@@nicekeyboardalan6972 I know a shop owner and every once and a while he gets laptops and consoles full of roaches. The last incident was around a month or so ago. I really have no idea how some people are this disgusting!!
I know right? People have the audacity to bring their items in repair full of dust or any other disgusting human waste. Like how are these people not embarrassed? I judge those people so hard. I'm thinking of raising the cleaning/hazardous waste fee to $100. I don't mind a little bit of dust. But when there is like 5 years worth of dust inside someone's pc I'm going to start charging a large premium. On the invoice it'll say "you're a disgusting human being - $100.00" lmao
Ugh working in gloves has always caused me more issues than it has stopped. Even the expensive ones will tear on a the simplest thing, then what's the point?
I once had a male cat who developed a brain tumour. In the weeks prior to him being diagnosed and euthanised, he started spraying everywhere, even though he had been spayed. I can relate to the smell - and to the fact that it stains everything and is almost impossible to clean off completely. RIP, Spike. To this day I still discover things with your piss on it. Little shit.
same deal. Our cat had a stroke and started pooping in all sorts of places before he died. Still find his treasures in random places ever now and then. RIP you little poop machine
The life of a GPU repair technician......thanks for taking us along Tony! The chase is fun but sometimes exhausting......as a verrrry amateur repair tech (hobby level) I understand this type of frustration.
1:13:12 shots fired 🤣 jokes apart, I love the fact that you're genuinely problem-solving and trying to make these repairs actually fix the units, that's passion. Not implying that others don't but you take it up a notch and that's satisfying to watch. Keep posting!
You are a treat to watch. NorthridgeFix often pisses me off with his ultra condescending attitude and unsolicited and stupid life lessons. You are now my go-to channel for pcb repairs.
NF would have called it a fix as soon as it displayed a image. That is if it survive powering on without a heatsink, unlike the 4090 he worked on the other day.
Insane :) waiting for the last 4090 "fixed" by alex
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Northridge fix seems to do things like one of my former business partners... moves fast and breaks things with shortcuts, not curious about learning or improving, and doesn't want to appreciate details or mitigating risk. Like someone who is against wearing a seatbelt.
This was one of probably 3 long videos I have ever seen. Totally worth it. I am not a tech engineer but I am trying to learn. You are awesome. Thank you. You have knowledge and talent. Also Bravo for being so professional..
I recently bought 8 GPU's for $260. I got a msi gaming x trio 3070, 3060 aorus master, 3050 gaming oc, chinese 5700xt, two 580's, one chinese 2048sp and one MSI and two 1050TI's all for $260. So far i got the aorus 3060 working, 3050, one 580, and both 1050ti's. Also a. HP 2080 and 3060 gaming OC from another batch. I spent a lot of money on GPU's but i need the practice.
How to disable Windows startup repair? Here you go (requires reboot). Open command prompt with admin rights and enter: bcdedit /set {current} recoveryenabled No
Oh yeah! I was fighting issues with a scratch project when his video on fuses came out, I checked mine and yup they were ALL bad and so got the "better ones". I haven't bought from Amazon since!
Sir, make your own suction tool with a balloon pump you squeeze with your hand. Like the ones you buy with an earwax remover. Deborox makes one. You just connect a flexi tube to it and your pen handle with a suction cup tip. No need for no pump or batteries.. You use your hand to control suction. Very easy to control suction power. No nonsense. Effective.
