Question Bizarre issue with displayport on GPU

mamamia123

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So today I spilt coffee on my keyboard. Dummy move I know, but its working fine now. Well after the coffee had spilt, it started spamming random keyboard buttons. At the time I didn't know that I had spilt coffee on my keyboard. It must have been a few drops, but apparently thats enough to make it go haywire. It was only after I had flip my keyboard and noticed that it was dripping a bit did I realized what had happen. So after about a minute of keyboard spamming random inputs, my monitor, (which is connected by displayport) went black and the message "no signal detected, going into powersaving mode." came up. Thought that was really strange so I turned off my computer, plugged in a spare keyboard and started it back up. I know I should have unplugged my keyboard right away after it started going crazy, but I wanted to know what was causing it. Well now my monitor refuses to connect through displayport now. Using hdmi input works fine, but displayport input just brings up the no signal message. I've tried unplugging then replugging the powercord on the monitor and computer, updating my gpu drivers, plugging display port into the other displayport port on my gpu, but nothing works. My theory is that in that time span when my keyboard was spamming keyboard commands, it somehow disabled displayport use. I have no clue how it could do this. This monitor has never given me these issues before, until this keyboard incident. Also, it would not have been possible for any coffee to have gotten onto the monitor or any other device, in case anyone was wondering that.

my specs:
Operating System
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i7 5820K @ 3.30GHz 46 °C
Haswell-E/EP 22nm Technology
RAM
16.0GB Single-Channel Unknown @ 1199MHz (15-15-15-35)
Motherboard
MSI X99A SLI PLUS(MS-7885) (SOCKET 0) 39 °C
Graphics
LG QHD LG 32GK650-B (2560x1440@144Hz) (this is the one im having issues with)
DELL ST2220L (1920x1080@60Hz)
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti (Gigabyte) 46 °C
Storage
1863GB Hitachi HUA722020ALA330 ATA Device (SATA) 52 °C
931GB Seagate ST31000524AS ATA Device (SATA) 41 °C
931GB Seagate Expansion+ USB Device (USB (SATA)) 42 °C
931GB Seagate Backup+ Mac SL USB Device (USB (SATA)) 35 °C
2794GB TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 USB Device (USB (SATA)) 44 °C
3726GB Seagate Backup+ Hub BK USB Device (USB (SATA)) 50 °C
3726GB Seagate Backup+ Hub BK USB Device (USB (SATA)) 52 °C
Optical Drives
No optical disk drives detected
Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio

And the keyboard that had the coffee spilt on it was Cosair k70 lux rbg, (still works perfectly fine btw)
 
It's advised that you literally kill all power to the system when you spill any conductive liquid on your keyboard. To prevent a surge going through the computer/motherboard and to other components.

Regarding your Display Port cable, you might want to see if you regain DP functionality on your monitor and GPU using a different cable. I'm pinning the issue to your cable being dead or the ports being affected.

You forgot to include your PSU's make and model. Speccy doesn't list that nor the age of the PSU.