PC dead after a water damage

[Tomas1020]

Hello everybody,

in June I was studying for finals downstairs, then I came upstairs where my PC was and I saw this huge rain coming down the roof window. It hit the PC quite bad. Didn't start at all...

I left to the USA for the summer and I came back today after 3 months. I hoped that it would dry and start up. Unfortunately, not my case. PSU is still not working.

What steps and measures should I take now? Could I try to use the PSU warranty? It's less than 1 year old. It's Seasonic Prime Gold 750W. I tried the paperclip test, no results.

I'm mostly worried about the other components, especially my GPU which is a GTX 1080 Ti. I'm worried that it got damaged too but I have no way to test it without a PSU.

If you guys were in my situation, what would you do? Thank you.

Tomas

 

[jaslion]

Hello everybody,

in June I was studying for finals downstairs, then I came upstairs where my PC was and I saw this huge rain coming down the roof window. It hit the PC quite bad. Didn't start at all...

I left to the USA for the summer and I came back today after 3 months. I hoped that it would dry and start up. Unfortunately, not my case. PSU is still not working.

What steps and measures should I take now? Could I try to use the PSU warranty? It's less than 1 year old. It's Seasonic Prime Gold 750W. I tried the paperclip test, no results.

I'm mostly worried about the other components, especially my GPU which is a GTX 1080 Ti. I'm worried that it got damaged too but I have no way to test it without a PSU.

If you guys were in my situation, what would you do? Thank you.

Tomas

You can try for warranty but little chance they will give it. Still trying won't hurt.

I would get a new psu or ask a friend to test your card and if possible other components to see what still works.

 

[Dugimodo]

Do you have household insurance? that might cover it and if so you could probably claim for the whole PC to be repaired or replaced.
That's more legit that a warranty claim when really it's not a warranty issue.

You have two possible sources of damage from water - one is fried components if they were powered up and the water caused a short and the other is corrosion which can be an ongoing issue if it happens. If the computer was off at the time it may be ok, if it was running all bets are off.
all you can do is test each component and see what happens, really better done by a repair shop where they have spare parts available to swap in.