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golovko · 02-04-2003, 07:15 PM

my radiator ruptured once spilling water into my power supply, down my motherboard, onto my vid card, and started pooling up in the bottom of my case. my vid card sparked and then smoke started pouring out. the motherboard and ps were ok, the only think lost was the geforce3.

a month later my maze3 with lucite top cracked and spilled water down my motherboard once again and onto my new vid card, a radeon 9500pro. this time none of the hardware was damaged thankfully, and the only reason i knew that something was wrong was because my monitor started flickering all weird-like so i turned off the comp and took a look inside...

02-04-2003, 07:15 PM	#6
golovko Cooling Savant Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Purdue University, USA Posts: 141	my radiator ruptured once spilling water into my power supply, down my motherboard, onto my vid card, and started pooling up in the bottom of my case. my vid card sparked and then smoke started pouring out. the motherboard and ps were ok, the only think lost was the geforce3. a month later my maze3 with lucite top cracked and spilled water down my motherboard once again and onto my new vid card, a radeon 9500pro. this time none of the hardware was damaged thankfully, and the only reason i knew that something was wrong was because my monitor started flickering all weird-like so i turned off the comp and took a look inside...