Disaster - someone reassure me!

Five.Stars

Five.Stars

Five.Stars

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Hi there, have had a bit of a disaster and looking for some reassurance/ advice.

Long story short - I was disassembling my loop in prep for addind my 2nd 7970 when I accidentally spilled a little bit of fluid on to my 7970. The backplate took the brunt of it, but a little did get on the xfire connector area of the pcb and looked as if it had gotten under the block. I quickly patted down the excess fluid and decided to strip the backplate and block down to inspect. Anyway I can see no trace of any residue or fluid so may have gotten of with a lucky escape.

The fluid in question is mayhems pastel, assuming some did get on to the pcb, what are the chances of damage? Obviously the card will not be getting powered on for a good few days at least.

Cheers. 1 of those things that is going to annoy me all night wondering how i could have been so clumsy!
 
I've done this before, loose CPU block fitting rained some mayhems X1 down on top of one of my older GPU's.

Removed card, stripped it down and mopped up where possible, left it for 3 days, checking on it every so often so see any more leftovers.

Inspect local PCI slots, especially the one the card was plugged in to, some fluid had worked its way from the back of the card into the slot, slid some kitchen roll into the slot to soak everything up, again left for a few days, powered up and everything was running perfect :)
 
Magic, thankfully card was outside of system so didn't get any in to pci-e slots. Don't even know how I managed to spill the fluid tbh. Mad at myself as it means a delay to getting system back up and running and scared that something will go bang once I eventually do get it all re-done and power up for first time.
 
Water spillage is hardly a disaster. I've had countless leaks from drops to the bottom of the case being flooded soaking the carpet below and only lost 1 hard drive.

Most components and sealed helium hard drives aren't affected.
Fans and non-sealed hard drives may be permanently damaged by water, however.
 
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jinxpad said:
It's a disaster only if your system is powered up :)
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Sometimes even then it's survivable as long as you get it all shut down PDQ. I got my old nVidia 5950 Ultra wet when my Maze 4 waterblock top cracked - screen went bonkers, artefacts and white bands, fortunately I had the side panel off so saw what had happened and plunged for the wall socket. Dried it off, it survived just fine and is still running in another PC (though it's probably not running the stock cooler these days).
 
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