Milk was spilled on the chassis, it found its way into the computer since on the upper part of the chassis there is a fan. The computer shut down after some seconds, and the fuse went out, cutting power to the apartment.
Then the computer was turned off for 4h, then used for about 1h when I told user to immediately shut it down and let it dry.
I opened up the computer and inspected thourouhly after milk, there was just a tiny bit on the edge of the motherboard. The main part, quite a lot, was on the graphic card, on the upper side where the fan is not located.
I read that milk does not evaporate, so it had to be cleaned away. I cleaned the graphics card, but after installation it only gives signal when booting; upon windows start the screen goes blank. This happens in BIOS as well after a while, and ends with computer rebooting and no signal at all. Computer has to be turned on and off for any signal to appear, and eventually shows the same symptom over again. So I guess I damaged graphic card, and it's probable because I didn't really read up on how to clean it carefully and which method to use.
Anyway, here's what I came for. I installed another graphic card to make sure that I really had broken the original graphics card. Everything went fine, until I had installed the nvidia drivers. Then suddenly the screen flickered and lost the signal. Upon reboot no signal is shown whatsoever. I also took the second graphics card back to its original computer, with different screen and cables, and it still is not giving any signal. So it seems this graphic card is broken as well.
Could this have been caused by the milk affecting the motherboard/power supply somehow so that it broke the second graphic card? Or simply a coincidence? I don't want to buy a new graphic card, only to have it break as well.
Could it have been the newer generation of power supply that fed it too much current? The second graphics card is quite old, 6800 PCI-E express. The original is an XFX HD 4800, which has two 6-pin connectors, while the 6800 only has one - but as long as the power connectors fit nicely it shouldn't have caused the damge since it's a standard, right?.
Then the computer was turned off for 4h, then used for about 1h when I told user to immediately shut it down and let it dry.
I opened up the computer and inspected thourouhly after milk, there was just a tiny bit on the edge of the motherboard. The main part, quite a lot, was on the graphic card, on the upper side where the fan is not located.
I read that milk does not evaporate, so it had to be cleaned away. I cleaned the graphics card, but after installation it only gives signal when booting; upon windows start the screen goes blank. This happens in BIOS as well after a while, and ends with computer rebooting and no signal at all. Computer has to be turned on and off for any signal to appear, and eventually shows the same symptom over again. So I guess I damaged graphic card, and it's probable because I didn't really read up on how to clean it carefully and which method to use.
Anyway, here's what I came for. I installed another graphic card to make sure that I really had broken the original graphics card. Everything went fine, until I had installed the nvidia drivers. Then suddenly the screen flickered and lost the signal. Upon reboot no signal is shown whatsoever. I also took the second graphics card back to its original computer, with different screen and cables, and it still is not giving any signal. So it seems this graphic card is broken as well.
Could this have been caused by the milk affecting the motherboard/power supply somehow so that it broke the second graphic card? Or simply a coincidence? I don't want to buy a new graphic card, only to have it break as well.
Could it have been the newer generation of power supply that fed it too much current? The second graphics card is quite old, 6800 PCI-E express. The original is an XFX HD 4800, which has two 6-pin connectors, while the 6800 only has one - but as long as the power connectors fit nicely it shouldn't have caused the damge since it's a standard, right?.
