Dear community,
After a minor and outrageously stupid beer spill a few drops landed in my tower on my motherboard (Asrock Z77 Extreme4) (I provided a picture to show the location of the spill, marked by green circles http://postimg.org/image/47r2zda21/). As soon as this happened my PC shut down, I cut off the power, and cleaned it as best I could (did not treat the board with (isopropyl?) alcohol yet, though it looked like I was able to clean and dry the spill reasonably well. Since then I've not had any issues with my PC except for one thing: it will not shut down anymore (windows 8.1)
I've tried forced shutdowns, sleep mode, turned off and on the hybrid shutdown, but whatever I do, it gets to the point where the OS is shut down and the screen is off, but the light is still on and the fans are still going. I can shut it down by holding the power button for a bit, but that can't be good to do every single day. I've tried everything suggested in this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS6aBQ-mpTE) but to no avail. I've tried running powercfg.exe /energy and took a look at the log, but I can't really make anything out of that (I could provide in the file or the raw text). Wherever I look on the internet people fix 'shutdown' issues through simple software solutions that don't work for me.
The weird thing is when I use the restart function, it shuts down to the point of lights out, no fans, no sound, and then boots back up again. This makes me believe that the capacity for shutting down is still perfectly present, but something else is going wrong.
If anyone could provide me with any help or advice, that'd be much appreciated!
Kind regards,
Thornum
After a minor and outrageously stupid beer spill a few drops landed in my tower on my motherboard (Asrock Z77 Extreme4) (I provided a picture to show the location of the spill, marked by green circles http://postimg.org/image/47r2zda21/). As soon as this happened my PC shut down, I cut off the power, and cleaned it as best I could (did not treat the board with (isopropyl?) alcohol yet, though it looked like I was able to clean and dry the spill reasonably well. Since then I've not had any issues with my PC except for one thing: it will not shut down anymore (windows 8.1)
I've tried forced shutdowns, sleep mode, turned off and on the hybrid shutdown, but whatever I do, it gets to the point where the OS is shut down and the screen is off, but the light is still on and the fans are still going. I can shut it down by holding the power button for a bit, but that can't be good to do every single day. I've tried everything suggested in this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS6aBQ-mpTE) but to no avail. I've tried running powercfg.exe /energy and took a look at the log, but I can't really make anything out of that (I could provide in the file or the raw text). Wherever I look on the internet people fix 'shutdown' issues through simple software solutions that don't work for me.
The weird thing is when I use the restart function, it shuts down to the point of lights out, no fans, no sound, and then boots back up again. This makes me believe that the capacity for shutting down is still perfectly present, but something else is going wrong.
If anyone could provide me with any help or advice, that'd be much appreciated!
Kind regards,
Thornum
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