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5 minutes ago, skullbringer said:

 

 

 

Plot twist incoming!

 

BSOD's still happened after the TIM change with hydronaut. The last thing I had not yet tried was a BIOS update. The release notes listed 'microcode update', which gave me hope, since broken CPU "instruction handling" could explain the blue screens under light load.

 

And holy crap, YES, no BSOD has occured since!! ?

 

 

But wait, there is more!

Now I can no longer enter the BIOS. Tried everything: different gpu, onboard gpu, CMOS clear, unplugging drives and usb devices, removing all hardware, removing CMOS battery and draining the board of any power. Still hangs after the ROG has been displayed and Q code shows A9. In 5% of cases, I can actually enter the BIOS, but then it freezes after 2 keyboard inputs. Oh and also the onboard NIC now takes about 2 minutes in Windows to initialize, which is additional fun. 

 

So I opened a support case with Asus (supposedly respond in 48 hours). Took 5 days for them to send me an answer and suggest removing all hardware, removing CMOS battery and draining the board of any power, even though I told them I already did that. Also they do not offer RMA and I was told that I should check with my etailer.  

 

Then I wanted to read the Asus ROG RMA guide, but it is located in a forum, which you need to register for, but you cant, because the forum has a broken captcha on the registration site. ?

 

GJ Asus, what a great customer support experience. 

 

 

Get the requested information and submit it here

 

https://icr-am.asus.com/webchat/icr.html?rootTreeId=AM.US.EN-US&treeId=AM.US.EN-US.MotherBoard&tenantId=EN-US&_ga=2.34655586.2127055490.1541530142-113484903.1540818596

 

Ok I just called Asus. I got some information for you. First Warranties on motherboards are 3 years. Second it is there policy to refer all new purchases (under 14 days) back to the retailer as the replacement would be much quicker than the RMA process as it takes 7-10 business days. That being said you need to call back and let them know you want this to be processed for RMA immediately as your motherboard is more than 14 days old.

 

I also had a hardtime getting any warranty information for motherboards and this is why I called. I also took the opportunity to inform them that the information should be easily accessible and it isn't. Anyways I hope this information can help you get this resolved.

Recently my system has black screening / blue screening while gaming. I ran some stress tests with Prime95 v29 and Furmark simultaneously to check if temps were out of control under load. However CPU was only getting up to 85C with AVX and GPU only 50C. I also tried reverting CPU, memory and GPU overclocks, still the system crashed after about 30 minutes. The crashing also occurs with much lower temps (CPU 60 C, GPU 45 C) than during the stress test.

 

Since I recently moved my system around, I decided to check my liquid metal application having feared that the liquid metal might have gotten moved around by physical shock. 

 

I found this:

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The liquid metal was not liquid anymore. I have done some shunt resistor shorting and liquid metal applications in the past, but I have never seen something like this. 

It is basically completely hardened and does not come off the cpu with isopropanol. Instead it had the texture of a lottery scratch ticket, so I had to rub it off with my finger nails.

 

This is how it looks after cleaning: 

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Managed to clean the CPU, but the heat spreader remains stained as you can see. 

I went back on conventional TIM for now and temps are about 10 C higher during stress tests and fluctuate a lot more, but I have not experienced a blue screen yet. 

 

 

My theory so far is that the thermal transfer was so bad because of the hardening that some part of the CPU overheated and shut down the system, even though no such temperature is being reported by software monitoring.

 

But I can not yet explain why the liquid metal dried out, maybe because of the custom raw copper heat spreader? Any ideas?

 

 

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What liquid metal did you use?

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Just now, Enderman said:

What liquid metal did you use?

thermal grizzly conductonaut between die and ihs, and hydronaut between ihs and water block

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1 minute ago, skullbringer said:

thermal grizzly conductonaut between die and ihs, and hydronaut between ihs and water block

Weird, I've never seen that happen.

How long as that liquid metal been there?

I think it would be safe to reapply liquid metal again, worst case scenario you get more crashes but probably not.

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Liquid metal for whatever reason tends to do that when you use it with copper. That is why I don't use it between the IHS and the waterblock.

