Awesome repair Alex. Hope the leg is healing well! For the guys out there watching and wanting to try this repair yourself that is a good thing, but stop just a minute. This takes a lot of skill and you need to practice first. Don't just try this on your $1000 board with all your data on it. Alex sells practice boards and you can find some about anywhere. You can most likely take an old DVD player or something out of the closet or junk drawer and practice removing that connector first. If it does not go well then try another and another and another. If it still doesn't go well send your expensive board to the master before trying it!
Been watching a few of your episodes and learned more than many other board level repair techs in a very short period of time. Network engineering doesn't get anywhere close to this level of detail, so you make my job seem like a cake walk in comparison. Hats off to you sir.
Welcome back Alex,!! Hope you are now well recovered from the unfortunate injury. Happy to see you are fixing back the "problems" in queue waiting for you to be back.. :)
17:36 "mother calls , do not anwser, wife calls , do not anwser ... Robber comes in ...let them take whatever they want..... just keep holding" -- That worth a subscription
Hello, you are an artist and you are good at what you do. Otherwise you are an optimist. From what I've heard and seen in other videos, a brand name repair service would probably simply send this nightmare circuit board back - with the disclaimer - no longer repairable. Instead, you use your skills like a motivated rescue worker in an accident on the highway and do your work with care and motivation to achieve the best possible result. Apart from the price, every customer can be happy with such a high-quality repair these days. Thank you for letting us watch and sharing your techniques and experiences with us. So when you receive a PCB that is in such bad condition, do you never call the customer? Presumably you document your work in the repair video and send the customer the invoice with the repaired board? Very nice to see that you are satisfied with your work. Thanks
Great instructions, just completed my first HDMI socket replacement, all now working well. It is worth tinning the solder lugs before fitting to the board as it makes soldering of them much easier. Thank you.
Great job Alex! Hope the leg is better! Super surprised you don’t mail these back to the customers as no fix. It’s impossible to tell everything he/she screwed up.
Welcome back hope that you have healed 100% so you can kick us all to learn from your wonderful lessons. Thanks for showing the size of the penny and SMC.
Alex, as good as you are with electronic fixes, I can tell you are a wonderful human being and family man! Heal up quickly, we need you in tip top shape.
Glad to see your doing better Alex! Excellent video, I think I'll stick with ps2 related work for the while. This is insanely small. Keep up the excellent work!
Alex, great channel, love the videos. 👍 I've started working with SMD and quickly realized that you really weren't kidding about those components flying into the 9th dimension! I had a good laugh the 1st time it happened when I heard your voice in my head telling me exactly where that component has gone. 😆
Hope your leg is better . Nice to have you back . We miss that victory smile when you beat the circuit board into submissions. A quote from Uncle joey diaz
God Bless You and your family Alex 😊 I always enjoy watching your videos Alex, you are not afraid of showing what a real expert professional repair man does on the daily😊 Again God Bless You brother😁
Good to see you back, im always happy to see people try to repair their electronics. Hopefully he learned from his mistakes and guided by this video, fingers crossed next time make attemts a repair it is successful
You are so accurate with the knife, like a robot, then your nephews came in and it reminded me you are a human 😂😂 I remember as a kid going to my uncles and messing around with audio stuff and wiring with my uncle, good memories man 😂😂😂 Its remembered by us youngers 😊
I'm glad you're back and doing okay, sir. I'm surprised you even bothered working on this board. Is this the kinder gentler Alex I'm seeing? Great job as always. Better than factory.
Always the best one Alex! A lot of patience, a lot of hard work but hard work and professionality always pays! Keep doing like this, by the point of view of an hobbyist you're such inspirational
Welcome back Alex. I hope you feel better. That's the most important. I think my pots on my variable power supply are going South. It is increasingly frustrating to dial in the voltage. Has anyone encounter this?
