Firing up the Phase!

Awesome man...Check out my H2O build I'm doing as we speak..!!

In my sig..

Good luck buddy!

Big zero so far--I followed the instructions and nothing happened--well the Chilly1 turned on. counted down and then chilled to -23 then went into an idle mode or something--never turned on the pC.

Not sure what to do--so I am waiting for the count down again.

Sure hope I can figure this out.

ooo awesome, can't wait

I hear ya CD..I'm still trying to figure out questions I have about H2O stuff..Since I'm building right now...and am trying to finish by tonight!

Good luck with it, I cant wait to get my phase setup installed and running.Ive already been busy lapping the new northbridge cooler.

Well I am on top of the phase now--it is on at -41C. The problem now is trying to get the ABit board to see the DVD drive so i can load Windows. I have tried everything...I hate stupid stuff like this. All I can think is that the 18X DVD RAM drive is somehow not registering as a CD ROM. No sign of it in BIOS or POST and all I get is a disk read error when I try to load windows...ARRRRGH

Pictures? =D

Well I am running an Abit AA8XE that has one IDE and a mess of SATA and I do not see the DVD drive in POST or BIOS--it just does not show.

I dug up an old CD ROM and am about to give it a try now

Jumpers?

Pics please!!!!

Worse news...now the board will not start at all..not sure what is going on so i just cleared CMOS and am waiting for the countdown.

I mean nothing--I can bridge the PW SW pins on the header and nada--the board ia ll lit up and the digital display read 0.0 and that's all she wrote...

I sure hope I didn't kill that pretty board.

Wait, did you use AS5 in between the CPU and phase head? Because I herd that can kill stuff, you are suppose to use a non-conductive thermal compound.

What about dielectric grease?

yea iwth phase the AS5 isnt good, you need the ceramique for temps below 0 IIRC

Make sure that no condensation is visible on the board....Anywhere.

Does the rig boot sans pahse?

He rec'd a fresh tube of ceramique with the chilly1.

Board lights up --will not start. Cleared CMOS twice with the PSU unplugged. Swapped RAM. I dunno.

One thing I did that was pretty stupid was I saw a stored BIOS setting in the load form profiles area of BIOS and I loaded it...it was for 4.5 ghz with the RAM running 1:1. Maybe some other tweaks...I dunno. I would not think that would kill it though. Not sure what I did or what happened. The phase works except that it does not switch the board on so even with a seperate switch nothing. I tried the onboard power and resets--nothing. Nice light and a nice digital readout (0.0) but nothing happens.

Pretty sorry state of affairs and I can only blame myself.

Really a drag.