[CUBE] My Cube got rained on!

[Stephen Maris]

remember, water is not conductive, it's the stuff in the water that 
makes it conductive and corrosive.
best thing to do when you spill any liquid in your computer is to 
shut it off right away and then get it dried off.   It sounds like 
the water that came into your computer was probably 'dirty' after 
seeping through the roof, wood, insulation, dry wall, etc...  so 
there is probably some corrosive stuff in there.
Take it all apart.
especially the video card.  this may sound weird, but you can rinse 
the card under clean tap water (which still has some minerals). 
Ideally you should rinse using distilled water (used for ironing, 
available in the grocery store). Get some compressed air and blow dry 
all the components.
apple does have a hardware test program, but how are you going to see 
the results??? ;-)

you may also have to reset the Parameter Ram, since that is where 
some of the video card settings are stored.
try another borrowed video card to isolate the problem..
hope this helps
>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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