It is amazing how such a small fault can render a complete computer scrap without component level fault diagnostic skills. And this is now also expected to be done without circuit diagrams. Nice job 👍
They do not need to do anything to their devices. These things are designed to run hot and fail 1 microsecond after the warranty expires.@@JerryRecords
I love how happy Alex gets every time he sees a successful repair. I’ve learned a lot from this channel even though I’ve been doing the same thing for years. I record the microscope for every repair but I only do it for the customer. Maybe I should start posting them too.
You realy should make the videos also, so more people can learn from them! We need repair and not buy no for a faulty 5 cent capacitator! This is no future if this dont stop!
And yet another shop referred you to fix a laptop! That’s 2 in a row now! Everyone knows you're the man with the master plan! Thanks for the video Alex
I am a retired auto mechanic who specialized in diagnostics. In addition to a paycheck, the feeling of accomplishment when something comes in broken and leaves working was great.
I love companies that clearly mark their components and list their datasheets and pinouts. Vishay has always been great at this. ;) There are two versions of each of these SiC chips. There is a non-A 5v PWM version and an A version that is 3.3v PWM. Just don't mix A and non-A versions... SiC651 - Mouser Part # 78-SIC651CD-T1-GE3 - 5v PWM SiC651A - Mouser Part # 78-SIC651ACD-T1-GE3 - 3.3v PWM SiC638 - Mouser Part # 78-SIC638CD-T1-GE3 - 5v PWM SiC638A - Mouser Part # 78-SIC638ACD-T1-GE3 - 3.3v PWM
I just love this instructor's sense of humor and how he teach us to fix the computer's issues. Easy to follow, calm attitude, work smart not hard attitude...Thanks so much for teaching us your skills and knowledge, I really appreciate that! I already subscribed to this channel so I can learn from this wonderful instructor :)
Cool job! I have a ASUS TUF Gaming with the same problem, ASUS repair shop told me they would replace the motherboard, have to order it first, needs 6 weeks, then repair starts. Cost $1000USD plus repair. This looks to me like a insentive to sell more new Laptops but not a repair. This world will go down the drain with solutions like this. We need more repair shops like NorthridgeFix in this world, keep the good work up. Thanks for all this videos!
I do really enjoy your videos I worked for almost 40 years on electronic organs keyboards and amplifiers I had that same look when I completed my repairs. Watching you makes me want to get back into doing some repairs and now I know where to order all kinds of things to repair with. I enjoyed your kiddos being in the video. Be safe keep on making the videos.
Lovely work! I wish I could do this , but in which country I live , we just live month to month, I used to do this work in a company workshop as an Engineer until 2002 , eventually moved on to a higher paying job. But I love the way things have advanced and component level repair still being alive and well, plus great work by Alex.
If you have this skills, go ahead open a side business first, and when you see progress step in full power, the world needs this people that fix computers today and more tomorrow!
My most favorite joke from you comes when you thank Big Boss and I always keep on repeating the video over and over just for that. It goes that....... "Thank you Big Boss, the boss of all bosses" it makes me bust into laughter🤣🤣🤣 Other words ,apart from that,i learn much from u in this field. Thanks for the effort. Am also called Alex from Uganda but today it's been a loss ; Big Boss wasn't there to be thanked.
Returning back to the micro soldering field after 4 years and this video had me smiling as well at the end. Display on after troubleshooting like that is worth every minute!!
You know a guy is in his top level skill when he shows you how he works...cheers man love the father/son tandem of business you have there...same as our business setup here in philippines..cheers man!
I have the same exact model , and one day suddenly the laptop wasnt power up and no signs from the charging lights either, and after reading some forums about asus laptops not powering up i feared the worse. I mailed asus explaining what happened and their answer was leave the laptop with its charger for more than two hours on , i thought it was a complete bs to be honest , but i didnt had anything to lose before shipping it to their service center , so i plugged it for two hours and it actually worked and the laptop came back to life .
