My brand new pump is not pumping!!! Help

P4ULY

P4ULY

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I have just finished setting up my first build.

Everything is in a brand new Thermaltake Kandalf LCS case, it's all working fine except the pump for the liquid cooling, it's pumped a bit around the system and has now given up, none of the liquid is flowing at all.

The only thing I have added to the system is one of the Thermaltake M1 Aquabays, so that I can see what is going on from the front of my case, this has a flow meter in it which isn't moving at all.

What can I do because I can't even set up installing the operating system as the chip will cook itself to death?

HELP!
 
Is it just the flow meter that's causing you not to think that the water isn't moving? Give the pump a good shake or knock it with your fist (like a door).
 
No it's not just the meter I can still see quite a few large air bubbles in the tubing. It seems to get to the aquabay and seems to have trouble, it has pumped a bit through it but only a tiny ammount.
 
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Lay it on its side , the case that is , ( even gently shake it ).

Once the air blocks have gone it will be fine :)

Be ready with more fluid though , once the air blocks go you'll need to top it up quickly or shut the power down.

Never let a pump run dry.

Always happens on new loops

Mark
 
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yup, happened to me on my first build - I thought the pump was broken, but left it powered on for 20 seconds whilst moving the case about, and all of a sudden it kicked in :)
 
P4ULY said:
The only thing I have added to the system is one of the Thermaltake M1 Aquabays, so that I can see what is going on from the front of my case, this has a flow meter in it which isn't moving at all.

HELP!
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I hope you've put the reservoir before the pump in the loop ?

Mark
 
Yep reservoir is before the pump.

Laying it on it's side has done the trick :)

No all I have to do is figure out how to get it to boot up, anyone have any ideas on why my motherboard won't use my RAID array? (ASUS Striker Motherboard)
 
P4ULY said:
Yep reservoir is before the pump.

Laying it on it's side has done the trick :)

No all I have to do is figure out how to get it to boot up, anyone have any ideas on why my motherboard won't use my RAID array? (ASUS Striker Motherboard)
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Good news :)

( No idea about raid though )

Mark
 
Was the previous array on the same motherboard? You can't move disk arrays from one motherboard to another unless it uses the exact same controller and even then I wouldn't bank on it.
 
The Striker has onboard RAID, surely?

Is it just a case of not being able to see it during Windows setup?
I assume you can see the raided drives in BIOS?
 
Yep it has 2 different types of onboard RAID so thats ok.

Yep it sees both drives in the BIOS and I can set the RAID up, but then in just gets in it's loop of returning to the BIOS.

I can't even get to the windows set up screen yet! I wondered if it's cause my only optical drive is a blu-ray drive and obviously it doesn't have any drivers yet, so I'm wondering if it can't see the disc?
 
it's a hardware issue if it's looping bios..

Is everything at stock, or have you overclocked anything?

Can we have your specs?
 
Everything is stock, my 2 raptor drives are second hand though.

Specs are:
CPU - Q6600
Motherboard - ASUS Striker Extreme
Memory - 4gb of OCZ SLI ready memory
Operating system - Vista 64bit (OEM)
Hard Drives - 2 x 150gb WD Raptors + 1 x 300gb WD IDE drive
Optical Drive - LG Blu Ray writer & HD Rom
Video Card - Leadtek 8800GTS 512mb
Sound Card - Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi
Case - Thermaltake Kandalf LCS with added Aquabay M1
Power Supply - Thermaltake Toughpower 750w
 
Have you tried booting with just 2 sticks of ram? I'm assuming you have 4x1GB rather than 2x2GB..

Very silly question, but your graphics card has the 6pin power plugged in, right?

The Vista x64 disks are notorious for not installing with 4GB in, and requiring a patch downloading in Windows Update to allow it to work correctly with 4GB.. I'd try removing some RAM just for the install :)
 
I have 2 x 2gb sticks but my BIOS does see it all at the mo, will this stop windows loading?

Yep video card is powered up properly, and again the BIOS sees this.

Will remove one of the sticks and try it tonight, cheers for all the help :)
 
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I have 2 x 2gb sticks but my BIOS does see it all at the mo, will this stop windows loading?

Yep video card is powered up properly, and again the BIOS sees this.

Will remove one of the sticks and try it tonight, cheers for all the help :)
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The 4GB issue with Vista isn't relevant to BIOS seeing all 4GB, it's a separate thing - I'd say trying with 2GB is definitely worth a go.. then when you've updated Windows, chuck the other 2GB in :)
 
Right tried everything I can think of now.

I have removed 2GB's of RAM and booted - nothing

I have unpluged my IDE drive and booted - nothing

I have unplugged one of my SATA drives - nothing

It just keeps coming back to the BIOS!
 
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