The Elders' House of Pain
Public Forum => Talk Back => Topic started by: Timmay!!! on July 12, 2005, 02:40:23 PM
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I think I might have the record of most motherboards fried in a short period of time :headbang: I have put 17 RMA's into ABIT and 1 into newegg for motherboards that have been fried.
Here is what the problem was. I am watercooling and my first board the hoops broke off of the northbridge to hold down the heatsink(waterblock). RMA'd it since the northbridge fried. Got another one in and but my watercooling stuff in and i think another hoop pulled out :(. RMA'd it again. Then I did something with the cpu waterblock mounting bracket that evidently was a bad idea. I took off these spacing nuts because I didn't have much thread to screw the nylon nuts under the motherboard, so by doing this it gave me more thread to work with to tighten it down. Evidently the aluminum bracket was touching a glockgen chip or something like that and as soon as I would hit power it would fry the board. It would turn the fan 1/2 time and that was it. Power everything down clear cmos and everything and turn on, 1/2 turn. I went through many many many of these, either it would work for 1-2 minutes or it would not even turn anything on. I got one in that as soon as I plugged the power cord into the powersupply the whole thing just turned on :? I would've been cool with that, except it wouldn't boot. I love abit and stand by their RMA process. Most of those boards I fried and it was my fault, but there were a few that just wouldn't turn on in the first place, this was before I removed the spacers. All and all it cost me nothing for all of that and I would have like 7 IC7-Max3's sitting in my room lol. After the first bad board they were repeat rma's and they shipped it second day air for free each time. I called them and appoligized and said somethingwas hanging off the back of the motherboad tray and kept shorting it and I found the problem(I lied) Love Abit, by far best RMA company I have ever dealt with P.S. Yes I was stupid frying that many boards, but you just don't understand, it usually took me 4 hours to uninstall, reinstall, route wires, make pretty every board I went through, it was a headach and a half
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That's why you should always use Mr. Green's motherboard of choice, Asus. :mrgreen:
ps: rather than trying to install that watercooling kit by yourself why not let the Geek Squad at Best Buy install it for you. They will point you in the right direction. Just tell them you know xTc and you should be all set. :-D
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rgr that :evil:
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Those Geek Squad people dont like me. If only those fuckers would have put it in, there wouldnt be a problem. But now im glad, because i did it myself.
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xTc, they could make a sit-com about you. It would be funny. Your sitcom name would be Balky and you would be a sheep herder.
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i have a perfect title, it would be called, Perfect Strangers
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lol you said balky :)
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Obviously Timmay, you have no idea what your doing!!! :iamwithstupid:
Please halt all furthur experiments with your water kits, and let us all sleep in peace!!
Thanks in advance,
Widow
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I almost got kicked out of an old clan because I could never practice, like they did anyway, but it was just a mess. Luckily I have 4 computers and I always had it on other comps, just without the good video cards :(. I am interested in doing some TEC cooling, but I don't feel like taking another motherboad out of this case ever again. With all the tubing that is going in and out of the case that is stiff and doesn't like to move much it is just a hassle. I hate working on my main comp :(
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www.dell.com www.gateway.com www.alienware.com www.hp.com TIME TO buy something already built :( hahahha i have fried 2 mobo's building comps, 1 proc. The mobo's touched the case when it wasnt grounded, or i wasnt BAM FRIED, the proc was installed by my friends dad, but this was my first comp and he forgot to pull the sticker off the back that held the grease, and it burnt a hole through everything that was the funnist fire EVER. well thems my apples.
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wow it seems so. I have seen my roomates PSU catch fire. We were just sitting around and our desks were against eachother back to back. He had a big lian li server tower and all of a sudden thick smoke started pouring out of the back of his case. I jumped up while he jumped up. I went for the switch on the back of the psu as he went for the plug. Evidently a cold cathode inverter caused the fire. It was sweet. Enermax's are not suppost to catch fire ;)