You know, I have a lot of respect for Big Boss. Knowing how to disassemble and reassemble so many different devices is amazing. Especially Apple products with all the tiny screws and brackets and latches....drives me crazy!
Yeah I've always had respect for the work he does, it's so tedious to me. I always forget something when reassembling. His brain must be like a library full of exploded diagrams.
It's crazy how you have 682 donor boards for everything that comes through your shop! I can't imagine the years it took to accumulate all of that. It's like having tons of free money just laying around your shop, because any time I have something that needs to be fixed, I scour the internet for days only to find that the component I'm looking for is obsolete, too rare to find, too expensive to bother fixing the fault, etc., etc... Since channels like yours have exploded in popularity, it has become incredibly expensive for those of us starting out in the electronic repair hobby/business. EBay sellers have taken notice of the massive influx of people buying broken electronics and have increased their prices exponentially! Not only that, it's almost impossible to find some broken projects to work on because so many people have bought all the broken stuff, repaired it at home, and then are re-selling the same used device for 5x the original amount when it left the factory. I've bought some old GameBoy's that said "inoperable, for parts only, etc", only to find out that they work just fine. That's how desperate the sellers are to get in on the electronic repair rush. It used to be that you paid for a working laptop, game system, stereo, etc., only to receive a used, beat up, inoperable one! Now the problem is just the opposite! Madness
This is so true. It's discouraging for the rest of us who are hobbyists or just trying to keep our own devices going. I imagine someday my asus gaming laptop will have a simular issue. Being armed with the skills and the knowledge is useless when all we can do is stare at the problem with no way to rectify it. We pray for the day but the only option will be to buy another motherboard and it will cost half of what the laptop did. If we are able to source the parts for our own affairs it will be down to luck of the draw for the parts to be available.
I learned my lesson with surface mounted chips like that a few days ago, you really do want to press down and use plenty of flux, I got immediate results with that. Without pressing much it actually started to short out. Pressing a lot more gave me the perfect result
Better late than never, just witnessed the asus repair, very impressed with your technique. Takes time and experience to really know what you are doing. Wish I could be a student of yours, unfortunately I live in New York.
Nothing beats great trained eyes to get the job done quickly. “I see corrosion, I fix corrosion” works most of the time if the person has the experience to read the damage.
Good eye on catching that crack in the chip. I’ve seen my fair share blown\cracked chips, but I’ve never seen a crack so straight and level. I probably would have said manufacturing defect in the chip and skipped over it.
A question from William C. You used the soldering station with a bent tip to clean the rest solder around a chip. Appreciate it if you told us the details about the type station and solder tip. And the temperature setting. thanks
I know this was a fix, but it looked like there was also a dead diode at 2:03 that may have allowed a surge to back feed and kill the chip that you replaced? I'm not sure but it looked like that diode had a crater
i hope in the future you hire people to work with you, and you can make video about repair that your employee can't fix... i watched you so far not to learn how to be a technician but i just like watching you and i like also your motivational story video like how you start business and story you work in dealership..... i think hire people will be good investment for your bussiness and you can also have a lot time with your family....
Well done indeed. I suspect some folks who are fretting about not pressing down on chips while soldering are confusing this type of chip with a BGA. Keep up the great work 😀👍
Yes I see some IT professionals get very involved in using Circuit Diagram and trying to diagnose the fault using superior skill and technology. Unfortunately it takes longer to use that technique. As you say "Efficiency is more important". Time is Money. I have watched a 3 hour video to fix a laptop, and the Technician is charging $60. Impossible to make a living like that.
When i open your videos to watch i like the video before watching it cus i know its gonna be good video :) thank you for the good content and hope the best for you, good bless you hussein.
Amazing fix, incredible video. Big thank you for bigboss and you too. It is amazing how bigboss manage the amount of the screws on his bench...it is like you said much much practice. Thanks for the video, greets
Veery very practical, indeed, amazingly practical. Thanks for making these videos. 🤗 I have one of these laptops lying around, with the same problem (not powering up). I may take a look at it, even if it takes a few hours for me just to dissassemble and locate the fault. Guess I'll be testing MOSFETs for a while; not an expert in those matters. By the way, what kind of flux is that? I just have homemade rosin flux (alcohol + rosin), and I honestly don't know if I can use it in such a straightforward way: bunch of solder plus bunch of flux and heat, press down over the component and… no shorts! Crazy. 👍 Thanks again.
Can I just say something? I've been watching you for a good while now, because you're a huge help with my hobbyist engineering stuff. BUT, you might just be the manliest man I've ever met. Like if I think of masculine and manly, I don't think of Chad McChadderGym down the street, I think of you.
