Water on PC case. MoBo hit a little. No display

[joaofranciscopugliese]

Hey folks.

Dropped a little tap water (not more than 50ml) on the top and one side of my pc case. Pc was turned off and the water hit the top of the cooler of CPU, motherboard and, by the side, perhaps a little inside the GPU. By sight I could only notice a drop on the motherboard atop one pin. It was turned off but as I first moved the case, before disconnecting cables, I swear I saw a light go on, the fans started but then shut down, even though I didnt hit the button.

Flipped the case, water came out, then I had a major fan on for 22 hours and tonight tried to turn it on. It turned on, all fans working but the monitor displayed the message "NO DVI SIGNAL". Even after plugging cables again this still kept going.

Did I fry GPU or MoBo? Should I wait more days to see if it comes back or just replace asap before more damage is done?

Thanks

 

[Aeacus]

Looks like a dead MoBo or GPU but i'd opt for MoBo.

If you have an Intel build then you can take out your GPU and plug your monitor directly to the MoBo to test if you get some life out of your PC but i wouldn't get your hopes up.

At this point, you're looking towards new MoBo. Also, do note that it doesn't matter how much water you spilled inside your PC since it only takes one drop of water (e.g 1ml) at the right place to fry the MoBo.

 

[nostall]

Before a complete mobo replacement/repair, try another known working GPU; especially if your build uses the Intel cpu AND you get a video signal when using the cpu's graphics output as Aeacus suggested.

 

[joaofranciscopugliese]

Looks like a dead MoBo or GPU but i'd opt for MoBo.

If you have an Intel build then you can take out your GPU and plug your monitor directly to the MoBo to test if you get some life out of your PC but i wouldn't get your hopes up.

At this point, you're looking towards new MoBo. Also, do note that it doesn't matter how much water you spilled inside your PC since it only takes one drop of water (e.g 1ml) at the right place to fry the MoBo.

Thanks mate. GPU fan works when PC turns on, but eventually in 30 secs +- it stops spinning. Would that be a signal that GPU is working?

 

[Aeacus]

Not necessarily. Because if it would work just fine then your PC also works just fine since your PC case fans are spinning.

To test your GPU, put it into another working system and run some benchmarks to confirm that GPU operates as it should.
Of course, both the GPU and MoBo can be dead since you spilled water on both of them.