My pump quit working while I was at work! and my MCW60 melted

[cyriene]

AAHH! So I work 3rd shift and came home to my computer screen being blank but the computer was still running. I noticed a big air bubble chillin in my loop and realized that my pump wasn't pumping!! I touched around the socket of the cpu and it was HOT and my video card was kinda warm as well. Anyway, I powered down and tried to run the pump with a spare PSU but it would not turn on This was a rather new pump, Swiftech DDC 3.2 with Petras Top I purchased maybe in August or around there.

I dont think the cpu fried because I tried to boot the comp and it would boot and I saw the first screen, but since the pump wasn't pumping I shut the comp back down.

I guess I will go to Microcenter later today after I sleep and maybe buy a new pump. I guess I'll get another DDC but maybe I should thinkabout a D5 instead? What do you guys think?

Oh, and I would like to thank everyone here as I learned most of what I know about water cooling by lurking on this forum and even though this is a little set back, I have been quite happy with the fun associated with setting up my system.

[SiGfever]

It is hard to go wrong with a D5 Vario.

[Jedda]

Guess you checked the plug.
Any sign of damage to the pump?

[cyriene]

Guess you checked the plug.
Any sign of damage to the pump?

The plug didn't look damaged. I tried to power the pump on with the molex plug and the little 3 pin plug but neither worked. After I get a replacement pump I guess I'll take this one apart and mess around with it.

I knew I should have ordered the D-tek nozzles too! Here I am draining my loop with the pefect time to add one and I doubt Microcenter will have any. Oh well, off to see what Microcenter has available.

[Sparky]

Hmm..... RMA the pump instead of buying another one?

fingers crossed my DDC-1 doesn't give up the ghost....

[teyber]

yes d5 vario, and get some gell stuff. I cannot hear mine(literally!) at 5 on the petras gell stuff...

[cyriene]

Hmm..... RMA the pump instead of buying another one?

fingers crossed my DDC-1 doesn't give up the ghost....

I may RMA it but until I get new pump my computer is down...although I could put the stock fan on, but I'd have to do that for the gpu as well which would be a pain. If I get a new pump I could eventually go with 2 loops in the future...or have one as backup I guess.

[HotGore]

When ever I see one of these threads I look over at my res to make sure water is moving around.

[dengyong]

Two pumps in series is the way to go. I like the aquaxtreme 50z.

[NickS]

Another DDC to go. Yay.

Get a D5 Vario like everyone else says.

[Sparky]

Another DDC to go. Yay.

Get a D5 Vario like everyone else says.

I can see if you don't like the DDC for their reliability issues, and I agree the D5 is more reliable, but why must you take glee in other people's dying hardware? Heck I'm an AMD/ATI guy but that doesn't mean I'm happy when someone's intel/nvidia part dies...

[NickS]

I can see if you don't like the DDC for their reliability issues, and I agree the D5 is more reliable, but why must you take glee in other people's dying hardware? Heck I'm an AMD/ATI guy but that doesn't mean I'm happy when someone's intel/nvidia part dies...

Sarcasm doesn't work on the internet, I should have put next to Yay.

Edited for ya.

[Sparky]

My bad.... sorry

[NickS]

My bad.... sorry

No problem.

[cyriene]

Well, I picked up a D5 Vario so now it is time to drain my loop. Too bad I can't use Petras Top now. I'll let you all know how it all goes once I get it up and running.

[ls206]

good luck
can I trouble you for a quick comparison of the two pumps when you've got it sorted?
like size, noise etc... is the "vario" feature useful?

[Waterlogged]

Well, I picked up a D5 Vario so now it is time to drain my loop. Too bad I can't use Petras Top now. I'll let you all know how it all goes once I get it up and running.

You could always use the Koolance top for the D5.

I'm a DDC user and I don't even think twice about mine. It's just the vocal minority of ppl that have had a DDC die on them that makes it sound worse than it is. Personally, I'd wish they'd just shut up, all their doing is .This may be the first confirmed(?) 3.2 to die here.

[Jedda]

You could always use the Koolance top for the D5.

I'm a DDC user and I don't even think twice about mine. It's just the vocal minority of ppl that have had a DDC die on them that makes it sound worse than it is. Personally, I'd wish they'd just shut up, all their doing is .This may be the first confirmed(?) 3.2 to die here.

Yeah, always the same folk.
Wonder how the D5 does if its re-assembled before use.

[Duh]

IIRC nicks has been saying for ages ddc are crap and die pretty often

[cyriene]

Well, I think my DDC overheated or something, the Petra Gel Stuff it was sitting on was kinda melted and distorted in shape. And more bad news...my MCW60 melted!! Which caused it to leak my water out onto my sound card Here are some pics...


Well, I wonder if this is covered under warranty, especially since it was the swiftech pump that died on me causing this meltdown...

[yonton228]

WOW!.....thats sucks mate.





-yonton228/timmy

[NickS]

Holy crap dude :|

[cyriene]

Well, I did need a good excuse to give up the 7900GS and get an 8800GT.....trying to look on the bright side here

The video card may still work. Before I realized the pump wasn't pumping and restarted my comp I could see the normal bootup screen. Of course that doesn't mean it will work once I try to run 3D applications. I could always send the card back to BFG I guess, they have a lifetime warranty.

[NickS]

Well, I did need a good excuse to give up the 7900GS and get an 8800GT.....trying to look on the bright side here

The video card may still work. Before I realized the pump wasn't pumping and restarted my comp I could see the normal bootup screen. Of course that doesn't mean it will work once I try to run 3D applications. I could always send the card back to BFG I guess, they have a lifetime warranty.

Sweet, at least you know you can get an RMA if its busted

[AliG]

that's the way to think, always try to make the best of it because you'll feel like if you don't (I know the feeling, especially when I thought I had destroyed a cpu when removing the ihs)

As for the warranty, yeah I would definitely try to get swiftech to give you a new block, especially since it was their pump that failed