water leak HELP!!!!

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Ignorantguy

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just a little bit ago i was playing TW 06 and screen was flashing off and on. i thought it might be my generic dvi cable but it wasnt until i lookin inside my case and saw the cpu block leaking on my video card. i immediately yank the power cord and take the card out, completely disassemble it to get the liquid off the best i can. i used an MCT-5 liquid with uv green dye. so the main question is my card ****ed. im thinking it is. should i use alcohol and a q-tip to get the worse up? i dont know what to do. please help.
 
Im not an expert on the topic, but i would use Isopropal Alcohol and try to get as much as i can up.

And this is the reason i dont like water cooling :P
 
Ignorantguy said:
just a little bit ago i was playing TW 06 and screen was flashing off and on. i thought it might be my generic dvi cable but it wasnt until i lookin inside my case and saw the cpu block leaking on my video card. i immediately yank the power cord and take the card out, completely disassemble it to get the liquid off the best i can. i used an MCT-5 liquid with uv green dye. so the main question is my card ****ed. im thinking it is. should i use alcohol and a q-tip to get the worse up? i dont know what to do. please help.
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You can wash the entite card in distilled water, as long as you give it plenty of time to dry out it will be ok.
 
I'm not an expert in electronics, but I am an expert in water. I'm a plumber. I'd have to say that I can't imagine your card is fried. If it was working when you unplugged it then you should be fine. I realize it was acting up, but as long as you had some sort of signal before you unplugged it then that tells me you were possibly on the verge of frying it. Water, however not the best for electronics, isn't actually that great of a conductor.

Why are you looking to put alchohol on it? As a plumber I've use alchohol to help break down some caulk/silicone to clean up jobs. I'm not sure what it would do to your card.

I would also agree w/ the other poster, don't plug it back in untill you are SURE that it's dry. Just because it looks dry, doesn't mean thier isn't condensation somwhere inside something. Also, if you have any kind of moist air anywhere, once you plug it back in and the temps start to go up, the dewpoint is reached which may cause condensation. Just be absolutley positive it's dry.

Just wanted to make sure that all this was taken into consideration. Post the outcome, I'm interested to hear how you make out.

Good luck!
 
i got some on my mobo too. took it out and cleaned it throughly with alcohol and compressed air to clean out the pci slots. the reason i used alcohol is the coolant was a mixture of mct-5 and uv reactive tracer made for automobiles which produced an oily substance. alcohol helped break it down. however i know it has some corrosive properties but i used very little and i am confident that i havent furthered the damage. id say that 95% of it is cleaned up. i am not that concered about the mobo just the video card cause that was the biggest investment along with the cpu. no more water cooling for me.
 
Ignorantguy said:
i got some on my mobo too. took it out and cleaned it throughly with alcohol and compressed air to clean out the pci slots. the reason i used alcohol is the coolant was a mixture of mct-5 and uv reactive tracer made for automobiles which produced an oily substance. alcohol helped break it down. however i know it has some corrosive properties but i used very little and i am confident that i havent furthered the damage. id say that 95% of it is cleaned up. i am not that concered about the mobo just the video card cause that was the biggest investment along with the cpu. no more water cooling for me.
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This is partialy the reason i got rid of my water kit. I also had a aquagate. The other reason is i blew the pump lol. Besides that you can get the same temps with decent air, and a lot less money lol.
 
everyones dissing water cooling "cos it leaks" it only leaks if its poorly installed or not maintained (i.e. the user lets the head pressure get too high etc...) i had it for quite a while, the only reason i got rid of it was cos the pump died on me.

Anyway, as the plumber said, if it was working when you pulled it out, im pretty sure it will be fine when it goes back in, unless you manage to fry it with static when your cleaning it, make sure your earthed when you do that....

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beleive it or not a lot of electronic assemblies, like mainboards are cleaned , or use to be cleaned in what looked like dishwashers to clean solder paste off of the mainboard or anything from wave soldering or manufacturing. My experiences with shorting out computer electronics is smoke , followed by a burning fiberglass smell. If you did not see smoke or smell a burning or loud pop / snap... more than likely you are good to go, though the vid card still may not work perfectly. It is possible to damage the logic.
 
After being in electronics repair for 6 years I personally would use a high quality Flux Remover to clean any circuit board. It is designed to remove the resin from the solder that is left over when soldering. It will take care of any residue left over from the dye or what ever. It is also static free. I bought mine at Microcenter.
 
CallofKtulu said:
Thats what you get when you buy cheap water cooling kits.
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Or if you don't install them right, you can have the best water cooling in the world, but if you mount it incorrectly, oups LEAK! :P
 
sniperchang said:
Or if you don't install them right, you can have the best water cooling in the world, but if you mount it incorrectly, oups LEAK! :P
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Well, I'm assuming he took more then five minutes to install it, other wise you would be correct. But kits that are pre made, usually aren't the best quaility therfor can leak even if installed perfectly.

Not to mention, prebuilt kits usually don't help your temps at all, just a noise solution I guess.
 
Sacrinyellow5 said:
I never understood why running water through your computer would be a good idea... I guess it's just trendy...
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Farther overclocks, reducing noise.

However, those two don't mix. If you want to overclock, your fan cooling your heater core will be noisy. If you want low noise, well, do the opposite, don't overclock and keep the fan on low.

Noise reducing is pointless for me though, I usually have music blasting, therfor can't hear anything outside of my headphones.
 
well....everything is working fine. at first i thought the seal on the waterblock was the problem but it was a cracked block. i dont know how it happened. ive been runnin this cooling sys since august so i know i installed it right. im guessin it was faulty craftmanship. im gonna call coolermaster tell them they need to replace it. then im goin to sell the whole sys and build my own. i do somewhat agree with you guys plus im not diggin the 1/4'' ID tubing. so, everything is working fine.
 
Water cooling's only for overclockers, but once big companies saw how cool it looked and how only fast computers used it, they decided to market it and sell it to the wanna be "l33t c0mput3r users" who just had to hook it up and go to make there computers look fast and cool.

Personally I wouldn't trust any pre-built water cooling kit, a custom build assures quality parts and connections. "You get what you pay for" rings a bell here. Glad it's all fixed though, there were lots of good suggestions in this thread about how to remedy the problem.
 
I didn't know that you could put a card in water and it will still work! You just have to wait for it to dry that why it doesn't fry anything?
 
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