Curse you Red Baron!

[legoman666]

Almost in the same place as last time. The tube attached to a 90 degree elbow popped off while the machine was running. This is mostly my fault, because I cut off most of the straight part of the elbow so it would fit in my case.

Water got onto my 2 HD3870's and my Asus Xonar sound card. It wasn't the water on the electronics that made my machine crash (was playing Mass Effect, seems decent), it was the fact that so much water leaked out that the loop stopped flowing and the video cards over heated.

Based on this, I'm assuming that there is no damage to my components, but I won't be sure until I fire up the machine again in a day or 2. Right now I have the pump running and a fan pointed at the video cards going full blast.

My first leak killed one of my HD3870's but the x1800xt that the coolant leaked on was fine. The funny thing is, the first leak was almost in the exact same spot and caused by almost the same problem.

 

[RallyMaster]

Uh......lol.

 

[aigomorla]

....

YIKES!

i dont know what to say.

For now just dry everything out and then try it out. :

You seemed like you had a hugh leak, and not a small leak. :X

 

[Nathelion]

Lol, dumping water on your cards didn't crash them? That makes me laugh...

 

[dajeepster]

Originally posted by: Nathelion
Lol, dumping water on your cards didn't crash them? That makes me laugh...

He was trying to watercool his video cards directly

 

[error8]

After reading this, I will never, ever try to use water cooling for my pc.

 

[RallyMaster]

Originally posted by: error8
After reading this, I will never, ever try to use water cooling for my pc.

I'm a firm advocate of heatpipe air cooling because it also uses water

 

[legoman666]

Originally posted by: error8
After reading this, I will never, ever try to use water cooling for my pc.

Never fear, I just booted the machine and all appears to be working normally. Hurray for non conductive fluids.

 

[Tim]

FYI for anyone reading this and freaking out... Distilled water is non-conductive!

 

[error8]

Originally posted by: theplaidfad
FYI for anyone reading this and freaking out... Distilled water is non-conductive!

Yes, but even if it doesn't short out something, the lack of water in the cooling system will cause gpu/cpu to overheat and die. So I'm still freaked out.

 

[Tim]

Originally posted by: error8

Originally posted by: theplaidfad
FYI for anyone reading this and freaking out... Distilled water is non-conductive!

Yes, but even if it doesn't short out something, the lack of water in the cooling system will cause gpu/cpu to overheat and die. So I'm still freaked out.

If it over-heats, it will shut down preventing major damage.

I'm sorry, but this isn't much different than a fan on a heat-sink kicking the bucket and causing the same problem. (save a mess to clean up that is)

 

[hsfnewbie]

^ that's one reason why im probably not going to add in dyes to my WC'ing system. Heaven forbid those dyes being perma-stains on the carpet

 

[Tim]

Originally posted by: hsfnewbie
^ that's one reason why im probably not going to add in dyes to my WC'ing system. Heaven forbid those dyes being perma-stains on the carpet

That reminds me of the nice artic silver 5 stain I created on my carpet a couple of years ago. Took a heat-sink off, put it on my chair, it of course fell because god hates me.

 

[Dadofamunky]

Originally posted by: legoman666

Originally posted by: error8
After reading this, I will never, ever try to use water cooling for my pc.

Never fear, I just booted the machine and all appears to be working normally. Hurray for non conductive fluids.

Holy crap! Word to the wise.

 

[Dadofamunky]

Accidental double-post. Apologies.

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: legoman666

Originally posted by: error8
After reading this, I will never, ever try to use water cooling for my pc.

Never fear, I just booted the machine and all appears to be working normally. Hurray for non conductive fluids.

^ Dude isnt this what ive been telling people for the longest time?

However lego, you got lucky. That much water and im suprised you didnt pick up dust to make it conductive.

 

[legoman666]

Originally posted by: hsfnewbie
^ that's one reason why im probably not going to add in dyes to my WC'ing system. Heaven forbid those dyes being perma-stains on the carpet

the dye is what made me easily see that I had a huge leak. I have blue UV dye in the water. When the comp crashed while I was playing Mass Effect, I looked over at it and noticed a large glowing puddle of water. I quickly turned it off

 

[SparkyJJO]

next time, use these and then the tubing won't ever come off again

 

[legoman666]

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO
next time, use these and then the tubing won't ever come off again

I was using those.

 

[SparkyJJO]

:Q
oh.

Um replace that fitting then so there is more to grab onto? Sounds like you chopped it a bit far?

 

[thilanliyan]

I've also had a leak onto a previous 8800GTS 640 I had and it did crash. I dried it and all was working fine so definitely use non-conducting fluids. Lol if only the pool that my camera fell into was full of non-conducting liquids.

 

[ArchAngel777]

People keep stating that non-conducting fluids will keep the machine safe in the event of water leak. I'd like to correct that and state that it makes it 'more safe' but it certainly isn't safe. Unless you have a completely dust free case, you will risk the water dumping on some particle that will conduct and could short out the electronics.

Remember, 'more safe', not 'safe'.

 

[SparkyJJO]

Originally posted by: ArchAngel777
People keep stating that non-conducting fluids will keep the machine safe in the event of water leak. I'd like to correct that and state that it makes it 'more safe' but it certainly isn't safe. Unless you have a completely dust free case, you will risk the water dumping on some particle that will conduct and could short out the electronics.

Remember, 'more safe', not 'safe'.

Agreed. That's why I use distilled water because it is just as non-conductive as any other more expensive fluid providing it is kept clean. Get any of them dirty with contaminants like dust and they all start conducting more and more.

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: ArchAngel777
People keep stating that non-conducting fluids will keep the machine safe in the event of water leak. I'd like to correct that and state that it makes it 'more safe' but it certainly isn't safe. Unless you have a completely dust free case, you will risk the water dumping on some particle that will conduct and could short out the electronics.

Remember, 'more safe', not 'safe'.

+ 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

Originally posted by: aigomorla

Originally posted by: legoman666

Originally posted by: error8
After reading this, I will never, ever try to use water cooling for my pc.

Never fear, I just booted the machine and all appears to be working normally. Hurray for non conductive fluids.

^ Dude isnt this what ive been telling people for the longest time?

However lego, you got lucky. That much water and im suprised you didnt pick up dust to make it conductive.

yes i made sure i noted that in the first page!

 

[EvilSponge]

Water cooling is the same reason why men barbecue not worth it with out the danger ....

-sponge