Loop doesn't go all the way around?

[MorbidAngel]

Hey guys yesterday I built a computer for my friend and everything went fine until I was about to fill the loop, for some reason the loop doesn't want to go around the system, it looks like it "stops" at the GPU, it's not something blocking the water as I can clearly see water coming through at first, but then it just stops, I have no idea what I can do I've tried everything.

The loop goes "Pump->Res->CPU->Rad->GPU->Rad->Pump"

I've tried switching power cables to the pump and changing to/from Molex and CPU Fan outlet because some people did that, it didn't work.

I've tried turning the case on all sides in-case there was a lot of air trapped or anything like that, but no success.

Do you guys have any idea what I can do? Ty for help!

Pump: Ek-DCP 4.0 PWM.

GPU: 980 Ti.

[The Official Czex]

Hey guys yesterday I built a computer for my friend and everything went fine until I was about to fill the loop, for some reason the loop doesn't want to go around the system, it looks like it "stops" at the GPU, it's not something blocking the water as I can clearly see water coming through at first, but then it just stops, I have no idea what I can do I've tried everything.

The loop goes "Pump->Res->CPU->Rad->GPU->Rad->Pump"

I've tried switching power cables to the pump and changing to/from Molex and CPU Fan outlet because some people did that, it didn't work.

I've tried turning the case on all sides in-case there was a lot of air trapped or anything like that, but no success.

Do you guys have any idea what I can do? Ty for help!

Pump: Ek-DCP 4.0 PWM.

GPU: 980 Ti.

 

Always go res to pump. Is your res above or below the pump?

[Tobleh]

Shouldn't it be res to pump?

[NinjaJc01]

He's right. Watch Linus' videos on watercooling.

[MorbidAngel]

Always go res to pump. Is your res above or below the pump?

The res is above the pump, I will go and check give me a moment!

EDIT: Well the outlet from the pump goes straight into the res, isn't that how it's supposed to be? So that the water goes straight from the pump into the res?

[The Official Czex]

The res is above the pump, I will go and check give me a moment!

EDIT: Well the outlet from the pump goes straight into the res, isn't that how it's supposed to be? So that the water goes straight from the pump into the res?

 

NO. That's the opposite of what should be happening. Your pump should be pulling liquid down from your res. In your case, it's having to work very hard to pump UP into the res. All you have to do is  flip the pump around to pull water instead of push into the res.

[MorbidAngel]

NO. That's the opposite of what should be happening. Your pump should be pulling liquid down from your res. In your case, it's having to work very hard to pump UP into the res. All you have to do is  flip the pump around to pull water instead of push into the res.

Thank you, now the thing is, on the pump there is an arrow indicating that of course, that's the way it's gonna push the water, should I still just turn the pump over? is it really that easy? Well we will still have to remove everything since there is not enough space to just turn it around.

But can't I just switch the tubing so that it goes straight down from the res into the inlet and then out the outlet to the rad? Hard to explain when I don't have a picture and my phone is dead as well ..

[The Official Czex]

Thank you, now the thing is, on the pump there is an arrow indicating that of course, that's the way it's gonna push the water, should I still just turn the pump over? is it really that easy? Well we will still have to remove everything since there is not enough space to just turn it around.

But can't I just switch the tubing so that it goes straight down from the res into the inlet and then out the outlet to the rad? Hard to explain when I don't have a picture and my phone is dead as well ..

 

By "flip it" I meant to switch the tubing around.

[MorbidAngel]

By "flip it" I meant to switch the tubing around.

I'm to tired for this lol, I haven't slept for like 32 hours now, but well, thank you, it really helped! Can finally get it done, just need some more coolant.

[MorbidAngel]

Okay, so finally got home! We apparently ordered the wrong fan controllers because he changed the fan just before we ordered and I forgot to check if it was 3 or 4 pins. But we still needed more coolant, so we ordered new fan controllers, some more coolant and new sleeves. Today we got it all home and we went with orange pastel instead of clear.

I changed the tubes and we tried and now everything works fine! Will post a picture of the end result later!

[The Official Czex]

Okay, so finally got home! We apparently ordered the wrong fan controllers because he changed the fan just before we ordered and I forgot to check if it was 3 or 4 pins. But we still needed more coolant, so we ordered new fan controllers, some more coolant and new sleeves. Today we got it all home and we went with orange pastel instead of clear.

I changed the tubes and we tried and now everything works fine! Will post a picture of the end result later!

 

That's great! I'd love to see it. 

[MorbidAngel]

That's great! I'd love to see it. 

Here it is Got the RGB strip in as well

Cable management is decent, we hadn't fixed the computer when I took the pictures, he couldn't start it because it gave us A2 error and didn't find the drives, but I fixed it for him and now it's working, we just played some Warframe

 

 

 

 

 

[The Official Czex]

Here it is Got the RGB strip in as well

Cable management is decent, we hadn't fixed the computer when I took the pictures, he couldn't start it because it gave us A2 error and didn't find the drives, but I fixed it for him and now it's working, we just played some Warframe

 

 

That's wicked looking! I love it! 

[MorbidAngel]

That's wicked looking! I love it! 

Thanks man! I feel stupid for screwing it up with the pump though .. But I remember watching Linus videos and all I can remember is "It doesn't matter how the loop goes as long as the pump is below the reservoir and is connected to eachother", I never knew that you had to connect it to the inlet of the pump Well well, now I know haha

Also, some specs, just because

GPU: GTX 980 Ti

CPU: I7 Skylake 6700K

RAM: Corsair, can't remember the exact name but it's 32GB 2133MHz DDR4!

PSU: RM 850W

Mobo: EVGA Z170 FTW

HDD: 2TB HDD and 500GB SSD, and also his old 250 GB SSD!

Case: Corsair 900D