It rained on my rig.

[Uboatfreak]

Hey! i thought i could get some help here.

So yesterday I left home and forgot the window in my room open. While i was out it rained quite a bit, and since my pc is situated almost in front of my window ( with the back of the pc towards the window ), it also rained on my pc and on the extension cord it was pluged in. One of the side panels was also open. The pc was off, but the button on the psu was on. As soon as i saw this, i put the psu buttoon on off, i pluged it out of the extension cord, disassembled my pc and left the parts for a day to dry up. Now they are dry and look fine. I have yet to assemble my pc. The water was on mostly the psu and the gpu.

So i was wondering what chances are that my pc suffered damage. Any ideas?

 

[Mr Kagouris]

Leave the parts to dry for at least a week and then blow dry them for a bit to be on the safe side.

 

[InvalidError]

I would be mainly worried about the PSU: when the PC is in soft-off mode, the only rail still active is the 5VSB one and 5VSB is for the most part only present on the motherboard, so there shouldn't be much if any damage from it unless water made it that deep inside the case.

If rain got into the PSU though, it could have messed up some components or traces on the high voltage side that you won't find out about until you try turning it on. There is also a possibility that it messed up the 5VSB supply circuitry and fried your motherboard already. Definitely do a "paperclip test" with the PSU unplugged and check output voltages with a multimeter before connecting it to any other components. If it were me, I would also open the PSU and inspect it for possible water damage.

 

[Uboatfreak]

I would be mainly worried about the PSU: when the PC is in soft-off mode, the only rail still active is the 5VSB one and 5VSB is for the most part only present on the motherboard, so there shouldn't be much if any damage from it unless water made it that deep inside the case.

If rain got into the PSU though, it could have messed up some components or traces on the high voltage side that you won't find out about until you try turning it on. There is also a possibility that it messed up the 5VSB supply circuitry and fried your motherboard already. Definitely do a "paperclip test" with the PSU unplugged and check output voltages with a multimeter before connecting it to any other components. If it were me, I would also open the PSU and inspect it for possible water damage.

Thanks for the detailed answer, and sorry for the late reply, havent logged in to this site in a while. I put my PC back a few days later and it didnt work, it wouldnt even get to POST, it just showed a black screen. I took it to a computer repair shop and they confirmed that my Motherboard was dead. So they bought a new motherboard for me and since them everything is ok. The PSU didnt sustain any damage.