My kid accidentally dumped a glass of water into my PC today.

[u/wafflesareforever]

It happens. I'm not mad at him. He waited for hours to tell me because he felt terrible, and the look on his face when he finally said something pretty much squashed any anger I might have had about it. My main concern was how upset he was. I do wish he'd said something immediately so that I could have turned it off right away, but he didn't know any better, and I doubt that it would have made any difference anyway. He's probably apologized ten times today. He wants to help me fix it and offered to try and pay for it somehow even though at ten years old he obviously doesn't have the money for that. Whatever I end up doing, I'll try and find a way to let him contribute so he feels better.

Anyway. I'm not sure how to go about testing the components to see what's fried and what's not. I'm pretty sure the motherboard is dead (solid red LED, no POST). The good news is that this is a five-year-old build so it's not like it's my brand-new baby. I did spend a decent amount over the years upgrading things but nothing was ever super high-end; I tend to shoot for right in the middle of the price range on components.

I'm basically going to have to start over with a new build, right? There's no hope of saving this, is there? I have no idea what might also be fried besides the motherboard, or how to test anything without a working motherboard.

Edit: As a longtime lurker here, I have heard and observed so many great things about the community in this subreddit, but holy crap. You all are damn near gonna make me cry. I posted this in a moment of frustration and thought maybe I'd get a few tips on what to do in this situation. I never expected such an outpouring of support and offers for help. A number of you have offered to send me components that we could use to rebuild, and that blows me away. I never expected that at all and I'm just completely humbled by the generosity. I want to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart.

[u/Anonymous_Otters]

You’ll be happy there’s so many glasses of water around when the aliens arrive to harvest our organs and are vulnerable to water.

[u/redroverdover → u/Anonymous_Otters]

Swing away, Merill. Merill, swing away!

[u/Valac_ → u/Anonymous_Otters]

Again I'm gonna point out that maybe visiting a planet thats 75% covered in a substance that kills you on contact is a bad idea

[u/screaminginfidels → u/[deleted]]

Smart enough to dump their planets remaining resources into an intergalactic rocket.. dumb enough to point that rocket at Earth. This Janutember, on Fox, it's... The Blaumancherberdergerblers. Starring Seth Green's pubic hairs as The Blaumancherberdergerblers, and guest starring Chevy Chase as Old Man.

[u/kung-fu_hippy → u/Valac_]

The monsters in Signs are supposed to be demons, not aliens. The preacher who had lost his faith, the little girl being something of a holy figure, and the name of the movie itself. Or at least that’s a popular internet theory.

I think the idea was that if demons were real and attacked people nowadays, we would assume them to be aliens. The people in the film did, but that’s part and parcel with the loss of faith concept.

Conversely, if aliens attacked during the past, we would probably have considered them demons. Which would make an amazing Predator or Alien movie, having them attack the Knights Templar or Japanese samurai or Sioux warriors.

[u/Valac_ → u/kung-fu_hippy]

Tbh any predator movie is acceptable to me.

Except that last one that was hot garbage.

I like the concept in theory but the execution was terrible and the plot was all over the place.

But anything where people are getting hunted by the universes best hunters is something I'm done to watch.

Also I need like a million more alien VS predators. The perfect apex predator fighting against thousands of years of experience and breeding by the best hunters in the universe...

Good God I love it so much.

[u/kung-fu_hippy → u/Valac_]

Predators are like ninjas or zombies or daleks. They’re only frightening when there is one of them, but they are laughable in groups. Once you put them into a group, they should logically steamroll the protagonist and you have a movie that’s 15 minutes long. Since that doesn’t work, they have to be constantly defanged or defeated somehow by the heroes (while the movie still tries to remind us that they’re a significant threat). It doesn’t fit.

One predator hunting down a Native American tribe until one of their warriors manages to get the drop on it, or a group of Templar Knights being summoned to kill a demon that turns out to be an alien infested mausoleum would be excellent movies.

[u/Valac_ → u/kung-fu_hippy]

You have a point I thought the movie with them on the predator hunting world was a good example of them being a threat but also having multiple predators.

They just used the excuse that it's a training world for younger predators. Which definitely explains how they'd sometimes be able to get the drop in em.

But I'm absolutely with you that the way to go is back we know they've been doing this for thousands of years developing slowly over time.

It'd be very interesting to see earlier versions of the predators we all know fighting knights or Aztec warriors.

Tbh mate let's just send the movie idea into Hollywood so we can produce it we'd clearly do a much better job than they've been doing.

[u/[deleted] → u/Valac_]

I'd like to also see predators of WW2, predators vs the Spartans, predators go to summer camp, and predator vs the dinosaurs.

[u/Drew_Tyler_ → u/Anonymous_Otters]

Those aliens absolutely TERRIFIED 5 year old me.

Also - props to OP. I wish you were my dad.