- Joined
- Nov 20, 2003
- Location
- Sydney Australia
Well, i finally got my watercooling up and running (in sig) but as i was manhandling that Maze 4 down onto the north bridge, one clip flew off the board and because i only had two clips in place, the other pushed the NB down and i heard a small cackling sound. Quickly took the Maze 4 off the NB and saw the side of the NB was chipped.
Fast forward a bit i finish setting up my rig and i haul it over to my desk (damn this is one heavy mofo, weighs in at least 30kg), plug it in and switch it on. Fans spin up, pump starts moving the water, lights turn on, CPU starts to heat up, but no video output. I reset CMOS, nothing... I just get a blank screen and a lit HDD activity LED, which turns off after about 3 minutes. I put ramsinks on the video card before, so i thought it may be that, quickly take it to my dad's rig, screw it in and fire it up. 15 minutes later, im greeted with a windows xp screen. No problem there. The other possibility is the mobo being screwed because of the chipped NB.
Before i put the Maze 4 in again, i cut the springs so that the pressure is much lighter. That should fix the problem, but i really do wish Asus put a shim around their NBs.
Anyway, i had my com sit for a while without the screen on and hey, im getting great results from my watercooling. 5 degree celcius drop in idle from air cooling.
The DangerDen RBX is actually alot easier to install than alot of other people say it is.
Anyway, that's it from me. I guess ill see if my dad lets me buy a replacement tomorrow. If not :
Fast forward a bit i finish setting up my rig and i haul it over to my desk (damn this is one heavy mofo, weighs in at least 30kg), plug it in and switch it on. Fans spin up, pump starts moving the water, lights turn on, CPU starts to heat up, but no video output. I reset CMOS, nothing... I just get a blank screen and a lit HDD activity LED, which turns off after about 3 minutes. I put ramsinks on the video card before, so i thought it may be that, quickly take it to my dad's rig, screw it in and fire it up. 15 minutes later, im greeted with a windows xp screen. No problem there. The other possibility is the mobo being screwed because of the chipped NB.
Before i put the Maze 4 in again, i cut the springs so that the pressure is much lighter. That should fix the problem, but i really do wish Asus put a shim around their NBs.
Anyway, i had my com sit for a while without the screen on and hey, im getting great results from my watercooling. 5 degree celcius drop in idle from air cooling.
The DangerDen RBX is actually alot easier to install than alot of other people say it is.
Anyway, that's it from me. I guess ill see if my dad lets me buy a replacement tomorrow. If not :