Coolant killed my pc!

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edmaiders

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Upon installing another harddrive in my pc, i inadvertently knocked a tube out of my liquid cooled system. This never leaked until (obviously) under pressure sprayed coolant all over my MB and graphics cards.

I immediately powered off, took out and dried off all parts, but once reassembled i'm getting a continous beeping. This i believe means a power issue? I have checked my psu with a tester and all lights except the -5v is lighting up.

Does this add up and is it simply a new psu i need? Everything else lights up and powers on fine, but i cannot get onto windows.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
 
As with the flood guy.

How long did you leave it to dry?

You need to leave it in a warm, dry environment for at least a few days before use.
 
Hi all thx for answering so quickly, its already been a few days and am getting the same result, continous beeps. Was told this means a power issue and when i tested psu with thermaltake tester all lights lit up except -5v. Does this suggest my psu is faulty or is this as it should be? using an Enermax Galaxy EGX1000EWL-DXX 1000w.

Thx in advance.
 
I'm still getting this problem, and have completely stripped system and left all to dry for a good while.

Just realised that the tube that came away was the one feeding my CPU, could this have burnt out? as it was being overclocked??

Unfortunately cant test it in another system as all my others are too old(wrong socket).

As i said before the mobo completely lights up, all fans, drives etc power up, then a slow continuos beep sounds (reminesent of a life support machine (how ironic)). If i connect it up to monitor i only get no signal message!!!

Again any help offered would help me greatly!!
 
can you see any scorch marks on the PCB of the mobo or the GPU? i doubt the CPU burnt out if it was only 2 seconds or so. got any friends you can test it with?
 
ALso hope you had auto shut down enabled at---temp. This is also a good advert for silicone spray or whatever its called.

Sorry you found out the hard way
 
Hi, no can't see any scorch marks on mobo at all, there was a slight dark mark in the thermal grease on processor but didn't appear to be scorched as such, and no mark at all actually on processor itself.

Hmm think I may just have to take it in somewhere, or upgrade my old pc, and test these parts as i go!

And i'm pretty new to this so no didn't set any temp shutoff (didn't realise you could). Oh well you live and learn lol!!
 
some break through

Regarding previous problem!

I've managed to get a 2nd hand replacement motherboard (asus p5w dh deluxe) and this has cured the beeping issue completely! Now my pc logs and goes straight through to a screen telling me there was an error and do i want to enter in safe mode, safe mode + networking. last good known config, or restart. Unfortunately whichever option i choose the comp starts to load it then beeps and restarts again!

Do i need to do anything to the motherboard or bios/cmos to set it to my configuration not it's old 1?? and if so what!!

thks in advance for any answers!!
 
No it's a replacement, so i have to reinstall windows!! Will this wipe what i have on my harddrive ?? Or just reset windows?
 
You have to do a complete reinstall.. format it and start again.

What you can do, if you have a spare hard drive lying around, install Windows on to there, then boot up through that Windows.. then you can take all your valuable data off the other hard drive, and then install on to that other hard drive when you're finished.
 
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