PC Damage With Water - Monitor Doesn't Work
Dec 27, 2005
My daughter 'flooded' the basement yesterday. We quickly unplugged her computer and found a slight amount of water on the bottom of her tower. Now, her computer seems to start up ok but there is no picture on the monitor. None of the wires got wet, but there is a small opening on the bottom where the case closes. Is it possible that so little water damaged her computer? It's only the monitor that doesn't work. We hooked up an old one as well, no luck.
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Jan 15, 2008
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The other system uses AVG. I started a scan and it detected Cekar.d (A0003977.exe, wdfmgr.exe and initially ntldr.exe), Dropper.Inor (ntdetect.hta, A0003979.hta), PSW.Generic5.ABVW (ctfmona.exe), PSW.OnlineGames.AAFI (ctfmonb.exe), PSW.Generic5.AFYK (ctfmond.exe), PSW.OnlineGames.ZWT (LotusHlp.exe) and some others but for whatever reason the scan stopped. I restarted it and now the AV still finds most of the threats it was seeing before but not Cekar.d. in the ntldr.exe file.
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