Dude, I'm surprised you don't wear gloves for stuff like this. We both work in almost the same field. I would never pick this up with my bare hands. You know what... you often touch your eyes and mouth without realizing it. Be more careful with this one. You never know what disease or infection you will catch from it. :) BTW: That screwdriver is fancy. But I would mistakenly confuse it with my Iqos a lot. :D
Ça fait des années que je regarde. Louis rossmann et j'adore ce que tu fais parce que comme tu as expliqué, tu as appris par toi-même et quand je regarde tes vidéos ça me fait penser à une enquête policière maintenant moi j'ai 52 ans et je n'ai plus très envie de faire de l'électronique mais quand je te regarde faire pendant des jours et des jours et en plus ton montage vidéo et de bonne qualité pour le détail quand je dis ça, c'est que tu mets du rythme dans tes vidéos même sur cette vidéo d'une heure et demie c'est génial! J'ai l'impression de regarder un roman d'agada qui Christie ou un bon film policier, et malheureusement j'habite en France, mais je t'enverrai bien des cartes vidéos à réparer un de ces quatre encore bravo! Et comme Louis rothman? Tu propages le droit à la réparation et en plus tu permets de donner l'envie à des gens d'apprendre à faire alors que ils n'ont pas d'études personnellement j'ai raté l'école à l'âge de 13 ans et j'ai fait un peu comme toi mais je ne suis pas aussi doué et puis j'ai fini par arrêter mais vraiment bravo! Et que des gens comme toi existent, c'est très important pour moi parce que je crois dans l'humanité et cela permet d'être écologique moi ce qui m'a passionnés pour l'électronique c'est quand j'étais petit quand la télé était? Tomber en panne je regardais les rappeurs qui venaient à la maison réparer les tubes électroniques parce que je suis né en 1972 et à partir de ce moment là j'ai été passionné par cette chose et donc à l'époque on ne jetait pas notre télé on réparait et il y avait des réparateurs qui venaient à la maison et maintenant on remplace les cartes mères, on ne change pas les composants vraiment bravo! Et merci pour tes vidéos désolé je ne suis qu'un sale français qui n'est pas traduit mes paroles mais je sais que tu connais. Deeples pour la traduction
The furmark issue could be a related to bios level protections against "power viruses". I could be recalling incorrectly but in the past i believe that applications like furmark were able to get certain video cards into unexpected load states that caused damage.
Oh man I feel your pain. I´m glad the TDP was fine all along. In spite of the smell: I´ve had Lenovos with roaches underneath the touchpad. They have a weird design with a lot of cones and holes inside the plastic support underneath the touchpad, and little insects love those hot, tight places. Good times.
oh no! all this extra work! yea ok, we never stop learning. you are amazing! realy good job :)
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Oh neat. I have a SDS-1104X-E converted into a SDS-1204X-E with SAG1021I sig gen, SPA1016 16-chan logic analyzer, and the wifi option. You have good taste in gear, kind content creator.
Gotta love trying to solve a problem monitoring software claims exists when it is the monitoring software that's the problem. I feel your pain and frustration over that.
I can't say it 10 x, that you are too good at your job, many others would have given up and not even opened it with that smell, I don't understand how a GPU can smell like that but oh well....I just hope that I will ever find one in my country that will work so well
Great video! At least you did not break it when trying to fix it , like I would have. Sorry you lost time on it. But you learnt not to trust ONE source of information.
The smell of ash and soot is retained by the dust and other stuff. It clears up quite quickly but clean it outside as a closed area will retain the smell. I've dealt with too many dirty PCs to even care anymore, I just wear a mask for the dust part.
@northwestrepair 36:58 That's why you should replace ALL mosfets plus, not just sorthed one... That hepls save time and avoid such situations, when you apply voltage and fails another mosfet...
When I was a new dad, I was working full time 50+ hours ,but wanted to make some extra money so i started working at game stop part time too. One day a guy came in to sell an original PS2. I smelled the cat pee stink before I opened the box, but when so pulled it out and tilted it to look at the fan(completely caked with dust), an extreemly syrup like cat pee oozed out of it like honey, but MUCH stinkier. Apparently whatever had peed on it, did so regularly. I have been around cats and slobs with cats my whole life, and I have never seen such a thing. The worst part was that even though I was going to say no, the manager said to take it. I assumed that they would send them off the be cleaned, tested, fixed, and resold. However the day after Xmas, I learned that they just took people's word that they worked, bought them, then stuck them in a box, and sold them(2006ish). I figured that out as I had a line out the door of parents returning the used systems they bought that were disgusting if not just broke. I felt like such a criminal pos and quit. They had no replacements for them other than new systems. Granted they were only $30 more for a brand new, newer version one, but you could tell for some of the people, $30 was a significant amount. I have been on the outskirts of life my whole time here and have never felt more guilty/complicit in bad stuff as I did working for corporate America. I would rather sell crack! Then again just living here is starting to make me feel complicit in some bad stuff, especially after a few weeks ago.
