tearing and artifacts. It was fine during playing an old game (Worms Armageddon), but after I quit to Windows 10 the artifacts appeared. I inspected the card and saw these: Damaged components I don't know what these are but they don't look good. It's like...