Perfect job as usual customers make a mess just for mr northridgefix to correct all the damage what an awesome guy Alex realy is helping peoples mistakes ❤
aww seeing that board, i can imagine being the person who ripped off pads during multiple attempts and tore a full trace off the board like a loose thread :< so nice of you to notice and choose to replace the unreported missing components so it's at least got a chance of working when they put it back together
Alex, unfortunately with you making it look so easy it means people are going to attempt to do these things themselves. On the bright side, it means more work for you ;)
great to see u again Alex. u are clever man and understand bad things hapens. but you are stronger,clever and better so no reason to focus on bad things. and beside ur channel wich u repairs electronics i see also u giving wisdoms and trying to make better world. tnx u
This is what happen when peoples think they can repair anything by watching TH-cam video but they don't have the skills and the right tools !! Good Work
Not sure why you would even take on the liability of fixing a board that you have no way of testing either prior to the repair, or after. Seems like this gives the customer a real opportunity to try to scam you. Not that you would fall for it but just a hassle you would have to deal with.
It looks super easy to do when you're watching it on TH-cam ahahha. But, even if you have ALL of the proper tools, ie microscope, hot air station, good soldering iron and all the peripherals, if you lack the skills/experience you're probably going to fail lol. I failed my first 3 hdmi port replacements back when I first started, and I had all of the best tools for the job. You just make it look so easy Alex so all these guys Hiroshima their boards trying to replicate your work ehehhe he. Keep up the great work and videos Alex :)
Many ppl will not notice. It's extremly hard to desolder sucha a small component and move it to another board to solder in without firing it to another dimention by squeezing it to hard just for a fracture of a second. I know from my own experience... Same for soldering a tiny wire joint or pad strip. After soldering it in first spot it loves to unsolder and move while soldering another end. Service nightmare. Requires a lot of experience.
So, you start to pull the connector and you see the track lifting... And it's getting longer and longer. like pulling a thread. Why would you keep going until you got to the IC. Some people are very strange.
@traaaaan True, nobody begins soldering as an expert. Better to practice on junk though, not something that could cost $$$+ to replace if you mess it up.
funny thing is they think that sending the hdmi connectors is going to save them money, after creating 3x more work to be done on the board. it's ok to try and fail, but sending a $5 component is not going to matter.
That's how we learn, by trying things ourselves. I'm sure Alex has scraped many connectors before being good as he is now. Like we said, practice makes perfect.
Classic mistake, gave to lower the solder melting temperature before removing these ports using leaded solder. Its almost at the limit of the cheap hot air rework stations capabilities without doing that.
Have you considered livestreaming some of the repairs? It would cut down on the amount of late night editing. Seeing the live flow of your bench would be interesting.
I am trying to fix my own Series X device. I have diagnosed a short due to a chip called ATMP 155. Any idea what is it and is it easy to find replacement?
YAY!! Welcome back, Alex!! You've been missed!! Hope you're doing well!! We need more "better than factory!" work!!
Thank you all. The wound is getting better. More better than factory videos on the way.
@@NorthridgeFix I hope your leg gets better than factory as well
Better than factory sir
Awesome repair Alex. Hope the leg is healing well! For the guys out there watching and wanting to try this repair yourself that is a good thing, but stop just a minute. This takes a lot of skill and you need to practice first. Don't just try this on your $1000 board with all your data on it. Alex sells practice boards and you can find some about anywhere. You can most likely take an old DVD player or something out of the closet or junk drawer and practice removing that connector first. If it does not go well then try another and another and another. If it still doesn't go well send your expensive board to the master before trying it!
Very true words spoken from a wise person!
I hope everyone reads this!
