Dropped a can of beer inside my pc...

[saykopk]

I was having a party and some1 dropped beer in my pc, it was turned on and when the can was dropped, the beer went through the vents on top of the tower, it was spilled over the vga, the computer stopped working at once, i unplugged it and tried to clean it as much as i could.

24 hours after that incident i plugged everything back in and tried to make it work, but it just wont turn on, I'm not sure if there was beer dropped over the motherboard or psu as well, when the pc is plugged the motherboard lights are working as well as the lcd poster, but the computer won't turn on, I'm not sure if it's a psu problem or the motherboard is damaged, I'm pretty sure the vga is messed up by now, but if the computer won't turn on does it mean I damaged the psu or the motherboard too? if the motherboard lights are working doesn't that mean that the psu is fine?

I don't know what to do, I was thinking about changing the vga so i don't really care about that, but my motherboard is pretty old, (maximus formula II), and i don't have money to get a new one because i would also need a new cpu (q6600 kentfield) ....

any tips, help are much apreciatted!

 

[fidelity101]

You need to start from step 1 and see what's broken.

First, test the power supply. Disconnect it from the motherboard and either use a power supply tester or look online for which pins to jump in order to power on the power supply to test it's functionality. If that works, great...step 2.

Next would be to test the motherboard...that is power up the motherboard with the power supply (nothing else...no memory, hard drives, CPU, video card, nothing) You SHOULD get an error code when attempting to boot. If you don't get an error code, your motherboard is fried.

If you get an error code, install the CPU and retest. The error code should be different...hopefully no memory detected. If not, bad CPU.

Step by step you will figure it out.

PSU, motherboad, CPU, memory, video card, hard drive, etc.

 

[saykopk]

thanks a lot!