( a sapphire vega 56 limited edition flashed to a 64 showing it's naughty bits and some grime spots under it's heat sink )
After months of dreading the prospect of attempting to finish the clean up and rebuild of my Ryzen 1950X workstation (2017 tech but still lifts) only to have it be fucked or inoperable today is the day I've finally decided to bite the bullet and do a full teardown of everything. Anything on the rig that can be taken apart and meticulously cleaned with 99% Isopropanol alcohol spray will be to hopefully knock the hell out of any grime or fine particulates from the flood water which submerged basically every component. When the workstation got dunked it was already unplugged so that gives me enough faith that as long as I can get rid of any fine particulate matter wedged lord knows where brought in by the flood water.. It might be salvageable.
Had it been clean water that would be one thing, clean water on a PC that is unplugged is surprisingly not as damaging as one would think.. but the picture below is my old motherboard for reference the amount of grime that was present in the water.. whatever the opposite of clean is... that's the shit caked to the poor motherboard below.
Just in case you think that the board is supposed to be a shitty silt grey I'll clean off one of the M.2 SSD ports to show that it's supposed to be dark carbon coloured...
The board was fucked prior to the flood in the case of the one pictured above and was replaced with a slightly cheaper ASROCK brand board.. I believe the ASROCK was a few months old before it got dunked where as the one pictured above lasted 2 years under slightly abusive overclock settings in an attempt to run the 16 x 4.1GHZ / 64GB 3200mhz RAM system a little faster. The filthy fucking board up there was an MSI X399 Gaming Carbon Pro AC before it became a reference piece.. Not worth cleaning and I should probably dispose of it eventually.
Got all my M.2 and SSD drives taken apart and sprayed down with Isopropanol already in a vain attempt to recover the data / continue using them. The amount of anxiety about getting this thing all cleaned and back together is unbearable. It very well could work.. oooorr it could be a waste of hours of time trying to salvage an investment that probably should have been left in the swamp that was my prior apartment post flood era. Either way I guess it's a lesson to keep PC's the hell away from floors that are prone to flooding!
2 of the 3 PSU's I own ended up in the drink as well.. One was in the PC when it went swimming, one was in a box that ended up getting submerged and thank the holy tech gods my Corsair RM1000i once used for mining was up on the old mining rig frame and managed to not get wet.. Will eventually get to de-griming the submerged PSU's but given the widespread use of paper and other moisture sensitive components in PSU's I've got very little faith the voltages will be within spec anymore assuming it doesn't immolate upon being plugged in.. Still going to voltage test this RM1000i either by good old fashion electrical tester or might see if I an get another old board running on the PSU to use it's digital power usage output.
Will report back when I've got it all cleaned and working or after I've lost hope of getting it going. While I'm doing this also working on getting some coding done and trying not to get rekt on isopropyl fumes. Have a gooder folks and thanks for reading about this shitshow.
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