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Ghost · 10-30-2003, 04:32 PM

A couple of months ago, I would've voted "No failure despite 2 years of water cooling". But when I designed my new cooling system, bad luck struck more than once.

Failure #1: Mr. Murphy decided to pay a visit. When reattaching my Maze2, I accidently put the springs on the wrong side of the block, pushing it away from the core instead of towards it. Result: One extra crispy T-bird 1000 and total motherboard failure (probably due to extreme overloading of the voltage regulators when the CPU failed). It was probably time to upgrade anyway.

Failure #2: The reservoir (a plastic box of the type you would build electronics into) had a manufacturing flaw, causing a slow dripping leak. The drips reached my new NF7-S motherboard causing random lockups. After letting everything dry out, it worked perfectly.

10-30-2003, 04:32 PM	#58
Ghost Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 3	A couple of months ago, I would've voted "No failure despite 2 years of water cooling". But when I designed my new cooling system, bad luck struck more than once. Failure #1: Mr. Murphy decided to pay a visit. When reattaching my Maze2, I accidently put the springs on the wrong side of the block, pushing it away from the core instead of towards it. Result: One extra crispy T-bird 1000 and total motherboard failure (probably due to extreme overloading of the voltage regulators when the CPU failed). It was probably time to upgrade anyway. Failure #2: The reservoir (a plastic box of the type you would build electronics into) had a manufacturing flaw, causing a slow dripping leak. The drips reached my new NF7-S motherboard causing random lockups. After letting everything dry out, it worked perfectly.