cooling Corsair H110i GTX Pump Dead?

[Husky]

Hi,

 

I just transported my PC and after turning it on the fans revved up to max speed and it started overheating. I shut it down and turned it back on again and my BIOS told me my CPU was overheating to 84C and climbing. I shut it down immediately and checked the inside of my PC. I found nothing wrong, pump was firmly on CPU, thermal paste was recently changed and all connections were re-seated and there were no leaks. I even shook my PC around to try and get rid of air bubbles as I thought they may have formed while the PC was on it’s side in the car and was carried upside-down from the garage to the house.

 

I tried turning it on again and it did the same thing, fans max speed and CPU very quickly climbed to 90C (in the bios, no Windows or anything) before I shut it down.

 

I tried to unplug and plug the pump back in while the PC was on and in the BIOS and it seemed to work for a second because the water pump speed jumped from N/A to ~200 RPM and my temp dropped from ~80C to 40C in a matter of like 5 seconds but the speed went back to N/A and the temp shot back to 80C before I shut it down. Unplugging and plugging the pump back in did make it work again after that. I was trying to power-cycle the pump to maybe get rid of any air bubbles.

 

The pump is powered off a SATA connector. I’ve tried many connectors. I think my pump may have died. The light on the front of the pump still comes on white though.

 

Help is appreciated.  If the pump is really dead then I am going to use the opportunity to just go full-out watercooling.

[RadiatingLight]

pump is probably dead.

[Husky]

9 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

pump is probably dead.

[Husky]

GUYS IT HAS BEEN FIXED!!

 

I literally hit it hard a couple of times and it all of a sudden started working, 24C idle and 60C load. Working reliably now.