NZXT Kraken... is it working?

[Naxx]

First of all, let me give you my specs:

Case: NZXT Phantom 820 Series
Motherboard Gigabyte G1 Sniper 5 Mother Board LGA 1150
CPUIntel I7 4770k (3.5ghz)
Cooler - NZXT Kraken x60 280mm AIO Liquid Cooler
- Test Ram: G.SKILL 4gb 1600 (1 Stick in dim slot 1)
Power Supply - KingWin Laser 1000 Watt
Hard Drive (Currently not installed)
SSD - (Currently Not Installed)
Operating System (Not Installed)


Okay, after doing tons of reading/watching how-to's, and a lot of research in determing which parts are best compatible with what, I've finally decided to build my first computer. Bought myself a nice NZXT Phantom 820 Case, and threw my mother board in the thing. Using a stick of ram from my current machine to test it, everything works.

Here's my issue at the moment, and primarily, is the reason why I'm holding off on putting the rest of the parts into the computer. It's the cooler. Due note that the hard drives, and the operating system are not yet running, as I didn't want to waste my time putting them in -in the event that I have to take it out to because something's wrong, which in this case, I do believe it is.

It's my cooler. The required plugs are the following: 2 140mm fans on four pin with a lead connecting to the pump, 1 sata power connector, one CPU_OPT power 3 pin female plug, and one USB connector.

Everything is plugged in and in place under the exception of the usb cable due to the fact that it specifically says to leave it unplugged until the software is installed, which I cannot install until I have an operating system and the hard drives. But what I'm really concerned about is the the noise that's coming out the machine. It sounds like a rocket ship. Both 140mm fans are running at 100%. Due to the fact that I don't have a hard drive or an operating system, I went ahead and plugged the usb pin in anyway. -That fixed the absent LED lighting affects that were on the box, but then I noticed the color changed from a whitish-blue to red, and at the same time, the fan speed was growing over time, getting louder, and louder.

It doesn't take a fool to realize that the change in color and the increase in fan speed is due to the fact that that tiny little chip underneath it is getting hot.

Here's my question.

Have any of you who have built a computer with the NZXT Kraken series coolers experienced the same when you were getting a post with your computer? When I go through the lengthy install process of windows 7 professional, -leaving the usb plug unplugged as it specifically tells you to do so, Is my chip going to overheat? Is my cooler malfunctioning, do I need to go through Amazon's RMA routine?

Help on this is needed as soon as possible, I don't have a lot of time left before that return-window walks by my front door and gives me the bird. So if this is normal and the reason as to why the cooler is running a 100% is to PREVENT the cpu from overheating, please let me know! ASAP

 

[jimthenagual]

While you are waiting for a NZXT Kraken owner, I'll tell you what my H100i does.

When I boot up, and go into bios, the fans are on high speed and they stay that way until I boot into windows. So your's may be doing the same. My LED lights have an option to cycle colors, your's may have the same. It's just rotating colors as part of it's effects.

Have you checked your CPU temperatures in you bios?

 

[Naxx]

At the moment, I'm waiting on compatible ram, one of the various 1600mhz modules from the corsair dominator platinum line. At the moment, the computer, when hooked up to a monitor it's asking to me to select a boot device, which none is present other than an optical drive.

"Choose a boot device, then press any key to continue"
(there's no drop list, -nothing. Just a black screen with white text as quoted from above.)

 

[Naxx]

By using the clear CMOS jumpers, and getting into the bios, I have determined that the watercooler is defective and will be returning it for an RMA, thank you for your help.

 

[jimthenagual]

Sorry to hear that, I hope you get a new one quick, and get your system up and running

 

[Naxx]

Yeah, the lights worked, and the fans worked, but I'm sitting there in the bios and watching my temperatures rise by 10 degrees every second