Honest question: how likely are chips to be damaged by heat during (de)soldering, either with an iron or hot air? Obviously you don't want any more heat than necessary during removal or installation, but I've wondered just how much caution is actually warranted - even when dealing with 30 year-old components.
would not recommend soldering Iron for chips, do it as shown by Alex with a quality hot air blower, professional flux and good quality solder as demonstrated by Alex , the temperatures are what are recommended for use on silicon based chips, I used to do this 20 years ago, would have loved to have a shop like Alex , but do other work now, I think Alex has a video on what temperature to use and how to evenly spread the blower at a safe distance.
SIR UR WORK OF ART IS GOD GIFTED I LIKE AT THE END WHEN U SOLVE THE WHOLE ISSUE WITHOUT ANY FAIL U GIVE UR 99.99% TO MAKE THE CLIENT HAPPIER LOVE FROM INDIA ♥❤❤
I mentioned before that I requested to see some components you replace next to a tape measure to show how small some of the components are. I hope you can do this.
He's done size comparisons many times. The most recent one was during the M.2 NVME SSD repair from a couple of weeks ago, with a picture of a penny in the video thumbnail. Go to the 9-minute mark.
Damn! That's why I LOVE your videos! You are amazing and before watching your videos I knew NOTHING about microsoldering but now I do my own repairs myself and some minor to average repairs on people that ask me if I can fix their devices problems when they know I'm a computer techy, I've studied computer science and programming but after watching your videos for several years I added microsoldering as well. Thanks alot for your videos and help!!.. ❤
Hi, Excellent stuff!.. I have been following your Channel for a while now and enjoy watching you carry out repairs, I really like your work, how you explain your though process and demonstrate what to keep an eye on etc, Illustrating the Practicalities of doing such repairs. However, this particular repair caught my attention as it being an Asus ROG branded Laptop, I did catch a glimpse of the Laptop sporting a Ryzen CPU, albeit this being a Laptop repair is similar to my own, which I have just built a new Ryzen 9 7950X3D on top of the ASUS ROG X670E-E Platform.. So, as you can imagine this video grabbed my attention more so than your others.. I only wish I knew as much about PCB's/Electronics as you do AND have the confidence to attempt a repair of my own, seeing that I have been building systems for 20 odd years and the number of systems which have basically been thrown away *Most probably* would have been a "Simple" repair job (I say Simple, however I understand its far from simple what you do in practice) This video has most definitely made me rethink what is possible/Cost effective when weighing up what my next steps are whenever I next encounter faulty MOBO/GPU/PSU component/devices.. Anyway, Great repair job & Excellent Content.. Cheers!!
Always suspect the capacitors. That's often all it is. What do I think? Beautiful. Thank you all for making the effort to do this. Being part of the trickle of sanity and decency in a world set up to undermine these virtues.
Your videos are absolutely amazing! You are a brilliant man and what you do, I love to fix and build computers but watching your videos it’s truly inspiring! Keep up the excellent work sir 💪💪👍👍
Alex cringes and loses some of that repair happiness as he sees the dude's login Icon, and thinks to himself "hmmm thats an interesting looking eagle..." 17:15
Another fantastic video. Thank you for the effort you put into these. Please can you tell me how you find out the value of that cap without schematics please.
@@Leeh187 you can literally damage your operating system, files can get corrupted, it happened to me when I had a faulty power plug that was causing my pc to suddenly shut down I didn't know what was causing it at first so i tried to turn on the pc several times(like 6) until windows started throwing a repair screen xD, I went through hell to troubleshoot and find out it was a faulty power plug on my no break UPS, I was breaking my head believing it was my power supply, but nope literally just changed to a different plug and the problem it's gone, I had to reinstall windows like 3 times through the process because I corrupted the OS due to keep on shutting down while booting lol.
Hello, I am amazed how good you are in repairing this! You are the best ! I do own the same model. I am begging you, would you please repair mine, too? I will ship it to you. please? I beg you !