I just ripped the entanglement connector off my expensive quantum computer but I think I can fix it 😎
@@digi3218 Do it! Do it! I need those 10,000 USD I am going to charge for the repair after you mess it up. Just do it! LOL
Everyone's so brave with a soldering iron until traces get ripped and components fly to the 9th dimension 😅
😂😂😂😂😂😂👍
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂very true
that because he makes it look so easys , when in really this take years of practice and leaning
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ahem ahem, I I'm looking for replacement pads aw we speak. Not joking. 😅
Been watching a few of your episodes and learned more than many other board level repair techs in a very short period of time. Network engineering doesn't get anywhere close to this level of detail, so you make my job seem like a cake walk in comparison. Hats off to you sir.
Welcome back Alex,!! Hope you are now well recovered from the unfortunate injury. Happy to see you are fixing back the "problems" in queue waiting for you to be back.. :)
14:50 I had to close my eyes due to all that UV light exposure. 😂🤣😂 Nice to see you back again.
Glad to see you back Alex, hope that wound is getting better. Greetings from Spain
17:36 "mother calls , do not anwser, wife calls , do not anwser ... Robber comes in ...let them take whatever they want..... just keep holding" -- That worth a subscription
Amazingly detailed work.
hi alex hope your injuries have healed now better than factory i hope....great video as always ....glad your back ..
Hello, you are an artist and you are good at what you do. Otherwise you are an optimist. From what I've heard and seen in other videos, a brand name repair service would probably simply send this nightmare circuit board back - with the disclaimer - no longer repairable. Instead, you use your skills like a motivated rescue worker in an accident on the highway and do your work with care and motivation to achieve the best possible result. Apart from the price, every customer can be happy with such a high-quality repair these days. Thank you for letting us watch and sharing your techniques and experiences with us. So when you receive a PCB that is in such bad condition, do you never call the customer? Presumably you document your work in the repair video and send the customer the invoice with the repaired board? Very nice to see that you are satisfied with your work. Thanks
nice to see you back alex,hope your leg is doing fine, God Bless you and your family
Leg is doing good. Thank you my brother.
You have the patience of a saint. Theses folks are really making a mess of thing big tme. Seeing just how small some components are is astonishing.
First, I hope your leg is healing well. Second, glad to see you back in the saddle.
i used to struggle until i started watching your content and i can attest to the beauty of low melt solder
Great instructions, just completed my first HDMI socket replacement, all now working well. It is worth tinning the solder lugs before fitting to the board as it makes soldering of them much easier.
Thank you.
Great job Alex! Hope the leg is better!
Super surprised you don’t mail these back to the customers as no fix. It’s impossible to tell everything he/she screwed up.
The guy who sent that board in didn't do you any favors for sure. Great video, looking forward to more
Welcome back hope that you have healed 100% so you can kick us all to learn from your wonderful lessons. Thanks for showing the size of the penny and SMC.
Alex, as good as you are with electronic fixes, I can tell you are a wonderful human being and family man!
Heal up quickly, we need you in tip top shape.
Glad to see your doing better Alex!
Excellent video, I think I'll stick with ps2 related work for the while. This is insanely small.
Keep up the excellent work!
Hope your leg is healing okay, Alex! Was happy to see your face pop up on my feed again. ❤
Alex, great channel, love the videos. 👍 I've started working with SMD and quickly realized that you really weren't kidding about those components flying into the 9th dimension! I had a good laugh the 1st time it happened when I heard your voice in my head telling me exactly where that component has gone. 😆
It's good to see you again Alex! Miss you so much 🙏❤️
Hope your leg is better . Nice to have you back .
We miss that victory smile when you beat the circuit board into submissions.
A quote from Uncle joey diaz
With the condition of the board and the HDMI ports, I give this about a 5% chance he actually paid for this repair without being take to court.
Welcome back Alex nice to see you on the mend.
Hello sir , I’m so happy to see you back , I’ve been in the same pain ! Life goes on ,, I think for pin need to say ooh La La, Ooh La La, Ooh La La
Good to see you back Alex.
Welcome back Alex, amazing job, as usually. Happy to see you back!
Welcome Back Alex ! I missed your regular insightful videos.....
