L33T
06-09-2007, 09:23 PM
A couple of you have heard this story already and get a few more laughs; everyone else will probably get a very good laugh -- and may I add, at nobody's expense either: imagine that.
As you all know, I'm currently running an overheated TEC-based system that everyone likes poking fun at, but all in good humor, and amongst friends, that's quite fine :ROTF: .
Before reading further, if you don't know my system yet, please review that information in my sig. It's more interesting if you know what the setup is. The key to note is that the gfx and cpu are both TEC'd; the working fluid is being cooled via a KOYO radiator... that, depending on my mood for quiet or tolerance for a bit of noise, is either being actively or passively cooled :p:
One day I was trying to test an OC (this would have been no more than two or three days ago), when suddenly, the screen went blank: "NO SIGNAL". Now before you imagine this:
:explode2:
...let us just say first that this is a situation that doesn't happen that infrequently. Sometimes you accidentally kick out the VGA cord. It happens. Sometimes, other things happen. You never know.
I quickly turned off the system.
As you know both PSU TEC's are not electronically controlled yet; only one has that capability. The other one currently needs to be turned off manually. (More on that on a different thread that is floating around in this forum).
Concordantly, to be safe, I've got the surge protector switch right under my foot. Within a split second, I can kill the power to the system preventing a disaster in my basement, which after spending over 1/2 a year on this system, would not be kwl at all.
Just before it happened I was messing around in TA Spring. This wasn't the first time; yesterday I played around in some games as well.
I looked in the system.
Where the bend of tubing connecting the GFX card water block to the NB water block was air -- meaning that liquids were missing.
Maybe it is this afterall you guys are thinking: :explode2:
^__-
Sure, there were a plethora of various-sized bubbles emitting from the GFX card water block, indicating a temperature of roughly 100*C. You'd need to adjust the boiling point taking into consideration the higher pressure in the system as well as the antifreeze. Though that isn't too important. Boiling liquid can't be good in a water cooled system unless you live in the Himalayas.
I live quite far from those mountains... so that rules that out.
I quickly squeezed the tubes on the outside of the case as if I were milking a cow to try to get liquid to siphon, but it was a rather pointless act. Eventually, with a combination of opening the radiator cap, temporarily re-positioning the radiator, and doing this complicated aerobics move, I was able to bleed out the system. (I'm not sure how you guys bleed a system, but this is how we do it :dj: .)
I turned on the system, ASAP to quickly cool down the chip...
...and booted straight back into Vista.
Incredible, huh?
In any case, always be careful... but sometimes you get unlucky even if you are careful, but end up okay in the end!
As you all know, I'm currently running an overheated TEC-based system that everyone likes poking fun at, but all in good humor, and amongst friends, that's quite fine :ROTF: .
Before reading further, if you don't know my system yet, please review that information in my sig. It's more interesting if you know what the setup is. The key to note is that the gfx and cpu are both TEC'd; the working fluid is being cooled via a KOYO radiator... that, depending on my mood for quiet or tolerance for a bit of noise, is either being actively or passively cooled :p:
One day I was trying to test an OC (this would have been no more than two or three days ago), when suddenly, the screen went blank: "NO SIGNAL". Now before you imagine this:
:explode2:
...let us just say first that this is a situation that doesn't happen that infrequently. Sometimes you accidentally kick out the VGA cord. It happens. Sometimes, other things happen. You never know.
I quickly turned off the system.
As you know both PSU TEC's are not electronically controlled yet; only one has that capability. The other one currently needs to be turned off manually. (More on that on a different thread that is floating around in this forum).
Concordantly, to be safe, I've got the surge protector switch right under my foot. Within a split second, I can kill the power to the system preventing a disaster in my basement, which after spending over 1/2 a year on this system, would not be kwl at all.
Just before it happened I was messing around in TA Spring. This wasn't the first time; yesterday I played around in some games as well.
I looked in the system.
Where the bend of tubing connecting the GFX card water block to the NB water block was air -- meaning that liquids were missing.
Maybe it is this afterall you guys are thinking: :explode2:
^__-
Sure, there were a plethora of various-sized bubbles emitting from the GFX card water block, indicating a temperature of roughly 100*C. You'd need to adjust the boiling point taking into consideration the higher pressure in the system as well as the antifreeze. Though that isn't too important. Boiling liquid can't be good in a water cooled system unless you live in the Himalayas.
I live quite far from those mountains... so that rules that out.
I quickly squeezed the tubes on the outside of the case as if I were milking a cow to try to get liquid to siphon, but it was a rather pointless act. Eventually, with a combination of opening the radiator cap, temporarily re-positioning the radiator, and doing this complicated aerobics move, I was able to bleed out the system. (I'm not sure how you guys bleed a system, but this is how we do it :dj: .)
I turned on the system, ASAP to quickly cool down the chip...
...and booted straight back into Vista.
Incredible, huh?
In any case, always be careful... but sometimes you get unlucky even if you are careful, but end up okay in the end!