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What would I do about the data pins? I have been trying to work with asrock support but they just want to RMA. I would rather not RMA if the mb is working. I just need an alternate way of getting the rgb to work.

I don’t think IO shield plugs into anything. I think heatsink armor completes circuit. When i set rgb on in bios I saw the backplate rgb turn on but the IO shield wouldn’t turn on. Then I tried connecting heat sink armor and the IO shield rgb turned on.

Without the heat sink armor on, RGB on the IO shield will not work. Is there any work around store get the IO shield to work without heat sink armor. Also it is a strange 4 pin header on the motherboard. I added a picture of the header and the back of the heat sink armor. It seems to be 5v.

Well I did a bit of work this weekend. I disassembled everything and cleaned everything. I guess I made a noob mistake by not cleaning the radiator before using it in my loop. When I cleaned it a bunch of black stuff came out. Everything looks good now. The only concern i have is the inside inside of my radiator has some grey spots. I’m assuming this is soldering or welding marks and not corrosion. Since this is the first rad I’ve owned I don’t know if this is normal.

Thanks for the responses! Ok I drained my loop and the discoloration is still on the block. The distilled water was clear so no issues there. One thing I did discover was that the soft tubing in some parts looks foggy. It probably leached some plasticizer.Not sure if that could be the issue.

No I don’t have liquid metal TIM My fittings are from koolance,bykski, and xspc. Corsair cpu water block and pump. Alphacool st45 360 radiator. Koolance chipset water block. I have PCs soft tube and petg rigid. i don’t think the coolant is turning brown just the nickel plating. i think your right, the water could be too distilled. I know pure water like demin water can be corrosive to metals. Corsair faq says it’s ok to have distilled water but maybe not for this long period of time.

Hi all, I have noticed that the nickel plating on my Corsair xc7 water block is turning a brownish color. i have had distilled water in my loop for a little over a week but have only ran the pump for 8 hours. This is my first water cooling build. so I’m not sure what could be going on. I’m not to happy with how it looks now. I have a couple ideas but maybe someone with more experience can help. 1. I’m somehow getting corrosion from mixed metals (copper nickel brass) 2. Bio growth or some other coating. 3.oxidation of the nickel coating Also I was curious if this was just an issue with the Corsair blocks or all nickel plated blocks. I expected some nickel blemishes but not after a week. I was planning on flushing the distilled water. Running fresh distilled water then flushing that batch and putting in Corsairs coolant. Would that be a good path forward?

I took my pc to a repair place and the test the gpu booted up first try. Brought my computer in with my gpu booted up first try. The only thing I changed was I had a commander pro and lighting mode pro plugged into the usb on my mother bored when I made the lighting node pro pass through the commander pro it worked. haven trues booting it at home since visiting the repair shop, but it is not hardware related. Must have been seated improperly, bad outlet, or the rgb control.

This past weekend I started my first water cooling build and made a few errors along the way. Now I am not if one of them has damaged my components. I would really appreciate your help! My build so far ryzen 3700x x570 Taichi msi gaming z rtx 2070 Corsair rmx 850 Here are some of the issues I came across. 1. Removed wraith prism and cpu came out of the socket with the cooler(later bench tested and posted fine) 2.possibly over tighten the chipset water block (bench tested with new water block in everything was fine before adding fittings) 3.got a drop of saliva on my motherboard by holding a flashlight in my mouth. (Immediately absorbed away with paper towel, let it dry out for 3 days) 4 modified case and got tiny metal shavings all over the case. (vacuumed as much as I could out of case) I am trying to troubleshoot and just curious if someone might be able to help answer a few questions. Also I have a dr debug video of that helps. Currently case fans and pump have power. The ram rgb is lighting up so I think the ram is also getting power. I’m not sure if cpu has power but gpu won’t even spin the fans or light up. This makes me think the psu is working fine. 1. Would my motherboard power on/show error codes if the chipset was broken? I just tighten the block finger right but I know the chipset could break easily. 2. Do I need the sbfan plugged for the motherboard to start? Not sure if bios will run without the sbfan. Other people seem to run fine without the chipset fan on x570 3.is there anyway to tell if my cpu is working? 4. Could the saliva broke my motherboard? 5. Could I still ram the motherboard? not really sure what the issue is could be psu,cpu,gpu,motherboard or a combination. Because I bench tested before adding the new CPU water block and everything worked fine I’m leaning towards either gpu or motherboard problem. Edit: I tried to start the computer without the gpu and got the same dr debug codes so I think it is GPU related. Would my gpu power on if it was not connected to the pcie slot on the motherboard? Maybe the slot I’m using is broken. 1C24CEE9-71AD-4A6E-BBC7-7A958348C758.MP4

Hello, I have the Lien li O11D case, a MSI rtx 2070 Gaming gpu and the x570 tichi. For thoughs of you with the same case and a vertical gpu bracket, how much space do you have between the backplate of the gpu and the chipset? The problem with this board is that the chipset is right in font of the gpu when having the gpu on the first slot. Mine is currently mounted horizontally in the first slot. So I don’t have space for the fittings. It would be nice to find a vertical bracket that can fit some fans and a slim radiator while still giving some space for the chipset block and the fittings. Thank you

Thank you everyone I got it to Post. I must be lucky. This is my first build so that was probably a noob mistake.

Should be going in the right way with the clip part aligned

I am not sure why it won’t work if it is going in the correct way.I am trying to put it in on the bottom 6 + 2 should I try the top one?

Do both connections need to be 8 for the gpu? Because I tried it like that in the psu but it would not turn on.