Do you have tips on how to learn that ? I right now myself have a r9 280 and the card is working but doesn't give display and if it does after a few restarts, it will crach when it comes under heavy load like csgo or just playing fifa
@@mr.stealyourgirl1779 He didn't. This video is 11 months old. His comment is 10 months old. Do you think he went from not even knowing how to use a soldering iron to fixing 6 GPU's in one month? Not a chance. That's not even enough time to buy the 6 dead GPU's, fix them, sell them and purchase new parts, even if he already had the know-how
You need to shield those capacitors from the hot air tool, you're boiling the electrolyte when you hit them with the hot air directly. Not only will they be permanently damaged, you risk having them explode in your face. Regular aluminum foil from the store works as a shield, just tear off a big enough sheet and make it 4-6 layers thick to block the heat. Damaged capacitors can ruin your repair if you don't replace them. If they go high ESR, become electrically leaky or short out, they'll cause more damage that may be difficult or impossible to repair.
How do you measure ESR on such capacitors? They already have a super low ESR that looks like a short on a DMM. I guess you have to remove them, probably can't test them in circuit due to the nature of the synchronous DC to DC converter.
@@haz939 You need a capacitor tester, and optionally a leakage tester. DMMs can't reliably test capacitors. You can get capacitor testers on Ebay for $20. I use this one myself: www.ebay.com/itm/222520569499 You'll need an ESR chart to know what the numbers mean, it won't tell you that a capacitor is bad unless the capacitor is so bad that it doesn't register or shows up as a short. This tester won't show leakage, but you can infer leakage if the capacitance result is wildly out of spec. If you have for instance, a 1500uF cap and it tests at 4500uF, this is far outside the usual 20% tolerance and infers the capacitor is electrically leaky. If the charge that the tester puts into the cap keeps being drained away by parasitic resistance, it will confuse the meter into thinking the capacitor is a much higher value than it actually is. Leakage testers are also useful, but they aren't really made anymore. Your only option is to buy a 40-70 year old unit and restore it, or build your own. In either case you need to be cautious because these leakage testers can operate at high voltages, sometimes up to 2 kV.
Electrolytic capacitors usually don't like hot, but only when they are heating themself. When soldering them in (think about SMD reflow) the heat can be as high as 260 Celsius for a couple of ten seconds. You can check any datasheet about this. So hitting with the hot air for a short time is not so critical. They will explode under current only.
@@zsoltkohler7096 Ambient heat of a reflow oven is very different from concentrated heat of a hot air nozzle. I've seen plenty of people hot air tool capacitors until they popped the vent (radial electrolytics) or exploded (SMD electrolytics).
It's VERY hard to show how to use years of experience in a short time. Go check out louis rossmanns videos. They are very good. He also tells the gist of it: Many failures have to do with the power delivery. They can be fixed. But on GPUs it's not rare at all to see a dead GPU chip. This will not be permanently fixed by heating those chips. Replacing them requires very special equipment. So if GPUs have a black screen it's a good sign. Artifacting cards most likely have issues with the package it self and therefore are not worth fixing. You can try to bake them to extract a few extra months of usage.
I love this kind of videos how one man's trash is another man's treasure. I bought a MSI GTX 1070 ti on ebay still waiting for it in the mail. Pretty much self learning about things right now I also fix broken broken glass ipad air 2 and it's such a good feeling fixing things you just gotta practice at being good about it. You will never break something if you know how to fix it, unless is broken down to a point of no return. I also fix some jbl speakers I do love those speakers 😁
Finally found a channel that can actually fix faulty gpus 😃 but why so few subs? You should be on the top of the repair list! Thanks for the awesome vid 😁
WOW I've been watching your stuff for a while now. I work on robotic automation for my career. so everything you test makes complete sense to me. I bought a sapphire r9 390 with very similar pcb, and the exact same issue. when I was troubleshooting, and got 66 Ohms across to the drmos I instantly remembered this video. just shot here to confirm my suspicion as I normally work on robots not pcb's. Thank you! I will be making a patreon contribution!
I can't afford to be a patreon but Ill watch your videos so I can learn more and hang out :). If you put ads I don't mind. Edit: that was an awesome repair! Good job
You must be some sort of savant to repair so fine a piece with such a huge soldering tip. Like one wrong move and you could have screwed it all up but you moved fast and didn't miss once. Very impressive. You really need some proper equipment because you definitely have the skills.
I saw the thumbnail and thought to myself that this is going to be one of those "rehot cpu bro" type of videos, but was pleased to find an actually proper repair. Keep up the good work!
don't know where you are eli, but you are the boss. good work, and quickly figured out this one, it could have gone way further while failing, but now it will run someone for 3 or 4 years.
