Up the creek without a paddle...

[madscientist]

So it appears my hardline cooling cracked while I was away for a week and started leaking/drawing in air. My motherboard will no longer post, so I am assuming the CPU is fried from overheating. There was luckily no coolant leakage onto the motherboard itself. The tricky thing here is that this is hardline tubing with compression fittings (Digital Storm was the builder). Short of brute force, I have no idea how to begin removing it to drain the line and remove the cooling block to check the CPU. This is out of warranty, so it's not worth the $ to send cross-country back to DS for repair. I should mention that DS unfortunately put no drain ports in the loop for this version of Aventum case.

 

Thoughts?