MCT Leak

[demonstudios]

Hi,

I've just finished building my first PC (had laptop before). The build has gone fine so far.

Some MCT-5 leaked from the CPU waterblock, to the Chipset waterblock, and then finally finished up on my AGP slot, and BFG 6600 GT.

I turned off the system (i hadn't yet connected the monitor), took out the graphics card to find the golden plug that slots into the AGP socket had what seems like burnt MCT, dried onto it.

I cleaned up any MCT, ensuring everything was dry, turned it on again (with monitor connected), and it read "No Signal".

The motherboard does not beep when i turn the system on, i have it connected to speakers.

The ram LED is orange, with and without ram.

I plugged the stock GPU fan into the GPU's fan socket, the fan worked.

I plugged the stock CPU fan into its socket on the motherboard, the fan worked.

The hard drive works.


This may look more like a hardware troubleshooting thread, but i'm asking if this kind of "damage" can be fixed/cleaned.


I'm more a software developer than a hardware enthusiast, having done two freelance software development jobs to cover the £1300 (2,368.95 USD) this has cost me, and being 14, this disaster has been a major set back.

(hardware in sig)

Thanks.

[MegadetHCl]

Can you try using a PCI graphics card to see if you can get at least to BIOS?

[whozyodaddy]

How long have you leak tested the machine?

[demonstudios]

MegadetHCl: Yes, i was just about to buy one, although i thought i'd ask here incase anyone had a better idea.

whozyodaddy: An hour outside, then things went a little wrong once installed inside the case, i fixed everything now though.

[MaxxxRacer]

well despite MCT saying its not conductive, i found it to be highly conductive..

[RaptorRaider]

Maybe you can sue them. Ask Weapon. ;)

[MaxxxRacer]

usually when u get ur components wet you can let them dry off and they will be ok. this is even what hte MCT instructions say.

[demonstudios]

I'll try a PCI graphics card, although i think i've damaged the motherboard and graphics card :( .

[Special_K]

what is this 'MCT'?

[demonstudios]

It's a "non conductive" (hmmm....) fluid for liquid cooled pc's:

http://www.dangerdenstore.com/product.php?productid=144&cat=11&page=1

[MegadetHCl]

Also, I've noticed you're running 2 sticks of RAM. I've had a similar mishap, though with nanopure water (from the lab filtration apparatus) + Zerex. I spilled a bit on the lower half of the motherboard, sprayed some 70% ethanol on it to clean off the residual coolant and let it dry while I was installing the rest of watercooling hardware. Well, once everything was finished, my system wouldn't boot up at all, and I wasn't getting any signal on the monitor like you. Turns out the motherboard wouldn't boot anymore with RAM in DIMM 1. No idea why.... I had 2 sticks of RAM, and I could get to BIOS with only one stick in either DIMM 1 or 2. And I also thought my AGP graphics card died, but trying a PCI card didn't help. So, just try booting up with a single stick of RAM, and see if moving it to different DIMM slot will make a difference.

[demonstudios]

I have tried swapping different ram combinations, but those were in the same slot, i'll try moving one to a different slot.

Thanks.