nvidia 980TI Bargain comes with dead fans/header

[Mauricio G. B.]

Hi guys, i got a Bargain for a 980ti Poseidon Platinum, the card works perfectly fine except for  the fan header, its dead, theres no visual damage whatsoever, and all the pints check for continuity but they dont give any voltage signs  currently im using the card with an Artic Accelero twin Turbo III hooked directly to the PSU

the issue is, i want to use the stock cooler because, well its really good and i plan to watercool later, but i need the fans to work since the VRMS are not cooled by the waterblock part of the cooler, right now i have a heatsink i stole from another card hooked with a freaking ziptie, and it somewhat works,

i think the previous owner disabled the fans somehow, idk how, but i already reflashed a new bios and the fans still dont spin at all, they do work if hooked directly to power,
again the card works fine, and turbos and yadda yadda, i just want to use the stock cooler

[Jurrunio]

Get a multimeter and measure the pins voltage. If the PWM pin still pulses/has voltage you could jump wire a 12V wire from the PSU and combine that with the PWM signal from the card's fan header

 

Or you could plug it into the motherboard's fan header instead

[Mauricio G. B.]

6 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Get a multimeter and measure the pins voltage. If the PWM pin still pulses/has voltage you could jump wire a 12V wire from the PSU and combine that with the PWM signal from the card's fan header

 

Or you could plug it into the motherboard's fan header instead

the issue is that its a 5pin header, and im not sure how to connect it, as far from the header on the card itself, ill try to read as having the card on the system makes it a nightmare to do

 

[dgsddfgdfhgs]

9 minutes ago, Mauricio G. B. said:

the issue is that its a 5pin header,

I believe the colour cords are pretty standard and the extras are really for extra/ optional features 

just googled theres a bunch of these adapters selling online (for miners?) so dont freak out if you dont fully reconnect all cables

[Mauricio G. B.]

well ill be eff fuken dam, all the pins read, and have voltage going through them the ones from the GPU header,

 

[Mauricio G. B.]

i checked continuity for every cable, and plug, they check OK, i dont understand how it doesnt work?, dead fans?

[Whiro]

2 hours ago, Mauricio G. B. said:

i checked continuity for every cable, and plug, they check OK, i dont understand how it doesnt work?, dead fans?

Most likely they dead if plug is ok. 

[Mauricio G. B.]

2 minutes ago, Whiro said:

Most likely they dead if plug is ok. 

it appears they have a Short, the voltages drop significantly while plugged in, the 3.3 drops to .9 and tne 9v main signal drops to 0. ill get replacement fans, they're 25$ on aliexpress

 

[averagebilly]

4 minutes ago, Mauricio G. B. said:

it appears they have a Short, the voltages drop significantly while plugged in, the 3.3 drops to .9 and tne 9v main signal drops to 0. ill get replacement fans, they're 25$ on aliexpress

 

If you want to try saving a little bit of money, I know that sometimes manufacturers will ship out fans for free. I'm not sure if they would for a card that's two generation old, though.

[Mauricio G. B.]

Just now, averagebilly said:

If you want to try saving a little bit of money, I know that sometimes manufacturers will ship out fans for free. I'm not sure if they would for a card that's two generation old, though.

hmm, ill give it a shot, is it through normal support? ill contact asus, maybe they will since its one of the highest end cards, but yea its too old

[averagebilly]

Just now, Mauricio G. B. said:

hmm, ill give it a shot, is it through normal support? ill contact asus, maybe they will since its one of the highest end cards, but yea its too old

I think so. Just email them, but don't mention that you bought it used.