GPU Fan Header Repair

[makomako]

This may be a lost cause but I figured may as well give it a shot.

 

Yesterday I took apart my Gigabyte R9 280X in order to install a Kraken G10 on it to reduce the jet engine sound the thing creates. However removing the heatsink fan connector proved to be a challenge, it simply wouldn't come out. Eventually after wiggling it around a bit it came lose and I was able to remove everything but it left me concerned because I did fiddle with it quite a bit so I decided yo put the heatsink back on to test if it still worked and of course it did not, the fans simply would not power on and the card basically almost baked itself.

 

I've tried adjesting fan speeds with Afterburner but to no avail, different PSU's, different GPU's to check if the PCI slot was working correctly and so on.

 

My conclusion so far is that I may have loosened the mini 3-pin connector from the pcb or broken the one on the heatsink.

 

Here's a question though, is there any way to power on the heatsink fans without connecting them to the GPU or without ordering any adapters?

 

Edit: This may not be the right place for this topic. Sorry about that.

[Sharif]

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GPU : ATI HD4870 OLD

 

I Literally pulled mine off (I was stupid and inpatient)  and so the header came off,and i went nuts.

 

Thought a little bit (a lot) and then bozenga! 

Why not re-solder it back,so I took it to a local repair shop then i told him want to do and it worked again. 

[makomako]

That's actually what I'm thinking of doing except I didn't pull mine off.