Just a few days ago I bought by mistake, an XFX R9 290X 4Gb paid 55$ shipped, on ebay, and today comes a video of Eli on the subject! I will take a cue and try to fix it, hoping everything goes well. As for Patreon, it's a nice idea. I wanted to make a donation but I did not know how. You will surely improve the already excellent quality of your videos, and yes, you absolutely need a tripod for that camera! Ciao!
Can you maybe try if it works to solder a DVI port and flash the BIOS of a NVIDIA P106-100 Mining card? This would be a great find if those cards could be repurposed as an actual Graphics card including Display out. From what I've heard, nvflash locks those cards, but you have soldering equipment and a chip flasher. Those cards can be bought for around 70$. If the mod works, you could transform them into a full GTX 1060 6GB
@@paublusamericanus292 I don't know if modern GPUs still use dedicated mux chips. At least AMD have them integrated onto the GPU as far as I know. Not sure about nvidia though. But probably there are a lot of passives missing like resistors and capacitors.
YO ? how is TH-cam not paying you for these videos. So informative, very well produced and edited ? i dont understand how yt not paying you for videos can we get some explanations why?
Hi Eli, recently I've discovered your TH-cam Channel and watched all of your videos. First of all I've to say that you're pretty talented and got a lot of knowledge. But I still don't understand wherefrom do you know where you have to read the voltages. For example from 3:42 to 5:10. How do you know which pins you have to read with your multimeter? Thanks in advance, happy new year and good luck for the future. Moritz
HI and thank you again. Good to see you witha patreon page. I would ask for videos on following: 1. identify common voltage rails on a video card and the components you should be looking for where you can test for these voltages. I have a 1080ti card i have been working on for all year on and still have not been able to work out what is wrong with it. This may help. Thanks again. Alex...ps: SYKAAA
ye I buying GPU regularly on ebay before and buying broken gpu I make nice money over year but as I move out of UK I can do this anymore but is always definitely good idea nice to see your channel improve I wish you have this gpu repair videos about year ago as will defo help me now is for me just for get some information good job as always my friend
I had a few broken graphics cards off Ebay. Only managed to fix 2 of them. The last one Palit 1050 ti had a blown mosfet in the VCore selection of the VRM and I lose resistor for the 12v sense line that prevented the card from powering up, just drawing around 30ma for the linear regulators. Fix those 2 issues but the card had no display, fans spin and all the voltages and current draw seem normal. Even tried to reflash the BIOS, still had no effect. After all that I managed to short the GPU!! Still good experience I guess. The card wasn't exactly cheap paid more than I should have. The previous owner / seller had already tried to resolder the mosfets as they were not even sitting straight. The warranty sticker on the screw was broken as well. I wouldn't recommend buying a card that someone has already messed with. didn't heated up the GPU in an attempt to reflow the the BGA balls, but that just getting desperate in my opinion. The card probably way too new to have issue like that.
You are very talented. I wouldn't know what to check where with multimeter to begin with not to say about soldering smp components, your gear is elite too. Good work!
You're my hero! I'm having some trouble with my card... it works but .. I feel something is failing. If you were in my country definitively I would send my failing electronics for repair :-D.
I have a ZOTAC GTX 970 AMP Extreme Core Edition (long name I know) that sometimes works well with heavy rendering and modern games, but sometimes it randomly crashes while rendering, gaming, idle or even booting.Tried it on different computers but there's no difference. The crashes are very random like: full screen random single-colour, black screen whether before boot or after boot and sometimes the fans go full blast at boot with no display not detected with 6 beeps from the Motherboard. These can happen at anytime. I took the card to a technician but he was unable to point out a faulty component. I've been randomly watching repair videos and the card seems OK. One big thing to note is that I removed 3 shorted Mosfets (with no shorts on the main 12v rails) but turns out the Mosfets were not faulty, I put them back the shorts were gone. Later on the shorts on the Mosfets are random so are the crash symptoms still random again. The Mosfet models are five of MDU1513 and ten of MDU1511 the PWM controller is NCP81174. I'm suspecting a contact between the layers of the PCB. It's driving me crazy man. What are your thoughts?
Hello, if you could make a video of everything that needs to be checked and how to do it in detail, it would be a great contribution to the community that follows you. And you would also help those of us who have graphic paperweight cards. Thanks
Thank you for your videos as a new subscriber I'm learning alot. I have a rx390 that might need a demos chip but the IR3553M are little dorrent code . But would they still work ?