Nothing better to start the morning with coffe and video from you! You did an Amazing job. And i hope your leg is getting better :)
Welcome back, Alex!
God Bless You and your family Alex 😊 I always enjoy watching your videos Alex, you are not afraid of showing what a real expert professional repair man does on the daily😊 Again God Bless You brother😁
Great to see you back with a new video, I missed you. I hope your leg is healing up and that you're doing well! Take care!
Good to see you back, im always happy to see people try to repair their electronics. Hopefully he learned from his mistakes and guided by this video, fingers crossed next time make attemts a repair it is successful
Lucky kids to have this Uncle!!!
You are so accurate with the knife, like a robot, then your nephews came in and it reminded me you are a human 😂😂 I remember as a kid going to my uncles and messing around with audio stuff and wiring with my uncle, good memories man 😂😂😂 Its remembered by us youngers 😊
It is great to see you in good spirits! I hope all is getting well over there for you! 😃
I'm glad you're back and doing okay, sir. I'm surprised you even bothered working on this board. Is this the kinder gentler Alex I'm seeing?
Great job as always. Better than factory.
Nice video. Hope your leg is healing up nicely now. ✌️be with you
Always the best one Alex! A lot of patience, a lot of hard work but hard work and professionality always pays! Keep doing like this, by the point of view of an hobbyist you're such inspirational
Glad you are back, Alex. Hope the leg ls better and not in pain.
Welcome back Alex. I hope you feel better. That's the most important. I think my pots on my variable power supply are going South. It is increasingly frustrating to dial in the voltage. Has anyone encounter this?
Welcome back brother nice to see u again missed ur videos
PCB Way is one of the lone youtube sponsors i see that i actually love. xD
Perfect job as usual customers make a mess just for mr northridgefix to correct all the damage what an awesome guy Alex realy is helping peoples mistakes ❤
customer took the phrase "flux is your friend" way too seriously on that one.
Always great watching a master doing his thing.
So satisfying to watch hard work and skills is beyond compare.
aww seeing that board, i can imagine being the person who ripped off pads during multiple attempts and tore a full trace off the board like a loose thread :<
so nice of you to notice and choose to replace the unreported missing components so it's at least got a chance of working when they put it back together
You make everything look so easy. It would take some for hours.. as usual your videos are the best. Say hello to big boss and your nephews..
Beautiful, I've been using the low melt solder since you mentioned it in your videos, it's a game changer, thanks.
Thank you for your videos. I'm learning motherboard repairs on my own, and your videos are a big help for me. Thank you
Wonderful job love your videos this is my hobby for years now. Out of curiosity would you ship outside the USA. I'm from UK
Incredible job. Absolutely awesome video!
Alex, unfortunately with you making it look so easy it means people are going to attempt to do these things themselves. On the bright side, it means more work for you ;)
great to see u again Alex. u are clever man and understand bad things hapens. but you are stronger,clever and better so no reason to focus on bad things. and beside ur channel wich u repairs electronics i see also u giving wisdoms and trying to make better world. tnx u
This is what happen when peoples think they can repair anything by watching TH-cam video but they don't have the skills and the right tools !! Good Work
Good to see your return Alex hope your leg has healed properly.
Oh my I am totally amazed
I repair electronics but dont need a microscope to see them!!!!
Keep them coming!!!
Glad to see you back brother!
Great work, I wish you success in your work, your brother Ahmed from Iraq
Great to watch, I envy your patience
Deginately above & beyond expectations ❣
Welcome back .... Hope You are better.
Good to see you my friend. Hope your leg healed up okay.
Welcome back I hope your getting better
how can you mess up this badly.... holy shit, that repair was legend, i wonder how much you charged that was such a mess !
I am decent at soldering but when I see broken pads, I am sending to Northridge Fix!
Alex just WOW….. great work
Love your videos Alex. You may it look way too easy. Cant wait to get my hands dirty, trying this out!!
