almost killed cpu

[ralf_c]

well i had my first negative episode with water cooling last night, i wanted to make sure there where no air pockets in my heater core so i put my comp on sleep mode and started to tap on the rad while shutting the flow valve on and and off, while i was doing that i had to go to the kitchen to do some thing, i got cought up in what i was doing and forgot about the pc, meawhile my brother woke the pc and loged on the web, when i came back to my room i didn't realize that my cpu was runnig dry then boom! it crashes, i touched the block( maze 3 copper top) and it was like touching a hot iron, it burned my finger. i thought that was it for my mobo and cpu, i pulled the plug right away.

after inspecting the case i noticed the valve shut. not good. "now i remember" i said to my brother. i thought the system was fried. i waited a few minuted to turn on the pc and it booted without a hitch! but the cpu temp was 143f so i let it cool off for a fews hours

[mdzcpa]

wooo...your a lucky man:)

You might wanna remove the block and put down some fresh paste now. Real high temps can burn it up pretty good.

[tripodal]

You are lucky! Your cpu probalby would have cooled down faster if you turn the h2o on right away. Running or not.

I once setup a P4 2.66ghz w/o plugging in the cpu fan. About 2 hours later and just about finished with setup, It shut down. I touched the HS and ouch! LOL

It was perfectly fine a few minutes later. I wouldnt worry much about it. Im pretty sure that the temperature stepping was disabled too.

[^7_of_9]

I had a Fan on my Dragon Orb 3 die on me one time. Didn't know until the computer started crashing every few hours on me. I always just rebooted it (I didn't have the time till the weekend to play with it yet, and it was a Wednesday). Saturday rolls around so I took a better look at it and couldn't find any driver problems or anything. So I took a look inside and saw the fan wasn't spinning, so I touched the Heatsink to see what the temp was like ........ HOLY *&%@ Batman! Stopped the computer and went into the BIOS to check the temps. A whopping 89 celsius!!

The Fan was only 2 months old and the place I bought it from didn't want to replace it, so I brought the receipts in from all the stuff I had bought in the last couple months from them. About $2,500 worth. They said then they would replace it. I said no thanks and went somewhere else and bought a new one :D Gawd I love doing that! Treat me right, before you see how much I spend :)

[WesM63]

Hey ralf,
I did something similar once. I unplugged my pump cause i had to do something, don't remember what. But I finished what i was doing and just pushed the power button, not thinking. I left went downstairs to get something to drink. Came back up and it was off. I was thinking WTF? So I turned it back on again, once again is shut off after POST. I did it one more time before i remembered about unpluggin the pump. Plugged her back in, prayed that nothign was broken and turned it back on. Ran fine ;) Was I lucky, yes. But I had a new cpu on the way at the time.

[ralf_c]

i was so conserned about something like that happening that installed a self made relay system for automatic pump power because i thought maybe my brother would some day foget to turn on the pump, but i need to stop worring about my brother frying things and watch what i do with my pc before it catches on fire or something.

well, i think what saved the cpu was the fact that my block is the copper top and not the lucite top. i think if had been the lucite top the cpu would had fried and block top ( lucite) could had melted, maybe who knows?

i don't know about putting a new coat of paste, i din't smell anything burned, i just felt heat on my fingers! i am also getting similar cpu temps as before but i will check under the block on the weekend

i am glad to hear that none of you guys have any horror stories so far

[lechumbl]

Hi ralf_c,

Agree here with mdzcpa on new paste.
High heat tends to make the thermal paste less effective.
It only takes a minute to do it, but the temps could be higher, if not replaced.

Take care........

[bigg]

HOLY COW!!!!!!! your lucky it didn't fry. thats why many get the coppertop, but this is the first time i've ever heard it being put to work

[WesM63]

Hey guys,
My block had the lucite top on it ;) But in ralfs situation it may have affected it more than it did in mine.

Now i get to try frying something w/ a tec :D

[ralf_c]

i'll get to the paste, i want to do some stuff with the wc sys so i'll do every thing on the weekend