I have a computer repair business and 2 months ago I got a bug infested desktop I couldn't believe how disgusting it was I let it sit on my front porch for 2 days and I cleaned that thing so well it was Immaculate and looked brand new when it left. That's one thing I like to do for customers and they're always shocked getting back Hardware that is super clean but I can't stand getting repairs that are smelly
Wait.. your "100%" TDP showed only 300-330W, but the 3090 does at least 350W TDP and 420W for the EVGA FTW3 versions. Is the power also reported wrong like the TDP-percent in GPU-z?
yeah i think this must be one unsupported EVGA card, not sure. Stats are all weird but it did perform as any other 3090 i've had before including EVGAs
I have a cat that liked to sit on the top of my living room PC. It has two fan grills on top and one time she caught her claw in one of the grills and panicked and screamed bloody death. She thrashed and ended up ripping that claw sheath off. She hasn't been on it since. Maybe puss paws climbed up on that PC and sprayed it, I can totally see that happening. I think the dude with the laptop expects a warranty to include troubleshooting forever.
When you put things on the preheater, doesn't it have any effect on the capacitors? Do you ever have them blow up or become damaged just because of the preheater not the hot air? Thanks for the video.
55:48 - nVidia drivers will limit the clock in Furmark drastically to prevent damage , the donut is designed to load up all of the shaders on the card in a way games do not , which generates loads of heat. Older nVidia GPUs around the Fermi era can be destroyed with such loads if sustained hence the protections. Probably why the card's power limiter cuts in early.
I'd rather use Speed Way or Steel Nomad with 3dmark for these reasons. If the card doesn't hit 100% TDP (350W board power or thereabouts there's an issue)
Gotta have hazardous / debris + cleaning label attached to invoice and notify customer about charge at least 100-200 bucks if not more depending on how bad it is. But smell is the worst condition so might as well add another fee
How thick were the pads on that card ? I don't get why people don't send GPU's in the original box. I still have a 970GTX, 1070,GTX and a 3080 RTX and they are all sitting on my shelf in the original packaging including the anti static bag.
I also experience such low resistance on 3.3v rail on a gtx750ti it turns out a dead GPU core, when the card is power it only pulls 0.5Amps but no other voltage rail except 5v, then the core heats up but in a very specific spot only at the side, the opposite side is stone cold
Alex from North-ridge Fix says only stupid people use an oscilloscope. I left a comment stating what you accomplish with such a tool e.g. e.g. detecting a dead phase or if the BIOS chip is communicating. Or timing of certain resistors.
You said about a capacitor turning into a resistor, maybe voltage injection is the fix? 27:31
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If it releases the magic smoke or wears, it can. A 2 terminal passive component is characterized more completely as a complex transfer function rather than just as only capacitance, inductance, or resistance. Damage and wear does change it. A capacitor is shown to be defective if it passes measurable DC current at around its rated max voltage . It's also important to sometimes check passives out of circuit because sometimes your are reading values from other components in series or parallel with the component under test.
why not make a hole in the desk to install the preheater so as to have a flat surface under the silicone protection, the support for the card being removable Would it be possible that it is the shunt resistance which, like the 3 resistances of 0 ohms, would have taken a little more value and would give an incorrect value?
This type of thing, having expensive electronics in my home, is the number one reason animals aren't allowed in my home. Cats and dogs knocking over your tv and peeing on your graphics cards 😄
I think what happened was you changed the wrong mosfet then the heat of removing it killed the one that was okay don’t think they’d kill each other that’s why after more heat from the reflow the crapped out completely
once you confirmed all the measurements checked out fine on the board i knew the problem was software side. when i saw you reball the core i was yelling "why?! are you just bored?!?!" and got a good laugh when hwinfo confirmed the card was working correctly
21:28 - I don't know about you. I would bend the end of the copper strip so that it protrudes through the contact point of the battery and it will no longer fall out.
