Hi guys,
Got a bit of a weird issue, hope you can help.
My friend messaged me as his computer wouldn't turn on, the lights were coming on and the fans were spinning but it wouldn't even load to bios.
After asking a few questions, he said that he found a couple of pools of liquid on a couple of the components which he cleaned off. When I managed to go round to his house and have a look, I could see that there were little drops of this liquid here and there on the motherboard and other components, as well as inside the mobo heatsinks.
He smokes an e-cig which he makes his own liquid for which I think is just made up of glucose and food flavourings but his e-cig produces a hell of a lot of vapour and I'm 90% sure is what this liquid that has gotten everywhere is (same colour and consistency).
When taking off the CPU heatsink, there was a collection of a blackish gloop on the heatsink's grill and on the metal CPU clamp and looks like it might have burnt but not sure (could just have mixed in with dust).
The lights that turn on on the motherboard are next to the DIMM sockets and having looked at the mobo manual, it looks like it either thinks there is an overclock on the memory and CPU, which there isn't, or an overvoltage to the memory and CPU.
I'm not sure what options he has as it looks like the mobo might be knackered, although I would have thought a liquid would have completely fried the mobo and other parts and wouldn't turn on at all?
He said he might want to replace the mobo and cpu but doesn't want to spend much as he only bought the pc for £250, but the problem is we don't know exactly what works and what doesn't, which I'm going to test this week.
Do you know what he can do? Is there a special way of cleaning the mobo or do you think it is beyond saving?
His rig is:
i7 920
gigabyte x58a-ud3r
16gb Corsair XMS3
Sapphire 7950
Thanks
cmd-
Got a bit of a weird issue, hope you can help.
My friend messaged me as his computer wouldn't turn on, the lights were coming on and the fans were spinning but it wouldn't even load to bios.
After asking a few questions, he said that he found a couple of pools of liquid on a couple of the components which he cleaned off. When I managed to go round to his house and have a look, I could see that there were little drops of this liquid here and there on the motherboard and other components, as well as inside the mobo heatsinks.
He smokes an e-cig which he makes his own liquid for which I think is just made up of glucose and food flavourings but his e-cig produces a hell of a lot of vapour and I'm 90% sure is what this liquid that has gotten everywhere is (same colour and consistency).
When taking off the CPU heatsink, there was a collection of a blackish gloop on the heatsink's grill and on the metal CPU clamp and looks like it might have burnt but not sure (could just have mixed in with dust).
The lights that turn on on the motherboard are next to the DIMM sockets and having looked at the mobo manual, it looks like it either thinks there is an overclock on the memory and CPU, which there isn't, or an overvoltage to the memory and CPU.
I'm not sure what options he has as it looks like the mobo might be knackered, although I would have thought a liquid would have completely fried the mobo and other parts and wouldn't turn on at all?
He said he might want to replace the mobo and cpu but doesn't want to spend much as he only bought the pc for £250, but the problem is we don't know exactly what works and what doesn't, which I'm going to test this week.
Do you know what he can do? Is there a special way of cleaning the mobo or do you think it is beyond saving?
His rig is:
i7 920
gigabyte x58a-ud3r
16gb Corsair XMS3
Sapphire 7950
Thanks
cmd-
