Fun With Coolant and Motherboards

[lokitexas]

I would love to do that for a living. Not the run a shop for needy WC folks...but you know..throw water on electrical crap. Anything that has a chance of buring is pretty fun IMO

[septim]

lolz andy, at least some of us really experienced the actual mobo soaked nightmare... and you're still lucky that it still booted properly after cleanup... some guys don't have that luck...

[Mk]

Sooo you just killed 2 motherboards.....
Next time just ship them to me and i will spire your time
J/K
hehe good test man but i still don’t dare to drop any coolant on my mobo unless its cooking veggie oil but then again that well just deep fry it with out the right cooling

[Petra]

I was like "That damn Alex and his experiments, he jinxed me"

Hmm... kinda makes me wonder what else I should dump coolant all over

Anyway, for those who are curious, I'll be giving both of the boards a try today to see if either still works.

[NaeKuh]

i use triple distilled water

no matter how non conductive that fluid is.

That doesnt mean the dust on your videocard, or even the dust in the air, or the dust being pushed into your system by fans wont make the water conductive once it touches it.

To be honest i only take non conductive when building. After a few months when your system has collected dust on it, once water hits it, it wont stay non conductive.

regardless, its great to see another video from you alex. I keep getting suprised when i see you. You seriously dont look anything like you represent.

To be honest, i was expecting someone a bit more like Dave (movieman) in appearance.

[sirheck]

My brothers computer sprung a leak of water and the hydrix shistuff.
It got soaked pretty good. And it was on at the time.

I resoaked it with 70% alcohol(didnt have any 90%).
Threw a fan on it for a while and it came back to life.

[Petra]

I keep getting suprised when i see you. You seriously dont look anything like you represent.

I tend to get that a lot...

Two nicer guys, you'll never meet.

Thanks

*edit* Poll added... heh

[Kougar]

Hm, so lesson learned... drenching the motherboard is fine but drenching the GPU and RAM slots should be avoided?

That was a riot, was cracking up when the second motherboard started back up to try and finish that test. Thanks for the rather unique vid.

[melanko]

That was pretty fun to watch...

We'll have to have a fun with random liquids and motherboards game to see what does the least (or most) damage.

I'm taking bets people!

[Xilikon]

I spilled water on my 8800GTS card 2 or 3 times, each time I disconnect the cpu WB (I'm stupid but whatever ) and after some soaking with a towel then some blast with compressed air then restart after 10 mins. It ran fine and it still run right now

I use distilled water with pt-nuke only and this is what save my day

[NaeKuh]

Two nicer guys, you'll never meet.

andyc

No my brother goes to stanford. I tend to visit him once a year to help him move and help him cosign. :T

Next time i go up there, i told him i need to stop by san jose.


Gonna see if i can offer lunch and try to get to know him better.


The funniest thing tho, my brother has a h2o rig and he has no idea how to maintain it. I told him if anything was to go wrong, if he didnt have ANYONE he could goto, theres a shop in San Jose, that could help him. :T

[ripken204]

I spilled water on my 8800GTS card 2 or 3 times, each time I disconnect the cpu WB (I'm stupid but whatever ) and after some soaking with a towel then some blast with compressed air then restart after 10 mins. It ran fine and it still run right now

I use distilled water with pt-nuke only and this is what save my day

my first leak test left me with a swimming pool on my 8800GTS.
i used canned air and a blowdryer, an hour later i put it back in and it still works to this day
i did this about a year ago.

[Petra]

As of right now, I can say that the CPU, RAM, and video card are all working fine...

The two motherboards, on the other hand, are both dead. The board that was drenched with distilled gives a second of fan spin or so and then dies while the other board does nothing at all when you hit the power button.

Perhaps I should use a little less coolant next time?

Anyway, let this be a lesson to all of you: don't pour coolants on your motherboard.

[aspire.comptech]

Now the question is, what to do with the two dead boards?

My vote goes to sending both to the manufacturer of the coolant, along with the half used bottle, asking for a refund.

[NickS]

Sweet video Petra.

[Petra]

My vote goes to sending both to the manufacturer of the coolant, along with the half used bottle, asking for a refund.

Half bottle? I hardly used two fingers worth of the stuff! The distilled, on the other hand... I used quite a bit of that.

[Martinm210]

That's awesome!

You are the man!...I very much appreciate your work and sharing the TRUTH!

[Yeknom]

Wow, very interesting! Thanks for manning up and pouring coolant over those Abits

[Sparky]

I laughed when the board drenched with distilled actually unfroze and started working again, right before something popped and it shut down. Distilled water FTW

Seems that when the water hit the ram slots/24 pin connector is when it gave up.

[MonkeyHood]

I laughed when the computer started the test again, after Alex doused it with distilled water.

[phelan1777]

That is sticky material right there, in RED and YELLOW lettering for all the Virgin watercoolers.


That was awesome work Alex, good to put a name to a face as well.
Next time do a cameo of Quoc

Seriously though, thanks for the vid.

I have had water drop from my nb to the back of a 8800GTS, caught the drip early and no perm damage.

<crosses fingers, says 1000 hail marys, throws salt over shoulder, hangs horse shoe over door, wears the same basket ball shorts every game, performs every known act of wishing for good luck known to man kind.

[voigts]

Maybe this will finally squash some of the "non-conductive" coolant marketing. Good work

While putting my new case together last month, I had a small leak at the CPU block where the clamp was a bit over the nut of the barb. There was only a very small leak onto the VC, but it died. I frankly was surprised at how little water it took and how quickly it died.

[Darkatom]

Your store is like Toy's R us to me .

[phelan1777]

Your store is like Toy's R us to me .