Circulation problem

So..

Sufficient water in the reservoir to keep the pump happy (so it doesn't try and push air around instead)?
Pump is running and vibrating quietly?
Water is going round?
Bubbles slowly being pushed out of your loop and collecting in your Reservoir?
Any kinks or sharp bends?
Can you see any large bubbles causing an airlock in your loop?
Got kitchen roll handy for mopping up?

Proving your loop is working can be a slow process, but patience is key.
My first loop I rushed it, and smoked a gfx card and a motherboard.
 
skyripper said:
So..

Sufficient water in the reservoir to keep the pump happy (so it doesn't try and push air around instead)?
Pump is running and vibrating quietly?
Water is going round?
Bubbles slowly being pushed out of your loop and collecting in your Reservoir?
Any kinks or sharp bends?
Can you see any large bubbles causing an airlock in your loop?
Got kitchen roll handy for mopping up?

Proving your loop is working can be a slow process, but patience is key.
My first loop I rushed it, and smoked a gfx card and a motherboard.
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Yh enough liquid in res.
vibrating quietly
water is going round just barely at times.
small bubbles movement at times.
no kinks so far.
I will check for trapped air.

Sorry to hear about your damaged goods,will always use the jumper now i guess)
 
Not to be negative, but I'm surprised anything is still working. :)

I realise you won't do this as it appears you don't like to take advice, but I would take everything apart and revert it back to air to see what is actually still working as I fear for your cpu and gpu's. They are probably fine but it depends on how quick they are able to thermally shut down before damage. You've had everything running with no water in the pipes or the blocks hence why it shuts down in less than 2 minutes.

Then while everything is apart I would read up a little more on watercooling and then start afresh putting it back together to ensure you have the pump flowing in the right direction and cpu blocks plumbed correctly. In fact it might help you to setup a loop outside of the case to ensure you can get it working before it goes near the expensive stuff.

Lastly a 120 radiator sitting on the bottom of a case is doing nothing for you thermally, aesthetically or credibly. I know you said it wasn't a final setup but then why the hell are you switching the PC on?

We all make mistakes trying to rush things instead of taking our time and doing it properly. I can attest to this as I recently set my loop up and didn't flush the radiators out sufficiently leading to cloudy coolant.

Good luck with it.
 
extrememachine said:
Sorry to hear about your damaged goods,will always use the jumper now i guess)
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It wasnt using/not using the jumper that caused my problem, it was thinking "heh, I'll be fine for a week until those hoseclips turn up" that was my problem :D Years ago now anyhow. I'm on my third watercooled build now, and all three are still going strong.

If you're happy that the pump is pushing water round, and that everything is properly done up, no kinks etc, it could be trapped air in the radiators / waterblocks.

Do up the cap on the reservoir, and with the pump running, give the whole rig a gentle rocking back and forwards for a while. You're trying to dislodge air bubbles, not get coins out of grandma's moneybox. Should be able to hear any trapped air gurgling around. Bit like too eating too much chilli.

When you're happy that the loop is continuous - water from the pump is going thru every block, going thru the radiators and is turning up back at the reservoir, then you should do the leaktesting - wrap the connectors on every block with kitchen roll and leave the loop running - check it overnight or tomorrow, and make sure all those pieces of kitchen roll are still dry.

Theres more experienced people than me who'll probably be along to help later. Fingers crossed for you.
 
skyripper said:
It wasnt using/not using the jumper that caused my problem, it was thinking "heh, I'll be fine for a week until those hoseclips turn up" that was my problem :D Years ago now anyhow. I'm on my third watercooled build now, and all three are still going strong.

If you're happy that the pump is pushing water round, and that everything is properly done up, no kinks etc, it could be trapped air in the radiators / waterblocks.

Do up the cap on the reservoir, and with the pump running, give the whole rig a gentle rocking back and forwards for a while. You're trying to dislodge air bubbles, not get coins out of grandma's moneybox. Should be able to hear any trapped air gurgling around. Bit like too eating too much chilli.

When you're happy that the loop is continuous - water from the pump is going thru every block, going thru the radiators and is turning up back at the reservoir, then you should do the leaktesting - wrap the connectors on every block with kitchen roll and leave the loop running - check it overnight or tomorrow, and make sure all those pieces of kitchen roll are still dry.

Theres more experienced people than me who'll probably be along to help later. Fingers crossed for you.
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Rocking the case gve some motion.Saw water flowing through the cpu block.
Looks like blockage/trapped air.
 
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I just read the Google translate version of the Aquacomputer page for that pump.
Reading the manual is a must!

Theres a jumper for 'aeration' whatever the hell that means.
As well as that it can control a fan or two, it does adjustment of the flowrate (by testing for restriction!?) and can all be controlled by USB.

Looks complicated schizzle.
 
It could be that the pump is capable of backing off the power depending on the temp of the coolant. As Skyripper says, the manual would be your friend there.

As far as I can tell the reservoir is an EK tube and looks like it has a port at the top. If that's threaded, you could run a test loop with just res and pump so that it pumps it out the bottom of the res and returns it to the top. That would give you good visibility of flow for troubleshooting purposes only - not to run permanently or you'd constantly have air in the loop and a waterfall noise to boot. Sometimes it looks like flow is bad as you cannot easily see it. If flow is good, you could try the same with either all or just some of the components and see what's slowing it down or stopping it.
 
Again - unplug ALL other power connectors - including all of those ones going to your graphics cards, and hard drives, and motherboard.

http://i.imgur.com/nq3Zr95.jpg

To get rid of the air, take one of the plugs out of the top of the reservoir, and run the pump (without ANYTHING else still plugged in) and gently rock the case around.

The level of coolant in the reservoir should then drop, as the air is removed.
 
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