very true !!!! i had similar weird problem as well for days when sistem was booting up it was stucking on white led motherboard and some times give me masage that vga is unknown by eufi so first i think of gpu and send it for repair but there was no problem with it than i changed main board to get rid of this problem sometimes happen i changed board and installed windows on new nvme and this is where i found out i did all for nothing by accident i plug in old ssd with old windows and last set up and boot up on it the same problem happened and that was it ! it was crrupted windows all along i restarted and set boot on new nvme and erased that faulty windows. simple fresh windows was all i need to avoid 400$ for nothing
You probably have the card closed and shipped by now, but in the future if you get this same card for repair, can you test the difference between gpu temp and hotspot temp? This specific model seems to have mounting problems where hotspot temp is around 15-18c higher than gpu temp, which suggests some areas of the gpu is not making good contact. I tried reinstalling some many times in so many different ways of tightening the bracket, it worked once lowering the difference to 10C but after a month it went up again. Would appreciate feedback. Ofc I replaced the paste with mx6
You took the oldest bios instead of the newest 😅 which limits the card to 366W. The newest available puts the card to 500W. I would contact the owner to flash again the more recent one, as this card is now seriously limited. Also the card you had was a FTW3 ULTRA (according to the BIOS on the card before flashing), which has default a higher power limit, which is now lower then the original bios that was on there before, which was 450W. Also to take into account, is that a wrong BIOS can disable certain video outputs. I flashed my RTX2080Ti with a total other brands BIOS, which put my power limit a lot higher, but did disable a video output (which i didnt need and knew this could happen). So you actually changed the card from a FTW3 Ultra to a FTW3, which might also cause this problem.
Don't be afraid to charge people a hazardous waste fee. I had to do this when I ran a repair shop. People are fucking gross.
@@nicekeyboardalan6972 I know a shop owner and every once and a while he gets laptops and consoles full of roaches. The last incident was around a month or so ago. I really have no idea how some people are this disgusting!!
@@nicekeyboardalan6972fuuuuuuuu that lmao 20% recovery fee
pube disposal fee
So glad he went the extra mile for the girl with the smelly butt ..
I know right? People have the audacity to bring their items in repair full of dust or any other disgusting human waste. Like how are these people not embarrassed? I judge those people so hard. I'm thinking of raising the cleaning/hazardous waste fee to $100.
I don't mind a little bit of dust. But when there is like 5 years worth of dust inside someone's pc I'm going to start charging a large premium. On the invoice it'll say "you're a disgusting human being - $100.00" lmao
No gloves ? You are truly a gigachad
no like for the 69 👍👍
Seriously. I'd be in a P100 respirator, bunny suit, and nitrile gloves.
Ugh working in gloves has always caused me more issues than it has stopped. Even the expensive ones will tear on a the simplest thing, then what's the point?
Like a guy once told me at a metal shop I did work with, "you're only lung once"
truly dim af. hello hep c and herpes.
Ever consider livestreaming? People would totally watch this.
10 said yes, so its a no.
LMAO 😂
i wounder about a twitch stream...
@@northwestrepair where was a poll? i'm totally watch if you do some day
@@northwestrepair Yes! live please!
I once had a male cat who developed a brain tumour. In the weeks prior to him being diagnosed and euthanised, he started spraying everywhere, even though he had been spayed. I can relate to the smell - and to the fact that it stains everything and is almost impossible to clean off completely.
RIP, Spike. To this day I still discover things with your piss on it. Little shit.
Hahaha, yea, cat piss is the worse, stays for a decade or even longer, he made sure you remember him for a while!
same deal. Our cat had a stroke and started pooping in all sorts of places before he died. Still find his treasures in random places ever now and then. RIP you little poop machine
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@@CharlesM236 i hope you are joking, but your playlists do not fill me with confidence
How does one spay a male cat?
The life of a GPU repair technician......thanks for taking us along Tony! The chase is fun but sometimes exhausting......as a verrrry amateur repair tech (hobby level) I understand this type of frustration.
1:13:12 shots fired 🤣
jokes apart, I love the fact that you're genuinely problem-solving and trying to make these repairs actually fix the units, that's passion. Not implying that others don't but you take it up a notch and that's satisfying to watch. Keep posting!
at the end he said "good bye for good" man dont give up, there is so much to live for!!!
You are a treat to watch. NorthridgeFix often pisses me off with his ultra condescending attitude and unsolicited and stupid life lessons. You are now my go-to channel for pcb repairs.
The world needs more people like you with your determination to fix a problem
Someone failed NNN on the gpu 😭
bro will soil himself when the 5k series lunch 🤣
I learn a lot more from the longer videos. Thank you for sharing the details of your work flow... like your preheating procedures.
