wow... close call...

[NoxTek]

The cable guy came out yesterday, and the fucking moron flipped the switch on the outlet strip that has my watercooling pump and Logitech MX700 charger connected. I didn't discover this until approximately 12 hours later when I stuck my MX700 on it's charger and it wouldn't go into charging mode.

My AthlonXP-M 2400+ ran at 2.53ghz for 12 hours witth water standing still ni the loop. How the waterblock didn't melt into goo and trash my system I'll never know. I figured at the very least the gasket would have melted.

w00t for a good self-built watercooling system, and w00t for my dtek spir@l poly waterblock.

anyone have a similar story or stories?

 

[Rezistor]

Close call indeed! And for 12 hours - very impressive, I'm guessing you're running 1/2" ID tubing and the sheer amount of fluid saved your processor. I had something similar happen to me very recently.

I wired a pot for my Laing D4 pump after reading the description of the pump on dangerden. I did it because my initial unoptimized setup created a situation where the pump would create such a powerful vortex inside the dual 3.5" reservoir, which was mounted horizontally, that the water coming out of the reservoir would never be free of air bubbles, and so I thought if I could turn down the pump a little I would solve this problem. However, now I properly installed the reservoir the way it was meant to be used, and the problem with air bubbles disappeared, but the pot remained in the system. I wired a switch in parralel to the pot, so that in one position the switch would short the pot and the pump would operate at full capacity regardless of the pot setting, and in the open switch position the pump would be controlled by the pot. Now, I always ran the pc without the pot controlling the pump, and just left the pot sitting in the middle (half way).

Recently, I go to turn my pc on, my bios alarm (Abit AN7) is going off and I get IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL error, which we've all seen at one point, during winxp boot. I went into bios to check if some settings got messed up, and just by accident looked at the hardware monitor tab. My mobile 2500+ @ 2500MHz was at 69 degrees C, which set off the high temp alarm but was a degree short of a complete system shutdown. Turns out, I must've accidentally toggled the switch when pc was off, and probably the pump had a hard time starting up with 6 volts feeding it. A flick of a switch solved that, and now I'm about to install a flow meter with an analog readout of the flow and a relay which I'm going to wire to a nice and loud piezo alarm.