I understand very little of this but I love watching the repairs. EDIT: Btw I have this laptop and I replaced the liquid metal with kryosheets just to be safer.
Really enjoy your videos, always more to learn, thank you for taking the time to show/teach us. Could you tell me what brand of headset mic you are using? 🤔
Been a subscriber for a while and love watching your videos. One thing that always puzzles me is how do you know what value capacitor to use? Did you "Steal" one off a donor board or does it not really matter?
When the board has repetitive design, you can desolder and measure one of the capacitors from a similar nearby structure to be on point. You can also use a similar one from donor boards. But , the reality is that in most of the time, one single capacitor exact value does not matter that much, especially in such a big board with hundreds or thousands of elements. It definitely will have some effect, but most of the time, it will not affect the user.
@ 13:57 on the reinstall of the FET, there is solder squeeze out that Alex removes with a heat iron. I have seen this happen before, and there is never a short under the chip. Can someone explain to me why this happens that there is never an under chip short? Thanks.
Rocking my 2008 Asus G50VT laptop that I have run for years 24 7 crunching on CPU and GPU it just won't die, seriously. And I'm running slightly overclocked X9100 my main machine to this day probably time to upgrade
Still remember my Asus G73JH-A1... The biggest 2000$ lemon I ever owned... Asus is on my blacklist since then... and with the recent AM5 fiasco, it is obvious that nothing has changed...
It is amazing how such a small fault can render a complete computer scrap without component level fault diagnostic skills. And this is now also expected to be done without circuit diagrams. Nice job 👍
golly, you're so smart... 😏
@@TomUlcak 🤣🤣🤣🤣
😊👍👍👍
How does the circuit board get damaged in the first place? What are these customers doing to their devices? 😂
They do not need to do anything to their devices. These things are designed to run hot and fail 1 microsecond after the warranty expires.@@JerryRecords
I love how happy Alex gets every time he sees a successful repair. I’ve learned a lot from this channel even though I’ve been doing the same thing for years. I record the microscope for every repair but I only do it for the customer. Maybe I should start posting them too.
Yea it's a good idea
Alex really takes pride in his work.
You realy should make the videos also, so more people can learn from them! We need repair and not buy no for a faulty 5 cent capacitator! This is no future if this dont stop!
And yet another shop referred you to fix a laptop! That’s 2 in a row now! Everyone knows you're the man with the master plan! Thanks for the video Alex
I am a retired auto mechanic who specialized in diagnostics. In addition to a paycheck, the feeling of accomplishment when something comes in broken and leaves working was great.
I love companies that clearly mark their components and list their datasheets and pinouts. Vishay has always been great at this. ;)
There are two versions of each of these SiC chips. There is a non-A 5v PWM version and an A version that is 3.3v PWM. Just don't mix A and non-A versions...
SiC651 - Mouser Part # 78-SIC651CD-T1-GE3 - 5v PWM
SiC651A - Mouser Part # 78-SIC651ACD-T1-GE3 - 3.3v PWM
SiC638 - Mouser Part # 78-SIC638CD-T1-GE3 - 5v PWM
SiC638A - Mouser Part # 78-SIC638ACD-T1-GE3 - 3.3v PWM
I just love this instructor's sense of humor and how he teach us to fix the computer's issues. Easy to follow, calm attitude, work smart not hard attitude...Thanks so much for teaching us your skills and knowledge, I really appreciate that! I already subscribed to this channel so I can learn from this wonderful instructor :)
You make this look so easy when in reality its an extremely hard job to do with high risk of damaging the thing your trying to fix. Awesome skills :)
Great work Alex! better than factory ! Your smile when you get the computer fixed is priceless!
Cool job! I have a ASUS TUF Gaming with the same problem, ASUS repair shop told me they would replace the motherboard, have to order it first, needs 6 weeks, then repair starts. Cost $1000USD plus repair. This looks to me like a insentive to sell more new Laptops but not a repair. This world will go down the drain with solutions like this. We need more repair shops like NorthridgeFix in this world, keep the good work up. Thanks for all this videos!