NF would have called it a fix as soon as it displayed a image. That is if it survive powering on without a heatsink, unlike the 4090 he worked on the other day.
No shit? He actually fried a 4090 not using a heatsink when powering on??
@@T.Lspitz I'm confident that is what would happen if they did. The fact that they still put it up on YT is odd.
Who is NF?
So pleased TH-cam only supports sound and vision 👍😀
Yeah, smellavision wouldn't be nice 😂
BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP
please make more long form video like this it's seriously educating
Insane :) waiting for the last 4090 "fixed" by alex
Northridge fix seems to do things like one of my former business partners... moves fast and breaks things with shortcuts, not curious about learning or improving, and doesn't want to appreciate details or mitigating risk. Like someone who is against wearing a seatbelt.
This was one of probably 3 long videos I have ever seen. Totally worth it. I am not a tech engineer but I am trying to learn. You are awesome. Thank you. You have knowledge and talent. Also Bravo for being so professional..
I recently bought 8 GPU's for $260.
I got a msi gaming x trio 3070, 3060 aorus master, 3050 gaming oc, chinese 5700xt, two 580's, one chinese 2048sp and one MSI and two 1050TI's all for $260.
So far i got the aorus 3060 working, 3050, one 580, and both 1050ti's. Also a. HP 2080 and 3060 gaming OC from another batch.
I spent a lot of money on GPU's but i need the practice.
How to disable Windows startup repair? Here you go (requires reboot). Open command prompt with admin rights and enter: bcdedit /set {current} recoveryenabled No
Oh yeah! I was fighting issues with a scratch project when his video on fuses came out, I checked mine and yup they were ALL bad and so got the "better ones". I haven't bought from Amazon since!
Bad new is Tony is that 2 days after the customer received it back, the card smells the same as it first did probably
Sir, make your own suction tool with a balloon pump you squeeze with your hand. Like the ones you buy with an earwax remover. Deborox makes one. You just connect a flexi tube to it and your pen handle with a suction cup tip. No need for no pump or batteries.. You use your hand to control suction. Very easy to control suction power. No nonsense. Effective.
Remember to wash your hands twice after you are done fixing that one Tony lol
Imagine customer enters shop: "Hi, I'm Tony." (handshake)
Another AWESOME repair and video!! Thanks Tony!!!
Dude, I'm surprised you don't wear gloves for stuff like this. We both work in almost the same field. I would never pick this up with my bare hands. You know what... you often touch your eyes and mouth without realizing it. Be more careful with this one. You never know what disease or infection you will catch from it. :) BTW: That screwdriver is fancy. But I would mistakenly confuse it with my Iqos a lot. :D
Thank you! I keep learning more and more!
Ça fait des années que je regarde. Louis rossmann et j'adore ce que tu fais parce que comme tu as expliqué, tu as appris par toi-même et quand je regarde tes vidéos ça me fait penser à une enquête policière maintenant moi j'ai 52 ans et je n'ai plus très envie de faire de l'électronique mais quand je te regarde faire pendant des jours et des jours et en plus ton montage vidéo et de bonne qualité pour le détail quand je dis ça, c'est que tu mets du rythme dans tes vidéos même sur cette vidéo d'une heure et demie c'est génial! J'ai l'impression de regarder un roman d'agada qui Christie ou un bon film policier, et malheureusement j'habite en France, mais je t'enverrai bien des cartes vidéos à réparer un de ces quatre encore bravo! Et comme Louis rothman? Tu propages le droit à la réparation et en plus tu permets de donner l'envie à des gens d'apprendre à faire alors que ils n'ont pas d'études personnellement j'ai raté l'école à l'âge de 13 ans et j'ai fait un peu comme toi mais je ne suis pas aussi doué et puis j'ai fini par arrêter mais vraiment bravo! Et que des gens comme toi existent, c'est très important pour moi parce que je crois dans l'humanité et cela permet d'être écologique moi ce qui m'a passionnés pour l'électronique c'est quand j'étais petit quand la télé était? Tomber en panne je regardais les rappeurs qui venaient à la maison réparer les tubes électroniques parce que je suis né en 1972 et à partir de ce moment là j'ai été passionné par cette chose et donc à l'époque on ne jetait pas notre télé on réparait et il y avait des réparateurs qui venaient à la maison et maintenant on remplace les cartes mères, on ne change pas les composants vraiment bravo! Et merci pour tes vidéos désolé je ne suis qu'un sale français qui n'est pas traduit mes paroles mais je sais que tu connais. Deeples pour la traduction
Now this is a video I like, the thrill of finding the culprint while watching the detective at work :), great video thank you!
