Hello, I’m seeking advice for an unfortunate event that occured yesterday. I spilled water on my desk(like a lot). And it landed on the power strip housing all my plugged devices and my pc as well. I immediately pulled the power strip off the wall (the pc was connected to it ). It was a mess , all my cables are soaked it’s like they took a bath, my pc had water go inside the motherboard ports , inside the PSU and my GPU has a backplate. All three places are very hard to reach with my hands. I opened my PC and took the GPU and PSU out, patted dry to the best of my abilities and used a hair dryer (cold setting) for the grooves on the PSU and the GPU backplate. Just in case I even took the cmos battery out off the motherboard. I’ve no Idea what to do next , I’m letting them air dry now and even put them in a room with air conditioning on (dehumidifier setting). What are my next steps now and how screwed am I ?
If the pc was unplugged before it was shorted by the water then everything should be okay as long as the system was able to discharge all the way before any shorting. If everything looks dry then i would unplug everything from the power supply and see if plugging it into the wall alone has any problems. It should still turn on and the fan should spin. If it works okay then try plugging the motherboard in. I would disconnect gpu and see if pc works with onboard graphics if everything works then i would plug in the gpu and see if it works.