First I’d like to thank anyone who takes the time to read and respond to my thread. I truly appreciate it.
I’ll do my best to keep this brief.. So I got my Mach II GT back from being serviced (see this thread for details on that), and today I geared up for round 2.
First thing I did (and this was last night btw) was ‘bench test’ the Prommy, to see if it would ice up. I did not mount it to the mainboard/cpu etc – this was simply a bench test. To my satisfaction the Prommy fired right up, did its thing and reached temps of ~ -62 C according to the LCD.
So I proceeded to ‘go live’ today. I carefully hooked it all up. I powered it on and my mobo POSTed etc. I went into the BIOS setup and decided to just let it sit there for several minutes, to watch for any obvious problems (water dripping, etc). I am still new to the Prommy thing and am being as careful as possible.
My rig sat and ran for 20-30 minutes just idling in the BIOS setup screen. I saw no problems (water, frost etc) anywhere in my case, and the Prommy LCD screen reported normal temps, around -50 C.
After being on for a couple of minutes, I did notice some frost on one of the compressor ‘arms’ (not sure what the proper term is), which I took pictures of:
And this is my first concern – is this normal? I’m not the expert but I’m assuming it’s not.
Concern #2 – I then touched the main (round) part of the compressor and to me it felt freakishly hot. Not sure exactly what temperature, but too hot to touch. I literally could have cooked an egg on it
Concern #3 – a few minutes later, the Prommy suddenly turned off. There was nothing unusual – no noises, no smoke, no foul smells, etc. It simply turned off as if the plug had been pulled.
I have not been able to get any response whatsoever from the unit since. It’s been about 4 hours since this happened. I have been letting it sit (unplugged) for over an hour at a time and then plugging the power cord back in and trying to power it on. No LEDs come on or anything, nor do the fans spin; it is as if it is dead.
I noticed what appears to be a burned chip on the controller. Btw this is not a piece of lint or dust. I took pics of it as well:
Any advice or input would be greatly appreciated. And once again, thank you for reading my thread.
I’ll do my best to keep this brief.. So I got my Mach II GT back from being serviced (see this thread for details on that), and today I geared up for round 2.
First thing I did (and this was last night btw) was ‘bench test’ the Prommy, to see if it would ice up. I did not mount it to the mainboard/cpu etc – this was simply a bench test. To my satisfaction the Prommy fired right up, did its thing and reached temps of ~ -62 C according to the LCD.
So I proceeded to ‘go live’ today. I carefully hooked it all up. I powered it on and my mobo POSTed etc. I went into the BIOS setup and decided to just let it sit there for several minutes, to watch for any obvious problems (water dripping, etc). I am still new to the Prommy thing and am being as careful as possible.
My rig sat and ran for 20-30 minutes just idling in the BIOS setup screen. I saw no problems (water, frost etc) anywhere in my case, and the Prommy LCD screen reported normal temps, around -50 C.
After being on for a couple of minutes, I did notice some frost on one of the compressor ‘arms’ (not sure what the proper term is), which I took pictures of:
And this is my first concern – is this normal? I’m not the expert but I’m assuming it’s not.
Concern #2 – I then touched the main (round) part of the compressor and to me it felt freakishly hot. Not sure exactly what temperature, but too hot to touch. I literally could have cooked an egg on it
Concern #3 – a few minutes later, the Prommy suddenly turned off. There was nothing unusual – no noises, no smoke, no foul smells, etc. It simply turned off as if the plug had been pulled.
I have not been able to get any response whatsoever from the unit since. It’s been about 4 hours since this happened. I have been letting it sit (unplugged) for over an hour at a time and then plugging the power cord back in and trying to power it on. No LEDs come on or anything, nor do the fans spin; it is as if it is dead.
I noticed what appears to be a burned chip on the controller. Btw this is not a piece of lint or dust. I took pics of it as well:
Any advice or input would be greatly appreciated. And once again, thank you for reading my thread.
) It looks like mould! Frost prob wouldnt build up on it, unless there was another exposed cold spot near it, in which case its possible something shorted inside it. It looks a bit like capacitor filling, though I dont know if any ICs have capacitive qualities.
