Question Coffee + 1050 ti; Mostly okay but one small problem?

[New2This-help!]

So, I spilled a small drop of coffee through the top of my PC and it landed on to the top portion of my GPU..I quickly pulled the power from the wall and opened it up. It didn't look like it was touching any of the solder points on the back so I wiped it off and waited till it was dry before plugging it back in. Once I plugged it in, everything was fine for the first hour but then my second screen, which is plugged in through the display port, went black. I could still move my mouse over to that screen and drag my windows from it as if nothing changed, but still black.

I reset the PC, everything was normal again for about a half hour and the same thing happened, so I just unplugged my display port to finish an assignment.

Now I tried to plug it in again and reset, but the PC isn't detecting a second screen at all... could the coffee have somehow only managed to fry my DP and nothing else on the GPU or do you think something else is up?

 

[Deleted member 14196]

So just to be clear you weren’t having these problems before you dropped your delicious coffee onto you gpu?

 

[New2This-help!]

So just to be clear you weren’t having these problems before you dropped your delicious coffee onto you gpu?

That is correct; however, I was not having them immediately afterwards, either.

Update* After ANOTHER restart with the power unplugged for 2 hours, it did not work at first; then 15 minutes later, with the screen on standby, it seems to be just fine again? Not sure if I will lose it in another half hour but we shall see

 

[Deleted member 14196]

Swap your monitors round and see what happens maybe a monitor just failed

 

[Karadjgne]

If you have some better grade rubbing/isopropyl alcohol (90% or so) or a can of CRC electrical contact cleaner handy (that's 100% isopropyl), give the affected area a bath with a paper towel. It won't hurt the card in the slightest. What it will do is affect any residue left behind by the coffee, milk, sugar, breaking it up dissolving it. Some of those solder contacts are a fraction of a mm apart, so residue from many liquids, dry or not, can potentially change the properties of the component under the solder. Like adding to the resistance of a resistor, which can change the voltages in it.

Let it dry, won't take long, then see if that changes anything.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

Milk? Sugar? How dare you! 😀 Sorry I just get really serious about coffee 😁

 

[Karadjgne]

Me too, but with ½ n ½, not milk, and 1tsp sugar per 4oz coffee.