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Old August 2nd, 2007   #1
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Default HELP!!!!!!!!! ..........with water cooling

OK, so I saw a Thermaltake Bigwater 735 at my local Radioshack (wierd, huh?) Anyway, I followed the instruction booklet, having never done water cooling before. Everything hooked up fine, and I filled the resivoir with coolant.

I rigged the PSU so it would turn on without the mobo. Plugged in and powered up fine, but the pump wasn't pumping!!! There is a blue LED on the pump and that lit up, but the coolant was not moving.

I might not be the pump because the blue LED lit up, but on the other hand the coolant was not pumping.

Help please!!!! I am low on $$$ and I don't know what I did wrong!!!!

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what happened to the GeminII ?



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what happened to the GeminII ?
Yea, that is just what the hell I was wondering???

How in the world did you go from a Gemini II a week ago to a Thermaltake Big water 735 today? And what more........WHY???



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Oh no! I'm not familiar with their setups. Reread the manual and ensure everything is plugged in. The pump just might be so weak you can't even feel/see the water...

On another note.. I rebuilt my w/c and I'm getting 49/47/47/49 load on my quad. :P Water is nice.




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what happened to the GeminII ?
One of the screws stripped out while I was taking it off, and I decided to try something new instead of air cooling when I got a new cooler.

I dumped $170+ on the Bigwater, and I really want it to work.



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Oh no! I'm not familiar with their setups. Reread the manual and ensure everything is plugged in. The pump just might be so weak you can't even feel/see the water...

On another note.. I rebuilt my w/c and I'm getting 49/47/47/49 load on my quad. :P Water is nice.
Nope, can see the water, and it's definetly not moving. Faulty pump?

BTW, if you got a new pump while rebuilding your WC setup, can I have your old one?




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Hahaha. This baby will never break.




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Default Re: HELP!!!!!!!!! ..........with water cooling

i remember in one of TTpete's blog posts (i read it once and it happened to be there......) you sometimes need to smack the pumps with something hard like a screwdriver to get them to go.
i think the title was 'smack that' =P



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Anyhow, do you think a new pump will fix it?



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Can you still return it? I say go back into radioshack with an angry look on your face and demand a refund. Then get a Swiftech H20-120 or splurge for this baby: Petra's Tech Shop

A new pump wouldn't work because the tubing size is not the same.




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