Dobke 2022 年 12 月 10 日 下午 1:31
Computer froze overnight (literally). Any advice?
I took my PC out to spend a friday night at my cousins and transfer some data and stuff to his brand new desktop. Came back tired last night and left my PC in the trunk of my car. This morning I went to pick up and it was freezing, as evidenced by a water bottle frozen right next to my PC. Since it's water cooled I assumed the water inside froze and the hoses were solid, I ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up so bad so I left it all day in a warm (not hot) room to hopefully have the water inside go back to liquid form. This is freaking crazy. I have not turned it on yet, any advice? Should I worry about anything? You may belittle me, this is quite silly honestly, a mistake of my part.
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emoticorpse 2022 年 12 月 10 日 下午 1:43 
I think it'll be allright, but to be on the safe side, maybe like change from the liquid cooler to air cooler. I think water expands when it freezes (leads to busted pipes) and may possibly have messed up the actual body of the liquid cooler. I wouldn't risk it, and I would change it out just to be on the safe side. Other than that If you don't see water anywhere I think it'll be fine for the other parts.

Next time just use an external drive to transfer data like that?
nohuman 2022 年 12 月 10 日 下午 1:44 
Wow. That's some dark comedy right there.

*subbed
lol
nohuman 2022 年 12 月 10 日 下午 1:46 
pressure test for leaks as much as humanly possible I would say, at the very least.
Dobke 2022 年 12 月 10 日 下午 1:58 
引用自 emoticorpse
I think it'll be allright, but to be on the safe side, maybe like change from the liquid cooler to air cooler. I think water expands when it freezes (leads to busted pipes) and may possibly have messed up the actual body of the liquid cooler. I wouldn't risk it, and I would change it out just to be on the safe side. Other than that If you don't see water anywhere I think it'll be fine for the other parts.

Next time just use an external drive to transfer data like that?

That was my idea initially, but I decided to bring the hole PC so we can have some fun having some side-by-side comparisons of his all AMD build vs mine. So that's why I brought the whole PC, we had some fun.
Bad 💀 Motha 2022 年 12 月 10 日 下午 2:18 
Just let it sit indoors for approx 8-12 hours and naturally get back to room temp and it'll be fine.
emoticorpse 2022 年 12 月 10 日 下午 2:31 
引用自 Bad 💀 Motha
Just let it sit indoors for approx 8-12 hours and naturally get back to room temp and it'll be fine.

I have a question for you. If OP did what you said and then he came back on here saying that his pc was fried because the cooler leaked all over his pc, would you feel bad in any way?.

I'm not even trying to imply that you're wrong or I'm right, because we just don't know until he does something.

But would you feel bad if that happened or no? Just a hypothetical.

I know you may already have a full explanation/reasoning as to why you're certain that his PC is perfectly fine. But let's say you turned out to be wrong and his pc got fried would you feel bad?.

You might be right, and probably are.
Bad 💀 Motha 2022 年 12 月 10 日 下午 2:47 
First off unless we're talking really extreme temps, the liquid inside the AIO should not freeze easily. They have additives in the liquid to help with anticorrosion, antibacterial... it's not going to freeze easily.

If the AIO is some how bad, you would first of all take precaution since you have liquid cooling. Soon as do go to finally turn the PC on, enter the BIOS and monitor the fans, pump, and CPU temps. If the AIO is faulty, you should be able to tell right from there.

Another thing you want to do before you ever attempt to plug it up and turn it on is to open it up after a few hours of being in room temp indoors and check for moisture. It would naturally disappear on its own. But again you want to be sure. You could help aid in getting rid of any build-up by using warm air applied via hair-dryer. But you want it to sit and warm up on its own before you really decide if that step is needed. You do not want to bring it in from having been in the cold and right away start using a blow-dryer on it.

If need be after it has sat a few hours, if it has a moisture build-up then you need to be cautious as that means it could be that way within the PSU as well.

