I Spilled Coke on my Gaming PC… NOW WHAT??

What should you do when you spill your drink on your PC? I mean… AFTER you’re done just totally freaking out!

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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High

CHAPTERS
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0:00 THERE"S COCA COLA IN MY PC, WHAT NOW?
0:55 Safety Measures
3:32 The "Don't"
4:22 Drying
6:19 PSU
7:35 1st Cleaning Pass
8:56 Using water to clean
11:49 Air dry and 2nd wash with isopropyl alcohol
13:28 Cleaning a PSU with isopropyl alcohol DO NOT THIS AT HOME
15:04 Test run and troubleshooting
20:50 Moment of truth
22:53 Closing thoughts

[mrchom]

This feels like an LTT video from a decade ago…and it’ll be relevant a decade from now too. Good stuff.

[timelinemc]

You get it into a comprehensive rehabilitation program and make sure it knows it has a strong (tech) support network. Coke is no joke.

[shapelessed]

The three common phases of spilling a fluid on your computer:
- Complete and utter panic.
- Severe, life-threatening depression
- Realisation that the single damaged part was an SSD.

[louish]

Im just imagining someone freaking out, pulling up this video, and sitting there with the 1000 yard stare as linus talks about the LTT Store screwdriver

[charmio]

As someone with years of experience doing exactly this, you nailed it!
One thing to highlight: Drying REALLY takes forever! Water can remain under chips for days if it's cold. Here in Australia we can just put boards in the sun during summer (it was 42°c today) but the rest of you will have to figure some other way (radiant heaters + a fan work well).

[Flairex]

I knew that water cannot be conductive if there aren't any free floating ions to conduct, but it still felt so weird seeing a motherboard getting drenched in water

[just_uriht]

Year 2014: My friend accidentally poured tea on to my PC (in off state btw). I didn't had any backup PC at that time to even lookup online and I only used my phone for all the research. Trust me, there was not a single comprehensive guide and steps to handle that situation, and it took me almost a week to clean and dry everything and get my PC up & running all by myself. Thanks to all the random Reddit answers!!

But this one by LTT is so informative and gives the confidence to pour soda on PCs (Kidding). Cheers to the team!

[mountainkz]

As someone who hit a can of coke over the top of my pc, EXACTLY THE SAME WAY U DID IN THE VIDEO.
I can say, THIS MAY HAVE BEEN HELPFUL TO KNOW.

I remember knocking the can over, hearing the windows usb connected noises from the front io, and seeing the coke pour down directly into my extremely cheap psu.
Then just waiting a night and then starting it the next day and everything worked 😎

[TAPa]

This was one of the most "Tip" LTT videos in a while – nice to see, especially since The Ultimate Build Guide kind of killed off non-novelty builds

[qttscarlet]

I genuinely enjoy the recent “creative” video ideas LTT has made. The editing and production has been great, keep it up guys!

[DirtyLillNeo]

I absolutely love these more down to earth troubleshooting videos. They are exciting, informative, and has alot of the life that got me into the channel. I know they are likely not worth it to shoot and produce but i love them every time

[Jacko-]

the editing on this video is excellent, it adds to the show, while not taking away from the information being told. Props to the team at LTT.

[krisb]

Wow, I didn’t realize that all of Canada was inside of Japan. I learned something in the first 17 seconds of a video. You guys are great.

[ajpetix]

Been a while since I actually learned something in an LTT video. Water, then alcohol bathing is a great troubleshooting step. I'd love to see a version of this with a battery powered device like a laptop or tablet. The troubleshooting steps are similar but still wildly different due to the dangers of batteries.

[Mawding]

I spilled soda inside the top of my pc when I was younger, pc shut down and everything upon doing so and I definitely had a small breakdown before attempting to fix. Safe to say even to this day that old 2gb Asus 760 is still being used by my older brother I can still see the soda spots on the pcb and it still works 10 years later :)

[gaber_]

The way my brain folded when he dropped motherboard into a bucket of water is unprecedented.

[alexnetwork]

Love How happy and excited linus seemed in this video. He clearly enjoyed this alot.

[JamesBurger-vi]

Love the video concept. Early on you said something about "as long as you haven't flooded the entire room..." i'd really enjoy seeing that put to the test if possible! (i woke up to my apartment covered in 3 feet of water, completely covering my gaming pc)

[sebastiankoch]

When i was 13, this happened to me. Half a can of pepsi right down in there. It was at a big LAN event. I ripped the power cable out and got some paper towels in there. That took the worst. Then i plugged it right back in, like nothing happened, and played on. The pc still works 100% fine, 6 years after.

Edit: Paper towels was removed before turning on pc.

[Muscleduck]

Probably one of your best videos in recent times. Super helpful for when disaster strikes.

BTW one very important tip you forgot: the block on thst AIO has an LCD on it and dipping an LCD in liquid is a great way to immediately kill it so definitely don't dunk that in water or alcohol.