http://www.corsair.com/en/blog/installing-the-hydro-series-h100-in-the-carbide-400r/
Thanks, i'm a member of overclockers.com . Before I posted this last reply, I looked in their forums for 'PSU fan doesn't start', and in that discussion, several people replied that if the fan doesn't come on, the PSU is bad. You don't need to be knowledgeable to post help for threads needing an answer, which is unfortunate, so I posted my PSU by model, and stated that, unless my power supply had a sensor controlled fan, my PSU needed to be taken back to the store. Luckily the site owner posted the reply like yours, before I added it to the gigabyte board I returned. I discovered what I think is the source of my problems. When someone buys hardware at Fry's Electronics and they return it, for whatever reason, the store discounts it and puts it on the shelves again. The sales guy accidentally told me that the only ASUS or Gigabyte he had left were restocked boards. You might be buying new hardware that someone else has already taken home and screwed up beyong repair. I bought my last three non-working boards there..
On a side note, this Corsair blog, http://www.corsair.com/en/blog/installing-the-hydro-series-h100-in-the-carbide-400r/ , should be removed, as it is an official gross misrepresentation of your product. The reason being, the photo showing install of the fans:
1> shows plenty of space for the radiator and fans
2> has wire routing holes above the m-board, which the 400R doesn't have.
3> has a top rear grill, as shown in the top left of the picture, Only available with the $300 Obsidium 800D
This kind of false advertising is EXACTLY the reason that so many people try to build a pc and fail. And this is directly from one of the top names in the computer hardware industry. And Frys Electronics is one of the largest sellers of computer parts.
The reason I'm posting this is because I've been in computer building hell for the last three weeks. Three builds wouldn't even post, no matter what combination, or lack of hardware that I tried. I was feeling like a spaced out failure. Then I received an updated BIOS chip from ASUS, for one of the boards. After I popped it in, that system fired right up and I was able to update everything to keep it stable.
This started as a reply to Corsairs tech support, after i bought their 400R case, H100 water cooling system, and tried to fit an ASUS Crosshair V in. and there wasn't room for it. ASUS didn't claim to be compatible with Corsairs combination, But corsair not only claimed that their cooler and case were compatible with each other, they stated they were compatible with performance motherboards. The cooler hits the heat sink on the Crosshair V , I read a post where it interfered with the ram on a different board.
I remember when hardware had to work when installed, (except when a component was defective for some reason) in order to have "IBM Compatible" on the box. Commodore went out of business because they refused to even go that far. Now, you need to pick your motherboard, make a list of the hardware you are going to used, by searching the QVL's for the m-board, then make sure each component not only works with the m-board, but works with each other. And recently added new audio, video, and storage formats to complicate compatibility even more. All to run the operating system thats on 95 percent of the pc's, and the same company making the OS, as when "IBM Compatible" meant something..
Thanks, i'm a member of overclockers.com . Before I posted this last reply, I looked in their forums for 'PSU fan doesn't start', and in that discussion, several people replied that if the fan doesn't come on, the PSU is bad. You don't need to be knowledgeable to post help for threads needing an answer, which is unfortunate, so I posted my PSU by model, and stated that, unless my power supply had a sensor controlled fan, my PSU needed to be taken back to the store. Luckily the site owner posted the reply like yours, before I added it to the gigabyte board I returned. I discovered what I think is the source of my problems. When someone buys hardware at Fry's Electronics and they return it, for whatever reason, the store discounts it and puts it on the shelves again. The sales guy accidentally told me that the only ASUS or Gigabyte he had left were restocked boards. You might be buying new hardware that someone else has already taken home and screwed up beyong repair. I bought my last three non-working boards there..
On a side note, this Corsair blog, http://www.corsair.com/en/blog/installing-the-hydro-series-h100-in-the-carbide-400r/ , should be removed, as it is an official gross misrepresentation of your product. The reason being, the photo showing install of the fans:
1> shows plenty of space for the radiator and fans
2> has wire routing holes above the m-board, which the 400R doesn't have.
3> has a top rear grill, as shown in the top left of the picture, Only available with the $300 Obsidium 800D
This kind of false advertising is EXACTLY the reason that so many people try to build a pc and fail. And this is directly from one of the top names in the computer hardware industry. And Frys Electronics is one of the largest sellers of computer parts.
The reason I'm posting this is because I've been in computer building hell for the last three weeks. Three builds wouldn't even post, no matter what combination, or lack of hardware that I tried. I was feeling like a spaced out failure. Then I received an updated BIOS chip from ASUS, for one of the boards. After I popped it in, that system fired right up and I was able to update everything to keep it stable.
This started as a reply to Corsairs tech support, after i bought their 400R case, H100 water cooling system, and tried to fit an ASUS Crosshair V in. and there wasn't room for it. ASUS didn't claim to be compatible with Corsairs combination, But corsair not only claimed that their cooler and case were compatible with each other, they stated they were compatible with performance motherboards. The cooler hits the heat sink on the Crosshair V , I read a post where it interfered with the ram on a different board.
I remember when hardware had to work when installed, (except when a component was defective for some reason) in order to have "IBM Compatible" on the box. Commodore went out of business because they refused to even go that far. Now, you need to pick your motherboard, make a list of the hardware you are going to used, by searching the QVL's for the m-board, then make sure each component not only works with the m-board, but works with each other. And recently added new audio, video, and storage formats to complicate compatibility even more. All to run the operating system thats on 95 percent of the pc's, and the same company making the OS, as when "IBM Compatible" meant something..
