Oh no!!!!!!!

[max]

This is what happens when you run your watercooled PC with out the pump turned on!:

[swiftynz]

:eek:
omg dude, how much of your hardware died?

[ktulu]

:eek: why you running without the pump on (or was that not intentional?)

[max]

I guess the water expanded from being heated and stretched the weakest part of the tube. I never though this would happen (?).

The story: i told my girlfriend if she wants to go on the internet, then to dial up from my pc (shared connection), but i forgot to tell her that you have to turn on my pump first!
She said it made quite a loud bang when it burst and once she worked out what had happened just turned it off at the wall.
When i got home the water had dried up and there was bluey\green residue on my PSU, GFX, Mobo, sound card and a puddle in the bottom of my case.
I put the fan heater on it for a while the put a heatsink on and it all goes fine! :D sweet, i was very relieved/suprised :D.

BUT: All the bios settings stayed and it boot just as normal and in the bios it was still set to shut down at 60 degrees C. WTF??????
Does that mean it never got over 60 but burst a tube? i dont know.


heres a close up...

[Gremlin]

Awesome pic, glad nothing seems to have been broken on your rig.

[fraz]

i take there is no way any pressure in your system can escape??
I always ahd a little air in the fill pipe and a little holt in the top so it could expand and contract easily

[[H]arls]

Damn, you are one lucky SOB.
Im amazed nothing cooked. And also at your neglecting to leave out the tiny fact that, you needed to tell your GF turn the pump on. :eek:

[max]

Originally posted by fraz
i take there is no way any pressure in your system can escape??
I always ahd a little air in the fill pipe and a little holt in the top so it could expand and contract easily

It was a completely closed loop so the pressure had no where to go. I never would have thought this would happen though...

[KingJackal]

Reason #8217384974892 to just leave teh d@mn PC ON, and go 24/7 like I do....

But yeah man, it's entirely possible it didn't hit 60C. After all, if your G/F turned it off at the wall straight away, it would've had water in the block the whole time the CPU was powered ( most likely ). Still, close call! :eek:

[Artifice]

when my pump died. it boiled the blockl dry but it didnt doanything nasty to the hoses.
eheim silicon hose. very good. computer just crashed a LOT till i figured out what was wrong. mind you my system wasnt a closed loop.

[paul rhee]

geez... thats why you want to use a relay :-)

[max]

Originally posted by paul rhee
geez... thats why you want to use a relay :-)

Yeah i think i'll make one of those now :)

[jeef]

i might dummy mine around to the power-supply, ive got one with plug for monitor aswell..

[-DC-]

where can you get one of those air flow meters like the onw on tomshardware w/c vid? thats like a fan sensor thing which tells you if there is flow inside your PC...

[Method]

Dont you leave the pump on 24/7? i thought there made to be on all the time? and that is harms them if you turn them off and on like once or twice a day?

[-DC-]

Originally posted by Method
Dont you leave the pump on 24/7? i thought there made to be on all the time? and that is harms them if you turn them off and on like once or twice a day?

yeah... i leave mine on 24/7 unless i go out for like a weekend holiday or longer :p