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sticknstone

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    AMD Black 9950 Phenom x4
    Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H mobo
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  1. You will need Bluetooth on the PC. Either the motherboard has it and BIOS enables it or a latest version dongle is needed.
  2. First I suggest RMA if there is a warranty left. Fan may not be covered. Change the fans could be an option. Remove the shroud and change the fans. Attaching a standard fan to the shroud will be challenging, but it has been done. A squirt of penetrating oil on the shaft will work if the bearing hasn't failed. The look of the left fan suggests that it has a worn bearing. How long has it been used? Not a long use will point to something in between the shaft and bearing. Clean with electrical contact cleaner, then lube. A generous amount of lube should clean as well. And lastly another option is to disassemble and clean.
  3. It will not work. Take the OK green signal from the motherboard and give it to the other things, but still have the 3.3, 5, and 12v rails going to the PC and the PC will still power on. What is possible is to use the 5v and ground, wire spliced with a 2mm DC power connector coming out of the case.
  4. I don't think it would be worth the investment because the changed fans are already silent. It would be better to consider placing the PC behind a heavy mass, ie. a desk. It would suffocate in a cabinet, but not in a bookshelf kind of furniture. I used packaging foam under and around a water pump with a significant sound reduction. I recommend it, but not under fans as I didn't notice a change. A quiet office will have a 30 dB sound level, so there is little point to going any further.
  5. First check for new GPU drivers, but when my PC screen went black on a game I think the PC was still on. Next it sounds similar to a thermal shutdown protection issue. Does the PC shutdown when playing a simple game ie. Solitaire? If no, check the CPU TIM, because the GPU TIM is factory applied. But first check the fan is working.
  6. I never checked, but the only VC coolers aftermarket are water cooling for as long as I can remember. The only possibility is a custom fan change. I am thinking remove the fan and shroud, keep the cooler and put two or three slim fans. How do they mount? How do they connect? Y cable connection? Consideration of amp draw would be necessary, but that card has blower. Is there space?
  7. The BIOS temps reported are accurate. The software temps reported will always be off by the same number of degrees. The component reports a resistance when the software asks for temps. The component has a thermistor, but the software does not know if the thermistor range is 10k or 15k, thus the difference in reported value of temps. The software converts the resistance to a temp.
  8. More than one game crashing points to windows updating causing the issue. A game update or install is needed. I've had software working and after an update was removed. I install it again, but it does not work 100% because it is old and I can not install the update that fixed the features as the support is no longer offered. I still use the software, but the feature doesn't work. Would you want to check the windows update date and rollback? There was a move to a new place, but I doubt the component cards shifted in the slots.
  9. FYI The only other way to fill the cooler loop would be to remove the screws holding the copper heatsink plate on the bottom of the pump. Under the plate is a black o-ring seal where everything inside of it has the coolant contained. There are two openings and using one to fill the loop with coolant and the other to let the air escape would be the method to fill the loop. The pump would need to be lifted higher than the rad when filling. The coolant will exit the opening the air is escaping from when full.
  10. There is info in the web about modding an AIO cooler, so adding a fill port on the 100i should be possible.
  11. After six years there would be little to no coolant left. On my custom loop the reservoir would be empty. I think there fooling themselves these AIO manufacturers by not putting a fill fitting in the loop. When the coolant is low the system will gurgle, and temps will increase. It's not a pump fan, but a radiator fan and a pump.
  12. I thought the same thing, but the BSOD came back. Until the dump file gets analyzed no one will know the source of the problem.
  13. Post back here with the info on the dump if I can help I will. Nothing you mentioned makes me think the graphics card is faulty because when I searched the BSOD message others had a driver issue or hard drive issue. The message is more general until the dump file is analyzed. The CPU does have integrated graphics.
  14. The speed of the computer is determined by the CPU and GPU. The RAM and storage will affect the time the processors use to work on the load. The greater the data loaded into RAM, the greater the time will be saved. The faster the storage device, the greater the time will be saved. Comparisons between similar storage device technology are pointless, but different and especially newer technology is worth the comparison.
  15. Been reading about this after a web search. The windows minidump file will tell you what the problem is. I searched the error code the BSOD left. Whatever it tells you can be researched further.
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