Sad thing is, laminating your system could ALMOST work . I'd like to see how you'd get the HDD, for example, into the laminator, given you'd have to get the molex in too.

And btw, cling-wrap ain't water-tight. You should have used duct-tape or gaffa-tape. Hell, even celo-tape would have been better!

Oh look, my leg fell off . I think I see Conor turning into a penguin - it's that improbable. *quack*

Now to add some pointless smilies to give this post a real newbie-shine


What's the FreeBSD demon doing here?

Guess what guys/girls this post has now reached Australia.

And i would like to say this is the most stupid thing i've seen in a long long long time. wind up or not i am still thinking it was a great read :D

But i would like to add, has anyone tried Oil cooling. yes you can actually fill up your computer with oil and yes it will still work !!!

The fans will still turn. the oil as long as it is something like vegetable oil it does not conduct electricity. which is a good thing and well works well

have fun with that :D

Originally Posted by energy36

Guess what guys/girls this post has now reached Australia.

It reached Australia ages ago.............or was it Austria....

As a close personal friend of Comer , I can assure everyone that his next "project" is going to be a real corker .

OK now I'm ****** off too. I had a nice P4-E 3GHz with a Radeon 9800Pro and an nForce3 based mobo (hint hint) and it was getting really hot, like 100 deg C, so I sealed up the case like Conor says and filled it up with vegetable oil like energy36 suggested and turned it on. Sure, it worked for a few minutes, then the seals started smoking! After a few more minutes, they gave way - the box EXPLODED IN FLAMES!

I quickly got out my hose and watered it down (no double-entendres please). I was going to turn it on again, but i don't remember my Radeon being so black. Is it salavagable? It's taken me 2 decades to build this thing.

[Marador]

There is an old story that floats around the IT departments of every single IT company in the world... its goes something like this -

Tech Support: Hello, how can i help you
Person: Im having problems with my PC, it wont turn on
Tech: Ok check.....
(list goes on for a little while, and nothing is identified as a problem)
Tech: Ok, can you see behind your computer ?
Person: Nope, its too dark
Tech: Can you turn a light on or anything to make it easier to see ?
Person: Nope, the power is out.
Tech: Ok, i think we have found the problem
Person: Oh good.
Tech: Do you still have the boxes you got your computer in ?
Person: Yeah, Is it that bad ?
Tech: Yeah it is, you need to pack your computer up and take it back where you got it from.
Person: What do i tell them ?
Tech: You tell them you are too f@#$ing stupid to own a PC.

(Story goes on to tell about how the tech lost their job etc etc.)


Anyways, the points for me signing up to this forum and posting this within the topic...

1. You are too f#$%ing stupid to own a PC. What happens if you throw a toaster in a bath ? it goes bang, and i hope there was no-one in the bath coz they arent healthy any more. Anyone with any knowledge at all knows that PC's use power, and that things plugged into the wall use power, and that power and water dont mix.

2. You, blaming everyone for you lack of knowledge is pathetic. Its one of the biggest problems with america. What is wrong with you posting BEFORE you did it with your ideas ? Asking if it would work or if you where misunderstanding ? Now your gonna go run of and sue someone for your stupidity.

Perhaps you should contact you local school/council to find out if they are running courses in Common Sense.

Originally Posted by Comer

I get the feeling that some of you are mking fun of me. Ok it probably wasn't the brightest thing to try but I did it because of suggestions I read in this forum and as such I lay the blame for this disaster at the feet of the people who talked about water cooling but did not bother to explain it fully. You people have a big responsibility and you can't just drop suggestions filppantly for others to pick up and (as in my case) ruin their gear.

As for anybody who thinks that this is funny, I spent what is to me alot of money on my PC and if you can't think of something to say without sneering at my misfotune well then I would rather not hear from you at all


Conor

[Comer]

Thanks Marador for joining this forum to stir up all the painful memories of this wholely very embarrassing incident in my life

Conor

[MAW]

Comer, is that guy actually still taken in? Is he a Yank? If not how was he born with no brain? He seems unable to read the fact that you come from Ireland, not USA too!
I see the HS10 lamp count is going up, and how many projectors is that now? Really, just the truth about your technology is probably funny enough for most of us.

