- Joined
- Jan 8, 2004
- Location
- Nebraska
Today I finally got around to rearanging my tubing, cutting some of it off to make the loop smaller and less congested in my case.... Finished that and put it all back together, filled it and bled it, then proceeded to play hl2, then my comp reset. so i booted it back up and got into windows, it reset again. I shut everything off and started probing around my computer with a flashlight when i found a puddle of water on my 9800 xt. i almost crapped a brick. It was leaking from a cracked poly top on my dtek white water cpu block down onto the nb and onto my card. I immediatly took everything apart and gave it an alcohal bath. i let it dry and it looks fine, no corrosion or anything. I dont know how in the world it worked with a puddle of water on top of it. The leak was slow, so obviously it had water on it for a while and then finnally hit something that made it bomb. the funny thing is, it still works fine(tried it in a freinds comp)! pretty sweet. but yeah, the point of my post >> is there any good way to seal a cracked poly top? I looked around the forum and the only answer i could find was to buy a new poly top and o ring. I would like to try and fix it myself before i buy something. How would epoxy work? or some rtv gasket maker(sealant)? i think i could just seal the crack with it and create and o ring out the the gasket maker. has anyone had any luck with this type of approach? thanks for the help!