Pls help, did I kill my brother's GPU?

[geometricflux]

So, I put a kraken g10 bracket with a 240 aio on my brother 1080ti, first boot all working. Getting incredible temps in game as well.

I had to remount it thereafter and I didn't have anymore paste, so I reused the paste that I applied for the first mount. I had created a Mirco CRJ to 4 pin fan header adapter and then put a y splitter thereon to connect the AIO fans directly to the gpu and plugged this in while in the second mount process. When I tried booting, the fans of the aio didn't spin and it started booting, but froze after 2 seconds. Thereafter, no boot at all and VGA cmos light showing. I am worried the micro crj to fan adapter might have fried the gpu? I checked the die, its not cracked.

Any assistance troubleshooting would be greatly appreciated.

 

[ThatGuyJD]

Might have fried the fan connector on the GPU not sure why you'd want to run the AIO fans from the GPU as opposed to just to the motherboard?

 

[Mantis]

stopped reading at did I kill my brother, thought has crossed my mind many times.

 

[geometricflux]

Might have fried the fan connector on the GPU not sure why you'd want to run the AIO fans from the GPU as opposed to just to the motherboard?

Cause I'm the opposite of smart.

So the adapter could not have killed the gpu?

 

[Areola Grande]

stopped reading at did I kill my brother, thought has crossed my mind many times.

Why do you want to kill his brother?

Not sure why you went with the AIO fans running off the GPU? Seems like a very weird decision to me unless I'm missing something.

 

[Ageless_ZA]

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[geometricflux]

Why do you want to kill his brother?

Not sure why you went with the AIO fans running off the GPU? Seems like a very weird decision to me unless I'm missing something.

Since the aio is cooling the gpu, I want the rpm curve to scale with gpu thermals and not cpu. I tried using Fan Control, but it was causing issues

 

[JanvN]

Since the aio is cooling the gpu, I want the rpm curve to scale with gpu thermals and not cpu. I tried using Fan Control, but it was causing issues

If you need someone who could potentially repair it drop me DM and let me refer you to a business.

 

[Areola Grande]

Can you not set that in the BIOS? I have an MSI motherboard and I think Dragon Centre allows for selecting a data source when setting up a fan curve. I'm sure other manufacturers have similar software and functionality.

Either way, slap that GPU in a different PC and see what happens.

 

[∀Z‾soʇɐuɐɥ┴]

Since the aio is cooling the gpu, I want the rpm curve to scale with gpu thermals and not cpu. I tried using Fan Control, but it was causing issues

Depending on what board he is using you can still use GPU to control fan curve of the header that the AIO fan is plugged into on the board, at least with both my current board and my previous Aorus board I had this option.

 

[Toy Machine]

Since the aio is cooling the gpu, I want the rpm curve to scale with gpu thermals and not cpu. I tried using Fan Control, but it was causing issues

Argus Monitor = any sensor in system to be linked to any fan header & is a neat piece of software for monitoring. I use it for my 2080ti w/case fans.

 

[geometricflux]

Argus Monitor = any sensor in system to be linked to any fan header & is a neat piece of software for monitoring. I use it for my 2080ti w/case fans.

Either way, if i get the gpu working Ill just set that to like 75% fixed rpm. Right now im kinda just worried the card is fucked

 

[Toy Machine]

Either way, if i get the gpu working Ill just set that to like 75% fixed rpm. Right now im kinda just worried the card is fucked

or just set a fan curve in bios, a bit a tedious initially while working around temps for certain loads. But works just the same. But pray it isn't dead or contact Jan as he offered.

 

[Tapsumbong]

Long method for testing, put original heat sink back on with thermal pads and paste, should allow you to test whether there's a weird short or weird mounting pressure caused by the g10. If you get the same result then it's probably time to get someone to repair it

 

[geometricflux]

Long method for testing, put original heat sink back on with thermal pads and paste, should allow you to test whether there's a weird short or weird mounting pressure caused by the g10. If you get the same result then it's probably time to get someone to repair it

I mangled the original shroud, it was a blower card and I needed the fan connector piece in order to create my DIY mirco crj to fan header haha.. Regretting that now.

So Im not sure how to test it without the g10. I think I will send it in

 

[Tapsumbong]

I mangled the original shroud, it was a blower card and I needed the fan connector piece in order to create my DIY mirco crj to fan header haha.. Regretting that now.

So Im not sure how to test it without the g10. I think I will send it in

just the heat sink, don't need the shroud to test boot

 

[geometricflux]

just the heat sink, don't need the shroud to test boot

I will try this tonight , thanks

 

[goldfritter]

I will try this tonight , thanks

Also you can tie case fans to the heatsink and run them the way you'd run any case fans. If you were doing an SFF build, this would've been called "deshrouding," and would've earned you a lot of kudos with the SFF types.

From my side, I've run a G10 setup with a micro-CRJ adapter and it worked fine. Granted, it was a commercially-available one and not a home-made one. Also I don't really see how that could have bricked the GPU, at worst maybe burnt out the fan header. But then again, I'm no expert on board-level issues.

 

[geometricflux]

Also you can tie case fans to the heatsink and run them the way you'd run any case fans. If you were doing an SFF build, this would've been called "deshrouding," and would've earned you a lot of kudos with the SFF types.

From my side, I've run a G10 setup with a micro-CRJ adapter and it worked fine. Granted, it was a commercially-available one and not a home-made one. Also I don't really see how that could have bricked the GPU, at worst maybe burnt out the fan header. But then again, I'm no expert on board-level issues.

Its a blower card though, so the heatsink is not conventional. But I will definitely try!

I have had many issues in the past relating to fan headers on my mobo's where just by plugging fans in to various extenders etc with pumps has caused issues with boot. Why is this?

 

[goldfritter]

Its a blower card though, so the heatsink is not conventional. But I will definitely try!

With enough air blowing on it, any heatsink can become conventional 😎

I have had many issues in the past relating to fan headers on my mobo's where just by plugging fans in to various extenders etc with pumps has caused issues with boot. Why is this?

The only one I can think of, is the CPU fan header - some motherboards refuse to boot if it doesn't detect a fan on there going at a high enough RPM. So it might be an RPM detection issue caused by the extender. This may or may not also apply to the AIO PUMP header. Other than that, I dont know.

 

[geometricflux]

After repaste and remount of g10, the system booted and hasn't crashed after multiple tests. I think the mount wqsnt great last night.

But i definitely fucked something up with my fan headers, in bios smart fan the fans seem to connect and disconnect, but I dont see any change is speed. Happy nonetheless

 

[Supreme]

also make sure your VRM's and VRAM are being actively cooled