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eeeks.. what happened...?

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Oh4Sh0

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Well I setup my watercooling system, a long with a new mobo (refurb asus k8v deluxe from newegg) and when i startup, all i see is a bunch of weird colored lines on the screen so i power it down really quick to avoid damaging anything if it's the watercooling system.. could it be the refurb board? The pump seems to be pushing water thru fine, and im sure the cpu and gpu blocks are properly connected... I really dont want to have to take it all apart and try with my old mobo (first gen neo..) any suggestions?
 
Make sure EVERYTHING is seated before you start the RMA.. To many things it could be. Start checking everything, Processor seated? etc
 
First thing that comes to mind is the video card....make sure that it's seated and nothing's wrong with it....are all the components in there new?
 
All the watercooling parts.. and the motherboard is all that's new.. everything else is "old" =p I ripped the heatsink and fan off my video card and then put the waterblock on.. so since I've got a few 9600's sittin a round ill try throwin one of them in
 
Do you have another vid card you could use temporarily? Even if its old and not wc'd thats ok, you can just rule out the vid card this way.
 
yeah I'm gonna try that in about two hours. the problem with the polarflo blocks is that with tubing on them, the barbs are so close there's no room for clamps. I didn't notice any water around them or drips anywhere, but just to be safe I decided to strap ties around all of the barbs(or whatever you wish to call them) and I'm running the blocks on top of kleenex right now, so if there's a drip i'll notice it. If it gives me the same problem later, I'll take out the 9800 pro w/ the block still attached(so i don't have to dissasemble the loop and drain the water) and throw in a 9600 w/ stock hsf.. and we'll see.
 
well after switching cards the system boots... seems like it was the end of the line for my 9800 pro. After removing it, I still see no sign of leakage or water that would've damaged the board. :( However, now I'm left with another obstacle. Shortly after boot I get a message that CPU temperature is too high - which is really ashtonishing to me. The pump's been running all day(warming the water) where as the panaflo hasn't been to cool the water.. perhaps the block wasn't quite on the cpu.. I don't have any thermal paste to put on it, as I accidentally bought artic silver thermal adhesive rather than as5, and I don't want to fasten my cpu to this block forever(lol). The pump's obviously proving decent pressure, because I see the water quickly moving in the reservoir, which is last before the pump. I'm gonna let everything sit overnight and try it again tomorrow, any additional suggestions?
 
Oh4Sh0 said:
well after switching cards the system boots... seems like it was the end of the line for my 9800 pro. After removing it, I still see no sign of leakage or water that would've damaged the board. :( However, now I'm left with another obstacle. Shortly after boot I get a message that CPU temperature is too high - which is really ashtonishing to me. The pump's been running all day(warming the water) where as the panaflo hasn't been to cool the water.. perhaps the block wasn't quite on the cpu.. I don't have any thermal paste to put on it, as I accidentally bought artic silver thermal adhesive rather than as5, and I don't want to fasten my cpu to this block forever(lol). The pump's obviously proving decent pressure, because I see the water quickly moving in the reservoir, which is last before the pump. I'm gonna let everything sit overnight and try it again tomorrow, any additional suggestions?
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Did you put any paste between your CPU (and gpu?)
 
Oh4Sh0 said:
I don't have any thermal paste to put on it, as I accidentally bought artic silver thermal adhesive rather than as5, and I don't want to fasten my cpu to this block forever(lol).
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asdf
 
Well theres your problem, no paste between your cpu or gpu would easily be enough to make them overheat very fast. Probabaly what happened to the video card.
 
the gpu block did have adhesive on it from the stock hs/f. when i removed the stock hs/f from my gpu, the heatsink kept all the adhesive, but not when i removed the one from my gpu, it kept all the adhesive.
 
i think for it to be effective you have to change the paste every time you remove the heatsink. i'm not sure, but i think thats how it goes.
 
well it's irrelevant in the case of the gpu atleast, I beleive. Being as there was no burning smell, no discoloration on the core.. and the system didnt even get to asus bios screen.. I doubt that's the cause behind that. The cpu's high temps, possibly, but I didn't think thermal paste had THAT great of an effect on it
 
I burned a asus k8n-e deluxe board when installing my bigwater. a little coolant driped on the pci area :confused: .it whet fine for a hour then when i played unreal t.2004, 5 mins later i got the black screen of death, at first i thought it was the 6800GT :( then i switch out the Mboard with my old one and everything worked fine,so i got another k8n-e d,and installed the bigwater very carefully with a roll of paper towels in quick reach just in case. :rolleyes:everything fine today.
 
lol, well atleast it wasn't your 6800gt :p I woulda rather it been the refurb board that was $55 versus the graphics card that still retails around $150 :(
 
Oh4Sh0 said:
well it's irrelevant in the case of the gpu atleast, I beleive. Being as there was no burning smell, no discoloration on the core.. and the system didnt even get to asus bios screen.. I doubt that's the cause behind that. The cpu's high temps, possibly, but I didn't think thermal paste had THAT great of an effect on it
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Thermal paste is probabaly the most important thing.

A stock heatsink with cheap paste will out performance a water cooler with no paste. Think about it, whats your water cooling going to do if the block isnt making full contact with the cpu? And with no paste, it wont be making full contact, thete will be lots of air pockets.
 
given, I understand this.. and have acknowledged it, but still don't think it should make my cpu go into a point where the motherboard recognizes the temperature as "Too high" .. I've ran hs/f w/ out paste before and they ran around 50º C. :eek:
 
well now I've got some AS5 attached to the cpu/copper shim.. i sit @ the asus bios screen and slowly watch the temp creep up to above 60º C at which point i power my comp down. Takes a couple mins, but.. I dunno. I touch the graphics cooler(because i dont have it on the card yet, but its in the WC loop) and it feels "cool", I don't think the water flowing through it is the problem.. but the thing is bolted on the cpu so that I can't move it... :(
 
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