I'm beginning to think, that asus has a weakness within that voltage regulator circuit. How many times have we seen that similar looking ic and layout of that block?
this scares me as i am a asus rog fanboi and i have the exact G531GW and another rog scar first generation GL503VS, and i am using the G531GW to watch this video lmao
wow man, i am struggling so much to solder those qfn 20 or 24 chips, it drives me insane, could you talk more about your hot air station´s air spped and temperature , on some next video, thanks for the ride
probably 11 months too late but this chip could be the Richtek RT8248A most pins i can identify and the product code "5E" matches up. its a PWM controller for RAM
Great summary and refresher VIDEO covering multiple aspects of the business of repair. Nice! Please talk about temperatures for different chips. I have warped Panasonic Video IC's on Playstations with excessive heat. I now use around 380 for most work. You? thank you.
Hello Alex, how's your weekday? I was expect for your next video doing those job that I'm motivated to learn from you doing your good job.. it's been while. You must be busy? I bet.. lol alright I'm going watch other TH-camr electric repairman that who work as like your . :)
have you got an Acer laptop that power doesn't turn on until you keep pressing down spacebar key? I'd like to see how you fix it , Great Channel Congratulations 👏👏🎉🎉
Hey alex, i wanted to ask you about on how do You actually read ‘voltage drops’. Like what exactly does the the value in Diode-Mode on the multimeter tells you? Like is there any specific value to look for and such? Thanks !
hello friend, apparently you are the only one I have seen doing amazing work with asus motherboards, I have a problem with my asus laptop zephyrus g14, it does not turn on and the BQ24780S chip heats up, I want to know if you can repair it and how to send it to you .. greetings From puerto rico
Saft question but does anybody know what the meter is to the right of the fluke meter he uses all the while I am talking about the yellow one with all buttons no dial .thanks
You know, I have a lot of respect for Big Boss. Knowing how to disassemble and reassemble so many different devices is amazing. Especially Apple products with all the tiny screws and brackets and latches....drives me crazy!
I agree! That's the reason for suggesting to have a camera for Big Boss.
Maybe he doesn't want to be filmed, I wouldn't want to, especially removing laptop screen bezels, swearing doesn't make good vids 🤬😆
He's an absolute star.
Yeah I've always had respect for the work he does, it's so tedious to me. I always forget something when reassembling. His brain must be like a library full of exploded diagrams.
its hard to disassemble or assemble for a chap like me almost half his age
It's crazy how you have 682 donor boards for everything that comes through your shop! I can't imagine the years it took to accumulate all of that. It's like having tons of free money just laying around your shop, because any time I have something that needs to be fixed, I scour the internet for days only to find that the component I'm looking for is obsolete, too rare to find, too expensive to bother fixing the fault, etc., etc...
Since channels like yours have exploded in popularity, it has become incredibly expensive for those of us starting out in the electronic repair hobby/business. EBay sellers have taken notice of the massive influx of people buying broken electronics and have increased their prices exponentially! Not only that, it's almost impossible to find some broken projects to work on because so many people have bought all the broken stuff, repaired it at home, and then are re-selling the same used device for 5x the original amount when it left the factory.
I've bought some old GameBoy's that said "inoperable, for parts only, etc", only to find out that they work just fine. That's how desperate the sellers are to get in on the electronic repair rush. It used to be that you paid for a working laptop, game system, stereo, etc., only to receive a used, beat up, inoperable one! Now the problem is just the opposite! Madness
This is so true. It's discouraging for the rest of us who are hobbyists or just trying to keep our own devices going. I imagine someday my asus gaming laptop will have a simular issue. Being armed with the skills and the knowledge is useless when all we can do is stare at the problem with no way to rectify it. We pray for the day but the only option will be to buy another motherboard and it will cost half of what the laptop did. If we are able to source the parts for our own affairs it will be down to luck of the draw for the parts to be available.
They are both RT8248A chips. The 5E is the only real number. Anything after the "=" is just lot code
Excellent information! Thank You! Fred
Appreciated info. Thanks a lot.
Fantastic lesson on practicality/pragmatism! A great reminder for all of us.
Asus- King of laptop repairs
I learned my lesson with surface mounted chips like that a few days ago, you really do want to press down and use plenty of flux, I got immediate results with that. Without pressing much it actually started to short out. Pressing a lot more gave me the perfect result
Better late than never, just witnessed the asus repair, very impressed with your technique. Takes time and experience to really know what you are doing. Wish I could be a student of yours, unfortunately I live in New York.
