Hey Everyone, I recently watercooled my graphics card, was playing games for two days after doing so (Asus Direct CUII GTX 670) with all going fine, then about the 2nd night after the procedure I was watching youtube when the screen started to freeze for short periods of time appearing sticky. About 10mins later the system froze, crashed, and since then I have not been able to boot all the way to the desktop. The screen freezes as the Windows 7 logo begins to form at boot, just before the login screen.
Since then I have done a reinstall of a clean setup system image with the older Nvidia driver 314.07. Same scenario however. I have done a completely fresh install of Windows 7 64bit, installed all motherboard graphics drivers before install the latest Nvidia driver 314.22. As soon as I install the driver and reboot, exactly the same thing happens as before where the screen will freeze during the boot sequence, just before logon screen.
Should I be worried that something did go wrong in my work in installing the graphics water block wrongly? As I mentioned, I was playing games (Blood Dragon) for two days prior to this occuring which began during watching clips on youtube. Or is there something else I should check maybe in the registry? I am seriously confused and scared also that my GPU may be dead. Any advice and guidance on this matter is greatly appreciated.
System Specs:
Windows 7 64bit
Z77 Motherboard Asus Sabertooth
i5 3570K
Asus Direct CUII GTX 670