Drowning, save me

So I'm having some issues. My PC boots first time.

Once into the BIOS the first thing I check is my idle temps to make sure everything is ok. Which they are not. My CPU is idling at 39c. My VRM is idling at 39c and my PCH is idling at 45c (this one I have no idea if 45 is as expected). What's the next best step for me to take?
I decided to at least get windows 10 installed on there if nothing else so I plugged in my usb that I have windows 10 on, made the usb my boot priority, restart my pc....nothing, it just puts me back in bios. The usb is listed twice, once with as 'Sandisk (29327MB)' and the other 'UEFI: Sandisk, Partition 1 (29326MB)'. I've tried both at boot priority but neither work. I assumed this is all I had to do but I've never booted from a usb stick so I have no idea tbh.

Anyone help me out or point me in the right direction? Thankyou :)
 
Try redownloading and re-writing the USB, I’ve had issues with them in the past, even Windows official ones!

As you know your CPU temps are not right, is that all cores? How did you bleed it? Possible causes are:
  • Bad CPU seat
  • Bad thermal paste application
  • Airlock in the system

The PCH is the chipset, mine remains constantly at 42C.
 
WantoN said:
Try redownloading and re-writing the USB, I’ve had issues with them in the past, even Windows official ones!

As you know your CPU temps are not right, is that all cores? How did you bleed it? Possible causes are:
  • Bad CPU seat
  • Bad thermal paste application
  • Airlock in the system

The PCH is the chipset, mine remains constantly at 42C.
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How did I bleed it? Just open my valve and then tip, rotate, wriggle my pc etc until I couldn't get anymore out? I'm not sure how to check individual core temps in bios? Also how would I know if I have an airlock in the system?

So I formatted the usb drive and redownloaded the windows 10 usb boot setup and it still didn't work, I played around in the boot options in the bios and tried various combinations of settings and finally got it to boot to the USB, so at last ive got windows installed.

Something strange happened the 2nd time turning on my pc though. It turned itself off and on twice, the 3rd time finally staying on although the Asus splash screen took longer than usual to appear. Once in bios my temps were down to 28c idle CPU, VRM 27c idle, PCH 42c. Bios was now only detecting 1 of my ram sticks also. I turned the pc off took the ram out and back in and everything returned to normal including no powering off/on and both ram sticks were detected again. Also my CPU temp went up to 37c now VRM to 35c and PCH back to 45c. I'm lost, WTF is that about??? And yes my ram is 100 percent compatible, I've checked.
 
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I'm going to re-mount my CPU tomorrow (what a nightmare) and see if that improves the temps, what temp should my CPU idle at on a custom loop? Also what should my GPU idle at? GPU is currently idling at 28c - is that good/bad/ok?
 
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28 says correct, in a warm room (So air temp) this is quite possibly exactly what the water is.

CPU always idles ABOVE ambient in Bios as its actually not throttled back when in the bios so should be anything up to say 7 degrees higher.. ?

VRMS run very hot so could be in the mid/high 30's
My PCH is usally always in 40's so dont worry.

It does sound like you have some air trapped in there, just leave it running with the fill cap loose so air can bubble out and keep topping up as needed.


Let us know how you get on after the CPU Remount (You did take the sticker off the bottom of the cpu block right ? ;) )

I hope that helps but not sure it does.
 
VKleita said:
28 says correct, in a warm room (So air temp) this is quite possibly exactly what the water is.

CPU always idles ABOVE ambient in Bios as its actually not throttled back when in the bios so should be anything up to say 7 degrees higher.. ?

VRMS run very hot so could be in the mid/high 30's
My PCH is usally always in 40's so dont worry.

It does sound like you have some air trapped in there, just leave it running with the fill cap loose so air can bubble out and keep topping up as needed.


Let us know how you get on after the CPU Remount (You did take the sticker off the bottom of the cpu block right ? ;) )

I hope that helps but not sure it does.
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ah good to know, thanks for that.

i cant imagine i have trapped air in my system and if i do it must be in the radiators (id be able to physically see air in my cpu/gpu), ive left it running and spent a lot of time tipping/rocking etc my pc.

Yes i did take the sticker off the block lol. I havent remounted it yet as im still trying to figure some things out. I have a few problems:

1) my cpu temps are bouncing around from 25c upto 37c in idle - ive checked task manager and theres nothing taxing running in the background. Is this normal?
2) ive tried a few different cpu monitoring software and they are all only showing me a single temperature just the same as in bios, id expect to see 8 diff temps, one for each core, no?
3) Playing around with all my rgb to make sure it works, everything works fine except my ek xres 140 reservoir. It reacts to effect changes like breathing, static etc but it doesnt react to colour changes - its constantly green? my ram, cpu, gpu and mobo all change colour and effect as expected.
 
existentialJimmy said:
i cant imagine i have trapped air in my system and if i do it must be in the radiators (id be able to physically see air in my cpu/gpu), ive left it running and spent a lot of time tipping/rocking etc my pc.
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I wouldn't be so sure about that to be fair. It took me six months or more to finally shift all the air out of mine. When i did it was only by accident due to me ramping the pump up to full chat in the summer, then hearing and seeing a good big few bubbles of air come out of the top rad.
 
