well i woke up and went into my office to read my e-mail. i look at the computer that i just put the Danger Den water setup in.

the resivoir that DD gave me has cracked from one barb all the way to the top. what the phuck. well i am out a computer now, until i can get some parts together.

i will get my camera from work and post a pict or two so you all can see the crack. my luck sucks lately.

That's bad luck Dude

But I don't really want to see your crack

Tell me the computer wasn't running over the night....

yea it was running all night long. i don't even want to begin to think what is ruined with it. may be need a new motherboard, cpu, and video card, but i hope not. i won't be able to test any thing until tuesday. let me tell you this is a big bummer for me as the computer it was in was my gaming system i hope that i can save as much of it as possible. there was anti-freeze every where. i dont know how or why the resivoir cracked. it may have been the anti freeze i was useing that caused it but i am not shure. may be there was too much pressure in the lines for it to handle also.

i just took the res. out of the case and the whole top came right off and it is cracked on both sides like it just split in half. i will have to notify DD and see if there were any other people who have had this happened to them.

i don't blame DD for the res cracking nor will i persue any kind of recorse, because we all know that water cooling some times goes wrong. but DD should be informed so that they can check to see if there is a manufacturing defect in their resivoirs. i will also try to clean the system up and try to get it all working again by tuesday at the earliest, unless every thing is fragged then it may be a little longer.

Dude, that sucks. It's amazing that the res just came apart like that. I've seen them crack, but never that bad.

srry to hear that man i hope u get everything back up and working. did you ever think about putting up a barrier between the resivor and the rest of the comp? that might solve ur problem of ever loosing ur whole comp again

a safety res is a good idea. i will have to think about making something like that, Red02

i have never seen a res crack like that either BA. kida weird thats why i think it may be a defect in the manufactureing process. its like it exploded in the case. there is a piece at the top where its glued together that is missing completely.

pvc makes for a good res

Wow, I really want to see the pics of that. How in the hell did that happen? Strange.

So far my water-cooling setup has held strong. I have moved it around alot. UNinstalled and reinstalled, changed hoses, flushed the system, switched motherboard a couple times... the thing has never spilled a drop... I love it.

On a side note, I used to water cool my mobo chipset and video card but after changing just one motherboard out like that I chose to instead cool ONLY my cpu. It is so much easier to deal with the guts of the case now.

I hope your stuff survived. Maybe it go too hot and shutdown like many current motherboards do. This Asus A7N8X motherboard has built in thermal protection. I was changing HSF on it. I went from a copper dynatron with a 7k rpm fan (LOUD!) to a aplha with a 60mm --> 80mm adapter and used one of those quad blue led fans on it. Well, There are these wierd little rubber feet that the alpha came with and I put them on like it said. Put everything in place and then when I tried to fired the machine up it started and about 3 seconds into it shut off. I was like WTF?! I checked all wires and replugged everything and tried a few more times and still the same thing. I took off the new HSF and saw that the arctic silver 3 on the core never even touched the HSF at all! If I had been using my old KX7-333R motherboard then the cpu would have popped for sure. That one feature saved my CPU like 5 times in a row.

Holy cow man that sucks the big one. I sure hope you can atleast salvage some of the parts. And if you cant, I hope you get a good deal on some new ones.

Why would you think that the antifreeze caused it?

Hope we get some pics soon.

Ducati...I have never tried water cooling and would like to at some point.

I give you props for handling it in a mature nature and not blowing up and acting like an A$$hole...

"i don't blame DD for the res cracking nor will i persue any kind of recorse, because we all know that water cooling some times goes wrong. but DD should be informed so that they can check to see if there is a manufacturing defect in their resivoirs. i will also try to clean the system up and try to get it all working again by tuesday at the earliest, unless every thing is fragged then it may be a little longer."

Your statement says a lot about who you are as a person! I hope when you do contact DD, they assit you in anyway then can.

Sorry for the Bad Luck and hope it all works out in the end.

Dang that blows. Ive never ran water cooling either and the this is why. My luck is so bad that this would happen to me. Taz is right thought, you've handled this very well. I would have been braking stuff but you stayed cooler than your water cooling setup(when it was running). You never know DD might send you a new one

WOW THAT SUCKS!!! Sorry to here of you misfortune. I have been running a W/C setup for a little over a year now and thank God no problems. Because of the risk that is inherent in a W/C setup is the reason I shut it down every night. *FEAR*

Edit: post some pics when you can.

wow that is not cool at all.

im sure u were using distillled water, some SOME of your parts could be salvageable. however, that is no way to start your day wakin up to a busted w/c setup.

now that i looked at the DD res, it looks really cheap. maybe the pictures portray them in a bad way, but to me it looks cheap.

also did you epoxy the fittings onto the reservoir (it said epoxy or thermal tape)

because it could be too strong of an epoxy that melted the plastic in a way that made it brittle so that it was only a matter of time b4 it busted

sry man tho thats not a good thing

Ducati:

First off, sorry about your rotten luck! After winning the constest and all ..... it is just not right.

Secondly ...... minimizing the aftermath.

First, pray to god you were using a non-ionic solution.

Second, ensure everthing is dry. When I had my leak, I blasted a 120mm at my vid card for 48hrs before trying it. I have heard of people putting stuff in the oven on low heat ..... they have big cajones ..... I do not!

Third, double check everything is dry. Seat card into the slots and then pull them back out, checking for moisture on the gold contacts.

Finally fire it up. Preferably one piece at a time. I know you have enough shiznit around to do just that!

Good luck Bro! Hope you come out OK!

I've had to wring parts dry also, and the only thing I ever lost was a single PCI slot. I thought I toasted a video card once, but come to find out it was a different problem.

I just set the parts in front of a box fan and turn them every so often. I give them at least 24 hours to dry. So far, everything has turned out good. Hope the same goes for you.

whoa wait a minute-- ducati u were the contest winner for that giveaway awhile agO? ouch

brandon

wow? i would like to thank all of you for your replies. i have the computer apart and i will be taking some photos tuesday and i will post them then, as i won't have any time to get on PR later tonight. today is my long day at work. i was looking at the res. this morning and it is fragged really bad. cracks on both sides of it. i am very bummed out. i have had all the parts sitting at work under a heater vent. because of the anti-freeze i used i had to clean every thing with a q-tip and some contact cleaner.

let me tell you that was not alot of fun at all. it must have took me 4 hours to clean the motherboard, cpu, memory, and video card. all of it should be ready to go back together tomorrow.

i will have the photos then too.

I have my fingers crossed for you man.

Quote: Originally posted by ducati748r let me tell you that was not alot of fun at all. it must have took me 4 hours to clean the motherboard, cpu, memory, and video card. all of it should be ready to go back together tomorrow. i will have the photos then too.

why not just clean the parts with distilled water and a soft brush?

Once I worked in a repair shop where they clean electronics that have been exposed to various liquids or fire (smoke/sod).
We used a water hose and a special cleaning liquid to remove the sod and the smell.