It's helpful for beginners to ask these questions and you to answer them. We were all ignorant of these things at a time.
That B roll in the ending was something new. Nice fix!
Nothing beats great trained eyes to get the job done quickly. “I see corrosion, I fix corrosion” works most of the time if the person has the experience to read the damage.
Big Boss is the man... Special Salaam to him and all off you course.
I would just like to take a minute to praise big boss on his excellent sitting posture. Hopefully the man is backpain free 🙌
Good eye on catching that crack in the chip. I’ve seen my fair share blown\cracked chips, but I’ve never seen a crack so straight and level. I probably would have said manufacturing defect in the chip and skipped over it.
Makes me realise that I need to get a decent magnifier if I get into that line of work.
A question from William C. You used the soldering station with a bent tip to clean the rest solder around a chip.
Appreciate it if you told us the details about the type station and solder tip. And the temperature setting.
thanks
Thank you Alex and Big Boss for all your hard work. Learning a lot through your videos.
I know nothing about repairing electronic devices, but damn! I’m so addicted to your videos 😆
The way you explains a problem...I admire that😍
I know this was a fix, but it looked like there was also a dead diode at 2:03 that may have allowed a surge to back feed and kill the chip that you replaced? I'm not sure but it looked like that diode had a crater
yepp.. you are not the one.. it seems in a second
Love you man cheers from lebanon
Great fix Alex !! Totally understand your logic !!!
Patience and hard work behind you made this easy task. Keep up the good work. Lots of love from India
as always alex great video and fix ... its nice when big boss gets a bit of the limelight and i know you give him the respect he deserves .....
You impress me by the amount of work you do as well as your skills. Don't you ever rest?
You are both tactical and practical and therefore efficient! I think you meant that your not theoretical, but that I can't say anything about.
7:21 يلا يلا or yalla yalla ... nice egyptian word..
i hope in the future you hire people to work with you, and you can make video about repair that your employee can't fix... i watched you so far not to learn how to be a technician but i just like watching you and i like also your motivational story video like how you start business and story you work in dealership..... i think hire people will be good investment for your bussiness and you can also have a lot time with your family....
Bigboss is the man. Boss of all the bosses. :)
Please don't forget to make the video about getting rid of the glare. Thanks.
Well done indeed. I suspect some folks who are fretting about not pressing down on chips while soldering are confusing this type of chip with a BGA. Keep up the great work 😀👍
Yes I see some IT professionals get very involved in using Circuit Diagram and trying to diagnose the fault using superior skill and technology. Unfortunately it takes longer to use that technique. As you say "Efficiency is more important". Time is Money. I have watched a 3 hour video to fix a laptop, and the Technician is charging $60. Impossible to make a living like that.
When i open your videos to watch i like the video before watching it cus i know its gonna be good video :) thank you for the good content and hope the best for you, good bless you hussein.
Amazing fix, incredible video. Big thank you for bigboss and you too. It is amazing how bigboss manage the amount of the screws on his bench...it is like you said much much practice. Thanks for the video, greets
Yes, you can't always be thorough if you want to maximize profit and efficiency. I agree 💯
It’s very good to work with big boss 👍👍👍
Heyy .. why you dont buy big boss electric screwdriver ?? حته متتعب ايده 👍🖤🖤
Very nice 👍 thank you for sharing this with us
Ehab from Egypt
Time is money! Very good
Big boss is so humble+++
Veery very practical, indeed, amazingly practical. Thanks for making these videos. 🤗
I have one of these laptops lying around, with the same problem (not powering up). I may take a look at it, even if it takes a few hours for me just to dissassemble and locate the fault. Guess I'll be testing MOSFETs for a while; not an expert in those matters.
By the way, what kind of flux is that? I just have homemade rosin flux (alcohol + rosin), and I honestly don't know if I can use it in such a straightforward way: bunch of solder plus bunch of flux and heat, press down over the component and… no shorts! Crazy. 👍 Thanks again.
No more part 2 for previous videos about asus?
Based on the markings, it seems to be a chip from Richtek. Usually the 2 first caracters refer to the chip the last four the production date and batch
Shukran sidi for your informative videos.
Your videos are a good measurement for a good robust laptop. And seems Asus is the worst one
تحياتي لكم وللعزيز
Big Boss
Thank you Alex, Big boss!
Nice work Alex.
Can I just say something? I've been watching you for a good while now, because you're a huge help with my hobbyist engineering stuff. BUT, you might just be the manliest man I've ever met. Like if I think of masculine and manly, I don't think of Chad McChadderGym down the street, I think of you.