Great work, i dont know anybody who is skilled and able to repair like you. I think you can earn money teachin interessted people in your area. Soldering for beginners, soldering for advanced, electronic repairs etc.. I would come if i live in your area, but i dont - so hoping for more videos. Subscribe is set.
wow bro youre so skilled from where did you learn all this things, ofc practice makes better but ..wow youre like an engineer from SILICON VALEY:D big up
@@clevername8832 what are you talking about? What shit did he chat, he paid the uploader a compliment...i dont get it. I think you just made yourself an easy comeback target. Not so sharp are you!
@@TechTalkTobi "not so clever brain" , not sure about clever name. Bit tough for him to actually think of one, so just wrote what he wished he could think of. Yeah your English isn't perfect but its clear enough to understand what you meant with your comment (quite funny actually). Clever name's brain obviously doesn't have the power to comprehend some simple things. He made himself "an easy comback target", the fool.
@@clevername8832lol.... Whatever.... Too late to try redeem yourself now..... and what was your original comment doing? You really are as thick as 2 planks ain't ya.... Go revise some life skills... Read a few books, then you may get to grips with this 'communicating with others' business.
Hi great videos. I was wondering where do you get the knowledge to reapiar the gpus. I have some basic knowing about electronics and i have a couple of gpus that i will like to repair just for fun and get some practice, well my point is how do you know wich part is wich and how to mesure them. thanks for reading this and for your videos hope you grow up ;)
Lovin' it Eli. Your smashing it but how much time do you have to improve your production value? Your vids make me want to watch until the end and that's essential. Paterson to get help with better equipment and just watch other bigger channels and copy their production techniques. Good Luck.
I have purchased several broken boards on ebay to try to learn electronics and how to fix these boards. Could you tell me how to find out what the chips behind the GPU are and how to find out the value to purchase replacements. I have several of a couple of brands boards and some of the black chips have no information on them or the board. I have taken it that these are inductors. If not, what are they if you can tell me. I put them on a transistor tester and they read 1139 ohms and at one point one of them read 43.25H. I have no idea about these numbers as they are 0603 parts. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks and stay well.
Awesome vid, will a different chipset work for a gpu? I was thinking of buying a broken GeForce rtx 2080 ti and swapping the gpu with another cheaper card.. will th is work
first of all, what are the chances that the chip is the only thing that fried on a broken 2080ti, my guess is you'd have a short due to something before the chip would actually die.
Indeed you explain the way of repairing video cards properly but dude.. the camera is angled way too shitty. At some points we (your audience) cannot even see where you are pointing to the GPU.
HI, could you tell me what was the temperature (ºC) that you used to solde / desolde the components with your hot gun? and what is your hot gun model? thank you and pardon my bad English. Saludos desde España.
Hello , I just found your channel because I was searching for Video Card repairs. I have a GTX970 G1 Gaming that isn't even allowing the PC to power on. I decided that i wanna learn how to fix stuff like Video Cards, Motherboards, Smartphones and I also know this is hard to achieve, I know that there's a lot of studying and searching to start understanding the basics. But you kinda served me as an inpiration. So how did u start repairing things? Any eletronic repair trainning? Any advice of where to begin? Btw I already work on Fixing Kyocera Printers but I need to make some extra cash and I think repairing things like cellphones, laptops.... could be a nice way. Congrats for the nice videos :)
U hear this constantly I have a gtx 980 ti am familiar with electronics not much with surface soldered boards but enough to know flood soldering is a tedious process.. card gets power fan stays on high with a black screen ...mosfets or ? There is no short in pcie plug
I'm a little confused, how did you figure out it was that capacitor and memory controller? how did you know what parts to replace them with? Great video btw!
Your videos are really good, it would also be nice if you could make some video friendly lessons of how to diagnose bad parts, how to repair those parts, or just give some tips on where to starts on this comment lool
I just found ur channel and i have watched couple of videos. I have a question that prbly u heard like milion times, but: how did you learn that stuff? I know that 75% of this came from experience and you are not able to safe all of that broken hardware, but where did you start to learn it? Very nice vid mannnn.
chuzzzta: my guess on his electronics knowledge. 1. He is Russian. 2. In Russia they are not a throw away society. 3. Russian's are really good with electronics, and like to play war games. 4. If your card breaks in Russia, local electronics technicians were trained in electronics for the military, which means a local guy good in electronics trained Eli how to be a tech, and showed Eli what the rails on video cards are, what voltages they are supposed to be, and when one shows up like this, the first thing Eli does, is 1. Checks the pcie rail voltage. The gpu, and memory voltage rail which is a much lower voltage. 2. He checks the 12v rail. 3. he checks the 3.3 & 5v rail, and if any are not shorted to ground, then the caps are ok. 4. He checks the fuses for the main 12v rail, and the gpu fuse. Somewhere one of the rails will be shorted or open. Then he can put a power supply on that rail, with exactly the voltage it is supposed to be, and sees if a part gets hot. Just logic.
