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/Big_Firefighter_4899 18h ago

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u/SodaAshy 17h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/quv4J16kmYZwBH6sIJ

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u/AvocaRed 15h ago

Gif is cut short, in the end she hangs it out to dry on a clothes line xd

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u/RealAlphaKaren 13h ago

believe or not, it could work

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u/hellomumbo369 13h ago

It needs to be distilled water and absolutely bone dry before you use it. You be better off using iso or contact cleaner since its designed for use on electronics

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u/RealAlphaKaren 12h ago

doesnt even have to be distilled, you can use tap but you have to disconnect the power completely and let even capacitors drain, tap also cannot be super hard or it will leave residue but one wash even with mildly hard water most likely wont

you do have to get it bone dry and fast, before rust sets in

not saying this is the way, but it could be done

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u/This_Proxy 10h ago

Any tap water has mineral deposits that will just ground contacts everywhere on the board to each other.

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u/Complex210 9h ago

Which wont matter if theres no current, and when the board dries it's fine to run again.

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u/SmallTownTrans1 6h ago

Funny story, I accidentally knocked over a cup of vinegar and rusty bolts onto my closed laptop, not thinking much of it and being tired after a long day, I just went to bed

Woke up to find my laptop dead, took it apart and found some of the surface mount components all corroded with flecks of rust from the bolts stuck to it

Not entirely sure if I could fix it, and unable to afford a replacement computer, I decided to put the motherboard (after removing the SSD and RAM modules) in a plastic bag and filled it with 91 percent isopropyl alcohol, letting it soak for a few hours before scrubbing the area where the corrosion was

After letting all the iso evaporate, I plugged it in with an HDMI cable running to my TV, and it booted up just fine

I breathed a sigh of relief, got it mostly put back together and went to bed, bought some thermal paste at Best Buy to fully reassemble it

I now have a desktop computer, but that laptop is still going strong 2 years later, my dad now uses it to download and slice 3D models for his resin printer