[CUBE] My Cube got rained on!

[Rick Rodman]

When you say you've dried everything, have you pulled the core and 
waved a drier over it?  Also disconnect the video connector and dry all 
the pins.  The sooner you dry everything the better, because water can 
cause corrosion.

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

> Hello Everyone,
>
> Okay, here's a situation for the collective experts:
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks much folks,
>
>
>
>
>
>
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