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Avid6eek
01-30-06, 05:32 PM
...SLI-DR Expert.

I've flooded it many times and everything has turned out well, but I think I've used up just about all nine lives. I'm getting back to work on my water cooling setup and one of the PCIe graphics slots is dead. The system won't boot with a video card in the top slot. If I put it in the second slot everything works well, but the 3D scores are crap. I'm assuming it's throttled to 8 or fewer PCIe lanes.

I think the problem has been that the chipset waterblock has been slowly leaking on the board while it has sat there idle for the past month. I can't see any moisture anywhere since I've tried it off, but so far I still haven't been able to get it to work. Any suggestions? I see some people put their hardware in the oven at low temps (150F) to dry it off, but I've never tried it. Anyone else?
bluegreenshxt
01-30-06, 05:36 PM
I don't think I would test the oven, might put it near a heat vent and wait a while.

I thought both slots on the xpert are 16x. Might need to enable it in the bios though.
Avid6eek
01-30-06, 05:50 PM
The Expert doesn't use nvidia's latest chipset revision which allows for dual 16X slots. It would be nice if they had, but given that I only use a single card it isn't a feature I'd normally be interested in...until now.
bluegreenshxt
01-30-06, 07:09 PM
:eek:

Damn, I've always had the impression they did. That messes up my plans for chipset cooling :(. No way a decent chipset sink would fit with the card on the first slot with an NVSilencer....

But from googling around, it looks like a limited edition Expert is coming out :D. The Venus. Too bad it'll probably be too expensive and too limited...
Avid6eek
01-30-06, 08:04 PM
There is no need to worry about adding a 3rd party chipset heatsink. Most of the Expert boards can do a 400Mhz+ FSB with stock cooling.
blueice
01-31-06, 01:30 AM
Hair blower??????????????????????
Stone Fox
01-31-06, 04:09 AM
Silica gel, salt or rice.

Pour either into the offending slot (Silica gel works best) leave it a couple of hours then hoover it out. That WILL get all the moisture out. If you can't lay your hands on any silica gel.

Word of warning - when handling the silica wear a dust mask. DON'T breath in any powder. Unless you want to die a slow and painful death from silicosis. :D
stangz
01-31-06, 07:01 PM
try the oven idea, I am curious to see if it works ... hehe
Justin
01-31-06, 09:15 PM
Even if it did limit to 8x on PCI-E it should still run just fine...weird...
Avid6eek
01-31-06, 09:26 PM
I have already ordered a new board so I'm not very worried about it. This board has gone through hell and back. I'm just going to list it on eBay, and describe the problem the best I can. Some fool will give me money for it.
yahooadam
02-01-06, 03:07 AM
yeh when u put a gfx card in the bottom slot the board automattically allocates (if its the expert) 8x to each slot, (and if u do it manually the same thing happens)

they should change this considering that the chipset is in the most PITA position ever
Stone Fox
02-01-06, 03:24 AM
The silica gel thing should work - it's an industrial dessicant. You get little packs of it in shoe boxes to keep moisture from the leather, should be easy to hoover out again and if you miss a few grains it's not electrically conductive!
Avid6eek
02-01-06, 07:59 AM
I don't have any silica gel. I always eat the packets when I get them. Hmmm.
yahooadam
02-01-06, 08:14 AM
The silica gel thing should work - it's an industrial dessicant. You get little packs of it in shoe boxes to keep moisture from the leather, should be easy to hoover out again and if you miss a few grains it's not electrically conductive!
they also come in laptop bags and such

I don't have any silica gel. I always eat the packets when I get them. Hmmm.
Lol, nice use for it :rolleyes:
Stone Fox
02-01-06, 08:35 AM
I don't have any silica gel. I always eat the packets when I get them. Hmmm.


..........?!?!?!?!?!?:eek:
PCgeek
02-01-06, 04:07 PM
I've eaten it before too dude. Its not deadly...
Avid6eek
02-01-06, 06:53 PM
The new motherboard arrived today and so far all is working well. I'm on schedule to get some nice things going this weekend. I will be taking Sunday off from the computing world as it is a National Holiday....SUPER BOWL! I'll try to get some results by Saturday.
yahooadam
02-02-06, 03:05 AM
The new motherboard arrived today and so far all is working well. I'm on schedule to get some nice things going this weekend. I will be taking Sunday off from the computing world as it is a National Holiday....SUPER BOWL! I'll try to get some results by Saturday.
nice

hopefully u get those pelts going somtime ;)
chris000001
02-02-06, 11:44 AM
I will be taking Sunday off from the computing world as it is a National Holiday....SUPER BOWL! I'll try to get some results by Saturday.

Being that its a national holiday that falls on a sunday, we should get monday off!!! :D
omga14
02-03-06, 03:17 AM
you could always try some IPA. you've got some and that will flush out any offending residue and if flushed properly the only thing left will be IPA and you know that will disolve with no resultant residue left behind. quicker than the other options too.

Seatle is going to win by the way. i really want Jerome Bettis to get a ring before he leaves but i don't think the Steelers have enough for Seattle.
Avid6eek
02-03-06, 11:00 AM
Today was my plan to get the exterior cooler setup and running again, but it's raining awfully hard outside. I don't know if I'm going to be up to setting it up.

I've got some "top secret" 3DMark scores in every category that are higher than what I have posted, but I'm holding back on those until I see the results from stlouis's SLI setup. I don't think I'm going to beat him in '03, but after reading a few reviews of the 6800GS in SLI, I'm confident I got him in the other benchies (Aquamark, 01, 05, 06). Top spot in 80% isn't bad considering right now I'm only top in 60%.