I do really enjoy your videos I worked for almost 40 years on electronic organs keyboards and amplifiers I had that same look when I completed my repairs. Watching you makes me want to get back into doing some repairs and now I know where to order all kinds of things to repair with. I enjoyed your kiddos being in the video. Be safe keep on making the videos.
I'm super impressed with how well you can speak English and also annunciate it as well.
I love your smile when you see an image on screen. Nice job...
Lovely work! I wish I could do this , but in which country I live , we just live month to month, I used to do this work in a company workshop as an Engineer until 2002 , eventually moved on to a higher paying job.
But I love the way things have advanced and component level repair still being alive and well, plus great work by Alex.
If you have this skills, go ahead open a side business first, and when you see progress step in full power, the world needs this people that fix computers today and more tomorrow!
My most favorite joke from you comes when you thank Big Boss and I always keep on repeating the video over and over just for that. It goes that.......
"Thank you Big Boss, the boss of all bosses" it makes me bust into laughter🤣🤣🤣 Other words ,apart from that,i learn much from u in this field. Thanks for the effort. Am also called Alex from Uganda but today it's been a loss ; Big Boss wasn't there to be thanked.
You are one smart bloke, well done, I am in awe of the work you do on such small components.
Heyyy I have the same laptop. Fully working though, but good to know it's salvageable like this. Earned a new sub!
It is absolutely astounding the kind of dexterity you have
Always amazes me that such a small part can bring down the whole system. Another one kept out of the e-waste bin! Great job! :)
❤ from 🇨🇦
well done, you make repairs that other places won't try to find look so easy to fix.
Returning back to the micro soldering field after 4 years and this video had me smiling as well at the end. Display on after troubleshooting like that is worth every minute!!
you can just see the pride he has in his work. it is awsome to see. =) good job!
Excellent fault finding process performed. Well done.
That was enjoyable to watch and YOU have eyes like a hawk sir!
You know a guy is in his top level skill when he shows you how he works...cheers man love the father/son tandem of business you have there...same as our business setup here in philippines..cheers man!
One small capacitor renders an entire machine inoperable. That’s wild. Thanks for the video.
Always high-quality content on this channel. Great stuff!
Is Big Boss your uncle?
16:15 yes yes
Happy to see your happy face...
Good Job... keep it up.
We should appreciate that this repair shop actually knew you and came up with good advice to that person.👍😄
Any job with love brings the perfection. And you are the biggest example of this Alex. Masaallah :)
Love watching you work.
It's like a therapy....
👍😁👍
I have the same exact model , and one day suddenly the laptop wasnt power up and no signs from the charging lights either, and after reading some forums about asus laptops not powering up i feared the worse. I mailed asus explaining what happened and their answer was leave the laptop with its charger for more than two hours on , i thought it was a complete bs to be honest , but i didnt had anything to lose before shipping it to their service center , so i plugged it for two hours and it actually worked and the laptop came back to life .
Alex you're awesome! Welcome back from Canada!
Philippines here, i hope there are technicians here like you.
What a smile of your face when you powered on the laptop.😁
Everytime i watch your repair video's its a new lesson for me. Keep up the good works my teacher 😊
Impressive, awesome as always.
Amazing job start loving your video's
Honest question: how likely are chips to be damaged by heat during (de)soldering, either with an iron or hot air? Obviously you don't want any more heat than necessary during removal or installation, but I've wondered just how much caution is actually warranted - even when dealing with 30 year-old components.
would not recommend soldering Iron for chips, do it as shown by Alex with a quality hot air blower, professional flux and good quality solder as demonstrated by Alex , the temperatures are what are recommended for use on silicon based chips, I used to do this 20 years ago, would have loved to have a shop like Alex , but do other work now, I think Alex has a video on what temperature to use and how to evenly spread the blower at a safe distance.
