So I was just casually using my computer, and I went to grab for my drink, and bam! The entire glass of water went pouring almost directly into my computer. I have a top mounted AIO as well. So immediately, every thing shut off, the computer was trying to restart again and again, kept shutting off and turning on, I immediately bounced up, turned off the PSU, unplugged the power cord, then swiftly moved to removing all of my peripheral inputs.

My world of having this pc came crashing down, I immediately took off the side cover and started turning it on its side- the water just pouring out, I take an air duster to try to disperse some of the water, then when I thought everything was all good, I plugged just the power cable back in and tried to see if it would stay on, NOPE. Did the same power cycling, turning on, then cutting off.

So I google the solution, every post is saying the same thing more or less, “let it sit and dry for 48 hours”

I don’t have 48 hours. So I took out the gpu, and unmounted the aio. Grabbed two of my girlfriends blow dryers, and just blew it off, every square inch- crevice, you name it. When everything looked good, I re assembled, and initially only plugged the power cord in, and to my surprise it didn’t shut off.

So I plugged it into a display, and no error codes or anything, just the windows sign in screen. I did I full sweep and tested all systems, all temps normal, gpu functionality, nothing wrong.

Moral of the story - Keep your drinks lower than your PC. Cheers.