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sprung a leak

ok, i've spent all evening draining the loop and pulling the rig apart.

the only damage i can see if a burn mark pretty much right between the lower pci-e x16 slot, and the pci-e x1 slot directly above. i had a gpu, and soundcard in those slots respectively.

now, there is a slight scorch mark on the slot part of the gpu, and a scorch on the soundcard. it looks like a capacitor has blown and taken just the mobo out, i'm hoping. i'm going to order a new once after i've tested the mobo with a new psu just to check if it's still the powersupply that's stopping operation.

i'll post up a pic tomorrow of the damage
 
ok, so i now have everything setup again, and thoroughly leak testing as i write this. now, a couple of things that have either scared me or at least worried me slightly: one of my graphics cards had a tiny capacitor fall off; this thing is like 1/2 a mil by 1 mil. i've glued it back on to where it belongs but am worried that this could pose a problem. what do you guys think?

after inspecting my old board, looking at the scorched area of the mobo, bottom gpu and soundcard, i've discovered that one of the gold pins on the soundcards' pci-e connector to have disappeared, leaving a silver 'flap'. now, i can glue this down so it makes contact correctly with it's appropriate pin in the slot - is this dangerous?

here's a pic

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sorry about the quality :)
 
Don't lose all hope:-

H_a_p_p_y said:
Spoke to soon *cries*

Went down to have some dinner yesterday, then went for a shower. However the shower was dead (no power), so went to the fuse box to see if it was tripped and it was. Switched it back on and it immediately tripped again. I went upstairs to have a look, and was greeted by a foul electronic burning smell as I approached my room. The first thing I noticed was a puddle under my PC, and the wall behind it looked like someone had hit it with a hose.

For some bizarre reason the tubing on my mosfet block (7/16 on 1/2" barbs :mad: ffs) had just popped off whilst the PC was on. Cue the pump churning out water (best part of a litre) over my switched on PC (and two fully loaded surge protectors underneath it). Anyways............ my 8800GTX is toast (tested it in another PC, and plumes of smoke came out the exhaust), and I can't test my Q6600, X38 or 4GB ram till I get some 'more' fluid and tubing.

I currently limping along on my AMD dualie with the 8800GT, so my folding with only be GPU based and patchy at best for the next month or so :/
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Only the 8800GTX died in the above, despite all the water first hitting the 8800GT. I turned the HX620 upside down and poured all the water out. Left everything in the sun for a day (in the summer, was really hot) and put it back together, and all was well. However this time using jubilee clips on every joint (even with 1/2" on 7/16th).
 
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lol did you not have jubilee's on before?

i'm pretty certain that my soundcard is dead... i'm gonna use the onboard sound on my new mobo until i pluck up the courage to test the card.

i'm more worried about that capacitor now, as i've been leak testing for an hour and nothing is getting moist around the edges (i've put a load of loo roll underneath every block to see if any droplets are forming).

i would post a pic of the capacitor but i've already got the gpu's in and it's an absolute nightmare to take them out again when they're plumbed in!
 
No because normally it's dam hard to get 7/16 tubing off 1/2" barbs, but lesson learnt, it was completely new tubing too :/
 
man that's harsh... glad everything turned out ok for you tho :)

i've got 1/2" on here now with 1/2" barbs (got a combo of barbs and compression fittings), all seems ok now, hopefully this will stay the same by morning :D
 
The only problem i could think of with glueing the componants would be poor connections as most glues act like insulators, worth a shot though and i hope it works for you.
 
Reading this thread makes me want to watercool my upcoming rig even less lol.

The saying "watercool your rig if you can afford to replace all the components" has never rung so true in my opinion :eek:
hope you get it running soon
 
ok guys well she's back up and running, that capacitor seems to have caused me no problems! i've left her running all night and there is no liquid anywhere other than inside both loops :)

i know it's a lot of pipes, but i wanted to go for something that cooled well, and looked a bit 'odd'. afterall, it is a fully w/c motherboard and both gpu's, cpu etc
 
oh, i neglegted to mention: both graphics cards are working fine in xfire, but i haven't tested the soundcard yet.... i'll get round to doing that in the next few days.

all in all, i've only potentially lost my mobo, yes it's a pain in the arse, but it wasn't as expensive as it could've been.

i've been one lucky boy!
 
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