One thing I would do right away though is remove the cmos coin battery. Put it back in after the PC dries out and warms up, when you are ready to actually turn it on. Then reinstall the battery before power on. Just know that the cmos settings (bios) will have reset back to factory defaults.
nohuman 2022 年 12 月 10 日 下午 2:54 
hmm ya dunno why I assumed it was a custom loop and not an aio...I guess that nightmare just felt worse, which it would be. heh.
So ya...hard to test that other than inspect closely while you run it after however long you end up waiting. It's probably ok tho. Plastic or glass tubes on the other hand...prolly not so much. ;p
emoticorpse 2022 年 12 月 10 日 下午 3:02 
Hey OP, can visually tell if the actual liquid inside the cooler froze at some point? or did it not freeze at all even though the water in the water bottle froze?
Dobke 2022 年 12 月 10 日 下午 3:47 
引用自 emoticorpse
Hey OP, can visually tell if the actual liquid inside the cooler froze at some point? or did it not freeze at all even though the water in the water bottle froze?

I don't think the coolant froze, I took it in this morning and left all day in a warm room, the hoses seemed harder than usual but I thought it was just me because I don't see any leaks and I was playing some games on it just normal, I don't see anything out of normal I guess I was lucky this time, like some suggested here there might be additives on the coolant that doesn't let it freeze like normal water, it was around -5 this morning here where I live so it was left at freezing temperatures. Anyway it all seem normal here thanks guys for the help and info.
Bad 💀 Motha 2022 年 12 月 10 日 下午 4:11 
An AIO is going to have silicon rubber hoses. It will be fine. Again just ensure that it warms up naturally in-doors. If you are still paranoid then let it sit inside for a good 24-48 hours.
Strawberry {JESUS IS LORD} 2022 年 12 月 10 日 下午 4:21 
my friend left it in cold overnight then to warm it up he left it by radiator then forgot about it the case around the battery melted a little but still works
nohuman 2022 年 12 月 10 日 下午 4:22 
Oh look, a happy ending. Nice. Grats.

Also, it was like -30 C here a couple days ago, so I may again have been slightly biased. lol.

unsubbing now ;p
Bad 💀 Motha 2022 年 12 月 10 日 下午 7:03 
引用自 Bukov
Oh look, a happy ending. Nice. Grats.

Also, it was like -30 C here a couple days ago, so I may again have been slightly biased. lol.

unsubbing now ;p

Where you live, Siberia? LOL but yea the OP's profile says Massachusetts, United States. Which lately has not gone below -6*C or so lately in the over-night hours. Usually hovering around 0-10*C during the day-time.

Yes I would never sit electronics too close to direct heat, like a radiator in your home. Just being like 1-2 feet away from something like that should be more then enough. But also if you go that route, use common sense. If the heat coming of the radiator is too hot for your skin, move the device away from it to a point where the heat is comfortable enough for you without feeling too much like directed heat.

Just the device being in a warm place in-doors for a length period will be enough to take care of the humid moisture that had accumulated on and in the device. Just play it safe and give it more then enough time; like I said if un-sure, give it a full day or two. As there are things you can't be sure of. Like inside a drive for example. Or inside a PSU, or on the GPU in-between the Heatsink and PCB.

I've taken many PCs from a flooded area and dried them out and after doing so they worked just fine.
最後修改者:Bad 💀 Motha; 2022 年 12 月 10 日 下午 7:05
r.linder 2022 年 12 月 10 日 下午 7:07 
AIOs are pretty resistant to low temperatures, unless you're talking WAY below zero, it won't freeze due to additives and the thickness of the tubing, just as Bad 💀 Motha said, and it would be a serious design flaw to have them freeze when not in use because they're literally shipped in thin cardboard boxes year round, being inside a PC case would arguably be better insulation.
最後修改者:r.linder; 2022 年 12 月 10 日 下午 7:08
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