Mystery Liquid

[mikejw]

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

 

[mikejw]

Can't see the images??

Just fixed that. Thanks

 

[mikejw]

No there's no water cooling going on with this box. I have the Alpenfohn Brocken Eco cooler.

 

[mikejw]

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.

The power supply is below. Thankfully I think that's fine.

 

[mikejw]

Possible, on a leaking liquid bearing on the fan (that’d be oily).

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?

 

[mikejw]

Hey, I'm still here. I didn't think of consuming the liquid but maybe I should have. I don't have pets and no there was no pornography involved. The heat sink fan above definitely seems to be the culprit or involved somehow because there was also moisture around the edges. As if a bug had gone into it.

 

[mikejw]

Sorry I can't as it's already been dabbed off as I was trying to rescue the card, which appears to have died

 

[mikejw]

I'm not sure. The machine was new just before Christmas. But I guess I was hoping to find out if I'm covered in anyway as the machine was from Overclockers.