The furmark issue could be a related to bios level protections against "power viruses". I could be recalling incorrectly but in the past i believe that applications like furmark were able to get certain video cards into unexpected load states that caused damage.
Thank you for wonderful video❤️❤️
Oh man I feel your pain. I´m glad the TDP was fine all along. In spite of the smell: I´ve had Lenovos with roaches underneath the touchpad. They have a weird design with a lot of cones and holes inside the plastic support underneath the touchpad, and little insects love those hot, tight places. Good times.
Bro those looked the exact same when you showed the echo of the mosfet inputs 😂😂 and bro said it looked better could’ve just said I was wrong 😂
I would use solder paste and hot air to soldering tiny connections. Great repair as usual.
oh no! all this extra work! yea ok, we never stop learning. you are amazing! realy good job :)
Oh neat. I have a SDS-1104X-E converted into a SDS-1204X-E with SAG1021I sig gen, SPA1016 16-chan logic analyzer, and the wifi option.
You have good taste in gear, kind content creator.
I learned early on in my builds that a quality PSU was essential. money NOT wasted
i love long videos , thank you NWR
Thank you GPU-Z!
I think Allex sent you that card. LMAO
he pissed him off will all the jokes so alex pissed on gpu and send him for revenge and laugh :) maybe who knows ...
Gotta love trying to solve a problem monitoring software claims exists when it is the monitoring software that's the problem. I feel your pain and frustration over that.
I was thinking 'finally' when I saw the boosting in the 1900s and core over 1V 👍.
first things first, we need to bathe the board. your a G, Tony.
I can't say it 10 x, that you are too good at your job, many others would have given up and not even opened it with that smell, I don't understand how a GPU can smell like that but oh well....I just hope that I will ever find one in my country that will work so well
Great video! At least you did not break it when trying to fix it , like I would have. Sorry you lost time on it. But you learnt not to trust ONE source of information.
Great vlog, same for me with the crappy alum drive, had 3 off these now and all trash.
I think this just made me realize what is wrong with my formerly RMA'd EVGA 2070, they replaced a mosfet.
seems like u and NF are good friends 😂
Nice video.
Y ou are the man. Great watch.
I love the 1M subscribers at the end, is that the target? :D
No Gloves? Good to see there are still manly men out there. Cheers!
I've had to deal with a smokers pc and it was horrible, this seems to be on another level.
Gross as usual.
The smell of ash and soot is retained by the dust and other stuff. It clears up quite quickly but clean it outside as a closed area will retain the smell. I've dealt with too many dirty PCs to even care anymore, I just wear a mask for the dust part.
1:17:17 - L.E.D. Storm theme. It's a remix, but it's a nice remix.
Again, we see that alcohol is a great solution for many problems.
@@Tomart0 thanks for the heads up :) , have now posted this into the main video
14:46 wtf man 🤣🤣 best pro tip of the week
note to self, avoid giving golden shower to gpu
jk, it was probably pissed on by a cat or dog
as for the smell, peppermint oil might help cover it up
"sometimes things go south". Now people are deliberately moving South to escape what they wrought in the North.
I can feel your pain bro, BUTT , water damaged cards are always pita. consider rejecting them in first place. like nortfix does.
@northwestrepair 36:58 That's why you should replace ALL mosfets plus, not just sorthed one... That hepls save time and avoid such situations, when you apply voltage and fails another mosfet...
Tony, i would really be interested to see how you set your ultrasonic cleaner and what liquids you are using.
