Antec 920 burst/leaked, looking for additional ways to troubleshoot my motherboard. - Page 2

Thanks for the info .

I've got another hour or so before customer service opens. Man I hope this can get resolved quickly, I going to miss the CQ BF3 launch as it is .

I hope so, I haven't had to RMA anything yet, so this will be a new experience, especially with the damage claims.

So update for everyone:

I got the system apart again last night, using the stock heatsink did not work and the residue is everywhere (even after I tried to clean it off the MB before I realized what it was). Right now my tab's being terribly slow in sending (email myself) the photos I took. After they send I'm going to start a "Khuler Chronicles" thread to document my customer service experience for others since it was almost impossible to find info via google, and OCN tends to pop up first when searching for geeky topics. Got my trouble ticket out to Antec (was a pain because of linux flash support, and antec doesn't like to provide alternates if the flash elements don't load), expecting a response today (hopefully, they dont open for another 4 hours). Shook the radiator again last night, has more air than I would expect in it.

Used Lunbuntu "LXDE" a little more last night. Sort of got flash to work (via chromiums internal plug-ins) and chromium is much more responsive than firefox, even after both are updated. The DE is similar enough to Windoze that it's easy to figure out where I need to go for things, still looking for my "advanced" set-up options though. I'll thy openbox tonight when I get home to see if responsiveness improves, but I'm thinking the main problem is I'm used to a SB system, with my SSD. I can't even use my SSD on this system because it's so old. .

I'll get another sig rig description up for it so you guys can laugh at me. I think it has a nVidia FX5550 or something of the 256mb nature (AGP, really old e-machines). It's so slow >. Where the hell is the hardware manager in these so I can find out exactly what hardware is in it?

Anyone interested in seeing photos?

edit: +rep for everyone!

@Smokin

I'll see what response I get from antec, it doesn't look like Christoph has been active recently, and I might need that email addy if I don't get a response to my trouble ticket today or tomorrow .

Thanks again! (I've got about 150mb worth of crisp photos of the affected parts!)
Edited by Nocturin - 6/12/12 at 6:53am

I'm glad I'm not the only one crazy enough to think it's ok (because it is) to send a MB through the dishwasher . All the components save the PSU and SSD/HDDs are out of the system and boxed up, waiting for the next step.

If Antec doesn't take care of it, this will be my next step. I haven't gone this route yet because I don't want to destroy evidence. I was thinking that It could possibly be flux, until I saw the back of the GPU:



The water-spots are on both the MB and GPU, and before I realized what it was (thought my son/wife/family dropped liquid through the top fan) tried to clean it off with some rubbing alchohol and q-tips (baby q-tips work better than normal q-tip, btw) but it was just smearing it around unless I took a cloth to "work" (pick-up) the residue off of the back of the MB. I don't see any burst caps or burn marks on the MB or GPU, so they could possibly work after a good cleaning to remove the short the residue is causing (crossing my fingers).

Oh, and the dishwasher method works great for dirty keyboards too!

So if antec doesn't take care of the damage, the GPU and CPU will be taking baths so that I can RMA them(if they don't work after the bath). .

I'll post a thread up soon called the "Khuler Chronicles" to document the process., I'll link here for those of you that are interested .
Edited by Nocturin - 6/12/12 at 7:35am