Liquid Series laptop cooling acting up

jonnyka

Member
Hey!

I've bought a Recoil Series 17 laptop with the external Liquid Series cooler, everything is awesome with the setup so far.

Last week I noticed the external cooler was really loud, the fans are loud, and it also makes a kind of... splashy, water flowing sound constantly, and some of the distilled water was below the unit on the table. I've turned it off, filled the unit with some distilled water,, turned it back on, and it sounded okey for a few days (the fans as well as the splashy sound going away), and then after those few days I'm experiencing the same issue. There's no spilled water under the unit this time. If I try to fill it with distilled water again, it's kind of full, so I can't.

If I disconnect the unit in the Control Center app, of course both sounds go away. I hit connect, and both come back. The UI in Control Center looks okey, just as it did before, the Fan Status shows it spinning at about 2/5 of the circle filled, Pump Status shows the water waves moving, with about 2/3 of the circle filled. I always set it to QUIETER mode, it doesn't make a big difference if I change that, the fans are a bit more loud with QUIET and BALANCED, but that's normal, that's how it always worked. Weirdly enough in AUTO mode the splashy sound is a lot more quiet, but it's still there, and after a minute or so it goes back to being almost as loud as in QUIETER mode.

Any ideas? Thanks!

Posting a pic of the Control Center settings, and my specs below:

2024-03-05 09_15_09-Control Center.jpg


Chassis & Display
Recoil Series: 17" Matte QHD 240Hz sRGB 100% LED Widescreen (2560x1600)
Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™ i9 24 Core Processor 13900HX (5.4GHz Turbo)
Memory (RAM)
64GB Corsair 4800MHz SODIMM DDR5 (2 x 32GB)
Graphics Card
NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 4090 - 16.0GB GDDR6 Video RAM - DirectX® 12.1
Liquid Series® Laptop Cooling
PCS Liquid Series® Laptop Cooler
1st M.2 SSD Drive
2TB SAMSUNG 980 PRO M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 7000MB/R, 5000MB/W)
Memory Card Reader
Integrated SD Memory Card Reader
AC Adaptor
2 x 330W AC Adaptor
Power Cable
2 x 1.5 Metre European Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Battery
Recoil Series Integrated 99WH Lithium Ion Battery
Thermal Paste
LIQUID METAL PERFORMANCE COOLING
Sound Card
Nahimic by SteelSeries 2 Channel HD Audio
Wireless Network Card
GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® Wi-Fi 6E AX211 (2.4 Gbps) + BT 5.3
USB/Thunderbolt Options
1 x THUNDERBOLT 4 PORT + 3 x USB 3.2 PORTS
Keyboard Language
RECOIL 17 SERIES RGB BACKLIT USA INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Operating System Language
US International/USA - US English Language
Windows Recovery Media
NO RECOVERY MEDIA REQUIRED
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft 365® (Operating System Required)
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Browser
Google Chrome™
Keyboard & Mouse
INTEGRATED 2 BUTTON TOUCHPAD MOUSE
Webcam
INTEGRATED 1MP HD WEBCAM
Warranty
3 Year Gold Warranty (2 Year Collect & Return, 2 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
 

SpyderTracks

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As it’s hardware related I would contact PCS, none of us work for PCS and they don’t monitor the forums. But sounds like the pump may be on its way out perhaps.
 
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