I felt like that when I crushed the mosfets on my XTX =/
Its like falling from a horse/bike tho, gotta get right back on :)
Printable View
I felt like that when I crushed the mosfets on my XTX =/
Its like falling from a horse/bike tho, gotta get right back on :)
i know how you feel man!
my X1900XT died too because i was taking off a accelero X2. it must of pulled out one of the memory chips because the memory pads are super sticky. it didn't send a signal to my moniter when i put it back in with the stock cooler.
This might just be a sign of early prostate cancer, but did any one else feel their left nut hurt after they did something like that? Maybe it's just me, but my e-penis is sure in a lot of pain.
Anyways, I may come back to the water cooling scene after a while. To me it just has seemed like more hassale than just riding out until newer hardware. I think overclocking gives better benchmark yeilds than actual gaming performance yeilds. I did notice the bumps, but they never made me feel justified to spending ~$200-300 for water cooling. But, who knows. Others enjoy it tremedously, maybe it's just not for me.
Thanks again for your guys' help. The bubbles did go away when she was fired up for a while.
funy first time I set mine up not a single leak or issue!
Take your time, torque all clamps, ensure stress free routing, if you do this you should never have a problem, simply be through and duble check as you go.
Here are some pics of what my rig looked like before I decided to strip it down and examin the card:
http://aycu38.webshots.com/image/157...1099382_rs.jpg
http://aycu30.webshots.com/image/418...4138920_rs.jpg
http://aycu21.webshots.com/image/198...7100395_rs.jpg
It wasn't that I didn't check for leaks, had improper tube routing, unclean equipment, or any of that. It was simply a matter of constantly changing the reservoir, draining, refilling, and moving the case in every which way that caused some drops of water to rest unseen around my voltage regulators on my video card. I had a loop already with my other reservoir and set it up problem free as well--except for it's bubbles.
I already knew what to avoid and I thought it had evaporated. There were two other sizable droplets on the alum. of my case that I didn't clean up because I was watching to see when they were evaporated. I figured if two big drops such as them were gone, any other possible droplets among my hardware would be gone as well. :( That wasn't the case.
Oh well. I guess this means that I'll just have to pickup one of those X1950XTX's soon. I expect I'll be in the Air Cooling section a little bit more than this one for a while.........
All ways physicly check, just becuase water evapourates at one spot it wont be the same for other spots. Hard lesson to learn but now you know.
At least there isn't anyone laugh their arse off at you. When I volt modded a 7800gt and burnt it to a crisp there was this one guy who thought it was soooooooo funny. Everytime I would talk about temps getting to high on one of my cards, or overclocking one of them or just about anytime I talked about a 7800gt he piped in to get a jab about how I had a barbecue with mine.
I did feel really bad about frying mine (the problem was I soldered a wire in the wrong spot, just one hole off) but that same night I picked my self back up and did it the right way on another 7800gt. If we all gave up everytime we made a big boo boo then we wouldn't have xtreme forums. On the other hand if you sell all your water cooling it would probably pay for a new GPU.
I think your card is not died yet, let it dry and power up again! you don't need to turn your case in different directions to get the air out, this is reservoir not T-Line where you have to shake your case to get the air out, reservoirs bleeds 20~30 times faster than T-Line.
Well heres a few things, was the screen all pixlated when it went crazy? If so it could be a number of things cause mine likes to do it to me quite a bit.
Another, my first setup was the same as xeon, the first time I setup I clamped it all down and such, let it run for about 8 hours as I slept ( I put paper towels all through the case though so I could see where the water was driping if any ) woke up, nothing, double checked for any wet areas with my fingers and checked for any drips, saw nothing then fired up and was golden :P.
Ofcourse, the time I took it apart recently I let the loop run for about 2 days lol.
a horror story for me is ive gone through 4 6800gt's due to shocking them cause I didnt ground myself or pushed a little too hard on it :D
thank god it had the BFG warrentee on it and they replaced it every time ;)
Do you really think it is going to work after the area around the voltage regulators has the burn marks from the water like this?Quote:
Originally Posted by sdkevin
http://aycu36.webshots.com/image/227...0969207_rs.jpg
Ah you are lucky that is not burnage but rather residue, Clean it theroughly with IsoPropyle Alcohol and then rinse with distilled water then rinse with Iso again. Let dry very theroughly like aim a fan at it for a night or so.
Then if it cleans up nice and shiney and is dry give it a go, you may very well get lucky.
oh man. i'm crossing my fingers for ya bud.
Really? If you're right, I'll love you forever!!!
Does anyone else want to purchase some used water cooling utilities?
I always wondered if those front-mounted bays made gurgling noises. Even faint ones drive me crazy, which is why I went with a T, but I still miss the easy bleeding of a res. (This thread notwithstanding. :rolleyes: )Quote:
Originally Posted by sdkevin
It's official. My X1900XTX is dead. I tried cleaning up the residue with Isopropyl Alcohol, letting it sit and dry out all day, and making sure every orfice of it's voltage regulators, etc. were shiny clean. Put on my old VF900 and popped her in another working computer--this one--and pushed the power button. Nothing. Well, except for the red diagnostic lights near the 6 pin connecter of the card's power source. Other than that, no sceen post, no flicker of pixels, nothing.
Sorry guys, but I am done with water cooling. That much I now know.
I'll check with my brother to see if he want's any of my equipment, but if not they'll be up for grabs after I clean them and what not. Specs are in the picture in my sig + that reservoir.
Once again thanks for all of the help. This is the best forum for technical assistance--especially with water cooling.
uh, if it was running when it got wet, its usually busted... sorry for the lost...
could be a numer of things or even some bad timing for your card to crap out lol.
I havnt read through the whole thread but here and there. Are you POSITIVE its the card? Ive thought it was my card before and it was quite a few other things, memory, windows messed up(not sure how it effected my bios and shiz but it did 0.o), hardrive died, other weird things.
I assume though that you have replaced the video card with another and the system booted fine and w/e. IF that is the case sry dude. Sucks your giving up though, but this is the risk of modding, honestly if it were me id be upset but I would be motivated to learn from my experience and make the loop work.
you could use a coolant like MCT-5
http://www.dangerdenstore.com/produc...&cat=11&page=1
I've used it it tends to not bubble as much as plain water.
Edit: ACK sorry to hear about your loss!
~Mike
Cards do not all ways die if they get wet, the water creates a short that makes it do weird things, some times after the water and residue are cleaned it springs back to life, it is getting the residue out from tight spots thats the challenge then you have a 50/50% chance it works perfectly or the other sadder 50 that it is indeed toast