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Dell 46MHW Alienware R3 Motherboard (LGA1155 intel socket)
2x4gb 1600mhz corsair vengeance ram
i7 processor 3.4Ghz
2x 500gb hd, not running raid
ATI Radeon 5870 x2 crossfire was enabled
the other day my liquid cooling leaked into 1 of my 2 gpu's. it must have been happening for a while because the gpu was pretty corroded when i looked at it afterwards. no sign of liquid on motherboard though.
i went to sleep with an almost finished episode of tonight show with jimmy fallon streaming from the internet. that was the only thing running.
when i woke up the day my wife told me she shut the computer off because it had a really loud fan noise. i tried to start up the computer, the "loud fan noise" came on immediately. i opened the case and the top GPU was filled with liquid. i removed it, tried with other gpu that was still installed, didn't run up. it did sound normal this time though. the fans booted up a little noisy (like normal) then went quiet, but there is nothing showing on the screen.
i do not have onboard graphics either so i couldn't check if that gpu was bad as well. I'm pretty new to this desktop thing as this is my first desktop.
so heres whats happening now. I've removed all usb items to count them out. I'm hooked up in slot one of my gpu port, I've tried #2 as well, I've used p14 and 15 (power for gpu cards) and also have tried p16 & p17. neither of them do anything different. gpu starts up normal, fan is spinning quietly on this gpu. I've let everything sit overnight to dry and same thing happens;
when i start the computer the screen is black, the display does not show anything, it recognizes something is there because it automatically goes to hdmi input when computer is powered up, but still says please check source. also I've noticed that the usb ports are not starting up if i leave them in, i have a bluetooth dongle and a wifi usb that never light up with LEDs, (as they would if the computer was booting up) so i don't think the gpu is the problem as far as the black screen.
so my questions from here is,
-could my motherboard be bad? i get no beeping when starting up pc, i have no diagnostic lights i can see.
-maybe my other gpu is bad as well? (I'm going to let my friend put in his pc to try it out later this week)
-or worst of all, does that mean my cpu has gone? is this a symptom of cpu?
ive removed the liquid cooling for now as i don't want it to drip on my "good" gpu, so i need a good heat sink fan for cpu cooling, any good ones between $50-$80? I'm done with liquid cooling after this mess.
if you read all of this, thanks for your time, i really appreciate the help.
thanks
Dell 46MHW Alienware R3 Motherboard (LGA1155 intel socket)
2x4gb 1600mhz corsair vengeance ram
i7 processor 3.4Ghz
2x 500gb hd, not running raid
ATI Radeon 5870 x2 crossfire was enabled
the other day my liquid cooling leaked into 1 of my 2 gpu's. it must have been happening for a while because the gpu was pretty corroded when i looked at it afterwards. no sign of liquid on motherboard though.
i went to sleep with an almost finished episode of tonight show with jimmy fallon streaming from the internet. that was the only thing running.
when i woke up the day my wife told me she shut the computer off because it had a really loud fan noise. i tried to start up the computer, the "loud fan noise" came on immediately. i opened the case and the top GPU was filled with liquid. i removed it, tried with other gpu that was still installed, didn't run up. it did sound normal this time though. the fans booted up a little noisy (like normal) then went quiet, but there is nothing showing on the screen.
i do not have onboard graphics either so i couldn't check if that gpu was bad as well. I'm pretty new to this desktop thing as this is my first desktop.
so heres whats happening now. I've removed all usb items to count them out. I'm hooked up in slot one of my gpu port, I've tried #2 as well, I've used p14 and 15 (power for gpu cards) and also have tried p16 & p17. neither of them do anything different. gpu starts up normal, fan is spinning quietly on this gpu. I've let everything sit overnight to dry and same thing happens;
when i start the computer the screen is black, the display does not show anything, it recognizes something is there because it automatically goes to hdmi input when computer is powered up, but still says please check source. also I've noticed that the usb ports are not starting up if i leave them in, i have a bluetooth dongle and a wifi usb that never light up with LEDs, (as they would if the computer was booting up) so i don't think the gpu is the problem as far as the black screen.
so my questions from here is,
-could my motherboard be bad? i get no beeping when starting up pc, i have no diagnostic lights i can see.
-maybe my other gpu is bad as well? (I'm going to let my friend put in his pc to try it out later this week)
-or worst of all, does that mean my cpu has gone? is this a symptom of cpu?
ive removed the liquid cooling for now as i don't want it to drip on my "good" gpu, so i need a good heat sink fan for cpu cooling, any good ones between $50-$80? I'm done with liquid cooling after this mess.
if you read all of this, thanks for your time, i really appreciate the help.
thanks
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