Hey guys,
Two weekends ago I went to boot up my PC in the morning. It powered up, but didn't boot and I was left with blank monitors before it shut itself off. I decided to try and open it up and dust it, and picked it up to move it to the floor to do so. As I did, I hear liquid hit the desk, then felt it on my leg and saw it on the floor. I knew it wasn't water as it had a yellow/green/blueish tint to it. I opened up the case and saw the same liquid dripping down the mother board, onto my graphics card and onto my power supply before pooling in the bottom of the case. I took out the cooling system and I did my best to soak up what I could with a towel and wiped what I could off with a damp one. I started researching and sent CoolIt Systems an e-mail. They responded with "Blah blah out of warranty" bull, then told me to dunk it all in distilled water. I didn't feel comfortable doing that so I brought it in to my local shop.
After a few days I got a call saying my computer was ready. They took out my video card and put in a new one, replaced the liquid cooling with a heat sink and some fans and seemed to have it up and running again. I came home with it yesterday, hooked it up and everything seemed fine. Today it worked fine, did my normal stuff, listened to music etc. This evening I decided to catch up on some shows I hadn't watched since being without my PC, which I stream from my PC to my TV. In the middle of watching, suddenly it froze, then I lost the connection to the PC. I went over to check and it had froze. I reset it and I was back to the old problem, blank screens, though it didn't shut itself down this time. I removed all the RAM and booted, as I saw that was a typical test, but got no beeps that I'm apparently supposed to get by doing that. With my motherboard, there's a VGA switch card I'm supposed to keep in if I'm not running multiple video cards, It sits right under where the liquid cooling was and when I pulled it out it was covered in a white powder and there was some blue/greenish dust on the connectors that looked like corrosion, but it wiped clean pretty easily. So I'm thinking it could have gotten into a lot more on my board and that could be the issue, but I have no idea.
I'm not sure what else to try here, but this is pretty frustrating. As of now I'm out a $500 video card, a $333.35 bill at the shop and all I've got is some bull from CoolIt Systems and they kindly linked me to where I can buy another of their products. I'm probably going to bring my computer in to the shop again tomorrow, but I imagine some of you might have info on this kind of thing and I'm open to suggestions, they'd be greatly appreciated. Any info you guys need from me, just let me know. Thanks in advance.
Two weekends ago I went to boot up my PC in the morning. It powered up, but didn't boot and I was left with blank monitors before it shut itself off. I decided to try and open it up and dust it, and picked it up to move it to the floor to do so. As I did, I hear liquid hit the desk, then felt it on my leg and saw it on the floor. I knew it wasn't water as it had a yellow/green/blueish tint to it. I opened up the case and saw the same liquid dripping down the mother board, onto my graphics card and onto my power supply before pooling in the bottom of the case. I took out the cooling system and I did my best to soak up what I could with a towel and wiped what I could off with a damp one. I started researching and sent CoolIt Systems an e-mail. They responded with "Blah blah out of warranty" bull, then told me to dunk it all in distilled water. I didn't feel comfortable doing that so I brought it in to my local shop.
After a few days I got a call saying my computer was ready. They took out my video card and put in a new one, replaced the liquid cooling with a heat sink and some fans and seemed to have it up and running again. I came home with it yesterday, hooked it up and everything seemed fine. Today it worked fine, did my normal stuff, listened to music etc. This evening I decided to catch up on some shows I hadn't watched since being without my PC, which I stream from my PC to my TV. In the middle of watching, suddenly it froze, then I lost the connection to the PC. I went over to check and it had froze. I reset it and I was back to the old problem, blank screens, though it didn't shut itself down this time. I removed all the RAM and booted, as I saw that was a typical test, but got no beeps that I'm apparently supposed to get by doing that. With my motherboard, there's a VGA switch card I'm supposed to keep in if I'm not running multiple video cards, It sits right under where the liquid cooling was and when I pulled it out it was covered in a white powder and there was some blue/greenish dust on the connectors that looked like corrosion, but it wiped clean pretty easily. So I'm thinking it could have gotten into a lot more on my board and that could be the issue, but I have no idea.
I'm not sure what else to try here, but this is pretty frustrating. As of now I'm out a $500 video card, a $333.35 bill at the shop and all I've got is some bull from CoolIt Systems and they kindly linked me to where I can buy another of their products. I'm probably going to bring my computer in to the shop again tomorrow, but I imagine some of you might have info on this kind of thing and I'm open to suggestions, they'd be greatly appreciated. Any info you guys need from me, just let me know. Thanks in advance.