Water spill on CPU

Was the machine on when it got wet?? If so you may have major problems. If not you need to dry the machine out. Was it very dusty when this happened or is it a relatively new machine? If it was dusty the water combines with the dust and can create additional problems when cleaning it. Open it up remove whatever you can from the mother board and use a blower to help dry it out. If you can let is sit for a day or two in a warm dry place so any water can evaporate. When it is dry reassemble and plug it in and hope for the best.

Was the machine on when it got wet?? If so you may have major problems. If not you need to dry the machine out. Was it very dusty when this happened or is it a relatively new machine? If it was dusty the water combines with the dust and can create additional problems when cleaning it. Open it up remove whatever you can from the mother board and use a blower to help dry it out. If you can let is sit for a day or two in a warm dry place so any water can evaporate. When it is dry reassemble and plug it in and hope for the best.

Disconnect the power supply.
Remove the CPU from the socket.

Clean both the motherboard and the CPU with 90% Isopropyl Alcohol.
Or, an electronics grade spray cleaner that is safe for use on plastics.

If the CPU is a "slot" type, I would dipit into a bath of the cleaner.

Flush the CPU socket pins thouroughly.
After flushing, orient the MB so that the socket is upside down to drain.
Allow everthing to dry completely (over-night) before re-connecting power to the board.

This is similar to the procedures that an electronics mfg follows when cleaning parts.

Chas

Open the case and locate areas where water appears and using a lint free cloth dry the motherboard and all other areas,using a blow dryer on low may help in drying up the water,donot use on med or high wich may cause damage to small circuits,leave case open for a day or so and hope that it drys out and you have not caused any damage to ic's or short circuited any of the modules.

I would not use compressed air.

I recently had a customer who spilled a small amount of water on a laptop's keyboard. I immediately advised her to leave it turned off and the display open with a fan pointed at it over the weekend. It still had problems after the weekend, but we let it go and it finally started working OK over a week after the water spill.

I think you are using a Water Cooler..

We don't know where's the water came from, to spill to your PC..Is that in the hose of your Coolant in the CPu of it is Accidentally put a water to your CPU.

We have a solution there....You know hair dryer. That's the best tool for that...

A HAIR Drier , A comppressed air

Hope you can barrow it if you don't have.

SYRUPHIN?

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