17:06 Little tip if you press the power button for little long it'll defiantly shut down i have g713qe
Alex is the Gordon Ramsay of electronics repair.
Gordon Ramsey is a schmuck.
no way Marco Pierre White 🤣
respect to the other shops admitting they cant do it instead of doing it bad
SIR UR WORK OF ART IS GOD GIFTED I LIKE AT THE END WHEN U SOLVE THE WHOLE ISSUE WITHOUT ANY FAIL U GIVE UR 99.99% TO MAKE THE CLIENT HAPPIER
LOVE FROM INDIA
♥❤❤
A Master Tech. Great sense of humor too.
16:29 a happy repairman is a good repairman
Great work 👏👏
Another great fix from our new "Canadian" friend. Nice work Alex!
Next time he should see Canada and not Québec.
excellent job master 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Same thing just happened to mine, had to give it to the authorised repair shop in my country, now I'm praying
Nicely done! You earned a Sub ❤
I mentioned before that I requested to see some components you replace next to a tape measure to show how small some of the components are. I hope you can do this.
He's done size comparisons many times. The most recent one was during the M.2 NVME SSD repair from a couple of weeks ago, with a picture of a penny in the video thumbnail. Go to the 9-minute mark.
If you compare the size of the cotton swab he uses to clean the area, you can easily see how small the components are.
I like your passion, your hapiness it's clear when the laptop powers on XD
Got the Same laptop with the same issue, Local place couldnt resolve it and said itll by 800 Bucks to fix... lord have mercy
Damn! That's why I LOVE your videos! You are amazing and before watching your videos I knew NOTHING about microsoldering but now I do my own repairs myself and some minor to average repairs on people that ask me if I can fix their devices problems when they know I'm a computer techy, I've studied computer science and programming but after watching your videos for several years I added microsoldering as well. Thanks alot for your videos and help!!.. ❤
at 5:55 when you removed the ic it hit the cap that was already hot and it got out of its soldering points
Great job👏👏👏👏👏
Hi, Excellent stuff!..
I have been following your Channel for a while now and enjoy watching you carry out repairs, I really like your work, how you explain your though process and demonstrate what to keep an eye on etc, Illustrating the Practicalities of doing such repairs. However, this particular repair caught my attention as it being an Asus ROG branded Laptop, I did catch a glimpse of the Laptop sporting a Ryzen CPU, albeit this being a Laptop repair is similar to my own, which I have just built a new Ryzen 9 7950X3D on top of the ASUS ROG X670E-E Platform..
So, as you can imagine this video grabbed my attention more so than your others.. I only wish I knew as much about PCB's/Electronics as you do AND have the confidence to attempt a repair of my own, seeing that I have been building systems for 20 odd years and the number of systems which have basically been thrown away *Most probably* would have been a "Simple" repair job (I say Simple, however I understand its far from simple what you do in practice) This video has most definitely made me rethink what is possible/Cost effective when weighing up what my next steps are whenever I next encounter faulty MOBO/GPU/PSU component/devices.. Anyway, Great repair job & Excellent Content.. Cheers!!
Always suspect the capacitors. That's often all it is.
What do I think? Beautiful.
Thank you all for making the effort to do this. Being part of the trickle of sanity and decency in a world set up to undermine these virtues.
عمل رائع و تقديم مميز ... استفدت كثيرا من فيديواتك ... تخياتي لك من ليبيا
You made it look so easy!
hehe
thank you for thermal camera... thank you Alex and big boss... maşallah...
grand master. - from philippines
Your videos are absolutely amazing! You are a brilliant man and what you do, I love to fix and build computers but watching your videos it’s truly inspiring! Keep up the excellent work sir 💪💪👍👍
Great video... Another happy ending... Keep up the good work
Alex cringes and loses some of that repair happiness as he sees the dude's login Icon, and thinks to himself "hmmm thats an interesting looking eagle..." 17:15
You are knowledge is great sir
Alex cools processor with his bare hand as heat sink. Take this, CoolerMaster! ;-)
Another fantastic video. Thank you for the effort you put into these.
