computer watercooling woes
Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 4:36 pm
Last night I got my new motherboard(DFI LAnparty revB) and CPU (Mobile Athlon 2600+ ). They were replacing my old setup which was a DFI lanparty rev A and a Barton 2500+. I got it up and running and got some screenshots of an incredible overclock. I had it running 2700 actual mhz at 1.85 Volts.Everything was peachy then all of a sudden the computer shutdown no power. So I go over and try to figure out what happened and looked inside the case to see flourescent purple water pouring out. One of the water lines got nicked and busted. The worst part is it dumped over a gallon from the 5 gallon resevoir which had evaporated and I didnt have any distilled water on hand so I used tap water which conducts electricity unlike distilled.I am pissed to say the least.I hope it didnt fry anything. I am going to take it out of the case later this evening and pour some Everclear(190 proof drinking alcohol) on it to wash the purple dye off of it and then let it dry and hope it works.