H110i mishap

[Steve22]

Hey guys, so earlier today my local computer store hooked up an h110i for me. I saw a cable down near the bottom of my case after getting it back, and I thought I must've accidentally knocked it off while re-adjusting a cable that was on my graphics card, so I (without thinking) put it into the closest thing near it that it looked like said cable would fit in. Turns out it was the micro-USB cable for corsair link for my h110i that I had just tried putting into the JFP2 connector on my x99 which is apparently for speakers. Upon booting up my computer before realizing what I've done, I saw the once bright corsair logo (white) turn every color of the rainbow and then turn off. After this happened, I quickly removed the micro-USB cable from the JFP2 connector and then tried booting up my computer, and what I found was that the corsair logo did not light up, and that my fan plugged into sysfan 3 didn't seem to be displaying its RPM in the bios, and is appearing as disconnected although it is working (sysfan 3 is right next to the JFP2 connector). The pump seems to be working without the logo lit up, but is idling at ~33-35c (earlier was about 27) and is at about ~50-55c under load (which I'm assuming is normal). Also, the fans mounted on the radiator are working fine as well.

 

My question is: By accidentally (stupidly) plugging in the corsair link Micro-USB into the JFP2 connector, did I permanently damage something, or is it fixable? / Have I done anything too bad?

 

Thanks for any help,  I've been up for the past 4 hours or so searching for an idea as to what has happened.

[Benji_w]

Possible damage to the motherboard and AIO but it's hard to tell without testing.

[Enderman]

your pump is working fine because it takes power from sata

temps are fine

the higher idle temp is probably just ambient

 

you fried your LED controller though, and looks like some parts of the motherboard

[Steve22]

2 minutes ago, Enderman said:

your pump is working fine because it takes power from sata

temps are fine

the higher idle temp is probably just ambient

 

you fried your LED controller though, and looks like some parts of the motherboard

Damn, I guess the LED controller part isn't that big of a loss, do you think the motherboard part will warrant getting a new one? I haven't noticed anything else odd going on besides the sysfan 3 issues.  Guess I should take it back to the computer store and have them take a look at it, it'll be quite the embarrassment going back there after they just installed it and saying that I accidentally did what I did...

[Bajantechnician]

5 minutes ago, Steve22 said:

Damn, I guess the LED controller part isn't that big of a loss, do you think the motherboard part will warrant getting a new one? I haven't noticed anything else odd going on besides the sysfan 3 issues.  Guess I should take it back to the computer store and have them take a look at it, it'll be quite the embarrassment going back there after they just installed it and saying that I accidentally did what I did...

just tel em u have issues with it and rma.

they wont be able to tell

[Enderman]

7 minutes ago, Steve22 said:

Damn, I guess the LED controller part isn't that big of a loss, do you think the motherboard part will warrant getting a new one? I haven't noticed anything else odd going on besides the sysfan 3 issues.  Guess I should take it back to the computer store and have them take a look at it, it'll be quite the embarrassment going back there after they just installed it and saying that I accidentally did what I did...

tell them whats not working and ask for RMA

as long as you dont say "oh i plugged this wrong thing here and shorted it myself" they will let you RMA

all you need to do is pay for shipping to them and they ship it back

[Benji_w]

Just now, Enderman said:

tell them whats not working and ask for RMA

as long as you dont say "oh i plugged this wrong thing here and shorted it myself" they will let you RMA

all you need to do is pay for shipping to them and they ship it back

Depends on the RMA process, some are return to base ie where you bought them from so if it's one of those he will just get it swapped out there and then.

[Steve22]

10 hours ago, Enderman said:

tell them whats not working and ask for RMA

as long as you dont say "oh i plugged this wrong thing here and shorted it myself" they will let you RMA

all you need to do is pay for shipping to them and they ship it back

The h110 is from Amazon, mobo is from Cyberpower. Amazon should be easy to RMA, cyber will just be a pain in the ass to RMA. It's an x99 raider (cheapest msi x99) so I guess I might as well buy a better one to replace it. Going to a computer store today (they installed the h110 two days ago) to get a better evaluation of what happened. Should I just tell them what happened in truth or is there anything else I should say? Also, what caused me to do what I did was the sight of the Micro-usb cable down at the bottom of the case, not connected to anything, so I guess they're partially at fault.

 

Thanks for the great replies so far guys!

[Steve22]

Another thing to add to this -- The pump doesn't seem to kick in until I start up a game / do something CPU intensive and its been idling at around ~41 c and jumping occassionally to about 55 c. I'm guessing this weird idle temp is also effecting my GPU (xfx 390x) which used to idle at around 27-30 c when the h110i was working / when I had a 550lc.