- Joined
- Oct 29, 2001
- Location
- St. Paul, MN
Heres the story...(kinda long)....built a system in a custom box and determined I wanted to go to water because of the noise/airflow problems. it was my media box so it was hooked up to the TV. Setup the water system on the same board/cpu (Abit) and the Cpu wouldn't even post and I used an ol POS monitor I have in the basement to test during the setup. Thought maybe I could have crushed the core installing the waterblock but it looked fine. I went out and bought a new CPU and the same thing happened...hooked it up and wouldnt even post, beep, flash or anything...jsut the HD and power LEDs came on. Took that CPU back and got another one that we tested to work at the shop and same damn thing again...another fried CPU no smell sound or post. Ok now I was mad and wanted to get this water rig running so I transfered all my parts from my server to the media box (mobo/cpu and HD) and it worked just fine but I only had hooked it up to the TV as the monitor. Now I got an old hand me down shuttle board and an 850 Duron to fill my server case and I tried to fire it up and again it wouldn't post.....same **** different day. I powered the board down and was resetting the Vid card and memory when I lightly touched the case with my wrist and I could feel the hairs on my arm start to tingle and it felt like tiny lite pin pricks. I turned off the power on the back of the power supply and I could still feel the slight current. I then uplugged the power cord and it was still there and I thought I was going nuts because i was starting to feel things that werent really there. I then realized I had the monitor still connected so I disconected it from the card and low and behold I couldnt feel anything anymore coming from the metal on the case.... Tryed it a few more times to see if I was nuts but I could feel the little shocks everytime I connected the monitor the the board. Well I am one PO mofo right now that I fried about 4 CPUs and 2 boards... hopefully found out what was causing it even though I dont know how or why its doing it........What do ya'll think am i crazy or could this really happen....
Jeff
Jeff