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Inspiring
May 11, 2016
Question

Behold the stupid thing I did!

I spilled a coke in my PC ><

It's my own dumb fault too. I spill things all the time and I should know better than to sit a drink anywhere near my PC. But I did. I went to stand up, hit my knee on the keyboard tray and the coke spilled directly through my top fan vents. Immediately the PC black screened. I (understandably) freaked out and yanked every cord out of the power strip as fast as I could. I had the whole thing unplugged in about 4 seconds but it's not looking good.

My GPU was literally dripping coke out of it. My mobo was also covered. As were all of my drives. I took everything apart as fast as I could and washed most of it in a crazy amount of 91% iso(not the mechanical drives as if any liquid got inside they are rekt either way). Things are drying now, will be a while before I know.

My guess is the mobo, GPU, 3TB, 500GB are dead for sure. 1TB and SSD maybe. CPU, PSU and RAM likely okay(if mobo didn't fry them). But yeah won't know for a while.

So laugh at my foolishness and pray to the tech Gods for my rig. I know I was dumb and I can admit it lol. >_<

I'm using a crappy laptop at the moment just to go online.

Pics of aftermath:



62 replies

May 11, 2016
Yeah, the thing will rise to its former glory once again. 
Inspiring
May 11, 2016

Nobbs66 said:

Yeah, the thing will rise to its former glory once again. 


And to boot (see what I did there?), it will smell of caramel :)
Inspiring
May 11, 2016
@Blyss4226  aww man! ..... PM me if you have any failed parts I might have some spares I could ship to you ..

I recently spilled wine on my new Mac Book Pro ... had to get it serviced .. man I was mad at myself
Core i7-7700k @ 4.9 Ghz | 32 GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance @ 3000Mhz | 2x 1TB Samsung Evo | 2x 4GB WD Black ASUS MAXIMUS IX HERO | MSI AERO GTX 1080 OC @ 2000Mhz | Corsair Carbide Series 400C White (RGB FTW!) Be kind to one another :)
Inspiring
May 11, 2016


...I just went to take a sip and it wasn't all the way on my lips, and a little fell (but that was enough)...


You...have a drinking problem. :D 
 Awesome backup solution, that is some serious redundancy. Certainly inspiring me to pay more attention to safeguarding my data, cheers!
Inspiring
May 11, 2016
I use BackBlaze .. have around 11TB backed up with them ... you know .. the essentials lol
Core i7-7700k @ 4.9 Ghz | 32 GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance @ 3000Mhz | 2x 1TB Samsung Evo | 2x 4GB WD Black ASUS MAXIMUS IX HERO | MSI AERO GTX 1080 OC @ 2000Mhz | Corsair Carbide Series 400C White (RGB FTW!) Be kind to one another :)
May 12, 2016
Have fun eating your hat :tongue: 

Blyss4226Author
Inspiring
May 12, 2016
Hat will be consumed...



Yes... it really works in it's entirety. At this point I've even put it through some stress testing and it seems to be absolutely fine including my drives and my GPU.

I guess I had some serious luck @_@ I don't even know how this is possible BUT LET'S NOT QUESTION IT. The Gods are on my side. End of story.
Gaming: Intel i7 3770k @ 4.2Ghz | R9 290 | 16GB RAM | 240GB SSD | 1 TB HDD Server: AMD FX 6300 @ 4.4Ghz | GT 610 | 8GB RAM | 240GB SSD | 320GB HDD
Inspiring
May 12, 2016
That's amazing and theoretically impossible. Don't ask any questions!!!
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X | MSI X370 Titanium | G.Skill 16GB DDR4 3200 | EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 | Corsair Hydro H110i Gigabyte RX Vega 64 x2 | Samsung 960 Evo M.2 500GB | Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB | Phanteks ENTHOO EVOLV
May 12, 2016


That's amazing and theoretically impossible. Don't ask any questions!!!


Yep, can't argue with the PC gods today. 
May 12, 2016
Well, blyss just had a bluescreen, so he's going to let it dry out more overnight