When I was a new dad, I was working full time 50+ hours ,but wanted to make some extra money so i started working at game stop part time too. One day a guy came in to sell an original PS2. I smelled the cat pee stink before I opened the box, but when so pulled it out and tilted it to look at the fan(completely caked with dust), an extreemly syrup like cat pee oozed out of it like honey, but MUCH stinkier. Apparently whatever had peed on it, did so regularly. I have been around cats and slobs with cats my whole life, and I have never seen such a thing. The worst part was that even though I was going to say no, the manager said to take it. I assumed that they would send them off the be cleaned, tested, fixed, and resold. However the day after Xmas, I learned that they just took people's word that they worked, bought them, then stuck them in a box, and sold them(2006ish). I figured that out as I had a line out the door of parents returning the used systems they bought that were disgusting if not just broke. I felt like such a criminal pos and quit. They had no replacements for them other than new systems. Granted they were only $30 more for a brand new, newer version one, but you could tell for some of the people, $30 was a significant amount. I have been on the outskirts of life my whole time here and have never felt more guilty/complicit in bad stuff as I did working for corporate America. I would rather sell crack! Then again just living here is starting to make me feel complicit in some bad stuff, especially after a few weeks ago.
I have a computer repair business and 2 months ago I got a bug infested desktop I couldn't believe how disgusting it was I let it sit on my front porch for 2 days and I cleaned that thing so well it was Immaculate and looked brand new when it left. That's one thing I like to do for customers and they're always shocked getting back Hardware that is super clean but I can't stand getting repairs that are smelly
Tony going lengths to fix your GPUs. Cmon customers give some consideration, throw him some paypal tips.
I watch tomorrow ❤
30:35...but those memory voltage drive pulses are different timelenghts - thats maybe not so normal?
Wait.. your "100%" TDP showed only 300-330W, but the 3090 does at least 350W TDP and 420W for the EVGA FTW3 versions. Is the power also reported wrong like the TDP-percent in GPU-z?
yeah i think this must be one unsupported EVGA card, not sure.
Stats are all weird but it did perform as any other 3090 i've had before including EVGAs
Mind answering which ultrasonic cleaner you use? I was completely floored by the results of the cleaning on the PCB
Yep .. we do thermal shock on all class 3 PCBs .. Air ro Air or Liquid to Liquid .. microvias (laser HDI) tend to break, especially under BGAs
Just started to watch it. Hoping you use an ultrasonic cleaning tank.
Eaw 😵💫💀 and good work 😅🎉
I have a cat that liked to sit on the top of my living room PC. It has two fan grills on top and one time she caught her claw in one of the grills and panicked and screamed bloody death. She thrashed and ended up ripping that claw sheath off. She hasn't been on it since. Maybe puss paws climbed up on that PC and sprayed it, I can totally see that happening. I think the dude with the laptop expects a warranty to include troubleshooting forever.
When you put things on the preheater, doesn't it have any effect on the capacitors? Do you ever have them blow up or become damaged just because of the preheater not the hot air? Thanks for the video.
it does. Preheater its self never blew up any caps but heatgun did.
@@northwestrepair Thanks for taking the time to answer me.
Hes not like northridgefix... Boards over there go through things worse than dry anal sex
What cleanser do you prefer in your ultrasonic cleaner? Just smokers computers and equipment are bad enough for me. You the man.
55:48 - nVidia drivers will limit the clock in Furmark drastically to prevent damage , the donut is designed to load up all of the shaders on the card in a way games do not , which generates loads of heat. Older nVidia GPUs around the Fermi era can be destroyed with such loads if sustained hence the protections. Probably why the card's power limiter cuts in early.
I'd rather use Speed Way or Steel Nomad with 3dmark for these reasons. If the card doesn't hit 100% TDP (350W board power or thereabouts there's an issue)
Gotta have hazardous / debris + cleaning label attached to invoice and notify customer about charge at least 100-200 bucks if not more depending on how bad it is. But smell is the worst condition so might as well add another fee
Whew! What long one!
it was a sad day when EVGA said they are stopping making gpu's
They make shit. No great loss
How thick were the pads on that card ? I don't get why people don't send GPU's in the original box. I still have a 970GTX, 1070,GTX and a 3080 RTX and they are all sitting on my shelf in the original packaging including the anti static bag.
I also experience such low resistance on 3.3v rail on a gtx750ti it turns out a dead GPU core, when the card is power it only pulls 0.5Amps but no other voltage rail except 5v, then the core heats up but in a very specific spot only at the side, the opposite side is stone cold
Tony did you see that goofy comment Northrodge fix made about an oscilloscope? It seems like hes trying to take shots at a specific person.
