Spilled water, help!

[Iegit]

Alright first off I'm not sure if this is the right section for this but I think we are good.

TL;DR How do I know what still works in my computer and what to replace?

So a week or two ago I spilled a cup off water off my desk directly onto my Antec 1200 top fan (Reference: http://i.imgur.com/zd98MB3.jpg ). The computer was on and then shuttered for a second and then died. Since then I dried as much of the water as I could and tried to save my beloved. When I plug the computer in the lights all come on, on the motherboard and everything seems to be in order. When I turn the computer on the chassis and power supply fans all start humming along and I get a response on my monitor but thats it. I don't get any lights on my keyboard or mouse. I'm wondering if there is anyway to tell what is fried and what I can save since I'm a broke college kid it would be nice to not have to buy a whole new computer. Any advice would be helpful, and thank you for taking the time to read this.

-legit

 

[dgfcavs7]

Well one thing I'd recommend is if your college has an IT help desk, is to go there. It could be a world of things. They should be able to figure out what is going wrong with it. Hopefully you'll be able to get this sorted out. I'm a college student as well, and I know the feeling you have right now.

 

[Iegit]

Well one thing I'd recommend is if your college has an IT help desk, is to go there. It could be a world of things. They should be able to figure out what is going wrong with it. Hopefully you'll be able to get this sorted out. I'm a college student as well, and I know the feeling you have right now.

Yeah I was thinking that but I think they charge like a minimum $~80 to run diagnostics on it, so I was seeing if I could pin point the problem here on the forums. I have a suspicion that it's the motherboard that needs to be replaced since the computer turns on but nothing that is plugged into the mobo is responding correctly.

 

[dgfcavs7]

Well one thing I'd recommend is if your college has an IT help desk, is to go there. It could be a world of things. They should be able to figure out what is going wrong with it. Hopefully you'll be able to get this sorted out. I'm a college student as well, and I know the feeling you have right now.

Yeah I was thinking that but I think they charge like a minimum $~80 to run diagnostics on it, so I was seeing if I could pin point the problem here on the forums. I have a suspicion that it's the motherboard that needs to be replaced since the computer turns on but nothing that is plugged into the mobo is responding correctly.

Do you have a graphics card installed? If so try taking it out, and using the motherboard's onboard video

 

[Iegit]

Well one thing I'd recommend is if your college has an IT help desk, is to go there. It could be a world of things. They should be able to figure out what is going wrong with it. Hopefully you'll be able to get this sorted out. I'm a college student as well, and I know the feeling you have right now.

Yeah I was thinking that but I think they charge like a minimum $~80 to run diagnostics on it, so I was seeing if I could pin point the problem here on the forums. I have a suspicion that it's the motherboard that needs to be replaced since the computer turns on but nothing that is plugged into the mobo is responding correctly.

Do you have a graphics card installed? If so try taking it out, and using the motherboard's onboard video

Great idea I'll try that when I get home tonight, my Housemate also has a spare computer so I figure I might just start swapping my parts into his comp until I see something not work.

 

[bgi123]

Try to bake everything. If it doesn't work already go bake it.