- Jul 10, 2015
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Dear Forumites,
Hello from Ireland. First time poster, short-time lurker. Sorry if this is in the wrong place.
Two days ago I spilled a large amount of water over my PC & desk area. Needless to say I've learned my lesson, but just let me say it was some freaky Final Destination stuff...
My PC is a tower PC, so the parts mainly affected were the HDD(s), PSU and Motherboard.
Today I switched it on and checked what was working, what seemed buggy and was was completely unrecoverable:
- the HDD is completely dead, I had to reinstall my OS (Windows 7) onto a backup HDD just to analyze.
- the PSU seems to be fine as it is powering all things as normal, that I can see.
- the Motherboard is the real issue here. Some chip seems to have gotten fried, and the CMOS/BIOS (sorry, not big into that stuff, I know I'm probably wrong here) seem to have been reset. I can't use any USB ports (yes I'm using 2.0, not 3.0 ports), but the PS2 port (there's only 1, so I can only use a keyboard or mouse at one time) seems fine.
My current components:
Mobo: Gigabyte 970A-UD3 (-rekt)
GPU: Sapphire HD7870XT
CPU: AMX FX4100 (-want to replace)
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB @ 7200RPM (-rekt)
PSU: beQuiet PurePower BQT L8 CM 730W
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 2x 4GB @ 1866Mhz
CPU Cooler: Arctic Continous Operation Freezer 13
CD-Drive: Plextor PX-891SA
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OEM
Seeing as the PSU seems to be working fine, I don't see the need in replacing it. The other 2 though, I need to replace, and I also want to get a new CPU as my current one (AMD FX4100) is very outdated and can't play much modern games at high graphic settings.
So I'd really appreciate it if you Forumites could give me some suggestions and/ or advice on what to get/ do. Any information you need, just ask, I'll do my best to provide what I can!
Many thanks in advance!
Sam
Hello from Ireland. First time poster, short-time lurker. Sorry if this is in the wrong place.
Two days ago I spilled a large amount of water over my PC & desk area. Needless to say I've learned my lesson, but just let me say it was some freaky Final Destination stuff...
My PC is a tower PC, so the parts mainly affected were the HDD(s), PSU and Motherboard.
Today I switched it on and checked what was working, what seemed buggy and was was completely unrecoverable:
- the HDD is completely dead, I had to reinstall my OS (Windows 7) onto a backup HDD just to analyze.
- the PSU seems to be fine as it is powering all things as normal, that I can see.
- the Motherboard is the real issue here. Some chip seems to have gotten fried, and the CMOS/BIOS (sorry, not big into that stuff, I know I'm probably wrong here) seem to have been reset. I can't use any USB ports (yes I'm using 2.0, not 3.0 ports), but the PS2 port (there's only 1, so I can only use a keyboard or mouse at one time) seems fine.
My current components:
Mobo: Gigabyte 970A-UD3 (-rekt)
GPU: Sapphire HD7870XT
CPU: AMX FX4100 (-want to replace)
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB @ 7200RPM (-rekt)
PSU: beQuiet PurePower BQT L8 CM 730W
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 2x 4GB @ 1866Mhz
CPU Cooler: Arctic Continous Operation Freezer 13
CD-Drive: Plextor PX-891SA
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OEM
Seeing as the PSU seems to be working fine, I don't see the need in replacing it. The other 2 though, I need to replace, and I also want to get a new CPU as my current one (AMD FX4100) is very outdated and can't play much modern games at high graphic settings.
So I'd really appreciate it if you Forumites could give me some suggestions and/ or advice on what to get/ do. Any information you need, just ask, I'll do my best to provide what I can!
Many thanks in advance!
Sam
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