[Stuart Wright]

Marador banned for abusive behaviour and being particularly stupid himself.

Originally Posted by Stuart Wright

Marador.................being particularly stupid himself.

.....& that's putting it mildly .

So people are STILL just signing up for this thread! I thought I'd be the last one, but at least I did the right thing and complained about my exploded P4-E on another thread

I discovered the hard way that oil and heat don't mix, just like animals and a lack of air. I was wondering why my pets kept on dying.

Before you contact the RSPCA, my cat died of intestinal cancer, not asphixiation. I'm not cruel to my pets.

[Gorshin]

Originally Posted by Comer

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

Imagining the scene in 'Jaws' when Quint doesn't care that his boat is flooded and just keeps on going full throttle

C'mon folks, I don't think it's fair for people to be taking the mickey out of Comer, this is an easy mistake to make if you're not aufait with what you're doing.

Comer, the reason this thread is getting so many views is because it's such a common mistake. Many of the users on this very forum will have made the same error. It's easy for them to now scream "It's just common sense" but unless it was explained to you that you need a return pipe for the water, or that you should, indeed, use distilled water, how would you know? Right?

The good thing is that you should find that the problem is covered under the lifetime warrantee of the power supply that was fitted to the case. All you have to do is take the entire PC to the place you bought the PSU from (I'd do it in person so that you can answer any questions they might ask) and explain that you've had an "ID 10 T" error, that's what they call it in the trade, they'll be impressed that you knew the parlance. They'll probably need you to explain the exact nature of what happened but they should replace your PC with the latest spec. one (it's simpler for them that way, instead of all the insurance wrangles). Usually retailers will issue Dell or Compaq in the case of ID 10 T's but it may be some other brand make.

Good luck and enjoy your new PC.

[Comer]

Originally Posted by imoyes

C'mon folks, I don't think it's fair for people to be taking the mickey out of Comer, this is an easy mistake to make if you're not aufait with what you're doing.

At last, someone who understands, is sympathetic and gives some helpful advice. That was the whole point of this thread in the first place, not to give people all over the world a forum to make fun of me but to help me out with a mistake that I honostly (hand on heart) believe anyone could have made. I am going into PC World today with my PC and I am (without any shame whatsoever) going to tell them what happened and that they will have to accept that I do qualify as an ID 10 T. I'm sure that it's going to take some convincing but I think that if I persevere, I can convice them that I am an ID 10 T, and will get a replacement PC.

Thanks imoyes

[Gorshin]

Originally Posted by Comer

a mistake that I honostly (hand on heart) believe anyone could have made. I am going into PC World today with my PC and I am (without any shame whatsoever) going to tell them what happened

Originally Posted by imoyes

C'mon folks, I don't think it's fair for people to be taking the mickey out of Comer, this is an easy mistake to make if you're not aufait with what you're doing.

I agree, it's not fair. The problem is that people say "water cooling is good" instead of "getting a specific case, filling it with distilled water and fitting a return pipe is good". I mean, I read on another forum about how good central heating was, so I went and installed some. I got some firewood, dumped it in the center of my home, and lit it. I don't understand what went wrong. Is my carpet supposed to catch fire? I know I wanted a hotter home, but not to the extent of burning the house down. And the insurance company won't give me a sausage for it - they called it "fraud" . I don't understand what happened. It was all going so well until I passed out from the smoke.

"I blame those awful fridge magnets"
-- Gladstone in the Thin Blue Line

[Battlestar]

Originally Posted by 2theshack

I agree, it's not fair. The problem is that people say "water cooling is good" instead of "getting a specific case, filling it with distilled water and fitting a return pipe is good". I mean, I read on another forum about how good central heating was, so I went and installed some. I got some firewood, dumped it in the center of my home, and lit it. I don't understand what went wrong. Is my carpet supposed to catch fire? I know I wanted a hotter home, but not to the extent of burning the house down. And the insurance company won't give me a sausage for it - they called it "fraud" . I don't understand what happened. It was all going so well until I passed out from the smoke.

"I blame those awful fridge magnets"
-- Gladstone in the Thin Blue Line

[Billy Hunt]

This thread is brilliant.

I wonder how many more Marador's of this world will still post LOL!

Keep it up my sides are splitting! LOL!

