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cooper_inc1 · 3 Weeks Ago

The main issue here is that he has used colored coolant, so drying out may not even save the board since it is most likely going to stain. If this was distilled water, a 24 hour dry out time would bring that baby right back to life.

**ira-k** · 3 Weeks Ago

Well you have to wipe it down to, if there is even a leak...

It would boot with the 8-pin unplugged? Was he getting beeps? I never saw that.

It may/be ground out somewhere if that happened. Or he already cooked his board turning it on and off if he had a leak.

cooper_inc1 · 3 Weeks Ago

Yea earlier on in the thread, went through some time of trouble shooting to find it was the 8 pin that is causing this problem. My strongest guess is a leak, but he is swearing to not having any leak problems, which definitely does not add up.

**ira-k** · 3 Weeks Ago

I missed that part. He just needs to break it down out of the case and trouble shoot it since a Clear CMOS and card, ram re-seats didn't work.

He could have a leak, or just be grounded out or something. Who knows. It's nice of you to try and help him all this time though, hope he appreciates it!..

txtsd · 2 Weeks Ago

I have tests this week which is why i cant be on here all the time. I really hate having to manage schoolwork and this clusterfcuk

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Originally Posted by r31ncarnat3d

Have you tried the silent treatment or making it sleep on the couch until it stops being stubborn?

yes lol

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Originally Posted by cooper_inc1

Its probalby time to get drastic now and just remove the entire motherboard from the case. Its probably best to do external testing now. You need to remove everything from the board, including the processor. If you have a sound pin plugged in, your board will give you a beep code to give you a heads up its working properly when you try to boot it again. What I would do is just take it out of the case for right now, and just continue letting it set for another day at least. Something could still be moist and shorting out.

If through all this you still can't get it to power up without shorting out, an RMA is definitely in order.

my board doesnt beep afaik, it does have a Debug LED though.

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Originally Posted by nub

You are right. Googled these symptoms and found old thread about same thing on another forum.
http://www.hometheaterforum.com/foru...in-cpu-atx-12v
It turned out to be a grounding issue there. Either some water got into the 8 pin connector or perhaps underneath? In any case somewhere where it should not have. Using a hair dryer may help speed up drying out any water. I wonder if a vacuum would also help get any droplets of water out of the board.

yup that's exactly what's happening.

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Originally Posted by ira-k

Well you have to wipe it down to, if there is even a leak...

It would boot with the 8-pin unplugged? Was he getting beeps? I never saw that.

It may/be ground out somewhere if that happened. Or he already cooked his board turning it on and off if he had a leak.

my board isnt cooked. I k now cuz when i power up witout the CPU connector, the Debug LED sits at an 'FF' which is the code for 'boot'. no CPU, no boot obviously :P

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Originally Posted by cooper_inc1

The main issue here is that he has used colored coolant, so drying out may not even save the board since it is most likely going to stain. If this was distilled water, a 24 hour dry out time would bring that baby right back to life.

colored coolant doesnt evaporate or something?

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Originally Posted by ira-k

I missed that part. He just needs to break it down out of the case and trouble shoot it since a Clear CMOS and card, ram re-seats didn't work.

He could have a leak, or just be grounded out or something. Who knows. It's nice of you to try and help him all this time though, hope he appreciates it!..

I appreciate all u guys taking the time to help me out!