Spilled Orange Juice in Computer What should I do?

[Anthony120]

So about 3 or 4 days ago I spilled Orange Juice(I am the most coordinated) on my desk at least a cup full of orange juice( A LOT) spilled right into the Upper Fan of my PC. I immediately moved my PC out of the way of where it was dripping, and before I can manually shut it down from Windows it powered down on it's own I unplugged it after it shut off, and took off the cover of the case, and grabbed a rag and cleaned what I saw. I waited about 20 hours or so with the PC on it's side, and I try to power it back up, the LED's turned on for a split second and turned off again, I have not done anything since but what should I do?

 

[mdd1963]

disconnect all non-essential fans (most especially the one that had OJ spilled in it, and retest...

If still bad, disconnect all DVD/HD/SSD power inputs as well....

If still bad (no powerup/no display), your PSU might have gone....; ; might need to slave in a known good PSU to check if improvements (We will hope it did not take mainboard with it....)

 

[synphul]

Really hard to say, liquids can spill all over the place inside. It could have killed the psu, the motherboard, any number of things. If it were me, personally I'd disassemble the whole pc as far as I could. Remove the fans, gpu, cpu cooler, motherboard, ram etc and check each component. Gently dab anything accessible with a lint free cloth dampened with isopropyl rubbing alcohol. Check the front of the motherboard as well as the back. If anything was still damp and shorting, powering it on too soon may have caused further damage. Try another psu, if it still won't work you may need to try a new motherboard. Work through piece by piece until the problem is sorted.

Given the oj hit the fan while it was running, juice could have ended up anywhere in the case. Since the pc shut down suddenly on its own it sounds like something shorted enough to trigger the psu to shut down.

 

[Anthony120]

Thanks, I ordered a new PSU, started up and worked perfectly fine.