[CUBE] My Cube got rained on!

[Bill Fox]

You're lucky if it's just the video card shorted out. The ATI Rage 128 
Pros are cheap, some $20-50.

On Sunday, December 15, 2002, at 07:28 PM, Michal the Milkman wrote:

> Yesterday, during a rainstorm, several big drops of water made their 
> way
> through a leak in the roof and landed right on my cube before I could
> stop 'em. The cube shut down and now I can't get any display. The drops
> entered right down the rear vent on the top, opposite the CD slot. I'm
> assuming the video card sits beneath. I've dried everything well and
> restarted a number of times. I get lights and the start-up chime but no
> display. I've got the 17" flat panel and the usual power light on it
> comes on and pulses normally. The hard drive seems to be doing it's 
> usual
> thing as well. I was able to load and eject a CD. No luck using the
> FireWire Disk mode with a flat panel iMac for control. Maybe I can get
> another video card in there on the cheap? Any tests I can run to 
> isolate
> the problem?