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Zhentar · 08-02-2003, 12:00 PM

So, last night I was putting my new watercooling set up onto my mobo. It was quite a pain; my fingers still hurt, but I did get the blocks on without the hose between the NB and CPU kinking completely. I had two leaks, but I thoroughly dried them off. I also took the NB heatsink and stuck it on the southbridge (this is all an Athlon 2100+ on an Epox 8rda+ btw). So, since the pump ran all night with only one little seep that I fixed up, I turned on the computer.

First, it booted succesfully, but I forgot to plug important things like the keyboard in so I had to restart... then it booted succesfully again; I went into the bios, looked at the PC health, saw nice low temps, and then it froze, while I was busy noticing the pump seemed to be causing interference to the monitor. Then it tried booting again but froze at the "25" which the manual helpfully lists as "reserved" and then after another reboot "FF" which is "Boot Attempt". Several more reboots, and I took off the heatsink on the soutbridge since it looked like it was hitting a capacitor, maybe it was shorting something. But now it won't turn on at all. What have I done to my precious!? I'm kinda baffled here.

08-02-2003, 12:00 PM	#1
Zhentar Cooling Savant Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, WI Posts: 225	Uh-Oh! So, last night I was putting my new watercooling set up onto my mobo. It was quite a pain; my fingers still hurt, but I did get the blocks on without the hose between the NB and CPU kinking completely. I had two leaks, but I thoroughly dried them off. I also took the NB heatsink and stuck it on the southbridge (this is all an Athlon 2100+ on an Epox 8rda+ btw). So, since the pump ran all night with only one little seep that I fixed up, I turned on the computer. First, it booted succesfully, but I forgot to plug important things like the keyboard in so I had to restart... then it booted succesfully again; I went into the bios, looked at the PC health, saw nice low temps, and then it froze, while I was busy noticing the pump seemed to be causing interference to the monitor. Then it tried booting again but froze at the "25" which the manual helpfully lists as "reserved" and then after another reboot "FF" which is "Boot Attempt". Several more reboots, and I took off the heatsink on the soutbridge since it looked like it was hitting a capacitor, maybe it was shorting something. But now it won't turn on at all. What have I done to my precious!? I'm kinda baffled here.