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I’m actually glad they didn’t try soldering this cable because it’s one that doesn’t handle heat well even though it should be out of the same material as kapon tape!

The cable is one that has never been out of stock from most suppliers (possible that they only looked on Amazon) and they never informed the customer who owns the laptop. Considering the "repair" failed and was causing issues with the hard drive it is not a legitimate repair.

Low number I'm sure but like others do it daily, I'm retired

There was no solder involved

The worst part with this one is it is not a heat resistant cable even though it actually looks like one so even doing a solder job on it would just melt most the cable and do more damage. It's one of the fun things I've found with MSI laptops sometimes they use parts that look like good ones but are very much not

@TheBeardedITGuy oh, absolutely. Most of the ones i repair are also not heat resistant. So it's a double-edged sword. Client doesn't want to wait fir the part, so i soend the next hour slapping as much low-melt solder and flux as i humanely could and praying to the Machine God to not burn these things to dust.

I used to do more repairs like that but I've gotten to the point where I just tell the customer they'll have to find a different repair shop if they're not willing to wait for the part to arrive. Especially back when I worked for non-profits I was willing to do so many things that nowadays I would never do to a computer

@TheBeardedITGuy well, me being relatively new to providing the repair services (outside of work, that is, where i have done the exact same thing for about 12y, now), i literally cannot afford to say no to people, yet. 🤣

you can just jump the tracers with a thin piece of wire. kapton tape from both sides.

A cable like that gets more damaged when you apply heat to solder

@@TheBeardedITGuy yeah but all I need is the copper in the cable. Kapton tape becomes the cable

At that point any movement that the laptop has risks those wires moving and crossing leads causing more damage. Also scraping the layer off to get to the leads would risk just scraping the leads off it's not as durable as a circuit board

@ that’s why you use coated copper jumpers. Usually green or red. And did I mention the tape to keep them in place? It’s not a solution to sell to a customer but a solution to get the machine running. You know, unlike the previous repair.

There was no solder involved luckily because that specific type of cable would be more damaged by the heat from trying to solder it

How is there worse? They pretty clearly broke the connector and didn’t tell the customer but instead of replacing the five dollar part they glued it back together so it would fail after it left their shop and they wouldn’t have to deal with it.

Because it looks really cool! The model has an option to not have that part of it but I preferred the look because I hadn't decided if I would put it together or not when I printed it

@ that’s awesome that it comes with the option :o

The only way you could bridge the connections on this type of cable would be to embed the wires in the resin because you can't solder onto the cable without damaging it more and having rigid cables on there would mean it wouldn't be able to flex in the way it needs to. No there is not a way to properly fix this even temporarily and this is also a part that costs less than $5 and has never been unavailable to my knowledge. This was not a proper repair in any way and was not told to the customer at all. Even if it was told to the customer you should never do a repair like this even if it is temporary there is no proper way to splice those traces back together.

Yeah I have seen so many shocking things come into my repair shop and this one was one of the worst

It wasn't glued.

Yes it was... They used solder mask as glue to hold it together

Yes but the main problem is there's no jumpers on this cable and you should not use jumpers on this type of cable and you should also not use UV glue or resin on this type of cable

@@TheBeardedITGuyit’s just a pcb at the end of the day, bodge wires would be fine considering that part of the cable isn’t even the location that needs to bend and it was just carelessly ripped in the first place.

​@@TheBeardedITGuywhy shouldn't you use conformal coating on this type of cable?

@@TheDobbyClub bc kapton tape exists.

@@bro589 yeah man, IPC definitely recommend you cover traces with kapton tape for high quality long-term use. Thanks for the enlightening comment. Reworking wires and traces is with kapton tape. You know your stuff!

I have one... It is making tech content for the internet and reposting my old content here. Like this video that had over a million views and multiple follow up videos. 😳

Don't buy an MSI computer. I recommend Dell or Lenovo

Yep! I5 is so cool!

@@TheBeardedITGuy what printer an material do you use?

I used my prusa Mark 3, and I cannot remember the filament because it was two or three years ago

@@TheBeardedITGuy Thanks!

I was gifted the Bambu Lab A1 Combo for Christmas and it has kicked started an obsession for me I have not have any problems with it. It was 30 minutes tops to setup and it has tons of sensors to check that everything is going correct. Plus the Bambu website has any and all information you would need for maintenance or anything else you would need

Spicy pillow!

I did a newer version of this just last year that I really liked, I physically showed how different styles of raid work using pages torn out of a book

Yes you can force it to allow untested games or games that don't work with proton properly but that's not what the comment I was replying to was. They were specifically telling me and other commenters that you can play any game just by turning off the Linux compatibility filter that is at the top of your game list

I think I have a grand total of 10 Funko pops and I think I've bought one of them the rest were all given to me... Honestly it's really entertaining to watch people Who think they're good at reading people and just fail at it so hard. Also you do realize my job is to make content on the internet right so replying to comments is part of my job 🤣

Almost 8 years ago I had to always have a little bit of humor in whatever news I watch because the news is just too depressing at this point

No I'm talking about how TikTok is about to be banned in the US and it's going to cripple thousands of creators

@@TheBeardedITGuy Oh. Yeah. I think part of that is an experiment to see what Americans would even do if something is taken away at that level. Eventually to justify a segregated internet in the name of safety. Which defeats the entire purpose of why we made the world wide web in the first place. TikTok isn't the only vulnerability to society. Not even the worst one. So the fact they are so focused on that should say something about their real agenda.

@@TheBeardedITGuy TH-cam likes to delete comments on this topic ironically. So rewriting the basic idea here. Banning a social media platform is to see if we will accept it in the name of safety. Sets a new bar. I see their attempt at controlling AI in the same light.

When Windows XP came out my family bought a copy of it to install on our computer and we paid over $150... So not even taking inflation into account we paid more for XP then it cost for Windows 11. Your anecdote is anecdoting

The people who have been in my comments for the past 4 years whenever I talk about Apple specifically say that Apple products are for professionals. They don't say a specific line of their products they say their products, You can narrow it down to their computer line because usually it's only when I talk about their computers which I'm a user of and still think Apple is a horrible company.

The most concerning part for me is the fact that the SSD is not swappable and they're utilizing the SSD as backup RAM if they need more. Which will lower the SSD's lifespan, and I have Mac computers that are nearly 20 years old that's still run perfectly fine and we're going to have Macs that might not make it a decade depending on the use

Do you want me to show you the comments where people said Apple products are for professionals not for consumers? Because they specifically say that all Apple products are for professionals.

@ Yeah I mean that's obviously a hilariously bad take but also thats not at all a widely held belief even amongst the most fanboyish of Apple users.

But I'm literally talking about the people who come into my comment section... I'm an Apple user 😂 and quite a few of my clients are Apple users, I didn't say every Apple user. You seem to be the one that is extrapolating something that is not actually in there to have a bad take about a video 😳