1. my res is a jam jar; it's connected with 18mm tubing to my pump and it is NOT with hose clamps (only using them on my hose adaptors). as I moved my res up and down when i was filling the loop the tubing must have gotten off the pump's barb but not completely. it ran fine, I went away. when I got back after several hours the pump was very LOUD, air everywhere in my loop and the res more or less empty.
quite weird, as it got loose but because the tubing was very stiff it was still pressed agains the pump's barb. so I lost half a liter of water in my pump's wooden case.
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leaking CPU block. prolly a leakin the taps for the allen bolts. my machine often hung after a while, when I was about to get my new mb/cpu I removed the block...
a small leak, but water got on the CPU and evaporated. the CPU was rusty and there was lime/dirt everyhwere (evaporated water!). there was even dirt IN the socket, one pin broke off because of that. sold the MB/CPU in an entire machine to a computer shop for waay to much $$$. and the MB was completely modded/trashed too: glue/white paste on the mosfets, it got vmodded and I just cut off the wires, a huge scratch on the bottom of the northbridge, black goo because it's been in a prommie,...
