Newbie desperately seeking help

[cyberdogman]

Hi guys, looking for some advice on filling my loop.

Firstly, I am a complete novice and I know I will not have built the best system or done it the easiest way but I am stuck with what I have done.

I have the Eisbaer solo on the chip with a built in res. I have the out of that going to a radiator at the front of the case. From the radiator out its going down to Barrow T virus res. This did not come with instructions so I have tried to guess my way through it. I have the inlet port from the rad, I have a y connector on the outlet port. on the lower part of the Y I have a ball valve. The upper part of the Y is going back to the built in res on the pump. I have sealed off all other holes on the res. I have an airlock and cant seem to get the thing to fill properly.

I am assuming, fill port on the pump, ball valve and all other ports on T virus sealed but it just doesn't seem to work. Can someone help me out. I know I will have gone an arse backward way of doing things, but its my first attempt and I just really wanted that T virus.

Any help would be very very much appreciated

 

[Chris Beard]

First things first - have you removed all the connections from your power supply other than the pump? This includes the motherboard connectors. This is so we can leak-test the solution before you turn on all the hardware. I also like to move the PSU a physical distance from the pump and watercooling components for safety.

Please could I check your loop order? A picture would also be helpful.

I think it is:
Pump/res/cpu-block combo -> radiator -> res -> back to the start
is that right?

Do you have hard or soft tubing?

If it is possible and easy to do so I would elevate the res so it is higher up than the pump/res/cpu-block combo and on a safe, stable surface. You may already have it set up like this, or may be able to achieve this by turning your case onto its side/back/top. I would then fill the res with liquid and allow it to flow to the pump/res/cpu-block combo. Once I was satisfied that the pump would not run dry I would run the pump very briefly (literally flip the PSU switch on and off again without waiting for anything to happen) by powering on the PSU with a paperclip (if you don't know how to do this, do NOT guess - if you get the wrong side of the 24 pin connector it is a very bad thing).

If it is not easy to move the res higher than the pump/res/cpu-block combo then I would lay the case down on its side so that the pump would not run dry and fill the pump/res/cpu-block combo and then follow the steps above to power on the pump for a very brief interval.

I would recommend looking up videos on Youtube - it helped me significantly.

 

[cyberdogman]

First things first - have you removed all the connections from your power supply other than the pump? This includes the motherboard connectors. This is so we can leak-test the solution before you turn on all the hardware. I also like to move the PSU a physical distance from the pump and watercooling components for safety.

Please could I check your loop order? A picture would also be helpful.

I think it is:
Pump/res/cpu-block combo -> radiator -> res -> back to the start
is that right?

Do you have hard or soft tubing?

If it is possible and easy to do so I would elevate the res so it is higher up than the pump/res/cpu-block combo and on a safe, stable surface. You may already have it set up like this, or may be able to achieve this by turning your case onto its side/back/top. I would then fill the res with liquid and allow it to flow to the pump/res/cpu-block combo. Once I was satisfied that the pump would not run dry I would run the pump very briefly (literally flip the PSU switch on and off again without waiting for anything to happen) by powering on the PSU with a paperclip (if you don't know how to do this, do NOT guess - if you get the wrong side of the 24 pin connector it is a very bad thing).

If it is not easy to move the res higher than the pump/res/cpu-block combo then I would lay the case down on its side so that the pump would not run dry and fill the pump/res/cpu-block combo and then follow the steps above to power on the pump for a very brief interval.

I would recommend looking up videos on Youtube - it helped me significantly.

Hi Chris, thanks for your reply. I have the pump powered from an external source yes so my board isnt connected. My looop is CPU block with built in pump/res -> Radiator -> Large res -> back to the start

I am running soft tubing.

I have been doing what you have said with a bridging pin but sometimes the water doesnt fill the res from the fill port even tho I have water in the tube. The large res just fills rather than return the water most of the time. I am really confused.

I have attached a pic. Any more advice will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Mcnumpty2323]

you sure you havent mixed up the in and out port on that pump/res?

 

[Chris Beard]

sometimes the water doesnt fill the res from the fill port even tho I have water in the tube. The large res just fills rather than return the water most of the time. I am really confused.

you sure you havent mixed up the in and out port on that pump/res?

I think Mcnumpty is right. How did you get on with changing the ports on the pump?