I'm stupid, help.

**Potato** · October 20th, 2004, 11:35 AM

I got new ram today and was excited to put it in because I'm a dork like that. I took the power cord out of the tower like a good little girl and it fell into a cup of water. Apparently it didn't dry out enough before I plugged it back in, because now my computer doesn't start. Everything does what it's supposed to, except the starting up part.... it makes a faint sad little noise and I don't know what I broke. Someone said my power supply... What do you nice, wonderful people of zp think? Besides that I'm stupid?

**TheBlackSnow** · October 20th, 2004, 11:43 AM

hehe, you should keep waer near the computer, when u r trying tu put the rams. its really stupid situation... when the accident happened, you shoulded as quickly as possible to remove the water from your pc! to dry it very good and very quicly... because, after a some time u can have a very serious problems. I think in this situation, u will have to change the pc's equipments, which got the water:(((

**Potato** · October 20th, 2004, 11:46 AM

You don't think I removed the power cord from the cup of water? And it's not like I poured water on my motherboard or something.

**Munter99** · October 20th, 2004, 12:03 PM

chances are either the fuse in the power cord has gone, or the power supply is dead. try another power cord, or buy a new psu

**cheapprick** · October 20th, 2004, 12:08 PM

Sorry to hear that tater.

What point exactly does it die? What's on the screen?

I just want to narrow it down so the new ram is out of the list of problems. Can you remove the ram again and try booting?

**fujow** · October 20th, 2004, 12:10 PM

Does the power supply fan turn on? If it does try removing the ram you installed.

**Potato** · October 20th, 2004, 12:26 PM

I removed the ram and tried to turn it on, and still nothing. There's nothing on the screen either. Just the nice yellow box saying "No signal."

But............

I just tried to turn it on again, to see if the power supply fan was on... and it was.... and I turned my monitor on... and it looks like it's getitng somewhere. Doing something.

**Potato** · October 20th, 2004, 12:30 PM

It stopped after telling me what kind of video card I had. Now it's back to doing nothing, but it makes a wettish noise when I move the power cord around! yay.

**Lord_of_the_Dense** · October 20th, 2004, 12:32 PM

Are all the cables nice and snug? You may have had a bad video connection also.

**muskrat_love** · October 20th, 2004, 12:53 PM

Do you have another cord you can try? It might just be the cord is still damp...

**cheapprick** · October 20th, 2004, 12:54 PM

Sounds like you're right on the problem then Potato.

You can just leave it and see what happens when it dries out, but yeah you'll likely need a new power supply. Thankfully they aren't much.

**Potato** · October 20th, 2004, 01:05 PM

I'll try it again in a few hours when I'll be almost sure of it being dry. Gives me time to study. Unless I steal one from someone else..........

**ratbag** · October 20th, 2004, 01:13 PM

accidents happen trust me as a pc repair tech i see it every day you need to replace both the power supply and the cord you can get them both inexpensively at tigerdirect

**nasrules** · October 20th, 2004, 01:31 PM

Try a different cord. If that doesn't work, stick cord and PSU next to a radiator overnight. If that doesn't work, get a new PSU. If that doesn't work, you're fuxx0red :mellow

**Mels_Smileys45** · October 20th, 2004, 01:32 PM

I don't think your power supply is dead yet. Take that cord back out and take a hair dryer to it.

Also, its a possibility you might have changed the power supply settings. There should be a small red switch on the PS that should be set at 110 volt in the US. If you can't tell, you can try sliding it over to see if it will start up. I've seen this happen and the symptoms were similar to what you have stated.

good luck