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[Monkey D. Luffy]

Hey guys I just wanted some help I think I may of damaged my computer.

I have a power cord connected to my PSU to my computer. I split tiny drops of water onto the plug and it started buzzing, I was freaking out for like 5 seconds until i shut off my computer.

Took the cord out and one of the 3 pins had a tiny black burnt area.

I booted my computer from another power cord and it booted fine but my CPU was not 4.4GHz anymore but instead went down to 3.4GHz (At the boot menu it did say something about let everything go default i think?)

Not a problem, so i went into bios and it was at 4.4GHz settings so i just save and exit and now it's back to 4.4GHz

My computer then suddenly restarted when i loaded Speedfan (I'm worried)

now i'm just booting it up and running Prime95 and no problems so far


My question is does anyone have any methods to check if any of my computer parts are damaged? I have no clue how to check so i'm just running Prime95 to see if anything happens to my computer

[Bobnova]

If nothing went BAM it should all be fine.
Stability testing is step1.
Or a multimeter/paperclip PSU test per the link in my sig.

[Monkey D. Luffy]

thank you for the fast reply

I don't have the equipment for the multimeter test

as for Stability testing, how would i go about that?

[Conumdrum]

Prime 95 Furmark etc tests. Make sure it passes tests. maybe memtest too.

[larrymoencurly]

So have you thought of adding GFCI (Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter) protection to your wall outlets. It might not have stopped the buzzing or burn mark, but it would have almost guaranteed that the situation couldn't have possibly become deadly. One wired-in GFCI can protect all the downstream wall outlets. There are also plug-in GFCIs that will protect only what's plugged into it.