Hello all,
I posted this in another forum. Iam now looking to see if I can fix my GPU. Here is the story
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Unfortunately my 2 year old son dropped water with his baby bottle on the top vents of my gaming computer and the first contact on the way down was the rx480 on which the side that had the electronics was facing towards it. I was gone on a trip, but from what the wife is telling me is that it seems like it was a good amount of water, yet it wasn't really comparable to a full cup of water spilling inside.
The PC would not turn on at all it would just give a LED flash from the motherboard, UNTIL i removed the rx480. I tried to reseat the card with no luck. I also tried using a different PSU port that was going through the same harness again with no luck.
I then installed my older R9 360 (that doesn't need additional PSU power) on the same slot and the PC is turning on and graphics working fine. So it seems that the rx480 got fried.
As I looked closer at the rx480 electronics' side i noticed that there is a "hole" on what seemed to be a connected metal? I highlighted the bad one in the bottom as well as one that seems to be what it should look like on the top red circle (SEE IMAGE @ https://ibb.co/cMWRoa)
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My question is, what is the purpose of these things that I marked on the image? the one that is melted sits right in front of the HDMI port that was being used at the time. I've already opened up the RX480 and there is not visible damage to any of the components or capacitors, just that melted hole? Would it be worth it to just resolder it back?
thanks in advance