 

The reason the stock IHS doesn't have this problem is because it is nickle coated.

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Im a complete newb to this but have read that copper will soak up and absorb the liquid metal.  Continue to reapply and monitor and eventually the copper will reach its max absorption rate.  Again Im a newb but Ive read this a few times so don't quote me but that's what I see.

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3 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Weird, I've never seen that happen.

How long as that liquid metal been there?

I think it would be safe to reapply liquid metal again, worst case scenario you get more crashes but probably not.

built the rig when the 8086k came out, so about 5 months

 

2 minutes ago, AngryBeaver said:

Liquid metal for whatever reason tends to do that when you use it with copper. That is why I don't use it between the IHS and the waterblock.

 

The reason the stock IHS doesn't have this problem is because it is nickle coated.

 

4 minutes ago, Tristerin said:

Im a complete newb to this but have read that copper will soak up and absorb the liquid metal.  Continue to reapply and monitor and eventually the copper will reach its max absorption rate.  Again Im a newb but Ive read this a few times so don't quote me but that's what I see.

I ran out of conductonaut for now, but next week I will re-try conductonaut and try to saturate the copper IHS. In case that dries again I can still switch to the stock ihs.

 

Thanks for all the suggestions! ?

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15 minutes ago, skullbringer said:

built the rig when the 8086k came out, so about 5 months

 

 

I ran out of conductonaut for now, but next week I will re-try conductonaut and try to saturate the copper IHS. In case that dries again I can still switch to the stock ihs.

 

Thanks for all the suggestions! ?

Its the copper, the liquid metal reacts with it, bonds and dries out.
Nothing to do besides not using copper.

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1 minute ago, HanZie82 said:

Its the copper, the liquid metal reacts with it, bonds and dries out.
Nothing to do besides not using copper.

Liquid metal is supposed to exclusively be used with copper.

If you use it with aluminum it will disintegrate it.

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1 hour ago, Enderman said:

Liquid metal is supposed to exclusively be used with copper.

If you use it with aluminum it will disintegrate it.

Well its Gallium after all and it loves to alloy itself with other metals.

But where did you find out to use it exclusivly with copper.
On my Conductonaut it says to not use it with aluminium, and only direct heat-pipe coolers can touch if its copper.
Not that you can only use copper, that would be silly.

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personaly i would also avoid copper touching...

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9 minutes ago, HanZie82 said:

Well its Gallium after all and it loves to alloy itself with other metals.

But where did you find out to use it exclusivly with copper.
On my Conductonaut it says to not use it with aluminium, and only direct heat-pipe coolers can touch if its copper.
Not that you can only use copper, that would be silly.

Well, coolers are either aluminum or copper because those are the most conductive metals that are easily available, so if it can't be used with aluminum then it basically is exclusively for copper.

 

Obviously there are other non-copper metals it works with but coolers are not made out of those other metals.

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3 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Well, coolers are either aluminum or copper because those are the most conductive metals that are easily available, so if it can't be used with aluminum then it basically is exclusively for copper.

 

Obviously there are other non-copper metals it works with but coolers are not made out of those other metals.

You're forgetting nickel-plated copper. What most things are that are not AIO and not look bronse like copper.
Its what most if not all stock internal heatspreaders use. So yeah, if you go liquid metal dont use aluminium or copper. 
Theres options. ?

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On 10/31/2018 at 3:55 PM, Enderman said:

Well, coolers are either aluminum or copper because those are the most conductive metals that are easily available, so if it can't be used with aluminum then it basically is exclusively for copper.

 

Obviously there are other non-copper metals it works with but coolers are not made out of those other metals.

 

On 10/31/2018 at 3:58 PM, HanZie82 said:

You're forgetting nickel-plated copper. What most things are that are not AIO and not look bronse like copper.
Its what most if not all stock internal heatspreaders use. So yeah, if you go liquid metal dont use aluminium or copper. 
Theres options. ?

 

 

Plot twist incoming!

 

BSOD's still happened after the TIM change with hydronaut. The last thing I had not yet tried was a BIOS update. The release notes listed 'microcode update', which gave me hope, since broken CPU "instruction handling" could explain the blue screens under light load.

