Tragedy defined: the perils of coffee

[Daovonnaex]

Well, it seems as if I was foolhardy enough to spill coffee onto my mainboard. It destroyed my mainboard, my CPU, my memory, and my graphics card. The PSU, the sound card, and the drives escaped unscathed. I lost an ABIT TH7II-RAID, a P4 1.8 Northwood (overclocked to 2988 MHz), two 512MB Kingston PC1066 ECC RIMMs (at PC1333), and a Soltek GeForce 4 Ti4200 (at 315/335). The aformentioned items have been replaced by an Intel D850GB, a P4 1.4 Willamette (yeah!), two 256MB Kingston PC800 RIMMs, and an ATi RADEON 8500LE (310/268). I had the replacement items already from a long discarded system (well, the Radeon is more recent, but still something that I had). Joy is me! I intend to pick up an nForce 2 board and a Barton in October, or possibly suffer until Hammer arrives.

EDIT: I may buy a powerleap socket adaptor and a P4/2200A in the mean time.

 

[zippy]

Ach, that's rough. That was a hell of an overclock too. I assume you tested everything with a new PSU and tested every component independent of each other? Just because coffee got on it doesn't mean it's a goner...although, you've probably already done this anyway.

Either way, that's rough - pretty good piece of change that went to waste.