- Jan 19, 2019
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Hello I had accidentally knocked about a quarted of a bottle of soda into the top of my tower where there is an opening for my fan. I immediately disconnected from the power outlet and tipped the case to the left side pannel away from motherboard and psu. Then opened it and cleaned it with alcohol and cotton swabs. Majority of it was on the motherboard. I think a tiny got into the cpu socket as there was some residue on the clamps. Maybe one or 2 drops got onto the gpu. Nothing got into the ram inserts or touch the ram itself. Didnt go inside the psu because fan is facing downwards toward the ground.
After a thorough clean which consisted of cleaning every single component with alcohol and cotton swabs, cleaning out the cotton that gets stuck as well as vaccuming out the whole mobo of any liquids, and Wiping any residue off my ram and gpu. I reassemble and try to start the pc. All I hear is a single click sound and motherboard lights up once, no cpu fan or case fan working.
Fast forward a few days, i buy a new psu and hook it up to see if it was the problem. Same problem occurs, except theres no click just a single flash. At this point i believe its the motherboard.
Fast forward today, i ordered a new mobo, hooked my old psu with it and the remaining components the the cpu fans work as well as the case fans. HDD also make it usual sound on startup. However there is no signal on my display from my gpu. Motherboard also stays lit. However it only stayed lit for like 45 seconds. I did notice that removing the cpu fan and checking the cpu, it was extremely hot. I couldn't even touch it. And gpu fans spin for like 5 seconds and stop. I had read somewhere that it does that and its normal, because the fan will turn on again if it starts to get hot. At this point i believe the mobo and psu is the culprit, so i hook up my new psu with the mobo, but same result.
In short after replacing both mobo and psu after soda damage, the system powers on for less than a minute and the gpu gives no signal to the display. It doesn't have vga or hdmi on mobo, so gpu is my only display. I haved checked if the hdmi cables were fine incase it was just my monitor fault, reseated ram, and triple checked if all cables were in right locations and plugged securely, removed cmos and put it back. Tried breadboarding as well. Even set it up on my mobo case incase theres a short. And sadly im unable to test it each individual part with another set up.
In my conclusion i think the cpu is dead/fried by my old mobo. Then again im unsure if any other parts got damaged by the old mobo because fans work on cpu, gpu, and psu obviously work. Ram i believe should be fine.
PC specs:
MSI B360 A PRO (new/current)
Ballistix Sport LT 8GB Kit (4GBx2) DDR4 2400 MT/s (PC4-19200) DIMM 288-Pin
I3-8100k
Gigabyte 1050 2gb
Old psu: EVGA 450t, 80+ 450W
New psu: Insignia 550W
What are your thoughts on whats wrong with my pc? Thank you all for for your time!
After a thorough clean which consisted of cleaning every single component with alcohol and cotton swabs, cleaning out the cotton that gets stuck as well as vaccuming out the whole mobo of any liquids, and Wiping any residue off my ram and gpu. I reassemble and try to start the pc. All I hear is a single click sound and motherboard lights up once, no cpu fan or case fan working.
Fast forward a few days, i buy a new psu and hook it up to see if it was the problem. Same problem occurs, except theres no click just a single flash. At this point i believe its the motherboard.
Fast forward today, i ordered a new mobo, hooked my old psu with it and the remaining components the the cpu fans work as well as the case fans. HDD also make it usual sound on startup. However there is no signal on my display from my gpu. Motherboard also stays lit. However it only stayed lit for like 45 seconds. I did notice that removing the cpu fan and checking the cpu, it was extremely hot. I couldn't even touch it. And gpu fans spin for like 5 seconds and stop. I had read somewhere that it does that and its normal, because the fan will turn on again if it starts to get hot. At this point i believe the mobo and psu is the culprit, so i hook up my new psu with the mobo, but same result.
In short after replacing both mobo and psu after soda damage, the system powers on for less than a minute and the gpu gives no signal to the display. It doesn't have vga or hdmi on mobo, so gpu is my only display. I haved checked if the hdmi cables were fine incase it was just my monitor fault, reseated ram, and triple checked if all cables were in right locations and plugged securely, removed cmos and put it back. Tried breadboarding as well. Even set it up on my mobo case incase theres a short. And sadly im unable to test it each individual part with another set up.
In my conclusion i think the cpu is dead/fried by my old mobo. Then again im unsure if any other parts got damaged by the old mobo because fans work on cpu, gpu, and psu obviously work. Ram i believe should be fine.
PC specs:
MSI B360 A PRO (new/current)
Ballistix Sport LT 8GB Kit (4GBx2) DDR4 2400 MT/s (PC4-19200) DIMM 288-Pin
I3-8100k
Gigabyte 1050 2gb
Old psu: EVGA 450t, 80+ 450W
New psu: Insignia 550W
What are your thoughts on whats wrong with my pc? Thank you all for for your time!
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