 

And holy crap, YES, no BSOD has occured since!! ?

 

 

But wait, there is more!

Now I can no longer enter the BIOS. Tried everything: different gpu, onboard gpu, CMOS clear, unplugging drives and usb devices, removing all hardware, removing CMOS battery and draining the board of any power. Still hangs after the ROG has been displayed and Q code shows A9. In 5% of cases, I can actually enter the BIOS, but then it freezes after 2 keyboard inputs. Oh and also the onboard NIC now takes about 2 minutes in Windows to initialize, which is additional fun. 

 

So I opened a support case with Asus (supposedly respond in 48 hours). Took 5 days for them to send me an answer and suggest removing all hardware, removing CMOS battery and draining the board of any power, even though I told them I already did that. Also they do not offer RMA and I was told that I should check with my etailer.  

 

Then I wanted to read the Asus ROG RMA guide, but it is located in a forum, which you need to register for, but you cant, because the forum has a broken captcha on the registration site. ?

 

GJ Asus, what a great customer support experience. 

 

 

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5 minutes ago, skullbringer said:

 

 

 

Plot twist incoming!

 

BSOD's still happened after the TIM change with hydronaut. The last thing I had not yet tried was a BIOS update. The release notes listed 'microcode update', which gave me hope, since broken CPU "instruction handling" could explain the blue screens under light load.

 

And holy crap, YES, no BSOD has occured since!! ?

 

 

But wait, there is more!

Now I can no longer enter the BIOS. Tried everything: different gpu, onboard gpu, CMOS clear, unplugging drives and usb devices, removing all hardware, removing CMOS battery and draining the board of any power. Still hangs after the ROG has been displayed and Q code shows A9. In 5% of cases, I can actually enter the BIOS, but then it freezes after 2 keyboard inputs. Oh and also the onboard NIC now takes about 2 minutes in Windows to initialize, which is additional fun. 

 

So I opened a support case with Asus (supposedly respond in 48 hours). Took 5 days for them to send me an answer and suggest removing all hardware, removing CMOS battery and draining the board of any power, even though I told them I already did that. Also they do not offer RMA and I was told that I should check with my etailer.  

 

Then I wanted to read the Asus ROG RMA guide, but it is located in a forum, which you need to register for, but you cant, because the forum has a broken captcha on the registration site. ?

 

GJ Asus, what a great customer support experience. 

 

 

Get the requested information and submit it here

 

https://icr-am.asus.com/webchat/icr.html?rootTreeId=AM.US.EN-US&treeId=AM.US.EN-US.MotherBoard&tenantId=EN-US&_ga=2.34655586.2127055490.1541530142-113484903.1540818596

 

Ok I just called Asus. I got some information for you. First Warranties on motherboards are 3 years. Second it is there policy to refer all new purchases (under 14 days) back to the retailer as the replacement would be much quicker than the RMA process as it takes 7-10 business days. That being said you need to call back and let them know you want this to be processed for RMA immediately as your motherboard is more than 14 days old.

 

I also had a hardtime getting any warranty information for motherboards and this is why I called. I also took the opportunity to inform them that the information should be easily accessible and it isn't. Anyways I hope this information can help you get this resolved.

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13 minutes ago, AngryBeaver said:

Get the requested information and submit it here

 

https://icr-am.asus.com/webchat/icr.html?rootTreeId=AM.US.EN-US&treeId=AM.US.EN-US.MotherBoard&tenantId=EN-US&_ga=2.34655586.2127055490.1541530142-113484903.1540818596

 

Ok I just called Asus. I got some information for you. First Warranties on motherboards are 3 years. Second it is there policy to refer all new purchases (under 14 days) back to the retailer as the replacement would be much quicker than the RMA process as it takes 7-10 business days. That being said you need to call back and let them know you want this to be processed for RMA immediately as your motherboard is more than 14 days old.

 

I also had a hardtime getting any warranty information for motherboards and this is why I called. I also took the opportunity to inform them that the information should be easily accessible and it isn't. Anyways I hope this information can help you get this resolved.

Holy shit, that was unexpected and made my day. Thank you very much!

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