Very funny "How not to water cool your system"

[Fox Mulder]

This is the funniest thread I read in my life.
Have a look at this guy's attempt...
http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=56924

[hakko504]

Reminds me of a story I found at TechTales (http://www.techtales.com)

EU calling helpdesk for support after having spilled coffee into the keyboard, and now keyboard doesn't work. Helpdesk suggests that sometimes it might help if you rinse the keyboard in running water. EU says he will try it. A few minutes later EU calls back complaining that now the computer won't boot. Support:"What computer do you have?" EU:"A laptop..."

[N_F]

There's been a few really hilarious posts at ISONews over time.

I especially remember one where this guy had been "pleasing himself" to some lesbian movie when the phone rings. He runs out, **** in hand, to answer (thinking he's home alone) where he sees his mother...

My face really hurt from all the smiling after reading that. Unfortunately I can't find the post :(

[bb]

Hakko's story reminds me of a guy from east germany who once found that the keyboards were too dirty. So he unplugged them, and guess what: he was too lazy to clean them by hand, so he put them in the dishwasher!

Ok, they came out clean. Amazingly, only two of the twenty keyboards seemed to be broken: you got funny characters on screen when typing. All the rest worked flawlessly, and the two keyboards with the strange behaviour recovered after two days, then they worked fine again.

Although we were lucky in this case I'd certainly not recommend to clean keyboards in a dishwasher...

bb

[killingspree]

...somebody who's registered over at the avforums please quote the thread here? the forum is totally overloaded and you now have to register there to get in and see the post...

thanks
steVe

[aleksander]

Originally posted by killingspree
...somebody who's registered over at the avforums please quote the thread here? the forum is totally overloaded and you now have to register there to get in and see the post...

thanks
steVe


you asked for it, so you've got it!!



"Kramer and other members promoting water cooling- you have alot to answer...


I decided this weekend to try and quiten my PC by following some other members lead and going down the water cooling road. The fans on my PC were really starting to drive me mad

The first thing that I did was to remove all the fans. The one on the processor and graphics card were no problem but the one in the power unit was a bugger to get out.

The most difficult part was sealing all the ventilitation openings in the PC case with silicon. I also put silicon all around the joints on the PC case. The smell of silicon was dreadful but when my wife complained I told her to be patent as it will be worth it when we have a completely silent PC.

Because I had completely sealed the PC case the only opening near top was the DVD drive. So I opened that and put the small hose I had purchased specially for the job into the DVD drive as far as it would go. With what I can only describe as great excitement and anticipation, I turned on the water. It really is amazing just how long it took before the case was complete full, and boy was it heavy. That didn't really bother me as I didn't intend to be moving the PC anyway.

The big moment had arrived so I called in my wife and mother in law (who was visiting) and I announced "prepare to hear nothing!" and flicked the switch on the socket on the wall.

Before I could even press the power button on front of the PC, with a loud bang, the whole place was plunged into darkness

I knew that it was only the tripswitch so I told my onlookers not to panic and I ran out to the hall to turn the trip switch back on. But can u believe it, it wouldn't stay on. After five attempts I decided to try unplugging the PC and would you believe...yes the trip switch stayed on. My conclusion: the PC must have in some way been causing the problem.

After about an hour of tries I finally decided to abandon the whole idea of water cooling and emptied the water out of the PC, put back in the fans (except the fan in the power unit, I had broken that one getting it out) and tried the pc AGAIN. IT STILL CAUSED THE TRIP SWTICH TO BLOW!

My PC is completely shagged thanks to stupid suggestions that I got on this forum. What the hell am I going to do now. I spent two hours last night with a hair drier inside the PC case and it still trips the switch.

Any suggestions greatly appreciated

Conor"

and couple more follow-ups:

"Originally posted by jonny m

Coner
Where you went wrong was this : with this method you need to have a return pipe to ensure a steady flow of nice cool water, as you have found just filling the pc case just isn't enough and will result in rapid overheating!!

Although your method works fine with a pj though, esp those noisy lcd ones...if fact having a fish tank suspended from the roof with the pj dropped inside makes for an intersting talking point , helps to get anamorphic display from a 4:3 panel as well without paying £700 for the anamorphic lens- see avsforums as they did have a few threads on this before they were deleted, too much competiton for the panamorph manufacturers I think, just think what they would do if this info got out!

John
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I don't remember anyone posting about a return pipe and if you don't mind me saying John it's a little bit late telling me about it now

Conor"



"Originally posted by bh

Wrong type of water methinks....

a year to put together your PC, must be good. Does is have more than 128 megs of RAM?