Always doing magic ❤ from 🇿🇲
Glad you're back! How's health? Keep up the good work!
The joints were better than factory, how far with the hot tweezers station, wanna be among the first 10 to order
Great family Alex!
Not sure why you would even take on the liability of fixing a board that you have no way of testing either prior to the repair, or after. Seems like this gives the customer a real opportunity to try to scam you. Not that you would fall for it but just a hassle you would have to deal with.
Good to see you Alex 🙂
always love wathcing these!! no idea what the hell is going on but its oddly satifying just watching you repair peoples f-ups
WB. And wow... It looks like the customer just covered the board in flux.
It looks super easy to do when you're watching it on TH-cam ahahha. But, even if you have ALL of the proper tools, ie microscope, hot air station, good soldering iron and all the peripherals, if you lack the skills/experience you're probably going to fail lol. I failed my first 3 hdmi port replacements back when I first started, and I had all of the best tools for the job.
You just make it look so easy Alex so all these guys Hiroshima their boards trying to replicate your work ehehhe he.
Keep up the great work and videos Alex :)
I love watching you fix the tech. I wish we had one of you in England lol.
Hi Alex, your Video's are awesome, u have a beautiful family [Nephew's] stay strong my friend.
amazing job as always ❤
Many ppl will not notice. It's extremly hard to desolder sucha a small component and move it to another board to solder in without firing it to another dimention by squeezing it to hard just for a fracture of a second.
I know from my own experience...
Same for soldering a tiny wire joint or pad strip. After soldering it in first spot it loves to unsolder and move while soldering another end.
Service nightmare. Requires a lot of experience.
I have repaired a lot of boards but that one takes the cake.
Time consumeing patch process very procise neat steady soldering work 💯
Incredible Micro soldering technics 1000/10
Wife called to say she was leaving me, but I kept holding.
What video has Alex' daughters excellent soundtrack. I can't find it and need my hit of cool retro sounds
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Very nice work with those wires
how is your leg Alex, getting any better ? nice video learnt a lot thanks for sharing
Leg is getting better
@@NorthridgeFixglad its getting better, wish you a speedy recovery
So, you start to pull the connector and you see the track lifting...
And it's getting longer and longer. like pulling a thread.
Why would you keep going until you got to the IC.
Some people are very strange.
Love it when people trash an otherwise easy repair. Just becaused you watched 2 videos on soldering doesn't mean you can do it!
Props for trying though. That's better than most. People are so quick to throw away ans replace.
@traaaaan True, nobody begins soldering as an expert. Better to practice on junk though, not something that could cost $$$+ to replace if you mess it up.
funny thing is they think that sending the hdmi connectors is going to save them money, after creating 3x more work to be done on the board. it's ok to try and fail, but sending a $5 component is not going to matter.
I mean people gotta try and I watched two videos and successfully replaced a HDMI port so 🤷 if people want to try let em
That's how we learn, by trying things ourselves. I'm sure Alex has scraped many connectors before being good as he is now. Like we said, practice makes perfect.
Classic mistake, gave to lower the solder melting temperature before removing these ports using leaded solder. Its almost at the limit of the cheap hot air rework stations capabilities without doing that.
this seemed more technical than most fixes. loved it.
Its been so long been waiting for the amazing vidios
Have you considered livestreaming some of the repairs? It would cut down on the amount of late night editing. Seeing the live flow of your bench would be interesting.
I use the Weller Chisel tip and NF.mini knife tip for most of the repairs
Not sure that answers the question.@@NorthridgeFix
@@automotiveradiator1528 I replied to the wrong person. Livestreaming is not a good idea, I get interrupted a lot.
Why didn't you expose us to UV light today. Haha. Wonderful video as always.
I am trying to fix my own Series X device. I have diagnosed a short due to a chip called ATMP 155. Any idea what is it and is it easy to find replacement?