So, I spent the weekend putting the new machine together (I7-930, Rampage III MB, GTX 480, EK RE3 MB Block, EK Supreme HF, EK FC480)
Unfortunately, it turns out I had a slow leak at the motherboard block over the voltage regs.
Didn't show up during leak testing, so I must of been just tight enough to prevent the leak during testing and ended up loosening it a bit during final installations.
So, Sunday I'm installing everything and suddenly the machine starts rebooting randomly. I'm looking around, but don't see any signs of water anywhere. Then I notice brownish, bubbly/foamy looking gunk squeezing out from underneath the board at the voltage regs.....
Took the system apart and under the board, surrounding the little backplate over the backside of the voltage regs is this big pile of goop. It seems that the water was running down the side of the block, crossing over a few of the voltage regs, getting down underneath and causing some kind of reaction between the anodized aluminum of the mb tray and the backplate on the board.
I have no idea what it was, but it ate the anodizing off of the mb tray and pitted/corroded the backplate some. All within a few hours...
I cleaned the board and the voltage regs with 91% isopropyl, and they look to be OK (none of them look burned or anything), and the board seems to be undamaged (I hope!).
Everything has been dried and reassembled and new (and MORE) leaktesting is now proceeding. Wish me luck! I really hope I haven't fried that $400 board....
[On a side note - anyone know a good, safe, easy way to remove stripped out hex-hole screws? I've got a couple that stripped on an old VGA Backplate that I'd like to remove without destroying the VGA Card if possible]
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