Graphics Card Problem

J

Jmooney

Member
I awoke early last week to find my COOLIT ECO A.L.C. liquid cooler for my processor had leaked and in the process covered my graphics card in liquid :(. To cut a long story short I have replaced the cooler with a fan and thankfully my system now boots up ok, however on occasion my screen will black out and although I can hear the music if a game is playing I believe the system has also hung as key presses have no effect. Upon rebooting the system will give the beep code for no VGA card installed and the LED for same will light up on the motherboard, after a few attempts it gets going again but this obviously not right. Is the graphics card the issue here or could it be motherboard related - I am inclined to believe its the card but want to be sure before I fork out money to replace the card.

Thanks in advance,

James

Case
PCS MAELSTROM T900 BLACK GAMING CASE (£59)
Overclocked CPU
OverClocked Intel® Core™i5 Quad Core Processor i5-750 (2.66GHz @ max 3.80GHz)
Motherboard
ASUS® P7H57D-V EVO: FULL ATX, TRUE USB 3.0 & SATA 6.0GB/s
Memory (RAM)
4GB CORSAIR XMS3 DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz (2 x 2GB)
Graphics Card
1GB ATI RADEON™ HD 5770 PCI EXPRESS - DirectX® 11
2nd Graphics Card
NONE
3rd Graphics Card
NONE
Memory - 1st Hard Disk
640GB SERIAL ATA 3-Gb/s HARD DRIVE WITH 16MB CACHE (7,200rpm)
1st Hard Disk Partitions
90GB, 200GB, 350GB
2nd Hard Disk
NONE
1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
10x BLU-RAY ROM DRIVE, 16x DVD ±R/±RW (£59)
2nd DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
NONE
Memory Card Reader
INTERNAL 52 IN 1 CARD READER (READS XD, MS, CF, SD, etc)
Power Supply & Case Cooling
800W Quiet 80 PLUS Quad Rail PSU + 120mm Case Fan (£89)
Processor Cooling
COOLIT ECO A.L.C (ADVANCED LIQUID COOLER) (£62)
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC COOLING MX-3 HIGH THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND (£9)
Sound Card
Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Titanium PCI Express (£69)
 
Rakk

Rakk

The Awesome
Moderator
As Tom says, if under warranty definitely give PCS a ring.

Even if not under warranty, you may find that CoolIT may sort something out, cos I know some of their water-coolers back when the i5-750 was newish were a bit more susceptible to leaks than should've been (note this is from what I saw, it may not be actually true), I can't guarantee they'll do anything, but I'm sure someone else recently had a problem with one of those type of coolers and CoolIT sorted out something.
 
keynes

keynes

Multiverse Poster
baron75mk2 said:
Glad i avoided those coolers , seems a lot of folks have had them leak on them :(
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It seems the issue is with the previous one not the coolit II, as far as I know there were no leakages on them (I was told that before ordering mine :) )
 
baron75mk2

baron75mk2

Banned
rubensolo said:
It seems the issue is with the previous one not the coolit II, as far as I know there were no leakages on them (I was told that before ordering mine :) )
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True , i just heard so many horror stories all over net about that particular brand of liquid cooler i just decided to go for the air setup instead , have had other rigs with single loop liquid coolers in them & they were all fine , but these were not made by cool-it at all , they were corsair & alienware.
 
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