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    .::water Cooling Problems::.

    in Miscellaneous Hardware

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    If your computer turns on but your monitor doesn't, and none of the above has worked, try simply clearing the bios and restarting your computer at it's lowest clock speed. This has worked for me when the computer starts up fine but nothing shows up on the monitor. On some computers, holding down the "Insert" key as soon as the power comes on will reboot them at a safe level.

    Is My Mobo Dead?

    in Processors, Motherboards and Memory

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    Check all of the connections going to the motherboard from USB headers and stuff like that... If the power light is on but the board doesn't seem to be working, you might one of the wires on the wrong "ground" pin. Same thing happened to me on friday and rewiring it did the trick. ;)

    One Hot Mother

    in Processors, Motherboards and Memory

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    If you are getting temperatures on your motherboard that are higher than your cpu, you might want to make sure you are reading the right sensor... If not that, then it could be that with a watercooled system, the little capacitor farm next to the cpu doesn't get the air circulation that it used to and the caps are heating up. This was a prob that I had after replacing the NB fan and cpu hsf with waterblocks.

    A quick solution is to improve the airflow around the caps and NB area. Even better, you could use a fan bracket (Zalman) to put a 80mm of that area. Doing so lowered my MB temp by 15C to give a stable temp of 45C. ;)

     

    Enjoy

    Improvised Convection Cooling?

    in Overclocking and Cooling

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    Well here's something interesting... (personal story... not a new product :P )

     

    Last night, as I packed up junk around my room, in preparation for an upcoming moveout, I began unplugging all of my external drives and cameras and whatnot on my desk. I also unplugged the little black plug that goes to what I thought was my coffeemaker. Well, somehow, it must not have dawned on me when I boxed up the coffeemaker that the cord was actually white, although I made note of this when I put it away...

    Apparently, I had yanked the cord to my computer H2O pump!!! :O Now, usually my processor runs at a comfy 38-41C (@1.75V) under a constant F@H load... When I did a routine temp check this morning, it was running at around 45C,(which I ignored cuz it's a pretty hot day) and just a few minutes ago it was at 51C. Not until just now while I was cleaning out dust near the power strip did it strike me that there were only 2 things plugged in, and neither of them was the pump cord. So, naturally, I look inside the computer and sure'nuf, the water in the res was just sitting there and the waterblock had this huge bubbles in the intake line. The only reason I didn't flip out and dive for the power cord was that that I was still using the computer without problems, although it had been running for the better part of a day without circulation!

    By this time I turned the pump back on and the temp came back down to 38. :D

    My guess as to the only reason the thing didn't melt down was that the radiator, which is right above the waterblocks was able to keep the warm water rising out of the block at a cool enough temp... Thick tubing probably helped too. Pretty nice though, since that dispells those myths about computers that burnup within seconds of a pump failure. :P

     

    Oh well...

     

    Stupid me! :P:P

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