Issue with PC startup
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SpyderTracks
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You’d need to troubleshoot it to find the fault, but to do that you’d need equipment like volt meters, spare PSU, spare motherboard, spare CPU, etc etc etc
Could I send it to PCS and have them take a look, and then buy a part for them to replace it with?
SpyderTracks
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I think your warranty will be void so it will cost you for them to diagnose it and then obviously parts would cost extra as well.
ubuysa
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What sort of wipe was it? You said earlier there 'might be water in the case', but cleaning wipes don't contain water. Did you use a cloth moistened with water? Was the cloth very wet?
What parts of the motherboard did you wipe exactly? On that board, with a RAM card, an M.2 card, and a CPU all fitted, there's not a lot of the board you can wipe? Did you wipe over any of the little integrated circuit modules or any of the tubular capacitors, for example? Did you wipe over the round button battery or any of the output sockets on the back? I don't think you can get at the back of the board but if you can, did you wipe any of that?
Are you certain that you didn't dislodge any cables or connectors whilst you were wiping the board? Check ALL of them very carefully. Remove and reseat them if necessary.
Try removing and reseating the RAM card.
Try removing and reseating the M.2 card.
Buy a new button battery (CR2032) and replace the one that's in there.
What parts of the motherboard did you wipe exactly? On that board, with a RAM card, an M.2 card, and a CPU all fitted, there's not a lot of the board you can wipe? Did you wipe over any of the little integrated circuit modules or any of the tubular capacitors, for example? Did you wipe over the round button battery or any of the output sockets on the back? I don't think you can get at the back of the board but if you can, did you wipe any of that?
Are you certain that you didn't dislodge any cables or connectors whilst you were wiping the board? Check ALL of them very carefully. Remove and reseat them if necessary.
Try removing and reseating the RAM card.
Try removing and reseating the M.2 card.
Buy a new button battery (CR2032) and replace the one that's in there.
It was a dettol cleaning wipe.
I’m not 100% sure on the name of the parts but here is a picture.
I’ve looked through the cables and all seem to be ok.
Martinr36
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That's the motherboard
ubuysa
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As mentioned by @Martinr36 that is the motherboard. You can see dozens of small resistors, capacitors, integrated circuits and the ends of what are probably components on the other side of the board. That's not a place any kind of conducting liquid should be. I've no idea how wet a Dettol cleaning wipe actually is but if it left any moisture anywhere there when you turned it on again then stray currents could flow between components that they shouldn't.
If you look at the area I've circled on your board below you can see what look like brown stains between soldered points. They have the look of stray currents flowing between those points. I don't see marks like this anywhere else in that image. Unless of course this is a before image? The board is still covered in dust so your Dettol wipe cleaning didn't do any good I'm afraid.
Try the other things I suggested above but if they don't help I'm afraid that I also think you may have fried that board.