Crazy enough, I am had a leak in my roof and my computer got water in, on and throughout itself. With the slimest of hope I wanted to at least try to fix it or at least minimize loss. After drying it out for a couple of days I finally tried plugging it back in. You guessed it, no go. For insurance purposes they will not replace the computer as a whole b/c it is custom built. So an actual estimated value is not acceptable. So in attempt to find out what components are ruined I have been trouble shooting them on a previous motherboard. I am coming up with some issues and will ask for any and all help if you could.
Components are a little over 3 months old. Just thought I would share so someone doesn't get wise and say just build a new one. Also to note that the computer was in sleep mode when said flooding occured.
What I have done so far.
-Bought a new PSU, first initial thought was that maybe the original PSU was fried and hopefully did not damage any other parts. What I have found out. I tried the old PSU on both my flooded motherboard/CPU set and my (old) setup MB/CPU set. The only time the CPU came on was the newly purchased PSU and the (old)MB/CPU. So I immediatly X'd the flooded PSU
-Next I started trying out components on that (old) MB. I only used 2 sticks of RAM at a time to see if I could get any video or posting. Using the flooded SSD as my boot drive. I got nothing. I switched boot drives to my (old) boot drive that was on this MB originally. Still nothing. So I moved the 2 sticks of RAM to 2 new slots. Nothing. I put in the next 2 sticks of ram in all 4 slots...Nothing. I tried this combo with flooded and old GPU. Nothing. So I thought maybe it was the DVI connector that was hooked up to the monitor at the time of the flood. Still no posting of any sort.
Questions that I have so far. Will the MB post w/o any RAM in. Would/could it be possible that all components including the DVI cable could have been toasted during this accident. Is there a way I can test everything besides taking it in. I can set up my old computer in the same manner except for no RAM for I used the 2 sticks i had in it and added 2 more when I built this new one in April.
A lot of this is incoherent rambling. I am quite disappointed in this whole episode. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Please go nuts.
Components are a little over 3 months old. Just thought I would share so someone doesn't get wise and say just build a new one. Also to note that the computer was in sleep mode when said flooding occured.
What I have done so far.
-Bought a new PSU, first initial thought was that maybe the original PSU was fried and hopefully did not damage any other parts. What I have found out. I tried the old PSU on both my flooded motherboard/CPU set and my (old) setup MB/CPU set. The only time the CPU came on was the newly purchased PSU and the (old)MB/CPU. So I immediatly X'd the flooded PSU
-Next I started trying out components on that (old) MB. I only used 2 sticks of RAM at a time to see if I could get any video or posting. Using the flooded SSD as my boot drive. I got nothing. I switched boot drives to my (old) boot drive that was on this MB originally. Still nothing. So I moved the 2 sticks of RAM to 2 new slots. Nothing. I put in the next 2 sticks of ram in all 4 slots...Nothing. I tried this combo with flooded and old GPU. Nothing. So I thought maybe it was the DVI connector that was hooked up to the monitor at the time of the flood. Still no posting of any sort.
Questions that I have so far. Will the MB post w/o any RAM in. Would/could it be possible that all components including the DVI cable could have been toasted during this accident. Is there a way I can test everything besides taking it in. I can set up my old computer in the same manner except for no RAM for I used the 2 sticks i had in it and added 2 more when I built this new one in April.
A lot of this is incoherent rambling. I am quite disappointed in this whole episode. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Please go nuts.
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