holy hell if I spilled a liquid on my PC I would [B]PANIC[/B]
how dumb does giving it a keyboard cleaning treatment sound?
AKA, dip everything in nonconductive liquid and let it soak, then let it dry over a few days / weeks
it works for emergencies for a keyboard but I have the feeling that doing that might be very stupid, especially for a gpu/mb
[editline]17th February 2015[/editline]
[QUOTE=Marka;47158000]Ok thanks alot for all the replies, yea I'll try not to throw any more alcohol over it! I was worried the problem with the keyboard was the port because it would of been the part of the motherboard the beer would of hit because the PS/2 slot is located at the top.[/QUOTE]
people have actually died doing this so if Marka doesn't reply for a few days/weeks he may have perished
[QUOTE=J!NX;47160086]holy hell if I spilled a liquid on my PC I would [B]PANIC[/B]
how dumb does giving it a keyboard cleaning treatment sound?
AKA, dip everything in nonconductive liquid and let it soak, then let it dry over a few days / weeks
it works for emergencies for a keyboard but I have the feeling that doing that might be very stupid, especially for a gpu/mb
[editline]17th February 2015[/editline]
people have actually died doing this so if Marka doesn't reply for a few days/weeks he may have perished[/QUOTE]
Is soaking a good idea? I'm not sure how capacitors would react to being submerged for an extended period of time - does anybody know?
[QUOTE=Maloof?;47160120]Is soaking a good idea? I'm not sure how capacitors would react to being submerged for an extended period of time - does anybody know?[/QUOTE]
Probably a super stupid idea, and it's an idea taken from keyboard cleaning if you need it ASAP and BADLY, one that can fail too. But keyboards are simple devices so... soaking and then ricing it, could work, but that's something that someone who actually knows what they're talking about with cleaning circuits (not me) should evaluate.
but I mean, soaking it in pure rubbing alcohol or distilled water is what you do if your keyboard gets soaked with beer/soda/milk. Could work, I guess?
of course, turning on a rubbing alcohol cleaned board that isn't properly dried could basically turn it into a firebomb :v:
Is op ok
:(
If op dies this is going to be super shitty.
Are you guys joking about washing the motherboard? Logic tells me that would fuck up all the contacts/components
[QUOTE=Wazbat;47160312]If op dies this is going to be super shitty.
Are you guys joking about washing the motherboard? Logic tells me that would fuck up all the contacts/components[/QUOTE]
The main threat water poses is short circuiting something, so as long as he let's it dry out [i]properly[/i] before using it again, it should be fine. Corrosion can also be caused by water, but I think that mainly applies to long term exposure.
Edit: That said, I wouldn't soak it in water. Maybe get some damp cotton swabs or something, to get rid of most of it.
[QUOTE=Wazbat;47160312]Logic tells me that would fuck up all the contacts/components[/QUOTE]
Only if there's current going through.
Also I think opening a PSU isn't that dangerous, as long as you don't touch anything inside with your bare fingers or anything metal. I just cleaned my PSU the other day since it's pretty old and has built up a lot of dust, though I took a small brush with a wooden stick, so I never actually touched the inside.
[QUOTE=matte3560;47160365]The main threat water poses is short circuiting something, so as long as he let's it dry out [i]properly[/i] before using it again, it should be fine. Corrosion can also be caused by water, but I think that mainly applies to long term exposure.
Edit: That said, I wouldn't soak it in water. Maybe get some damp cotton swabs or something, to get rid of most of it.[/QUOTE]
plus mineral deposits left over after the water's dried up, as discussed above
[QUOTE=Maloof?;47160424]plus mineral deposits left over after the water's dried up, as discussed above[/QUOTE]
Unless you have gravel coming out of your taps the mineral content in most water sources will be nowhere near what you're saying. You're talking to someone who has been washing the insides of computers, TV's and other things that like to accumulate REALLY nasty dirt for almost ten years. So long as you're letting the components dry out and not being stupid like trying to wash a tape drum or a hard drive you're fine.
[QUOTE=pentium;47162284]Unless you have gravel coming out of your taps the mineral content in most water sources will be nowhere near what you're saying. You're talking to someone who has been washing the insides of computers, TV's and other things that like to accumulate REALLY nasty dirt for almost ten years. So long as you're letting the components dry out and not being stupid like trying to wash a tape drum or a hard drive you're fine.[/QUOTE]
I froze my hard drive once when I was drunk (this was an extremely failed drive). I like to believe it's now an SSD somewhere in tech heaven.
[QUOTE=Levelog;47162342]I froze my hard drive once when I was drunk (this was an extremely failed drive). I like to believe it's now an SSD somewhere in tech heaven.[/QUOTE]
hard drives only go to hell
sorry but your harddrive is suffering
OP please respond.
Cotton swabs work for me, that or a can of compressed air.
