New cooling system and now power issues?

[leegroves86]

I have had this system up and running problem free for months. Nothing on it has ever been overclocked. But last night I decided to install my watercooling setup. This is the second time I've installed a W/C system so I'm not a complete noob (no expert either). After tearing everything apart and re-installing it, the problems started.

My computer randomly turns itself on, turns off or wont' turn on at all. It booted into windows a few times and when it did it worked for 15+ mins until it shut down. Strange thing is, when it shut down, BeyondTV started to close itself 5 secs beforehand like it knew it was coming. Wierd. So I left it off and all of a sudden it turned itself on a couple of minutes later! It powered up for about 6 secs and then shut down. It did it a few more times until i finally pulled the cord.

So how did installing a W/C setup do this?

E6600
Nforce 570 Mobo (Asus P5N-SLI)
2 X 1 gig OCZ DDR2 800
evga 7800GT
Enermax Liberty 500W PSU
DVD & CD burner
Hauppage TV tuner PVR 150

Watecooling setup:
Danger Den TDX
2 x 120MM Radiator
D5 Pump
DD 2 X 5.25 Bay Resevoir

As I said, this setup ran perfect for months. So what is going on?

 

[RucHee]

This is my guess:

I'm guessing you have some type of grounding out issue. I think part of your watercooling is not grounded correctly, or your motherboard might be touching the mobo tray of the case. Check the screws for your waterblock. This is how it happened to me too. I had the screws too far in, and the screws were touching the tray behind, and caused it to ground out. What would happen to me is it would turn off, and I would try to turn it back on with no luck, and come back 10 minutes later, and it turned itself on again. That's my only real guess. I know some pcs turn themselves on once power hits the PSU, so that my be why it turns itself off, and I'm guessing it's tripping on the grounding issue to turn off, and stays grounded-out while u are trying to turn it back on. Try re-seating everything, and see if that helps.

 

[leegroves86]

Ok, well that seemed to work. I made sure the long bolts used to hold the TDX were not protruding far enough to touch the case. So far so good. It hasn't turned off or on unexpectantly.

But, now that it goes to windows, i seem to get a lot of BSODs. Everything from BAD_POOL_CALLER to one about KS.SYS. etc. They did not happen when playing company of heros but instead just browsing the internet. Who knows. Thanks for the advice so far though, its appreciated