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Tooterfish
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The Story (skip if you dont care):
A couple weeks ago, my swiftech pump failed. My computer overheated, and shut down. I took out the pump (running redundant loop) and left the good one, called Gabe at swiftech (he told me its the EK waterblock's fault), and pressed on. While I was in there, I changed some tubing, and accidentally spilled some left over water from my cpu block onto one of my three gtx580's that are also being water cooled.
After getting everything peiced back together, I started my computer up and noticed the card in the first lane stopped working. BIOS wasn't detecting it, and it was seated and powered fine. I tried the card in other lanes, put working cards into the first lane, and everything pointed to the card being toast. The bad card wouldn't work in the other lanes, and the good cards worked fine in the first etc.
So I replaced the card.. All 700 dollars of it, along with a new swiftech pump to run a redundant loop. The nightmare really begins here...
Everything but the new swiftech pump was working fine, the new pump I got was giving me problems, not really a big deal because the other pump ran fine. My sata drives fell out of raid and were acting weird, so I reformated. I discovered my poorly made fan controller's molex was bad and had to replace it to keep my fans running, calcium had built up snowballs of white beads of death inside my computer which had to be flushed. I guess this is from leaving it exposed for a couple weeks without running. Just minor problems, really, the new GPU was working great and I knew I would get everything situated eventually.
After windows installed on my new raid, I put in all the drivers, fixed up all the little things and peiced the case back together. I played a bit of Metro2033 last night to stress out the computer a bit, then played some Xbox while I downloaded some games off steam. I finished the night up with the rest of the windows updates and powered it down.
Now it gets depressing...
This morning I wake up, and the gpu in the first lane isn't working. BIOS doesn't detect it and, like before, I troubleshooted all morning to find it to be toast. That's $1500 in GPU's gone in less than 3 weeks, something is seriously wrong here.
Quick Version w/ specs!
A couple weeks ago, my swiftech pump failed. My computer overheated, and shut down. I took out the pump (running redundant loop) and left the good one, called Gabe at swiftech (he told me its the EK waterblock's fault), and pressed on. While I was in there, I changed some tubing, and accidentally spilled some left over water from my cpu block onto one of my three gtx580's that are also being water cooled.
After getting everything peiced back together, I started my computer up and noticed the card in the first lane stopped working. BIOS wasn't detecting it, and it was seated and powered fine. I tried the card in other lanes, put working cards into the first lane, and everything pointed to the card being toast. The bad card wouldn't work in the other lanes, and the good cards worked fine in the first etc.
So I replaced the card.. All 700 dollars of it, along with a new swiftech pump to run a redundant loop. The nightmare really begins here...
Everything but the new swiftech pump was working fine, the new pump I got was giving me problems, not really a big deal because the other pump ran fine. My sata drives fell out of raid and were acting weird, so I reformated. I discovered my poorly made fan controller's molex was bad and had to replace it to keep my fans running, calcium had built up snowballs of white beads of death inside my computer which had to be flushed. I guess this is from leaving it exposed for a couple weeks without running. Just minor problems, really, the new GPU was working great and I knew I would get everything situated eventually.
After windows installed on my new raid, I put in all the drivers, fixed up all the little things and peiced the case back together. I played a bit of Metro2033 last night to stress out the computer a bit, then played some Xbox while I downloaded some games off steam. I finished the night up with the rest of the windows updates and powered it down.
Now it gets depressing...
This morning I wake up, and the gpu in the first lane isn't working. BIOS doesn't detect it and, like before, I troubleshooted all morning to find it to be toast. That's $1500 in GPU's gone in less than 3 weeks, something is seriously wrong here.
Quick Version w/ specs!
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