Splitting? That can't be a good sign. Did you fit a return pipe?

LMFAO n00b.

so then. any pics of the pc?

This could be the new porn: strip your PC down, and take pics of all the rust, or in my case, the black bits. SHOW US YOUR CHAR!


Wonderful ! Wonderful !

I heard that you desperately needed some help with this thing once again!

As I understand it now, you finally got it working again, but being as old and outdated as your CPU was, you followed the advice of another forum member once again, and soldered a second CPU to your original CPU, to double your processing power. But surprisingly, when you turned it on, it made a strange hissing noise, and never even made it to the POST. Is that correct, Comer?

I wish that I could help you with it, but unfortunately, I'm still studying to be a PC technician at this time, and we haven't covered that issue in class yet. However, I did ask all the members of my fora to register here, and tell you what to do about it, if they have any ideas what you did wrong this time. So hopefully, there will be a few of them arriving here very shortly, to assist you.

Greetings from the USA, and thanks for such an entertaining thread here!

[Gorshin]

Originally Posted by Iron Draggon

I wish that I could help you with it, but unfortunately, I'm still studying to be a PC technician at this time, and we haven't covered that issue in class yet.

What, like filling your pc full of water then hitting the 'on' button

[Triggaaar]

I'm going to read this whole thread when I stop crying.

I assume this was a windup (like I say, haven't been able to read the whole thread yet).

If, by some cruel joke by god, you actuall filled an electronic PC with water - and brought people in to see the effect before trying it yourself (having built several PCs [you, not me] you must know to try things before attempting to show the results off) - my advice would be to sell this story to the Sun.

But it would take a lot for me to believe this really happened.

Love 2theshack's central heating comment.

[8-]]

Has to be a windup as I can't believe anyone would do something like this without actually finding out specifics.

I've heard that drilling a hole in your head can help with headaches but I'm not going to get my Black 'n Decker and play Bob the Builder on my noggin when I next have a hangover!

For how to do it properly: http://www.water-cooling.com/gallery2.php

If this is for real - I suppose it's good that it didn't go wrong and end up being a Darwin award!

[MAW]

A reality check, Comer is alive and well and living in the land of the little green people! Anyone still taken in by this clearly needs the black and decker treatment, Comer did own up to the wind up about 2 years ago! I think he may be watercooling his projectors though, he seems to get through them like most of us get through bog paper.

Originally Posted by Triggaaar

Love 2theshack's central heating comment.

Hey, don't draw attention to it. I'm not proud that I burnt my house down. I had some nice stuff in there, like a brand new 80286 box, complete with CP/M and, a massive 10MB harddisk and an Audigy 4 Pro that I almost broke when I installed it. I had to get out a hacksaw to get it to fit in the little slot.

BTW, any ideas why I never got that Audigy to work? Creative supply DOS drivers for it, so I thought I could get it to work with CP/M. Do I need to install DOS next time?

Originally Posted by Comer

I am going into PC World today with my PC and I am (without any shame whatsoever) going to tell them what happened and that they will have to accept that I do qualify as an ID 10 T. I'm sure that it's going to take some convincing but I think that if I persevere, I can convice them that I am an ID 10 T, and will get a replacement PC.

Hi Comer,
Glad I could help! Just wondered how it turned out at PC World? Did they confirm that you qualify as an ID 10 T? I have no doubt that they would be the best people to assess your illigibility. I have listened to conversations between some of their staff and have spoken to some of them and I am sure that some of them qualify so they should have a level of empathy.

[Comer]

Originally Posted by imoyes

Hi Comer,I have listened to conversations between some of their staff and have spoken to some of them and I am sure that some of them qualify so they should have a level of empathy.

It was amazing, when I told them my story they offered me a job on the spot. They told me I was the greatest f ID 10 T they had ever come across and that I would make a perfect senior manager. I was really quite chuffed as they also said that with my abilities I would very quickly rise up through the ranks.

Thanks once again imoyes

Why am I suddenly reminded of the head of British Rail?

I don't think it's fair that Comer should have a job at PC World. I mean, I burnt down my house, and about half the neighbourhood as a consequence, purely by accident when I installed my central heating. I am a greater ID 10T than Comer, according to all my friends, family and passers-by. I get a lot of mail that says "You ID 10T!"