Hal sprung a leak!!!!!! HELP!!!

**raider1v1** · 07-04-2003, 03:44 PM

Hal (my rig) was bleeding today!!! the fitting on the waterblock dripped and got onto the agp socket. i dried everything off and put the cpu block in a plastic bag. how can i tell what if anything has been damaged?!?!?!

will dtek give me a replacement top? and i think that this time ill be getting the aluminum top!!!!!

**talldude** · 07-04-2003, 04:29 PM

take a blow dryer to the rig and dry everything off well. It shouldn't be damaged if the power was completely off and you dry it off nicely.

**number1sixerfan** · 07-04-2003, 05:33 PM

Originally posted by raider1v1
Hal (my rig) was bleeding today!!! the fitting on the waterblock dripped and got onto the agp socket. i dried everything off and put the cpu block in a plastic bag. how can i tell what if anything has been damaged?!?!?!

will dtek give me a replacement top? and i think that this time ill be getting the aluminum top!!!!!

Yeah dtek should give you a replacement top. And as long as you clean everything off, you should be fine.

**raider1v1** · 07-04-2003, 06:06 PM

well heres a problem, the power was on! i was doing a ghost backup and when i was done (thank god) i went to restart and it came up with a message that there was a major error and that i should save and restart. then i tried to restart and nothning, then i went to clear the cmos, and thats when i saw the water!

**talldude** · 07-04-2003, 06:53 PM

umm...chances are something is fried. Mobo or gfx are probably toast.

**DeadSanta** · 07-04-2003, 07:30 PM

Arghh... Sorry bro. That sucks the big one. I hope mine doesn't ever *** me like that. Kind of ironic it leaked after you ghosted it. lol

**raider1v1** · 07-04-2003, 10:36 PM

not a big deal if the video is dead. i have a replacement plan with compusa "im sorry sir, i dont know what happened, it just doesnt work!, could i have another one please"

**knuckles644** · 07-04-2003, 11:17 PM

now, you see, this is why water and computers don't work. Who invented water cooling anyway? If I wanted to cool my comp badly, i'd just run it out of a fridge...(some people do that)...

**DeadSanta** · 07-05-2003, 01:11 AM

My watercooling setup SURE beats out my MCX462+ & 6 Vantec Tornado setup. It's a hell of a lot quieter too!

No complaints here!

**XP1800** · 07-05-2003, 02:14 AM

Originally posted by DeadSanta
My watercooling setup SURE beats out my MCX462+ & 6 Vantec Tornado setup. It's a hell of a lot quieter too!

No complaints here!

I have one question then...why do you have a fan controller if you don't have all those fans?

Or are you just pretending to be a fanboy?

**DeadSanta** · 07-05-2003, 05:24 AM

Originally posted by XP18004life

I have one question then...why do you have a fan controller if you don't have all those fans?

Or are you just pretending to be a fanboy?

Hey! My radiator fan is loud! And all 6 of these other fans going at once isn't exactly silent either!
The Vantec Nexus NXP-205 isn't avaliable yet! I'll get my fanboy on when it hits the shelves. Until then, it's all in spirit.

**Kill-Switch** · 07-05-2003, 08:37 AM

You finally got your system wet ... now you're a real watercooler

Ok, seriously, there is a BIG chance that nothing was fried at all. I can say this with a 90% certainty as my system has leaked twice (within a week, along with a thermal overload LOL). When my system leaked the system was on (both times), the first time soaked just about everything (graphics card, sound card, mobo, RAM) ... even the AGP and PCI slots were full of water!! I just stripped the system down, dried everything off with some tissue and a hairdryer. Once completely dry I put everything back together and there's never been a problem

**raider1v1** · 07-05-2003, 04:10 PM

what about residual left from the cooling fluid?

and to this

now, you see, this is why water and computers don't work. Who invented water cooling anyway? If I wanted to cool my comp badly, i'd just run it out of a fridge...(some people do that)...

they mix just fine, it was my error, and you make a cpu oced that runs quiet without watercooling, quiet like hmm i wonder if its on.

**Kill-Switch** · 07-05-2003, 04:15 PM

As long as you dried the components with a tissue first there should be little to no residue from the cooling fluid. Mine has Purple Ice and Invisible blue dye and there appears to be no residue anywhere (as the dye is UV reactive it's easy to see) and the system works perfectly.

Oh well, next week my Vapochill arrives ... then the fun starts all over again

**ptamim** · 07-07-2003, 03:59 PM

Here's a story to validate the valu of drying things off...

Ok way back when I was a med student doing a surgery rotation at Mass General hospital I went to the bathroom in the middle of the night -- number 2 for those interrested -- and after I finished, I got up stumbled, and the damn pager got unclipped from my scrub pants and fell strait into the toilet. Ok these were new state of the art pagers at the time... alpha numeric pagers that weighed a brick. I would have just flushed it down the banio had it been a normal run of the mill pager, but I freaked, sucked in my pride, held my breath, and reached down and got it. I washed it out thoroughly... meaning I disassembled the darn thing, washed it all off with soap and water, soaked it of a few hours in rubbing alcohol... then put it on top of the radiator to dry it off. Well after I put it back together, the damn thing worked ! Needless to say the first page I got after fixing it was a real "Shitty Page".

Good luck.

Dr. T

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