Fred_G

I had a leak last night around the CPU waterblock, shut it down, dried everything I saw (to was a small leak due to a loose hose clamp) My XP2600 M will post, I can get to the BIOS, but it hangs at the windows screen. I got lucky, I thought I had fried my old 2500 Barton, but I did not. Long story short, what would cause it to hang at the windows xp splash screen? Oh yeah, made sure to clear CMOS in case it was an o/c issure.

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

E

I should have posted this before: I was trying to add a waterblock to the GPU, the computer was off and unpluged. I pulled the plug on the pump when I saw the leak., dried the little bit of water off, used a heatgun (carefully !) to dry off anything I did not see, and tried it the next morning. My pump and rad are outside of the case for now, so rotating the computer around and a loose hose clamp caused the problem. I am using distilled water and some Zerex racing stuff. The motherboard is ok, I am using it now with my 2500..

Looks like I should just get another motherboard and test the 2600. I have never had one hang at the windows splash screen, any ideas on that?
And I am using AS-5 on the die, spread very thin.

Thanks for the info!

E

j-dogg

Are you using AS on the die? And did ya get any on the motherboard?

Water itself is not conductive, until you add things to it.

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ZENNZZO

Did you panic and pull the rip cord? how did you shut down?

Quote: Originally Posted by Fred_G I had a leak last night around the CPU waterblock, shut it down, dried everything I saw (to was a small leak due to a loose hose clamp) My XP2600 M will post, I can get to the BIOS, but it hangs at the windows screen. I got lucky, I thought I had fried my old 2500 Barton, but I did not. Long story short, what would cause it to hang at the windows xp splash screen? Oh yeah, made sure to clear CMOS in case it was an o/c issure. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated! Thanks E

Cpt.Planet

Quote: Originally Posted by j-dogg Are you using AS on the die? And did ya get any on the motherboard? Water itself is not conductive, until you add things to it.

This is tru but if he used tap water it would conduct very easily. I was at a local computer shop gettin a new dvd drive and some kid brought in his computer he put it all together in a rush never leak tested his w/c setup and ran it till it fried up. I asked im if he used distilled water and he said no. 1200 dollars out the window

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Enko

if its getting to the windows screen and freezing i doubt its the cpu. sounds like a hosed windows installation though. back up what you can, reinstall, and try again.

for the kid that used tapwater, what business did he have using a watercooling system if he obviously didn't know what he was doing? its his own stupid fault his computer got destroyed.

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$SOLID$ Necro

Quote: Originally Posted by Enko for the kid that used tapwater, what business did he have using a watercooling system if he obviously didn't know what he was doing? its his own stupid fault his computer got destroyed.

True, but no one likes to see good hardware go down the "Drain" so to speak.

It also doesn't help potential future users, now that kid will be sayin W/C sucks, and kills your computer to his buddies

Maybe the manufacturers should start labeling all the major hardware with warning stickers to help avoid this in the future, you need repeat customers

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Enko

Quote: Originally Posted by $SOLID$ Necro True, but no one likes to see good hardware go down the "Drain" so to speak. It also doesn't help potential future users, now that kid will be sayin W/C sucks, and kills your computer to his buddies Maybe the manufacturers should start labeling all the major hardware with warning stickers to help avoid this in the future, you need repeat customers

well like buying anything, he should've done his research. he messed up in a variety of ways. 1, he used tapwater. 2, he didn't leak test. 3, he brought it to a computer shop expecting them to be able to fix it. i would think that its common sense that there's a major risk since electricity and water don't usually go together all that well. this kid probably learned a valuable lesson from all this anyways which is to do proper research before buying anything.
i don't really think it will hurt potential future users since anyone who is going to need that kind of cooling will most likely be part of a forum such as pimprig where they can ask questions and get answers about watercooling. if someone told me that watercooling killed computers, then i would be wondering why there's a thriving market for watercooling parts if it always killed computers. if anything, him telling me that would tweak my interest and i would look into it just to find out.

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Fred_G

I got the CPU running finally! This may be a winblows problem, because I had to call them AGAIN to reactivate XP! Kinda funny, I am pretty sure I could get a lefthanded copy of winblows, but I decided to buy it and be legit! I have had to reactivate winblows 5 times now!

I now have hope for my other NFS-7 board and XP2500 chip.

Thanks for the info!

E

godfoot

Glad you got it working, but I can't help but snicker at the fact you had a water leak and it was hanging at the splash screen.

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stereomod

Quote: Originally Posted by godfoot Glad you got it working, but I can't help but snicker at the fact you had a water leak and it was hanging at the splash screen.

nice one GF, and BTW are you using taps water still, or have you used distilled water?!