I imagine he took the CPU out and found moisture. 

I have been cleaning my mobo for DAYS with a dental pic and acetone/alcohol.  I am just going to mail it back tomorrow.  I have a bunch of foam ordered that will arrive tomorrow so that I can do some prepping tomorrow night, or thursday @ work. 

I don't recall exactly what the output of my 1200 was, but it was well beyond 1200. 

pj all the way. and your socket worries are gone.

also...i found that if you dont have the cpu seated correctly...you loose channel 5. same goes for over tightening the screws holding your heat sink or block on. these two things alone case you to have disappearing ram. (from my testing anyway)

That is the same thing tech support said.  I loosened the screws for the block, still didn't help.  I also remember testing it before any sub zero work with factory cooler.  I always test everything before I go through all the trouble of prepping.  I am looking into ways of rapid prepping/unprepping, in case of any further incidents. 

kind of why i had my little mishap...but did make a slight change to my setup though....

what is this 'slight' change? 

i changed my screws

http://www.xtremesystems....howthread.php?t=215573

OMFG

That's insanity (in a good way)...looks like he's been building it for awhile

that has been in the making since 08...pretty impressive....would like to see how cold it gets

I swore I remember reading that he was/is using Ln2 in the last stage