u/thefudd

Just got removed as a mod by someone from a sub I created. How?

About 2 years ago I bought a prebuilt HP Omen 45L with a core i9 13900k and a 4090. I really only bought it for the 4090 because it was the cheapest way to get one at the time and I was tired of building systems. I added some ram and the system has been rock solid every since, never locked up, never crashed. Nice and quick machine that handled all my gaming and work.

We have a special needs kitty who can't control her bladder. So she'll fall asleep somewhere and just empty it out.

She did that on top of the computer. Pee came down into the radiator and I believe on the motherboard and video card. The machine started stuttering and freezing. You would move the mouse and it would lag and stutter. Sometimes it would go back to normal but 30 seconds later you're back to stuttering and lagging.

I took the machine apart and cleaned every surface I could with alcohol. Still had stuttering and lagging.

I reformatted the hard drive and tried a clean windows install.... same issue.

What's strange is I tried a linux install and the machine runs perfectly, no lagging, no stuttering. I just couldn't get the sound to work. (ordered a usb sound card to deal with that)

I needed to get a machine so I ended up going to microcenter and picking up an Alienware prebuilt with a 5080 to get back to work.

Now I have a 45L paperweight basically with a 4090 in it.

Has anyone experienced something similar? What would you do with the machine?

the culprit

https://preview.redd.it/i9vzmgxebwxg1.jpg?width=1542&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9ce1350503de6fa83665128339be0703d97a60d2