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Cooler Master V10 issue

Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 12:58 pm
by InspectahACE
Hopefully someone here has this beast. Ever since installing it, I get these 2 beeps every 10 seconds..nothing shuts down, nothing blows up. the cooler still does the job very well but the noise is very annoying.(especially for $140). I checked the CM forums and only one thread is posted about this and the only response I got was it could be a bad thermal unit on the cooler. Apparently they said there was a fix but I'm still waiting on a response for that. Anyone here(who has the V10) experience any issues? I know the instructions were extremely vague and took me a good hour to figure it out before I hooked it all up. I won't even deny that I might have missed something along the way. I just know that, it works still(seems like it) and it beeps

Re: Cooler Master V10 issue

Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 5:08 pm
by Bwall
I haven't had any issues with mine thus far. I only skimmed the directions also but see no mention of any sort of setup. The cooler is pretty good even without the TEC, so should be able to run it without the TEC enabled to get rid of the beep until they provide a resolution, just unplug the molex power cable.

Re: Cooler Master V10 issue

Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 11:19 am
by Major_A
I have a guess at what it is (this is just a guess). For some reason the fans on the V10 stop spinning. When this happens your motherboard's monitoring programs sees this and issues a beep.

To see if this is the issue open up the case and take a look at the fans when the PC beeps.

Or...
The fans are dropping below a "safe" range and the motherboard is beeping. Either way I suspect it has to do with fan monitoring and the motherboard.

Re: Cooler Master V10 issue

Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 12:34 pm
by InspectahACE
Fans are spinning full speed actually..that and I'm not sure that I would be at 4ghz at 45C if they weren't lol..Like Bwall said(and another person in the CM forums said same thing) I'm thinkin that the TEC is acting up. PlusI'm just loathing the fact of having to take it all out again. Having to mount the motherboard to the cpu cooler instead of mounting the cooler to the motherboard is an evil process. if I play Crysis though I can block out the noise in my head. The frame rate was so damn good I couldn't stop playing lol..that and GTA 4 was buttery smooth at 4ghz

Re: Cooler Master V10 issue

Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 5:43 pm
by Major_A
Try disabling fan monitoring in the BIOS and see if it goes away. If not then it can't hurt anything.

Re: Cooler Master V10 issue

Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 1:19 pm
by InspectahACE
Yea that didn't work..the alarm was off before I put the cooler on..I tried it anyway for giggles and it didn't fix anything, Thanks for the suggestion though. But I did just get off the phone with CM. I got tired of waiting for their response from the email so I called(I'm impatient what can I say). I have to send it back regardless so..I'm either gonna get a new one and return this one or wait the 2 weeks for the replacement..Was pretty funny. I let the guy hear the noise over the phone and he was like "uhh no, that's, that's not good" lol..like said it works..bios reading is around 35C and real temp shows about 8-10C higher at 4ghz so I'm not frettin too much so far. gotta get a bad part sometime i guess

Re: Cooler Master V10 issue

Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 1:39 pm
by Major_A
What a PITA. Now you have to remove the motherboard to take off the V10. Presumably install the stock CPU cooler. Get the "new" V10 back and remove the motherboard. Clean your wiring back up. Man that just sounds like zero fun. That is unless your case has the cutout where you don't have to remove the motherboard.

Re: Cooler Master V10 issue

Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 2:16 pm
by InspectahACE
It is super BS to do it lol. my case does have the cutout but its not lined up correctly. I don't think many of the cooler master cases are for the i7. even the mid tower CM case reviewed here( http://www.legitreviews.com/article/919/5/ ) has the same issue. So I'm stuck having to remove it all anyway..Bit of BS if you ask me lol

Re: Cooler Master V10 issue

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:20 am
by Bwall
The ATCS 840 is lined up close enough to work with the Rampage 2 Extreme, but it's a HUGE case!

With the temps you are getting I think the TEC may be on full blast all the time which is why you have the beep. The way the controller is set up, it will rarely (if ever) go full power. I'm assuming that they did that to increase the life of the TEC.

Re: Cooler Master V10 issue

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:50 am
by InspectahACE
yea I bet. I was gonna go for that 840 but I was wanting a window on the side, or at least some way to look inside. I would've done a window kit but I've never done that before lol. i would have to assume the TEC is on full time since i haven't gotten past 45C even on the OC. Good news is newegg seems like they will do an advanced exchange so I don't have to remove everything twice. If not I know CM can.. I still get a kick out of hte CM rep when he heard the noise

" um...no..that's, that's not good"...........he got worried apparently since he has the v10 to with a i7 920 too lol

Re: Cooler Master V10 issue

Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 12:51 pm
by InspectahACE
Dammit!!! they came out with windows for the 840..decisions lol

Re: Cooler Master V10 issue

Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 11:15 am
by InspectahACE
I got a scary good surprise today..well more like yesterday but it's arriving today. I called CM yesterday to get a replacement since Newegg wouldn't play ball with me on an advanced RMA(im sure you seen that on another post i made) but they shipped it out yesterday and it's arriving today. I know shipping from Cali to Vegas is no biggie but wow lol