Elitist Bostod
Banned
When working on installing components and a little bit of sweat drips from your hair onto an electromagnetic computer component component, will the component that sweat drips on be automatically damaged or is there a certain amount of time you should wait?
I turned the computer on about 3 minutes after I finished getting everything back together and turned the computer on. I could tell that my 9800GTX+ was damaged, because there was some minor desktop graphics corruption and then when I tried a game, it was unplayable because the frame rate was so choppy, as it had not been before I installed a new MB and accidentally sweated on the video card I had a few minutes before.
I couldn't dry the sweat, because I could tell the sweat when right where a memory chip was located (exactly the place you would not want it go.)
I'd assume if sweating on it didn't damage it right away, then I should've waited a little longer to turn my machine on. If this happens in the future, how long should I give the sweat to dry?
I turned the computer on about 3 minutes after I finished getting everything back together and turned the computer on. I could tell that my 9800GTX+ was damaged, because there was some minor desktop graphics corruption and then when I tried a game, it was unplayable because the frame rate was so choppy, as it had not been before I installed a new MB and accidentally sweated on the video card I had a few minutes before.
I couldn't dry the sweat, because I could tell the sweat when right where a memory chip was located (exactly the place you would not want it go.)
I'd assume if sweating on it didn't damage it right away, then I should've waited a little longer to turn my machine on. If this happens in the future, how long should I give the sweat to dry?