- Sep 23, 2019
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Hello everyone,
Recently I decided to upgrade my Thermaltake Water 3.0 240 CL-W233-PL12SW-B Water Cooler to a NZXT Kraken Z73 series Water Cooler. I should also add that I purchased Thermaltake Riing Quad 12 RGB radiator fans to replace the NZXT OEM fans. After installation, when I booted my computer (After POST) the bottom of this screen displayed the text: "CPU Fan Error!". About 3 seconds it prompted me to hit F1 to enter the BIOS. Once in the BIOS, I saw that my CPU temps were oscillating around 67 degrees Celsius.....
At first we read online that, "Asus motherboards, limit the wattage that comes from the CPU_FAN and OPT header. From what I've read it can vary from 2-3w sometimes less depending on the motherboard. The Kraken uses 3.3w from the 3pin header to make the pump run like its supposed to. ASUS motherboards are the only ones that have this issue.
My advise, Move the 3pin header to a CHA_FAN or SYS_FAN header and disable that error in bios. That will get rid of that error and allow the Kraken to run as it should. Also, Make sure that your USB header is plugged into your motherboard too."
We also found online that some people are claiming that "Air Bubbles" get stuck in this pump and they shake the radiator to allow gravity to push the bubble out of the line..... but I am not sure how that makes sense as its a closed line so where would the air go? - lol
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNNLWPLqAYM
(Tried this and did not work)
After many google searches, a friend and I were able to find that some folks online were having luck by changing different QFan settings, disabling monitoring of CPU temp, and setting it to both PWM and DC on manual 100% just to be sure. In the end I was able to bypass the "CPU Fan Error!" and enter Windows, although in BIOS the CPU temp is reporting high numbers and so is the pump LCD screen.
I then installed the NZXT CAM software and was able to determine that the pump is not working at all. It shows a status of 0. I AM 99.99% convinced that this is the issue (Look at image here https://imgur.com/a/94iMFnw) Different people online claim that it could be a faulty pump. Bottom line is I want to keep the NZXT Kraken Z73 Water Cooling system because on paper it should work... just maybe looking for other suggestions as I have gone down many rabbit holes on Reddit and tried a lot of different methods.
Current Hardware:
Case: Thermaltake A500 Aluminum Tempered Glass Gaming Case
Case Fans: 3x [RGB] Thermaltake Riing Trio 12 Radiator 120mm RGB LED Fan
Processor: Intel® Core™ i9-9900KF Processor (8x 3.60GHz/16MB L3 Cache)
Processor Cooling: NZXT KRAKEN Z73 LIQUID WATER COOLER
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER - 8GB GDDR6 (VR-Ready) - Single Card
Motherboard: ASUS TUF Z390-PLUS GAMING -- RGB, 802.11ac WiFi, USB 3.1 (6 Rear, 4 Front), TUF Protection
Memory: 32 GB [8 GB X4] DDR4-3600 Corsair Vengeance Pro
Power Supply: 850 Watt - Thermaltake Toughpower Grand RGB - 80 PLUS Gold, Full Modular
Primary Hard Drive: 1 TB Samsung 860 PRO SSD -- Read: 560MB/s, Write: 530MB/s
Data Hard Drive: 2 TB Seagate Barracuda Hard Drive -- 256MB Cache, 7200RPM, 6.0Gb/s
Network Card: TP-Link Archer T6E AC1300 Wireless Network Card 802.11ac Dual-Band (2.4GHz/5GHz) up to 867 Mbps
USB Expansion Card: PCI-Express USB 3.0 Expansion Card (2x External Port + 1x Header)
Recently I decided to upgrade my Thermaltake Water 3.0 240 CL-W233-PL12SW-B Water Cooler to a NZXT Kraken Z73 series Water Cooler. I should also add that I purchased Thermaltake Riing Quad 12 RGB radiator fans to replace the NZXT OEM fans. After installation, when I booted my computer (After POST) the bottom of this screen displayed the text: "CPU Fan Error!". About 3 seconds it prompted me to hit F1 to enter the BIOS. Once in the BIOS, I saw that my CPU temps were oscillating around 67 degrees Celsius.....
At first we read online that, "Asus motherboards, limit the wattage that comes from the CPU_FAN and OPT header. From what I've read it can vary from 2-3w sometimes less depending on the motherboard. The Kraken uses 3.3w from the 3pin header to make the pump run like its supposed to. ASUS motherboards are the only ones that have this issue.
My advise, Move the 3pin header to a CHA_FAN or SYS_FAN header and disable that error in bios. That will get rid of that error and allow the Kraken to run as it should. Also, Make sure that your USB header is plugged into your motherboard too."
We also found online that some people are claiming that "Air Bubbles" get stuck in this pump and they shake the radiator to allow gravity to push the bubble out of the line..... but I am not sure how that makes sense as its a closed line so where would the air go? - lol
(Tried this and did not work)
After many google searches, a friend and I were able to find that some folks online were having luck by changing different QFan settings, disabling monitoring of CPU temp, and setting it to both PWM and DC on manual 100% just to be sure. In the end I was able to bypass the "CPU Fan Error!" and enter Windows, although in BIOS the CPU temp is reporting high numbers and so is the pump LCD screen.
I then installed the NZXT CAM software and was able to determine that the pump is not working at all. It shows a status of 0. I AM 99.99% convinced that this is the issue (Look at image here https://imgur.com/a/94iMFnw) Different people online claim that it could be a faulty pump. Bottom line is I want to keep the NZXT Kraken Z73 Water Cooling system because on paper it should work... just maybe looking for other suggestions as I have gone down many rabbit holes on Reddit and tried a lot of different methods.
Current Hardware:
Case: Thermaltake A500 Aluminum Tempered Glass Gaming Case
Case Fans: 3x [RGB] Thermaltake Riing Trio 12 Radiator 120mm RGB LED Fan
Processor: Intel® Core™ i9-9900KF Processor (8x 3.60GHz/16MB L3 Cache)
Processor Cooling: NZXT KRAKEN Z73 LIQUID WATER COOLER
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER - 8GB GDDR6 (VR-Ready) - Single Card
Motherboard: ASUS TUF Z390-PLUS GAMING -- RGB, 802.11ac WiFi, USB 3.1 (6 Rear, 4 Front), TUF Protection
Memory: 32 GB [8 GB X4] DDR4-3600 Corsair Vengeance Pro
Power Supply: 850 Watt - Thermaltake Toughpower Grand RGB - 80 PLUS Gold, Full Modular
Primary Hard Drive: 1 TB Samsung 860 PRO SSD -- Read: 560MB/s, Write: 530MB/s
Data Hard Drive: 2 TB Seagate Barracuda Hard Drive -- 256MB Cache, 7200RPM, 6.0Gb/s
Network Card: TP-Link Archer T6E AC1300 Wireless Network Card 802.11ac Dual-Band (2.4GHz/5GHz) up to 867 Mbps
USB Expansion Card: PCI-Express USB 3.0 Expansion Card (2x External Port + 1x Header)
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