Testiculous said:
Core Temp will give you readings for each core.
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Coretemp only shows a single temperature for my CPU aswell. Very strange, it's like all the other cores are disabled but surely not? My CPU idle temp has gone up now and is sitting around 40c... For no reason at all, it was sat around 30c an hour ago but it was sat around 30c all morning. It's no longer making 10c jumps during idle either now??? I'm so confused.

Edit: nevermind idle temps keep spiking again. I have no idea if this is normal but I'm watching the CPU temp and it instantly keeps jumping up 10c, then takes a few seconds to go back down. So as an example it will be at 35c then instantly jump to 45c then instantly start dropping back down to 35c 1 or 2 degrees at a time over a 3second period. Then instantly jump back to around 45c and it just does that over and over. Is this normal??

I'm currently doing some stress testing just to see how the temps behave. I let heaven benchmark 4.0 run for a while followed by a benchmark and my GPU never went above 49c.
I'm now stress testing the CPU using OCCT, it's been running for 30mins now and temps are sat around 59c - this is with whatever default fan curve and pump rpm the bios automatically has setup.

I know this isn't a perfect example of how my temps will behave in a lot of games but gives a little more info.

Edit: I've just noticed the rgb lights on my 2080 ti ek water block aren't working, the rgb on the 'geforce rtx' and ek logo are working but not the ones that light up the acrylic block, I didn't notice until now. I understand a little more about the rgb on my reservoir now, the red and green is working but the blue isn't? Anyone have any ideas?

Omg this is a nightmare. Problem after problem, this isn't fun anymore :mad:.
 
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in the BIOS set all fans / pumps to 100%. No fan curve whatsoever. This will isolate whether your loop is performing properly. Once you are sure that the temps at 100% are good, then you can start adjusting for noise preferences.
 
I carried on trying to figure out the issues I was having.

After talking with EKWB they concluded that I somehow managed to get faulty RGB in 2/3 of my products (GPU and reservoir - even the CPU block RGB isn't perfect) so that's the last time I use EKWB.

As for my temperatures on the CPU I figure that it must just be a bad installation job on my part and as the temps were still more than safe I left it as Ive simply been busy with Christmas etc and haven't been bothered to drain my loop to redo the CPU installation.

I decided to test both my CPU and GPU temps/performance under different overclocks. Now I'm faced with a problem that I'm lost on.

I was overclocking my GPU using MSI afterburner with heaven benchmark running. Overclocking the same way in MSI afterburner I always have. Small increments at a time then watching for a couple of minutes for any graphic anomalies etc before increasing again - once I went too high and my screen blackscreened then reset - no problem, I simply dialled the overclocking back a bit so it was stable. I settled on my core clock and moved onto my memory clock and began overclocking that the same way. This time when I went too far with the memory overclocking my pc completely locked up, the heaven benchmark program dipped to 50fps and kept stuttering and locking up. I left it to figure itself out but it didn't so I had to force shut down my pc (NOTE: my highest GPU temp at any point never went above 58c). When I turned my pc back on it wouldn't boot, not even into bios so I made use of the CMOS flash button my mobo has on the back panel. I could finally get into bios and windows booted up. Now however my pc doesn't use my 2080 ti, it defaults to onboard graphics. My 2080 ti is recognized in device manager but has the error 'Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems (code 43)'. I have no idea how to fix this? Things I've done so far:

- Uninstalled MSI afterburner so the overclock wasn't getting applied
- reinstalled Nvidia drivers
- windows restore to a previous date before I tried any overclocking

Nothing has worked so far. Anyone save me please? :confused:
 
LuckyBenski said:
You could try flashing the BIOS of the card as sometimes that helps. I've had no luck fixing error 43 but I've heard others have before. Good luck :(
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MikeTimbers said:
Code 43 appears to be a terminal issue. Google it and you will find many many posts that mostly required an RMA.
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My lord :mad:. I don't understand, how has this happened, did I do something wrong?? I'm not sure how to flash bios of the card so I'll look that up and give it a try.
I did Google it and saw there was a lot of ppl with the same issue but all they're stories were different to mine and I couldn't find one that happened the same way mine did.
I contacted Nvidia directly and they are 'looking into it' which probably means nothing, they asked me to send them my msinfo32 file. So we will see what happens there, RMA or a closed door in my face no doubt.
 
existentialJimmy said:
My lord :mad:. I don't understand, how has this happened, did I do something wrong?? I'm not sure how to flash bios of the card so I'll look that up and give it a try.
I did Google it and saw there was a lot of ppl with the same issue but all they're stories were different to mine and I couldn't find one that happened the same way mine did.
I contacted Nvidia directly and they are 'looking into it' which probably means nothing, they asked me to send them my msinfo32 file. So we will see what happens there, RMA or a closed door in my face no doubt.
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2080 Ti's don't seem to be particularly resilient. I expect you will end up with an RMA.
 
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