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- Apr 28, 2003
lastnight a bucket of water (about 4gls worth), got spilled in my living room. and although the computer it's self didn't get wet (it's on top of my desk), everything under the desk did. including the surge supresser, cable modem, router, sub-wufer and all the cables running under the desk.
as soon as I heard what happened (about 30secs after it spilled), I unplugged the surge suppresser from the wall, hoping that would prevent anything from getting shorted out. I then dried everything off as best I could, and left it unplug for the rest of the night.
this morning I checked to make sure everything was dry, then plugged the power back in. and turned on the computer. however although the lights on the front, hard drive, power, lights on the CD drives...etc, came on.
the monitor stayed blank, after checking all the connections, I restarted the computer, but still got nothing.
I checked the monitor on a different computer, and the monitor is fine.
what could have happened to the computer? btw it was turned off at the time the water was spilled.
I'm going to try and trouble-shoot it, in an hour or two. but could use any advice you can give.
as soon as I heard what happened (about 30secs after it spilled), I unplugged the surge suppresser from the wall, hoping that would prevent anything from getting shorted out. I then dried everything off as best I could, and left it unplug for the rest of the night.
this morning I checked to make sure everything was dry, then plugged the power back in. and turned on the computer. however although the lights on the front, hard drive, power, lights on the CD drives...etc, came on.
the monitor stayed blank, after checking all the connections, I restarted the computer, but still got nothing.
I checked the monitor on a different computer, and the monitor is fine.
what could have happened to the computer? btw it was turned off at the time the water was spilled.
I'm going to try and trouble-shoot it, in an hour or two. but could use any advice you can give.