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Originally Posted by DOS_equis
That rig looks pretty sad right now. I bet the shipper didn't take the extra steps to make sure it was padded properly. The busted corner proves it.  |
He packed it nice and in original box with original packing material, the damage happened in Los Angeles post office transit facility. It fell off the truck and they for some reason repacked it to a completely different box x2 the size, but I guess it was damaged already at that point.
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Originally Posted by DOS_equis
The pair of wires in the first batch of pics is the cooling fan to the AIO water cooling radiator. It should be connected to a 3 pin fan header on either the cooler pump/ heatsink assy. or to a fan header on the mobo. It looks like it was ripped out.
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I can't find that 3pin fan header on either the cooler pump/ heatsink assy or on the mobo. Even if I will find it, would I be able to reconnect it or the connector on the wires is missing now?
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Originally Posted by DOS_equis
Since it looks like there was a fair amount of violence going on inside of the case there is a good chance that the mobo is shorted out or a connector/ smd component is damaged/ ripped off of the board. The HDD disappearance could be due to a damaged PCB on the drive itself or the power connector. Either way the drive is trashed unless you can get the exact PCB for that drive and swap it out. It is similar to what HDD recovery companies do to bad hard drives sometimes. They will buy an old drive just for the controller card. I don't know if this machine has multiple HDD's in a RAID setup. If so you need to take careful notes and pictures as to what ports the HDD's are connected to and reconnect them the same way. Otherwise you will have problems getting it to boot.
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If the HDD is bad, I'll just toss it.