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Rat peed on video card, is it possible to fix?

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more likely is there was non visable corrosion and it finally got broken loose
once the gold oxidizes it flakes off
 
lyndonguitar said:
so after over a year i tested the mobo cpu and gpu(gtx 760) randomly cause i had an extra PSU lying around. they somehow MAGICALLY worked again (cleaned them thoroughly using an electronics contact cleaner spray the day before). I tested it and it booted an existing windows installation from an extra HDD. even played some games like MGSV and Far Cry Primal at expected FPS, didn't even bother to install the proper drivers(used existing drivers for GTX 650) in the HDD installation

right after posting in the forums I had it checked at a computer store and they confirmed that the GPU was busted(by testing ofc), and there were clear signs that it was peed on

what the hell happened. How?
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Contact cleaner is why, it removed all traces of shorting/corrosion
 
Jetster said:
When electronics get wet sometimes it take a while to completely dry out
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This was one of the main reasons I stopped taking baths with my video cards and other components. :laugh:
 
non sense I bath in vodka and regularly take my 1060 in with me
 
jsalpha2 said:
Where is the quote? "Your the dirty rat that killed my desktop!"
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You mean "You Dirty Rat!" Which is a Misquote of James Cagney, or a TV trope
 
I smell a rat in this thread
 
I forgot about this, but it still makes me laugh reading it again.
 
This thread gives new meaning to "ghetto build". :eek:
 
If you pee on your hardware make sure the capacitors are discharged
 
A bit of a necro, but something similar just happened to me. Our apartment doesn't allow cats or dogs, so of course we have mice everywhere.
One of the little bastards had been making a nest in my HTPC and pee'd all over the motherboard and so now won't turn on. It was turning on for 2 seconds before turning itself off.

I've put the motherboard in the dishwasher and I'll give it a couple of days to dry. If it works again, I need to make sure I install the rear slot shields.
 
I also had mice get into an old computer of mine. Cleaned everything up and it works fine.

You can't make this stuff up.
 
Azumay said:
PCI-E slot maybe. Use cleaner and cycle a card in and out a few times, blow out slot real good. Its so narrow not much can get in there.

GPU
Look up baked gpu......clean it real good take apart and try baking method. Being its not good at the moment, nothing to lose.
Never have baked a card before, so look up plenty of sites and get the jest of it.
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Baking doesn't do anything. Believe it or not water is a horrible conductor of electricity. What actually gives water or similar liquid its conductivity are the impurities suspended in it. When water evaporates all that stuff is left behind and still causes shorts and other problems. Best thing he can do right now is buy a can of contact cleaner, spray the affected area really well and hope that it clears the crap away any damage that has occurred isn't permanent.
 
OSdevr said:
You can't make this stuff up.
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Sure you can.

I was collecting urine specimens at work for lab testing. The table which patients put the samples on is in the corner of our hallway, just outside exam rooms 1-4. A patient had put her sample on the table, on top of a clipboard, a co-worker didnt notice the misplaced specimen, grabbed the clipboard, which knocked the specimen over, onto our new (yet to be setup) pc , that was on the floor of the hallway , waiting for our IT guy to install in my office. The cap was screwed on, but not all the way, & sadly, urine dripped ontop of my new office PC, and into the top air vents, & trickled down onto the motherboard, gpu, and power supply. It really stinks, :)

See?
 
jboydgolfer said:
Sure you can.

I was collecting urine specimens at work for lab testing. The table which patients put the samples on is in the corner of our hallway, just outside exam rooms 1-4. A patient had put her sample on the table, on top of a clipboard, a co-worker didnt notice the misplaced specimen, grabbed the clipboard, which knocked the specimen over, onto our new (yet to be setup) pc , that was on the floor of the hallway , waiting for our IT guy to install in my office. The cap was screwed on, but not all the way, & sadly, urine dripped ontop of my new office PC, and into the top air vents, & trickled down onto the motherboard, gpu, and power supply. It really stinks, :)

See?
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Totally said:
Baking doesn't do anything. Believe it or not water is a horrible conductor of electricity. What actually gives water or similar liquid its conductivity are the impurities suspended in it. When water evaporates all that stuff is left behind and still causes shorts and other problems. Best thing he can do right now is buy a can of contact cleaner, spray the affected area really well and hope that it clears the crap away any damage that has occurred isn't permanent.
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I put my motherboard in the over to aid with the evaporation process. It should be fine, even if there are salts left behind as they really need to be in liquid form in order to conduct electricity.
Water conducts electricity through the flow of ions, rather than electrons so if the ions can't flow, then no electricity.
 
Contact cleaner.
 
At this point I have had about enough of rat pee. Thread closed.
 
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