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Mystery Liquid

mikejw

mikejw

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I bought a complete machine from Overclockers over christmas and then, last night,
I was playing GTA 5 when suddenly my screen went black and a fan started going into overdrive. I didn't know what was going on so I quickly powered down and looked inside the PC. I found this strange liquid on my Zotac graphics card that seems to have come from the CPU fan above. I have been vaping quite a lot near the machine but it seems quite impossible that it could have built up this much to eventually form a globule that could start dripping.

I thought I was in luck because after wiping away the liquid and rebooting things seemed fine but this morning the graphics card doesn't seem to be working. Please help anyone! Thanks
 
It's nicotine re-liquidizing with the heat of your PC.
Check your fans, CPU heatsink, I bet it's there too.
I had the same issue and after cleaning it all out, stopped vaping inside.
DO NOT vape by your PC.
 
Is your power supply mounted above the card? I've seen electrolytic capacitors fail and leak in the past. May be a failing cap in your power supply dripping goo.
 
snips86x said:
It's nicotine re-liquidizing with the heat of your PC.
Check your fans, CPU heatsink, I bet it's there too.
I had the same issue and after cleaning it all out, stopped vaping inside.
DO NOT vape by your PC.
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Wow, so vaping isn't as safe as they have made it out to be then.?
:D
 
Minstadave said:
Possible, on a leaking liquid bearing on the fan (that’d be oily).
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Perhaps it was this! I did notice the liquid was quite oily so that seems to rule out vaping because when it condenses it's just water.

I did also notice some blackish crud in it as well. Perhaps a sign of the dust/grime that might have come from the grease. Does anyone know if I have any warranty against this kind of thing?
 
Vimes said:
Wow, so vaping isn't as safe as they have made it out to be then.?
:D
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It's quite safe (at least as it pertains to electronics), vaping just raises the humidity in the room slightly, comparable to having the window open on a foggy/rainy day or having the doors open when somebody is cooking in the kitchen. Most of the time when you see the (rare) threads online about vaping killing PCs it's a "correlation != causation" thing.
 
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