- Apr 20, 2012
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So in my build thread from last winter, I added an Inno3D iChill Black 2080 Super - and it's a great card for the living room and my case.
That is until recently, when for some reason the fan-speed got locked at 30% (I'm assuming something to do with using MSI Afterburner for monitoring while doing some machine learning model training), the card started overheating, and increased pump speed to the point where it became very audible - and maybe even started cavitating (is that a thing?).
In any case, after maybe 3 minutes, I found the culprit, fanspeed normalized again, and the model training completed.
Come the next cold boot though, the pump apparently never got going. GPU crashed while I was watching a video - check everything out. Fanspeed was maxed, but no sound at all from the pump.
Pump control is apparently completely handled by the card, with no sensor or signal to read out or set rpm.
I opened an RMA with the vendor - card is only a year old after all, and it shouldn't be able to shake itself apart... Still, opened the RMA on Sunday, but due to high load, still haven't even heard back. Will also open a support ticket with Inno3D - but I haven't found the SN yet, which I guess might be helpful.
Is there anything else I can do to try and get that pump running? vBIOS flash? Shake the whole thing madly, in case there's an air bubble somewhere? Or is it likely game over for some mechanical aspect of the pump?
Edit: And yeah, right now obviously isn't the best time to have a ready-to-use AIO on a GPU fail. I might get my money back, which isn't worth anything in todays market, and there are no similar cooling solutions available anyway, or they will replace the cooler - which will likely mean a trip to the closest service center, waiting for a spare cooler to arrive, etc. Under normal conditions, you could just do a like-for-like exchange. But this was a rare beast to begin with...
That is until recently, when for some reason the fan-speed got locked at 30% (I'm assuming something to do with using MSI Afterburner for monitoring while doing some machine learning model training), the card started overheating, and increased pump speed to the point where it became very audible - and maybe even started cavitating (is that a thing?).
In any case, after maybe 3 minutes, I found the culprit, fanspeed normalized again, and the model training completed.
Come the next cold boot though, the pump apparently never got going. GPU crashed while I was watching a video - check everything out. Fanspeed was maxed, but no sound at all from the pump.
Pump control is apparently completely handled by the card, with no sensor or signal to read out or set rpm.
I opened an RMA with the vendor - card is only a year old after all, and it shouldn't be able to shake itself apart... Still, opened the RMA on Sunday, but due to high load, still haven't even heard back. Will also open a support ticket with Inno3D - but I haven't found the SN yet, which I guess might be helpful.
Is there anything else I can do to try and get that pump running? vBIOS flash? Shake the whole thing madly, in case there's an air bubble somewhere? Or is it likely game over for some mechanical aspect of the pump?
Edit: And yeah, right now obviously isn't the best time to have a ready-to-use AIO on a GPU fail. I might get my money back, which isn't worth anything in todays market, and there are no similar cooling solutions available anyway, or they will replace the cooler - which will likely mean a trip to the closest service center, waiting for a spare cooler to arrive, etc. Under normal conditions, you could just do a like-for-like exchange. But this was a rare beast to begin with...
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