[QUOTE=Elexar;47157827]Hey guys I need a little advice as well. Last night I was outside playing a game of baseball with some friends and I somehow managed to trip into a hole and fracture my shinbone. Nothing was sticking out but I noticed a small lump on the side of my leg. At this point I wasn't in thát much pain so I went to bed deciding it was broken. Woke up this morning and had a walk, got a very strange feeling in my leg and I sometimes almost collapsed, but I was able to walk downstairs. My leg finally decided to stop hurting and I thought everything was fine, I put on my running shoes and had a run for half an hour until my entire leg broke off and my bone started sticking out. I took out some bandaids and cleaned the wound since that was the logical place the bone stuck out from and it did seem kinda rough. Now I can't walk anymore at all so I lied there for a few hours and now I seem to be limping fine? Is there anything more I can do, or will my leg continue to limp because of the broken bone damage?
[highlight](User was banned for this post ("Thanks for the help" - Craptasket))[/highlight][/QUOTE]
Oh man Craptasket you gotta cut him some slack I haven't read anything that funny in fucking years I am weak
This reminds me a lot of the time one of my relatives puked on someones laptop.
I think the laptop's keyboard stopped working because of that(or a combination of that and general abuse), not sure if they ever fixed it.
The rest of the computer still worked fine somehow.
[QUOTE=Marka;47157800]Hey guys need a little advice, last night I was playing a few games of [B]dota[/B] with a friend and I somehow managed to knock a [B]beer[/B] can off my desk and onto the top of my PC.[/QUOTE]
I thought the only alcohol Dota2 players drink is Vodka.
op is ded
yeah dude if you are not dead, please respond.
this is some "hey /b/ i found a hand grenade" level shit
[t]http://i.imgur.com/NLARYhW.jpg[/t]
He seems alright.
[QUOTE=pentium;47162284]Unless you have gravel coming out of your taps the mineral content in most water sources will be nowhere near what you're saying. You're talking to someone who has been washing the insides of computers, TV's and other things that like to accumulate REALLY nasty dirt for almost ten years. So long as you're letting the components dry out and not being stupid like trying to wash a tape drum or a hard drive you're fine.[/QUOTE]
I'm just going by what an electronics/robotics researcher told me
Maybe our mineral content is higher here? idk
[QUOTE='[EG] Pepper;47159131']Don't even joke about opening a PSU ff's
I once had a customer who had the lid off and tried poking around inside one with a screwdriver (while the PC was on as well) and was suprised he prodded something carrying mains electricity and it went bang. I'm amazed he didn't kill himself.
I wish i was making this up, don't underestimate people's stupidity.[/QUOTE]
Mains hardly ever kills though, it's not as lethal as you might think
[QUOTE=opaali;47163774]Mains hardly ever kills though, it's not as lethal as you might think[/QUOTE]
It's just all round bad advice to make people think playing with mains is safe though.
[QUOTE=opaali;47163774]Mains hardly ever kills though, it's not as lethal as you might think[/QUOTE]
Capacitors.
a jolt from a PSU in the right state will kill you stone dead. don't mislead people in to thinking that getting a shock from mains or a power supply 'hardly ever kills' because it can and will
[QUOTE=opaali;47163774]Mains hardly ever kills though, it's not as lethal as you might think[/QUOTE]
There are capacitors in there too, and if they haven't been discharged they will fuck you up
I'm not certain that holding down the power button on the front of the PC will drain them too - or at least if that will drain them it would take a shitload of time, given that so little current flows through that switch.
Just because you managed to mess around inside a capacitor and through sheer luck didn't get your ass shocked straight into hospital doesn't mean there's not an immense risk of actual death if you are messing around in there without knowing [I]exactly[/I] what you're doing
[QUOTE=Chryseus;47158805]Get some pure rubbing alcohol and mix it 50/50 with water and go over spills with some q-tips, clean the power supply in particular but don't shove your fingers in it just in case there is any charge remaining (highly unlikely but it doesn't hurt to play it safe, if you do need to grab it use one hand only and keep the other in your pocket), it should of course be unplugged before doing anything, I would not wash it fully as pentium / mips suggested since it can take a significant time to fully dry if waster gets down in the coils or transformer.[/QUOTE]
rubbing alcohol already has water in it.
OP: rubbing alcohol and take everythign apart, then let it sit dont open a PSU, this is dangerous
Its pretty hard to kill yourself with the short discharage of a capacitor, and its prettyhard to shock yourself messing with a PSU.
Most caps discharage within seconds, some caps who don't will slowly lose most of their power within 10-15 minutes, and most of those are additional are wired with a resistor so it will bleed empty within seconds.
[url]http://www.overclock.net/a/capacitor-safety-in-power-supplies[/url]
I took the PSU apart and now I have no hands
[editline]19th February 2015[/editline]
pls help I'm typing with stumps
you're doing pretty well with stumps
I once poured beer over a notebook I have. All I could do was taking out the keyboard, clean it from all the beer stains I could find and hope the best. 2 years later it died because the graphics was broken. After ASUS finally sent it back, the report said that the graphics card was damaged by liquid.
A friend of mine did something prevent this. His desktop pc case has a lot of holes in the top and he's also afraid of accidently pouring liquid in there. So he took a thick piece of plastic and some long screws and built a little table on top of the case.
What kind of beer was it? Surprised no one asked.
If it was American beer it's probably better off on the computer than in your system. You dodged a bullet.
Let me guess you case is on the table. I'm not even going to bother then, cases are meant to be under the table always.
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