Ok, so I'm in a bit of a tough spot, and I'm just looking for some advice/opinions from some of you fine folks that are much more experienced at this than me. Here are the details:
So I completed my first build in January and everything went smoothly. A couple of months ago I was doing some work on my computer when all of a sudden the monitors cut out. My immediate thought was that somehow the monitors went to sleep, so I sat there for a few seconds clicking my mouse and keyboard trying to wake them up. I then took a look inside my case and saw that my waterblock had failed and was dripping coolant onto the GPU positioned below. I immediately powered down, then removed the card and drained the loop. Here's where my real problems begin.
Upon opening up the case and before powering down, it looked like everything was still operating as normal, just the GPU had died due to the liquid. I perhaps foolishly assumed that the extent of the damage lied with the GPU alone. So I filed an RMA with EKWB because of their failed block, and only this past week had a chance to try and get things up and running again. They replaced my waterblock and offered compensation for the GPU. So I hooked everything back up this weekend, powered up, and this is what I'm left with:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vyZ-YZVBeR8
My motherboard appears to be stuck in a loop when trying to start up. You'll notice in the video link that there is no GPU in there. I removed it just to get a better view of what was happening. The same loop was stuck when the GPU was inserted, and I got no signal to my monitor during this loop.
So basically what I'm trying to figure out is, what other possible damage could have been done when the original GPU was leaked on?
I know it's impossible for anyone to say for sure, but I'm just trying to get an idea of what I'm working with here. As I said, this was my first build, so I'm relatively new to this stuff and haven't had to do a lot of troubleshooting before. I'm also at a loss on how to test my other components. I don't have access to another machine or can think of anyone who has one to test my other parts.
So any advice on this matter would be greatly appreciated. I've opened up a support ticket with ASUS to see if they can chime in on the motherboard behavior. I've also notified EKWB about more potential damage, which I really hope won't present an issue since I originally notified them I thought it was only the GPU at play.
For what it's worth, here are the parts of my build:
ASUS X99-M WS
i7 5960X
Original damaged GPU was QUADRO M4000, my replacement is GTX 1080
Samsung 950
32 GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance
So I completed my first build in January and everything went smoothly. A couple of months ago I was doing some work on my computer when all of a sudden the monitors cut out. My immediate thought was that somehow the monitors went to sleep, so I sat there for a few seconds clicking my mouse and keyboard trying to wake them up. I then took a look inside my case and saw that my waterblock had failed and was dripping coolant onto the GPU positioned below. I immediately powered down, then removed the card and drained the loop. Here's where my real problems begin.
Upon opening up the case and before powering down, it looked like everything was still operating as normal, just the GPU had died due to the liquid. I perhaps foolishly assumed that the extent of the damage lied with the GPU alone. So I filed an RMA with EKWB because of their failed block, and only this past week had a chance to try and get things up and running again. They replaced my waterblock and offered compensation for the GPU. So I hooked everything back up this weekend, powered up, and this is what I'm left with:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vyZ-YZVBeR8
My motherboard appears to be stuck in a loop when trying to start up. You'll notice in the video link that there is no GPU in there. I removed it just to get a better view of what was happening. The same loop was stuck when the GPU was inserted, and I got no signal to my monitor during this loop.
So basically what I'm trying to figure out is, what other possible damage could have been done when the original GPU was leaked on?
I know it's impossible for anyone to say for sure, but I'm just trying to get an idea of what I'm working with here. As I said, this was my first build, so I'm relatively new to this stuff and haven't had to do a lot of troubleshooting before. I'm also at a loss on how to test my other components. I don't have access to another machine or can think of anyone who has one to test my other parts.
So any advice on this matter would be greatly appreciated. I've opened up a support ticket with ASUS to see if they can chime in on the motherboard behavior. I've also notified EKWB about more potential damage, which I really hope won't present an issue since I originally notified them I thought it was only the GPU at play.
For what it's worth, here are the parts of my build:
ASUS X99-M WS
i7 5960X
Original damaged GPU was QUADRO M4000, my replacement is GTX 1080
Samsung 950
32 GB DDR4 Corsair Vengeance
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