Quality control... Hmm...

Tachikoma

Member
Dear pc specialist.

Finally opened my new mini pc and was delighted, until I took the top off to check there was no padding inside the case and found the sheath around the psu cables torn and the cable management left half the cables flapping around inside. After securing the others and finally connecting it up, imagine my delight then when it was idling with the fan on full. Curious I installed a temp monitor and found cores 1 & 2 at 99 and I20c with 4% load. so I cracked open the case again and found the pump for the water cooler was connected wrong so no power was running to it. I have now fixed this and it doesn't sound like a rolls Royce turbojet, I'm just hoping the cpu hasn't been damaged.

Whoever did the build and qc for this should not missed something so fundamentally easy and it should never have been sent out.
 

keynes

Multiverse Poster
Maybe it got disconnected in transit but you mentioned it was fitted wrongly? how?
 

Tachikoma

Member
The plug was fitted to the motherboard offset so the power pin on the header was just flapping in the breeze while the other end of the plug was doing the same. Wouldn't have happened in transit, someone installed it wrong and the tester missed it, which they shouldn't have done as any action on the pc rammed the fan to max as the pump wasn't working. Plus a visual inspection would have shown the pump light was off.
 
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