STFN
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I used ordinary tap water, are u saying I should have used distilled water, but again it's a little late giving me all these useful suggestions now

It had 384mb or RDRAM with an asus motherboard 400mhz FSB and P4 1.4 processor

Conor"


"I'm sorry. I probably came along too strong there and indeed you are right it is my own responsibility to check these things out before I try them. But as u can imagine I am a little upset and again if anything I said offends I am sorry

I've been working with computers for about seven years and I have built quite a few for friends and myself but with this PC I put alot of work into it and I was very happy with it and now it seems to be ruined

I just don't understand why it didn't work, I mean what another member, John, said about not having a return pipe to take away the hot water and that caused my PC to overheat actually makes sense but this happened so fast I doubt that the water in the PC could have gotton that hot so quickly to cause overheating.

I don't know what to do now

Conor"


"And the worst of it is that I still haven't told the wife that the PC I spent so much money and time on is shagged.

BTW I won't delete this thread until Kramer sees it. I suppose it wasn't his fault It was a stupid thing to do but it is only fair that he see it since I mentioned his name in the title

I am actually interested that anybody could still think that this is a wind-up. I mean I'm not a total idiot (as some of your unkind replys would suggest) I did wrap the power supply unit in cling film plastic wrap before I filled it with water

Conor"

[-h]

Although we were lucky in this case I'd certainly not recommend to clean keyboards in a dishwasher...

During my work as an analyst and network admin, I've had quite a few people more experienced than I suggest washing them with a dishwasher, with the proviso that the keyboard is separated in half first and dried for 2 to 3 days afterwards.

Apparently it was IBM's official keyboard cleaning procedure for a while.

-h

[markrb]

This has to be a joke right?

Any fool who takes two minutes looking into water cooling will know you use a waterblock.

Water is conductive. PC's use elctricity. = Boom

If this guy is for real he wins the idiot of the year award from me.

Beats the guy who broke his built in retractable coffee cup holder by a long shot.

Mark

[triffid]

woohoo, that is funny.
What amazes me the most is that that guy seems to be an experienced PC builder. He just didn't know the laws of physics. You know, that little thing that says electricity goes in the path of least resistance, and water is a pretty good conductor. He's lucky to be alive.

keyboard offshoot:
Keyboards are probably the most sturdy part of a computer, especially the old ones. One of my best purchases was a used IBM keyboard, forget the model but it is one of the old ones that sound like a typewriter, with a spring mechanism in each key (no bubble pad like all the keyboards you get now)
This keyboard is 10 years old and works perfectly, and cost me $1.99 USD.

Also, due to its steel construction, sturdiness, and weight, it would make an excellent blunt instrument. These new keyboards are cheaply made.

-triffid, who could beat someone to death with his keyboard, hose the blood off, blowdry it, then plug it in and type this post.

[-h]

Oh, and the water-cooling article was a joke - it was revealed by the author in a subsequent poll.

-h

[Suzahara]

Originally posted by -h
Oh, and the water-cooling article was a joke - it was revealed by the author in a subsequent poll.

-h

Joke or coverup? You decide :D

[Kopernikus]

I once heard from this sort of cooling,not with water but with a non conductive oil. Does anybody know more about that?

[-h]

Sure, with mineral oil. Messy stuff.

http://www.ocinside.de/assets/images/oelbad.jpg

-h

[ArdenDag]

wow, are my eyes deceiving me or is that a motherboard in oil? :D

[TactX]

Originally posted by ArdenDag
wow, are my eyes deceiving me or is that a motherboard in oil? :D

I wonder if the CPU fans are still running :D

[markrb]

If that worked I would think that it would eventually cause issues with card and memory. Basically anything that needed to have a conductive surface. The oil could leak in and stop the cards from talking to the board. You would have to solder everything to make sure it would work.

Mark

[onesoul]

Originally posted by hakko504
Reminds me of a story I found at TechTales (http://www.techtales.com)

EU calling helpdesk for support after having spilled coffee into the keyboard, and now keyboard doesn't work. Helpdesk suggests that sometimes it might help if you rinse the keyboard in running water. EU says he will try it. A few minutes later EU calls back complaining that now the computer won't boot. Support:"What computer do you have?" EU:"A laptop..."

LOL :D

[ArdenDag]

Thanks for the techtales link, I'm laughing my ass off now :D

[hakko504]

Originally posted by ArdenDag
Thanks for the techtales link, I'm laughing my ass off now :D In that case I can also recommend Computer Stupidities (http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid)