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Limp Gawd
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- Mar 18, 2004
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Ok guys, for the longest time, I simply had a simple CPU water cooled processor on my koolance system. I finally decided...hey...I have water cooling...why not use it to my advantage and water cool my video card and motherboard too? Bad idea for my craptacular knowledge..
Ok so I open up my case, install the waterblock on the video card as directed (but didnt install the ram sinks that came with the waterblock because my card allready has ones that are fine). So after making sure everything was tight, I turn it on...
NOTHING....
My monitor displays nothing as thought its not getting a signal or something from the video card...I turn it off, then on....SOMETHING! It seems to boot fine, then i get a message saying WARNING: An Ultra ATA 66 or higher device is attached to a 40 IDE Pin cable...Speed reduced to ATA 33 (or something similar). Im thinking ok...ive never seen this error message before, and it has to do with a hard drive....odd... So it continues to boot, until it is to load windows....It attempts to load windows and I get some kind of partition error and it wont load.
I turn it off, to try rebooting again...Now it simply doesnt display anything on my monitor, but everything acts like its normal in my case. I switch things around, and go back to only CPU cooling.... and attach the original heatsink back on the video card. Except I dont think its working anymore....I turn it on......15 seconds or later it shuts off, I assume due to overwhelming heat from the processor, which is very odd because its just like it was before (unless I switched around the hoses, which still shoudnt make a difference).
So here are my questions:
1) Would spilling liquid coolant on the video card, motherboard, or processor (just a bit of a glob or some drops) hurt anything much unless it was an abundance?
2) Do you think the problem is now my video card or processor? Do motherboards have auto shutdown for a faulty video card?
3) Whats WRONG ??? Wy wont my monitor display anything?, it spins on (the 9800 pro), everything seems fine)
4) What else do you reccomend I test, and how do you think I should test it?
Ok so I open up my case, install the waterblock on the video card as directed (but didnt install the ram sinks that came with the waterblock because my card allready has ones that are fine). So after making sure everything was tight, I turn it on...
NOTHING....
My monitor displays nothing as thought its not getting a signal or something from the video card...I turn it off, then on....SOMETHING! It seems to boot fine, then i get a message saying WARNING: An Ultra ATA 66 or higher device is attached to a 40 IDE Pin cable...Speed reduced to ATA 33 (or something similar). Im thinking ok...ive never seen this error message before, and it has to do with a hard drive....odd... So it continues to boot, until it is to load windows....It attempts to load windows and I get some kind of partition error and it wont load.
I turn it off, to try rebooting again...Now it simply doesnt display anything on my monitor, but everything acts like its normal in my case. I switch things around, and go back to only CPU cooling.... and attach the original heatsink back on the video card. Except I dont think its working anymore....I turn it on......15 seconds or later it shuts off, I assume due to overwhelming heat from the processor, which is very odd because its just like it was before (unless I switched around the hoses, which still shoudnt make a difference).
So here are my questions:
1) Would spilling liquid coolant on the video card, motherboard, or processor (just a bit of a glob or some drops) hurt anything much unless it was an abundance?
2) Do you think the problem is now my video card or processor? Do motherboards have auto shutdown for a faulty video card?
3) Whats WRONG ??? Wy wont my monitor display anything?, it spins on (the 9800 pro), everything seems fine)
4) What else do you reccomend I test, and how do you think I should test it?