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Originally Posted by karapet
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.
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?
If the HDD is bad, I'll just toss it.
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Yeah OK I see what you are saying about the damaged box. That would piss me off bad if I saw that after the anticipation of ordering something like that.
The only way to fix the original fan connector (assuming that it has a standard 3 pin plug on the end) is a soldering iron and some liquid rosin flux. I have repaired stuff like that in the past by stripping back the wires, tinning them with solder and soldering the pins back on the ends after freeing them out of the plug with a small razor knife or pin. The easiest way for you to fix that is just replacing the fan with another 120mm fan (or whatever size they used). There should be a header on the mobo or on the pump like I said. You might have to look for a white or black fan plug that is stuck on the mobo with no wires. What brand of cooler is that? I seriously doubt this is the case but the wires might have been directly attached to the heatsink/ pump. It will suck big time if that is the case though. You would have to replace it or somehow open it up and resolder the wires back where they go.
On the HDD, you might want to look for the Windows serial key on the case or with whatever documentation that came with it. You will need that when you go to reinstall Windows on it. Don't know if you have OS discs either but you obviously will need it (more than likely OEM version). They might have done something like Dell and HP do with the HDD where they installed a recovery partition on it for the OS. If the drive is dead you will have to deal with getting the OS on the new drive. I have a 32bit copy of Windows 7 OEM that I can burn for you if you want. Your key should work on that if the key was for a 32 bit system. You might be able to call or email cyberpower and see if you can get a set of replacement discs too.
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