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water spill on corsair ax850

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Hi guys, I had a glass of water spill into the top of my computer and the computer immediatley shut off and the power led was blinking. I took everything apart for the most part and towel dried it all. I used compressed air to get water out of the unreachable areas. What concers me is my power supply got wet.Im asking for advice from here on regarding this issue. Thanks.
 
damage has likely been done to the PSU and perhaps other components.

i would try a new PSU with the rest of the computer and be fortunate if it works.

personally, i would write off that PSU to your accident.
 
I would probably just pick up a new PSU as well. Make sure everything else is perfectly dry. Place them in front of a fan or something for a few hours.
 
I shouod mention it wasnt a whole lot of water that got inside the psu from what i can tell, if that makes a difference.
 
I would guess PSU and possibly other components were fried. If you buy another PSU and the system works consider yourself very lucky.
 
Same thing happend to me last year. A lot of water went in the hole for the fan on top of the case and got sprayed around on everything. Computer immediately shut off and I thought that was the end of it. Got off lucky only fried my ram.
 
ability said:
Would I cause any more damage by attempting to turn the computer on again after everything is dry?
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Hard to say. Maybe ... maybe not.

If it is really dry, probably not. You feel lucky? You could have damaged things also by Towelling it dry...
 
I would disconnect your hard drives/SSDs when you try to power on, might have gotten lucky and not lost any data on them and who knows what a damaged PSU could do to the drives (which may still be fine).

I would wait 2-3 days at least before trying to power on, a week if you live in a wet climate.
 
ability said:
Would I cause any more damage by attempting to turn the computer on again after everything is dry?
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Let everything dry for many days, and the PSU (since enclosed) for probably a week. The reason is if it wasn't damaged, any residual liquid can cause damage.

Once it has sat for a week, test the PSU by itself with nothing hooked up (look up directions, basically a wire from green to ground).

FWIW this happened to a friend of mine with a BFG ES-800 PSU. It was plain water, and he's still using that PSU to this date several years after the "accident."
 
I agree with the above. If it was plain water, your probably fine but you def need to give it some time, unless you had a major short. If it was soda or something with sugar in it, your problems could have been much greater.
 
Individual components.

Try just the mobo, 1 stick of RAM (Alternate between the sticks), and CPU. Clear the CMOS too, sometimes that helps after the event of an error.


My Guess is that the mobo or RAM fried. I bet the CPU might of survived.
 
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