urgent help!!!!

[George Hallam]

Ok well I finally got all my parts on Wednesday and I started putting them all together slowly but surely but sadly my parents took the digital cam on holiday with them so no work log the cam I had to borrow from my neighbor to take these pictures but anyways back on track. I flushed the rad, cleaned and checked (not leak tested ) the new blocks CPU, GTX 280 FC, mofset and NB block and installed them all pretty smoothly I got my PC all build up all fans HDD, MOBO and everything all ready started my smaller loop all fine no leaks I was very happy but then..

I come to start my second loop and the coolant slowly but surely moved through the loops (should it be slow with a 355 with acrylic top?) I fixed the small leak on the rad and then I noticed that the EK supreme block itself was leaking :O all over my MOBO the rubber seal on the block itself was not water tight!!! So after an hour of removing it and using PTFE rolled up in the channel the give the rubber more pressure when I closed the block I tested it by filling it with water and blowing air in and it was solved so I went back to put it in jump started the PSU again and the coolant again moved slowly up the rad
And trickled yes tricked down back into the res, also from where I had removed the block there was a massive air bubble about 6 cm long in the pipe between my CPU block and GPU block that would not move. I am really stuck and not sure what to do does my pump not have enough power to push the water up to the rad? Have I done something wrong? Is the unmoveable air bubble the cause of the problem or the result, its late now and after being really stressed I have tidied up and going to wait untill morning . Please can someone help me. I really need some expert advice that will work :D

Thank you george

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i know there are not many if any water cooling pros here but the water cooling site is down and i know you guys are a clever bunch ;) :D

[mjc]

How much free play do you have in that upper line?

Do you have enough to lay the rad on the desk?

[George Hallam]

nah i dont Xtreme forum is up and running and some said

Oh I've gone through this.
You wait and keep bleeding it.. could take hours
I flick the switch on and off until it can get the bubble up.. Took me 4 hours to bleed a loop once.. was a


so i will spend tomorrow take tubes out etc and fixing fingers crossed

lol i spent a lot of $$$ on this i dont want it to go wrong :(


p.s thanks for the reply MJC

[mjc]

If there was enough free play in the lines to move it so gravity could lend a hand, the bleed would go a bit faster, but...yeah, that's about all you can do.

[George Hallam]

im just glad its not the pump faulty its killing me not having my PC lol

and going from PC to a laptop its not nice :p

i will bleed it tomorrow bright and early and hopefully get it running by evening :D

[George Hallam]

ok im on my computer :D

had soo many problems

- I found what the problem was it was the CPU block, i but the copper base the wrong way round when repairing it so that solved the flow problem

- Whilst removing the CPU block some water leaked from the tube onto the graphics card PCB (little to my knowing) so once it got it all flowing nice was time for boot up

-Sorted out my HDD priority got into windows and all was fine for 3-4 mins until the screen went all the colours of the rainbow, so turned off reset CMOS (thinking it may be just a voltage problem or RAM) and it still happened

- So by this time i was very annoyed (wasn't sure whether to laugh, cry or smash the thing to bits :p) so got the old canned air out and blew it blew it into the GPU and to my amazement water came out!! so then the fun began

- i had to get the GPU out of the loop with out attempting the loop, or taking it all to pieces to i carefully unscrewed the block from the GPU and looked at a nice wet GTX 280, so then after about 10 mins are drying and blow drying i installed it again with high hopes hit the power button and still the same problem so i sat, sat some more then went to eat.

- Once i was full up and not to pi$$ed off i sat at my PC and thought back to when i had the same sort of problem with my 8800GTX and it was solved by a simple driver re-install so got into windows squinting and working out were everything was with my super fuzzy screen and uninstalled my drivers (i highly doubted this would work as the problem was still there before windows booted and in the BIOS) so i restarted and to my amazement it was fixed

- after re-installing my sound drivers (they uninstalled themselves some how :confused:) i restarted again and once back in windows the drivers just kept stopped responding so i uninstalled and it was fine again, so i just re-downloaded the same drivers again (latest from nvidia) and all has been fine since


So im keeping my fingers crossed

i will take some pictures to night or tomorrow because my parents thought it would be nice to take my camera on holiday with them http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/images/smilies/shrug.gif so that was/would have been my epic worklog down the drain. But o well i am happy with the results

temps are good

case temp/room temp 32.9c

CPU 43c idle and 53c full load
GPU 46c idle and 56c full load

MOBO NB from 68c (with air) to 44c

its still summer and hot in my room i cant wait for winter :p also i think my double rad may not be enough to cool my CPU and GPU as well as it could maybe a new rad may be in order :p


the only thing in this build was two LED's for my pump (i was well disappointed lol) but all my fault hardwired them to the 12v pin on the molex instead of the 5v


well we learn from our mistakes and i have done a lot of learning over the past 4 days :D