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OMG...It leaked! Argh!

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alphaone

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So um, yeah...this is my story for the past 2 days... have fun reading it!

It all started like any other day, yesterday. Check the water cooling in the morning...everything looks like normal. So, that evening I am about to leave for a concert and I go up to turn off the pc (I don't usually like leaving it on when I'm not going to be around for a while). But then I thought, hey, it's been working just fine for a few weeks now. Why should anything go wrong now? I'm only going to be gone a few hours... So I left it on running F@H. The worst decision ever...

So, the concert was good and I came back home a few hours later just like I thought I would. But instantly, when I walked though the door to my house, I felt like something was terribly wrong (even though I had know way of knowing what I was about to find out). So I dashed up to the comp room and I saw/heard something a water cooler never wants to see. The pump was making a terrible groaning/buzzing sound and I saw that the water level was really low in the res. Then I saw it sticking out like a sore thumb (I had left the side panel off for some reason... The tube connected to the lower part of the Y fitting leading from my RBX had come completely off :eek: I sprang to action cutting power to everything I could get my hands on (my A7N8X deluxe had already done it's job already cutting power to everything when the CPU overheated due to lack of flow). But the pump was connected to the wall socket. It wasn't running dry, but the small amount of water that was left in the tubing was sloshing back and forth through it due to the pressure leak. Everything looked OK though, except for my white carpet, which had 2 3" diameter pinkish stains on it from the zerex. They wouldn't come out

So the next morning I went though and re connected all of the tubing extra good and tight (yes I was already using hose clamps, I'm not sure how that little bugger slipped off). At the last second I thought of checking the hard drive carrier (which is removable in my Antec case) for water. I took it out and my fingers slipped on some moisture on the outside of the carrier (that zerex is slippery as hell) and the thing fell ~2" to the cement ground in my garage. Cursing, I wiped it off and put it back inside the case. I refilled it/bled it and made sure there were no leaks, there were none. It was time to see if my system still worked. I turned it on and heard the happy beep from the mobo :) Then I heard something strange. It was a strange, high pitched groaning sound. I couldn't figure out what it was. Nope, not the pump that had sounded fine. Nope, not any of the fans. Not the DVD drive no media in it...Then it hit me :eek: The hard drive was dead :(

So summing up the damage:
PSU: Fine
Mobo: Fine
CPU: Seems fine so far
Radeon: Also seems fine so far
DVD drive: fine
Pump: Again, seems fine so far
Hard drive: Dead. And probably by my own doing. Go figure! It was sounding strange lately anyway. It was one of those dreaded IBM "DeathStar" drives.

Now I have to dip into the money I was saving for Doom3/HL2 to buy a new HD. This sucks.
 
Hard drive: Dead. And probably by my own doing. Go figure! It was sounding strange lately anyway. It was one of those dreaded IBM "DeathStar" drives.
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It was going to happen sooner or later. It died a good death.
 
damn that sucks dude. so what happen water got on the hard drive?
 
Dude, did you drop it 2' (FEET) or 2" (INCHES)? LOL..
 
sorry to hear that, but frying something is bound to heppen.

I finaly figured out tha teh leak i had a year ago is the reason I can't burn CDs on my burner anymore...there was a rather interestnig splotch of crap on one of the ICs...so this drive is going to that little junkyard in the sky, and I'm going to get a DVD burner in teh next 6 mos....pity I bought my new mtn bike, or i coudl have afforded it :D
 
That's nothing bad at all. Consider yourself lucky. I would rather a harddrive go than any other piece of equipment in my pc.. Well maybe I'd trade it up for a cd or dvd drive, but that's awesome. Good to hear that nothing too important died.
 
Ya, I do feel very lucky that I didn't lose anything else. But now I have to go re download/install/update everything that I had on there :( . It's a good thing that I still have my good ol' PowerMac Dual 867 to tide me over (all of my important stuff is on the Mac, only games n'stuff on my PC, so I guess that that's another blessing :) ). This also gives me a change of sorts to get a bigger hard drive :)

I guess this is like a horror story turned good :cool:
 
alphaone said:
I guess this is like a horror story turned good :cool:
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yeah, you're right about that one. Except for the stains and hdd breaking, sounds like you got off pretty easy.... You could've lost a lot.
 
i had a ''deathstar' hard drive and i dropped it last month.....and it broke, it was a 5 foot fall. But i wasnt surprised it died.
 
mustang_steve said:
sorry to hear that, but frying something is bound to heppen.

I finaly figured out tha teh leak i had a year ago is the reason I can't burn CDs on my burner anymore...there was a rather interestnig splotch of crap on one of the ICs...so this drive is going to that little junkyard in the sky, and I'm going to get a DVD burner in teh next 6 mos....pity I bought my new mtn bike, or i coudl have afforded it :D
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Its never a pitty to buy a new bike. I like to divide my funds in one third ratios between computer stuff, girlfriend, and rent.
 
Lord of Shadows said:
Why did it slip off is what bothers me, was the tube chemically damaged? How long has this setup been going?
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I think the slip off was my fault actually. I don't think that the worm drive clamp was on as tight as I thought it was. It probably jammed and I assumed it was as tight as it would go and I don't think the tubing was on good enough on the fitting either... :eek: The tubing is perfectly fine. The setup had only been up and running about 2 weeks.

In other news my new HD shipped today from newegg. Expected arrive date is this Friday :( Too long! :p
 
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