Please can you tell me how you find out the value of that cap without schematics please.
A small tip for you Alex: 5 seconds press on the Power button on the laptop would turn it off immediately
Great video as always!
Unless its a Dell Inspiron 14, those things take at least a 20 second press.
it's a basic thing, everybody knows this, Alex knows this as well, problem is it's not wise to force power off while the windows is loading.
@@orange11squares meh, been doing it for years and never had a problem
@@Leeh187 you can literally damage your operating system, files can get corrupted, it happened to me when I had a faulty power plug that was causing my pc to suddenly shut down I didn't know what was causing it at first so i tried to turn on the pc several times(like 6) until windows started throwing a repair screen xD, I went through hell to troubleshoot and find out it was a faulty power plug on my no break UPS, I was breaking my head believing it was my power supply, but nope literally just changed to a different plug and the problem it's gone, I had to reinstall windows like 3 times through the process because I corrupted the OS due to keep on shutting down while booting lol.
I find this stuff so intriguing ...loved watching this...ty.
Good video Alex. Well worth watching
You are doing such a great job. Keep the good work. ⚡
Lovely job Alex
0:32 I know what was the main issue. The problem was play Cyberpunk 😂
Pushes past the pain, " that's why we have two hands ", Golden.
Hello, I am amazed how good you are in repairing this! You are the best ! I do own the same model. I am begging you, would you please repair mine, too? I will ship it to you. please? I beg you !
Very good work as usual. I was wondering how did you determine the value of the capacitor that you replaced. Thanks
10-100 nf
Soo sweet ans soo amazing i felt the joy of successful repairs too
17:08 Screen displays Wednesday February 1. Was that the last time it was working when it died?
I understand very little of this but I love watching the repairs.
EDIT: Btw I have this laptop and I replaced the liquid metal with kryosheets just to be safer.
another great vid makes it so easier with all the tools to hand,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Really enjoy your videos, always more to learn, thank you for taking the time to show/teach us. Could you tell me what brand of headset mic you are using? 🤔
Been a subscriber for a while and love watching your videos. One thing that always puzzles me is how do you know what value capacitor to use? Did you "Steal" one off a donor board or does it not really matter?
When the board has repetitive design, you can desolder and measure one of the capacitors from a similar nearby structure to be on point. You can also use a similar one from donor boards. But , the reality is that in most of the time, one single capacitor exact value does not matter that much, especially in such a big board with hundreds or thousands of elements. It definitely will have some effect, but most of the time, it will not affect the user.
@ 13:57 on the reinstall of the FET, there is solder squeeze out that Alex removes with a heat iron. I have seen this happen before, and there is never a short under the chip. Can someone explain to me why this happens that there is never an under chip short? Thanks.
Surface mount micro soldering...... a marvel to watch.
At 4:27
The difference between 651 and 638 is 13.
Sorry, had to answer that question. 😬
Good job mate 👍
Good Job 👍
Amazing diagnostic and repair. Liked and subscribe.
I enjoy watching your videos.
Awesome job!!
Rocking my 2008 Asus G50VT laptop that I have run for years 24 7 crunching on CPU and GPU it just won't die, seriously. And I'm running slightly overclocked X9100 my main machine to this day probably time to upgrade
Nice work brother 🙏
Still remember my Asus G73JH-A1...
The biggest 2000$ lemon I ever owned...
Asus is on my blacklist since then...
and with the recent AM5 fiasco, it is obvious that nothing has changed...
عودة ميمونة ❤❤❤
You are definitely a sorcerer!!
me love de northridge fix, its better then de cake
That was quick no body could but you did🎉
What gaming laptop to buy with less problems?
Powerful brother
im always watching you sir and i love it very much ive learned a lot from yoyr work thank you very much for sharing ❤❤❤