my pc keeps shutting down

2013 · 23 Apr 2014 at 19:30

My pc was working fine 1hour ago, I shut it dow so I could fit my water cooling parts, now it keeps shuting down when ever I boot it, the motherboard is a sabertooth 990fx all the red led lights come on , cpu led, mem led andboot device. The pc boots upto the sabertooth logo

ExRayTed · 23 Apr 2014 at 19:34

What water-cooling parts have you installed?

2013 · 23 Apr 2014 at 19:38

Rad res pump, I was going to install the cpu block and changed my mind and reinstalled the standard heatsink, should I have added new thermal paste before re installing

2013 · 23 Apr 2014 at 19:39

Ive not even added the tubing yet

ExRayTed · 23 Apr 2014 at 19:40

2013 said:
Rad res pump, I was going to install the cpu block and changed my mind and reinstalled the standard heatsink, should I have added new thermal paste before re installing

Yes, ideally. Although it shouldn't prevent the PC from booting.

If you've changed your mind on the CPU block, what exactly are you water-cooling?

almostgfx · 23 Apr 2014 at 19:41

Simple one, is everything connected properly?

2013 · 23 Apr 2014 at 19:47

the reason I did not fit the cpu block was I wanted to test for leaks, I thought it maybe a bad idea fitting everything without testing.

I also wanted to find out what would be the best way to loop it, so I wanted to use the pc to find out,

I've double checked everything, Im not sure what the problem was but I think it had something to do with the cpu overheating for some reason, i left it off for 10 mins and its working fine.

ExRayTed · 23 Apr 2014 at 19:50

Good. Lesson there is the value of thermal paste

2013 · 23 Apr 2014 at 19:51

Yes, Because there was some on I didn't bother, but this show even the tiny things matter.

2013 · 23 Apr 2014 at 20:58

Is it ok to have the loop like this

parts
black ice stealth gt tri rad ( not used it in months,
ek supreme cpu block ( not used it in months )
phobya 250 balancer
EK-DCP 4.0
compresion fittings.