This video was great Hussain. Loved it
I'm beginning to think, that asus has a weakness within that voltage regulator circuit. How many times have we seen that similar looking ic and layout of that block?
this scares me as i am a asus rog fanboi and i have the exact G531GW and another rog scar first generation GL503VS, and i am using the G531GW to watch this video lmao
Thanks to you I fixed myself my laptop. Thanks
What about last video, looks very similar to this board
sir i m from india i always watchng you video
you make a vdeo very clear toubershoot
good wor sirr
wow man, i am struggling so much to solder those qfn 20 or 24 chips, it drives me insane, could you talk more about your hot air station´s air spped and temperature , on some next video, thanks for the ride
Thanks for sharing, that was a good break for me at work
Great job as always and great method for fault finding
that LED array reflection
probably 11 months too late but this chip could be the Richtek RT8248A most pins i can identify and the product code "5E" matches up. its a PWM controller for RAM
Where is Alex ? Hope all is well with u and family
Great summary and refresher VIDEO covering multiple aspects of the business of repair. Nice! Please talk about temperatures for different chips. I have warped Panasonic Video IC's on Playstations with excessive heat. I now use around 380 for most work. You? thank you.
Excellent fix
Thank you alex for good video .
I saw you just added new solder but didn't remove the old. so question so it not always necessary to remove the old ?
High five for Big Boss!
I am learnign a lot from your videos , iam just curious to know where r u from as i saw you once talking arabic :D
@northridgefix could you explain in a video what you mean by voltage drop? I’m somewhat handy with a meter in my old days but I don’t know about this.
From the electrical charge highest value when probed then it starts to discharge/drop
Awesome😊👏 you taught me alot through all your video since 2019, syukran & thank you
Hello Alex, how's your weekday? I was expect for your next video doing those job that I'm motivated to learn from you doing your good job.. it's been while. You must be busy? I bet.. lol alright I'm going watch other TH-camr electric repairman that who work as like your . :)
Imagine being an Asus laptop that just failed and you hear the dreaded: "Here we have an Asus laptop that came in for no power"
Awesome job bro keep rocking bro 👍👍👍
have you got an Acer laptop that power doesn't turn on until you keep pressing down spacebar key? I'd like to see how you fix it , Great Channel Congratulations 👏👏🎉🎉
Always a pleasure watching you work, yet another Asus, a brand to avoid?
victory music at end of video 🤗
Hey alex, i wanted to ask you about on how do You actually read ‘voltage drops’.
Like what exactly does the the value in Diode-Mode on the multimeter tells you?
Like is there any specific value to look for and such?
Thanks !
الله يوفقك ويستر عليك
Big Boss is the boss of all bosses. 😎
U r a geniuse
Can we please see you make a Big Boss timelapse sequence? :)
The chips is RT8249
You know the laptop is fixed when you hear him chuckle 😂
Can anyone tell me what the capacity of the capacitor being replaced is please
hi, title is missing a number on model, and 5E = RT8248AGQW .Good job finding the crack (second part of marking is date code)
Good catch. Fixed
18:07 I spent 3 days trying to fix a microsoft problem, well done!! lol
Awesome job
Super work Sir!~
How is your graphics card cue now has it settled down
Are you egyptian??
احلي مسا يا هندسة
I have now realised where I am going wrong, I'm not pressing the component down enough when soldering.
Big Boss has the hardest job. Must take much longer to disassemble and reassemble the devices. 😉
hello friend, apparently you are the only one I have seen doing amazing work with asus motherboards, I have a problem with my asus laptop zephyrus g14, it does not turn on and the BQ24780S chip heats up, I want to know if you can repair it and how to send it to you .. greetings From puerto rico
3 people missed out on repairs with how long the chlorine analogy took.
It's like art, a dead thing comes alive.
Saft question but does anybody know what the meter is to the right of the fluke meter he uses all the while I am talking about the yellow one with all buttons no dial .thanks
LCR meter ebay.us/uusVrT
Thanks loving your videos watched everyone you restarted my 80s hobby of electronics now I am retired. Keep up the good work.
great 👍👍👍
Like usual any card escape from ur hand.👏
TronicsFix stole 'Better tha factory' T-Shirt idea 😫
معلم المعلمين
Hopefully, the EU is serious about requiring schematics, service manuals and parts availability.
Hello, can someone help me? I have exactly the same motherboard, but it does not turn on, no lights and the cable works
Awesome ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
WELL DONE
Sir which country your shop
California