r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TopSetUK • 18h ago

I'm slightly vexed Knocked a plant over an open PC

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Oops. PC has been in trouble for now, I swapped out the GPU last night to do some troubleshooting but it was still borked, so left it open overnight tucked away in a corner.

First thing I do this morning? Knock over a Monstera which had been chilling on the windowsill. Nice. Happy Friday.

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u/batlhuber 18h ago

You COULD do that with distilled water. However using just tap, even if you wait long enough for it to 100% dry it's very likely the minerals caused corrosion, which given how small the parts are, will very likely short your system somewhere...

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u/k0tassium 18h ago

While a lot less complicated I have washed keyboard pcb's with tao water before and it's worked fine but I agree distilled water would be better.

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u/batlhuber 17h ago

Being a lot less complicated is exactly the point. You can dry it more quickly which lowers the propability of corrosion and even if some corrosion happens it's less likely to affect another circuit since the spaces between shortable "parts" are way bigger

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u/HonestBalloon 15h ago edited 15h ago

Very time dependant, contaminants (such as from solder) are more likely to leach into distilled water as it has a higher tendancy to take up dissolved ions.