BearWasTaken
Solid State Member
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Good day: today 2liters of water happily jumped on my table, contacting with a keyboard USB slot. Took cable out, hot dried, put back in. Not sure if put it in the same way (side). Worked fine for a few minutes, until contact started disappearing for a few seconds at a time until went off. Now, trying another USB cable, i touched the rig (the carcass) of the PC and was hit by electricity (not fatal but i can stil feel it). Switched power off, and same result when touching it. Took a spare LAN cable, cut both ends, got copper out, and unelectrified it to the radiators. Turned PC on, electrification gone. Tried same cable (more drying) into a different slot, and PC electrified to the same degree instantly (got cut again). Now: everything seems to be working fine, the PC slots that were used left unaffected.
UPDATE: Some false assumptions. It seems that whenever the power plug contact connects, the PC starts channeling a current through its entire rig. My guess would be that little water got to a place wheres an open contact, as there would not be any more reasons for this to happen (?). Tried plugging power socket upside down, but nothing changed :c Anything else to do but wait for (possible) watter to dry?
UPDATE: Some false assumptions. It seems that whenever the power plug contact connects, the PC starts channeling a current through its entire rig. My guess would be that little water got to a place wheres an open contact, as there would not be any more reasons for this to happen (?). Tried plugging power socket upside down, but nothing changed :c Anything else to do but wait for (possible) watter to dry?
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