[icel0rd]

Sheesh, I just hooked up my system tonight and did some leak testing for a few hours and it was nice and quiet.

Well, as I made my way down to put my machine on its table to hum along, I carefully examined everything and made sure that everything looked ok before firing up the Athlons, and wham, as soon as I turned on the juice to the pump I hear nothing but a load rattling/buzzing sound. It's pumping water because I can see the swishing of water in the res, but it's noisy as all hell.

Well, needless to say it annoyed the heck out of me, so I turned the pump back off and reached into the res and pushed on the impeller and fired it back up. It was a lot quieter, but 20 seconds later it was back to the same old routine.

Is this almost always the "I need to glue my impeller to the shaft" scenario here? Or do you think it's a load issue?

I'm running a Profin 250 gph pump submerged in a 4x4x4 custom res that is filled about 80 to 90%. I have 2 cpus I'm cooling w/1 maze 3 and 1 K4.1 block, and an original black ice rad.

I'm thinking it'd definitely the impeller though. After pushing it in a little and firing it back up, it was quiet briefly before it went back on the rampage. I'm just wondering what you guys think.

God, I would hate to have to unhook that darn res and yank the pump off of the rubber pads I glued it to in order to glue the stupid impeller.....


-Ice-