did u try updating the bios?
It's the last thing I haven't tried. BIOS is a year out of date, so I suppose I'd better give that a shot before giving Arctic a piece of my mind lol
I love to help with technical stuff when I can! I miss that from reddit, everyone on lemmy are so darn tech-knowledgable (or know how to google) that they never ask for help. So until it becomes necessary to put it in its own comm, asking here seems like the right thing to do. Don't know how much I can help with water coolers though. I have given up on them. I went through four different AIO coolers, everyone of them either died or became ridiculously noisy before half a year went.
But fan connections are very simple. There is no drivers. Just 4 pins (or 3 pins) and if the bios doesn't recognize them, then either its something wrong with the motherboard or the cooler. And if a regular fan works on the mboard, and your cooler doesn't, i would figure the cooler is at fault and ask for a replacement.
I'm a fair hand at it myself, but everybody needs help sooner or later. Granted, though, I probably need it somewhat more often than most lol
I'm fairly certain it isn't the motherboard. The cooler was working earlier today. It only crapped out after I reset the BIOS, which again is exactly what happened the first time it was giving me problems. When I sent it in they replaced the VRM fan and that appeared to solve the problem, until I hit the CMOS reset switch. What if any connection there is there, I couldn't say.
My BIOS is a year out of date, so I think I'll try updating it before I make another warranty claim, but I have a feeling I'm just gonna have to ask Arctic to replace it. I'm dreading that, because they took forever the first time, and all this new hardware has been sitting here unused for long enough already.
Any chance you have a 12v power supply that you can connect to the 3 or 4 pin connectors on the CPU cooler to see if it works on its own? If it does work, you can move on to diagnose your mobo and figure out what the issue is there. If the CPU cooler doesn't work, send it back.
I don't, no, but I'm wishing I did about now. Anyhow, I'm almost certain the issue is with the cooler, not the board. I tested the CPU fan and AIO headers with one of my case fans, and both of them worked just fine. Plus again, the cooler was actually working until I reset the BIOS. I don't know how simply pressing the CMOS reset button could've fried the cooler though.
Yeah, if those headers work, it's the cooler. I dunno if you can get a refund, but I've had good luck buying PC parts from a local auction site nearby. Maybe you have something similar nearby you. I paid $20 for a $180 Corsair cooler.
I got on the phone with them this morning, they're sending me a new one. They did mention that ASUS mobos are a bit tetchy with AIOs, so if this one gives me similar problems, that'll tell me it's a compatibility issue. At which point I'll just write the whole thing off and get the most effective air cooler I can find lol
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