That owner smoked a lot of weed😂 that's the smell brotha
Cat piss can stink really disgusting. Like concentrated piss.
"I'm gonna try and fix this as quick as I can"
_Three days later..._
Alex from North-ridge Fix says only stupid people use an oscilloscope. I left a comment stating what you accomplish with such a tool e.g. e.g. detecting a dead phase or if the BIOS chip is communicating. Or timing of certain resistors.
You said about a capacitor turning into a resistor, maybe voltage injection is the fix? 27:31
If it releases the magic smoke or wears, it can. A 2 terminal passive component is characterized more completely as a complex transfer function rather than just as only capacitance, inductance, or resistance. Damage and wear does change it. A capacitor is shown to be defective if it passes measurable DC current at around its rated max voltage . It's also important to sometimes check passives out of circuit because sometimes your are reading values from other components in series or parallel with the component under test.
I use here the TDBK 1PCS IC SMD Vacuum found on Amazon, it's really good and all metal.
"It smells like someone has urinated over it, a dog, a cat..." We all know you wanted to say "Grandma" next, don't deny it :D
why not make a hole in the desk to install the preheater so as to have a flat surface under the silicone protection, the support for the card being removable
Would it be possible that it is the shunt resistance which, like the 3 resistances of 0 ohms, would have taken a little more value and would give an incorrect value?
This type of thing, having expensive electronics in my home, is the number one reason animals aren't allowed in my home. Cats and dogs knocking over your tv and peeing on your graphics cards 😄
I think what happened was you changed the wrong mosfet then the heat of removing it killed the one that was okay don’t think they’d kill each other that’s why after more heat from the reflow the crapped out completely
once you confirmed all the measurements checked out fine on the board i knew the problem was software side. when i saw you reball the core i was yelling "why?! are you just bored?!?!" and got a good laugh when hwinfo confirmed the card was working correctly
bruh... I feel your pain
At least that bit holder is removable and replacable and appears to be of a standard size so you can get whatever one you want on there
21:28 - I don't know about you. I would bend the end of the copper strip so that it protrudes through the contact point of the battery and it will no longer fall out.
Hello, how many mm thermal pads did you use for the card. Thank you so much
Are the schematics for your custom power supply device (the blue one used in your video) available somewhere? Thank you for your awesome video!!
very true !!!!
i had similar weird problem as well for days when sistem was booting up it was stucking on white led motherboard and some times give me masage that vga is unknown by eufi so first i think of gpu and send it for repair but there was no problem with it than i changed main board to get rid of this problem sometimes happen i changed board and installed windows on new nvme and this is where i found out i did all for nothing by accident i plug in old ssd with old windows and last set up and boot up on it the same problem happened and that was it ! it was crrupted windows all along i restarted and set boot on new nvme and erased that faulty windows.
simple fresh windows was all i need to avoid 400$ for nothing
You probably have the card closed and shipped by now, but in the future if you get this same card for repair, can you test the difference between gpu temp and hotspot temp? This specific model seems to have mounting problems where hotspot temp is around 15-18c higher than gpu temp, which suggests some areas of the gpu is not making good contact. I tried reinstalling some many times in so many different ways of tightening the bracket, it worked once lowering the difference to 10C but after a month it went up again. Would appreciate feedback. Ofc I replaced the paste with mx6
I am wondering why you took it apart at the end again? (1:24:15)
I think to put good thermal paste on. He uses some cheap stuff when he's testing gpus, and then puts good stuff on when its fixed.
You took the oldest bios instead of the newest 😅 which limits the card to 366W. The newest available puts the card to 500W. I would contact the owner to flash again the more recent one, as this card is now seriously limited. Also the card you had was a FTW3 ULTRA (according to the BIOS on the card before flashing), which has default a higher power limit, which is now lower then the original bios that was on there before, which was 450W. Also to take into account, is that a wrong BIOS can disable certain video outputs. I flashed my RTX2080Ti with a total other brands BIOS, which put my power limit a lot higher, but did disable a video output (which i didnt need and knew this could happen). So you actually changed the card from a FTW3 Ultra to a FTW3, which might also cause this problem.
What solution do you use for your ultrasound cleaner?