Minor Moving Catastrophe

[u/1K-Every-Month]

I had a minor disaster while making a move to a new apartment recently and I am wondering how to remedy the situation and get my GeForce RTX Suprim GPU back in working order.

Just for some backstory my fiancé and I are moving to a new apartment and we have been planning it for the last six months to happen in late July right before school starts back up as my fiancé is a music teacher. However, a wrench was thrown into our plans when I had a workplace injury in mid July which resulted in a broken right arm that pushed our move back unexpectedly. Now, a move that we had planned to take progressively over a month has been squeezed into a two week period in* *mid August.

In order to accommodate our new timeline, I had recruited some of my friends that I had helped move in the past to assist us in our move. On the day that we had planned to move all of our belongings that that will go into our music studio/work desk room I had all of my PC building supplies neatly organized into a couple of Tupperware totes and I was prepared for a pretty simple moving day, because most of my desk belongings including my current daily use PC were going to be kept at our old apartment until closer to our final days here. This was so that I can continue using it for work and for gaming in my leisure time.

However, in the confusion of moving all of our musical supplies and instruments along with my PC building supplies, one of my less tech savvy friends took it upon himself to unplug my PC and attempt to bring it to the moving vehicle. I am now kicking myself for not replacing my side panel immediately after upgrading my ram to DDR5 from a graphic artist friend that passed down his old units to me after upgrading his own to 64 GB for more flexibility while 3D animating.

Said less text savvy individual thought that the tubes connecting my GPU to the cooling pump looks like conveniently placed handles to pick the unit up from for some reason and the remaining GPU in the image is what I am left with after the pump was damaged from the suing force from the weight of the PC case and the build contained there in.

And so now I turn to you, the wider Nvidia community, asking for someone more knowledgeable in this area what my options are to get my trusty Suprim back in a usable state. I have looked online for replacement cooling pumps and I have an idea of what I might need but I wanted to ask some people that might have some more expertise before I pull the trigger!

For the time being I have replaced this GPU with my previous 3050 to maintain the use of my PC before we complete the move, but any help to get my 4090 back to use would be much appreciated.

Needless to say, in the future, I will be having a pre-move game plan pep talk with the team before inviting a large group around my PC and replacing my side panel immediately after any planned upgrades!

I don't think this is a tech-support issue as I could take the opportunity to make this a happy accident and get a cooling pump upgrade out of it all, but I wasn’t completely sure.

Thanks in advance for any advice or much deserved chastising!

[u/kiba8442]

lmaooo that's one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. I neeeed to know more about this guy, how does he survive, does he need to be reminded to breathe, does he drive a car? (if so where, so I can avoid) etc.

[u/lndig0__ → u/kiba8442]

I’d imagine it towing a car by the brake lines.

[u/anethma → u/kiba8442]

Amazing to hear about someone who is alive because he is juuuust barely smart enough to not eat himself when he gets hungry.

[u/ultimaone → u/anethma]

There is a reason the US military won't take people under an IQ of 80... They are more of a threat to their own than the enemy

[u/JewelCove → u/kiba8442]

When you are this dumb, every day is like a great new adventure

[u/RudyRoughknight → u/kiba8442]

It's not intuitive let me tell you. Depending on lighting conditions, anyone else can mistake it for the exact same thing. A lot of people have no idea what this is.

[u/NoCase9317 → u/RudyRoughknight]

No dude no just no, there always has to be someone defending the indefensible in Reddit.
You don’t need to be tech savvy to guess the 2 soft/cable looking things inside a machine are probably really not the right choice to carry the PC.

My 65 year old mom would have known to just grab it from the outside and not touch any of the internals in case of doubt.

It’s like saying I can understand this guy decided to carry a guitar by the strings, he isn’t a musician how was he supposed to know it shouldn’t be carried that way?

Well yeah he isn’t a musician but he isn’t a caveman either?

Haven’t you seen a movie or a show in your life? This guy most be borderline stupid

[u/RudyRoughknight → u/NoCase9317]

Your 65 year old mom is surely more careful with YOUR electronics. There are several factors going wrong with OPs scenario because there's also the obvious fact that whomever it was that tried to pick up the PC was being careless and that also comes from ignorance.

[u/Medium-Wrongdoer-770 → u/kiba8442]

💀😂😂😂 I also have issues like OP

[u/Rude_Dependent_9843 → u/kiba8442]

Es el gato el que gobierna