It is amazing the “toughness” of my monster rig. CLX really did a good job making this computer.
So what happened?
Picture this, it was early Saturday afternoon. A few inches of snow on the ground, and ice over everything. I was intent, looking on to my screen and playing Hogwarts Legacy.
All of a sudden my character starting drinking potion after potion. I did not know why until I realized my elite controller’s left button was stuck. So I hit it on the table to knock it out of its issue.
The pieces of the controller went across my desk. Now I appreciate that I can switch things out on the Elite , but it is also a huge pain the ass too.
I was putting them back on and I reached for the last piece, and accidentally hit the 3/4 can of pomegranate berry seltzer water and it started to tip over. Clumsily I reached for it and knocked it over even more and as I frantically went to right the ship, I ended up knocking over my 3/4 glass full of grape drink.
Yup. Both 3/4 can, 3/4 glass tipped over and went pouring off my desk… and you guessed it, directly into my computer.
Now you might say, well it just hit the computer and rolled off. I would say, no. I have a large window there, screened and with a fan. The fan ate that soda and drink up like a thirsty mammoth.
I stood up quick, my arm got caught on the microphone arm and in a panic I ripped it off the desk and threw it across the room.
Grabbing my computer I pulled it away from the cascading water all, only to have a bunch of wires grab and pull almost sending my monitors to the ground. Ripping out the wires, I also started to unscrew the glass side so I can dump out the liquid, but realized if I did that I would do that all over the floor.
Ran to the bathroom, grabbed a few towels and threw them down. Opened the case up, turned it on its side and let is drain out.
Thirty painful long minutes pass and I now have a fan on it, dabbing up any moisture I see. Another 15 I decided to see where I was at.
Put it all together and nothing. The power button hit, some lights turned on. A fan started but that is it. Nothing going to the monitors, and it seemed to just be doing nothing.
To condense I did this 3 times over the course of an hour and finally got it to a boot screen where it told me one of my fans was f*cked. Uh duh. So I made my way past that and it hit my login screen.
PHEW! Thank the God and Goddess!
“You are unable to log into your Microsoft account, we have logged you into a temporary one. Please log out and log back in.”
Again I will condense this, but 2 1/2 hours following tutorials on what to do, and Microsoft help (which there really wasn’t any) I got it to work.
One of my good friends Osculim mentioned because of the crazy and abrupt change in hardware, my account probably lost all its administrative privileges. It makes sense, for a computer, this was “violent.”
It is still not 100%, but it is working good now, even streamed on Saturday and Sunday.
Not something I wanted to do, and not something I would ever want to do. But it made me move my computer away from the desk a bit, and buy some sippy cups on Amazon!