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[Drexon]

My comp keeps freezing up, and sometimes the screen goes blanc, like it's not recieving anything. I've also installed water cooling as of today, happend at the same time. Any ideas?

 

[Mr Gump]

It could be possible that your ram is fucked, much like mine is.

Run memtest to find out.

 

[Drexon]

Oh yeah, what's a good program (ANY) to read the graphix card temp?

 

[Drexon]

Please, I'm a noob at water cooling. ;_; I fear I might have applied the GPU cooler wrong, and it's overheating.

 

[Sander]

What videocard do you have? Not every card can give you a temp readout.

 

[nubbe]

Tools will imbedded in the driver by ATI or Nvidia if the GPU supports temperature monitoring

 

[Forsete]

Like Nubbe said, it should be in a menu similar to this.

Du är väl svensk så du borde förstå?

Or you could use Everest.

http://www.lavalys.com/products/overview.php?pid=1&lang=en&pageid=1

 

[Drexon]

Ok, I've more or less narroved it down to the motherboard (MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R). 90% of the time I can't get part the (according to diagnostic lights) early chipset initialisation. But if it does get past that the screen and everything will come on, like now (this is my computer, first post was made on dads). So I'm beginning to wonder what I can do about it? In any case I'll check the GPU temp now.

 

[Drexon]

Ok, I've more or less narroved it down to the motherboard (MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R). 90% of the time I can't get paSt the (according to diagnostic lights) early chipset initialisation. But if it does get past that the screen and everything will come on, like now (this is my computer, first post was made on dads). So I'm beginning to wonder what I can do about it? In any case I'll check the GPU temp now.

Nm that, it froze up a couple of minutes after the message, seemingly without reason. Odd thing is that straight after it freezez I can't get past that early chipset ini that I talked about, only when I wait ~10 min can I get past that, any earlier attempts only leads to it freezing in the bootup sequence.

 

[Drexon]

Could it be that when I've removed all of my fans (exept PSU) the south bridge is getting too hot? I'm currently running a chassis fan and I've had no problems since.

 

[DaCocoBrova]

Why'd you go w/ water cooling?

 

[Drexon]

For the silence, Reserator 1.

I keep getting CMOS bad checksum errors, and for some reason, everytime I come to ga-forum I have to retype my login/pw. You think this'll run on the warranty? It IS malfunctioning and all, just my luck to have it malfuctioning right now. :/

Or if anyone has any better ideas as to how to fix it?

 

[Drexon]

So the enevidable happend.......

The mobo kept fucking with me and everything was just fucked up so I took some advice to unhook the water cooling and hook up the fan cooling again. When I loosend the spring that kept the cooling block on the CPU water came pouring out from nowhere. I screamed to the top of my loungs for my dad that was asleep to come help wich he did. In any case, due to my quick thinking I leaned the case so that the small amount of water would drip of the mobo "upwards". I dreid it up quickly and unhoooked the water cooling completely, but still, the god damned waterblock began to leak for no apparent reason. When I unhooked the hoses the packings were bone dry, there was even some lint stuck there that wasn't even wet. So I'm suspecting that it's a construction error. In any case I'm calling warranty on both the mobo and the water cooling. What a day.

 

[goodcow]

Moral of the story... don't use water cooling?

 

[Drexon]

Turns out this is a common thing, more or less. The water block is sometimes badly assembled and leaks between the blue aluminium part of the block and the gold plated heat transferring part of the block due to whatever. In any case It's _fully_ covered by the warranty and since today's sunday I won't be getting in contact with any1, but I'm sure the ones who sold it to me will be more than helpful in getting me a new waterblock and pay for any motherboard damages.