If its an Evga card under warranty then it can be worth it. I bought what was supposed to be a working Evga GTX 1070 FTW for 200US on ebay, the card was DOA, i claimed warranty with Evga and now I have a brand new card. It was worth it, seeing as I paid $200 for a new GTX 1070 FTW. I think the card died due to stress as it was covered with a silicone grease and one of the small pieces looks like it exploded.
Hi one question, I made a mistake and bought one of those cards from a chinese site.The cars is XFX RX570 4GB dual fan. The card works in games perfectly with no artifacts but has the following problem: When in idle status or when browsing a web page,the gpu disconnects (you hear the disconnect sound) monitor turns black and instantly reconnects and keeps doing it many times! I have tried to 1)change PSU 2)try different port (hdmi,dvi) 3)try different pci-x port 4)flash bios 5)tried many different drivers 6)changed the time limit gpu has to give response Nothing works.The strange thing is this problem happens not the day you connect but the following day! Can this problem be repaired? I repeat ths card doesnt have problems ingame
Also, Ebay is full of scammers. Some people lie that you sent the component broken or with parts missing, and they ask for refund. They're also taking parts of the component and sell them separately. I wouldn't advise you to do business on Ebay.
Hi Eli, I had a question. I have a vega frontier edition. i took off the stock cooler to triedto water cool it, but i think the thermal paste i used was slightly conductive. I turned it on and it wouldn't show any thing on screen and the whole computer would turn off. I took every thing off cleaned the die and put the stock cooler on. with both 8 pin power connectors plugged in it showed nothing on the screen, but if i plug in one power connector it works, i can alternate this. So as long as one connecter is plugged in it worked. but not after some more testing nothing seems to work. any ideas on how i can repair this? Thanks
this video inspired me to learn how to solder.
i then fixed 6 dead graphics cards, sold them and bought new pc parts.
thanks for the inspiration.
Do you have tips on how to learn that ? I right now myself have a r9 280 and the card is working but doesn't give display and if it does after a few restarts, it will crach when it comes under heavy load like csgo or just playing fifa
How did you fix those gpus?
@@mr.stealyourgirl1779 He didn't. This video is 11 months old. His comment is 10 months old. Do you think he went from not even knowing how to use a soldering iron to fixing 6 GPU's in one month? Not a chance. That's not even enough time to buy the 6 dead GPU's, fix them, sell them and purchase new parts, even if he already had the know-how
@@-dazz- thank god we dont have brilliant people like you working for the FBI
@@-dazz- could be possible. I fix electronics for a living. Mostly phones and PCs, just trying to see if graphics cards are worth it.
You need to shield those capacitors from the hot air tool, you're boiling the electrolyte when you hit them with the hot air directly. Not only will they be permanently damaged, you risk having them explode in your face.
Regular aluminum foil from the store works as a shield, just tear off a big enough sheet and make it 4-6 layers thick to block the heat.
Damaged capacitors can ruin your repair if you don't replace them. If they go high ESR, become electrically leaky or short out, they'll cause more damage that may be difficult or impossible to repair.
How do you measure ESR on such capacitors? They already have a super low ESR that looks like a short on a DMM. I guess you have to remove them, probably can't test them in circuit due to the nature of the synchronous DC to DC converter.
@@haz939 You need a capacitor tester, and optionally a leakage tester. DMMs can't reliably test capacitors.
You can get capacitor testers on Ebay for $20. I use this one myself:
www.ebay.com/itm/222520569499
You'll need an ESR chart to know what the numbers mean, it won't tell you that a capacitor is bad unless the capacitor is so bad that it doesn't register or shows up as a short. This tester won't show leakage, but you can infer leakage if the capacitance result is wildly out of spec. If you have for instance, a 1500uF cap and it tests at 4500uF, this is far outside the usual 20% tolerance and infers the capacitor is electrically leaky. If the charge that the tester puts into the cap keeps being drained away by parasitic resistance, it will confuse the meter into thinking the capacitor is a much higher value than it actually is.
Leakage testers are also useful, but they aren't really made anymore. Your only option is to buy a 40-70 year old unit and restore it, or build your own. In either case you need to be cautious because these leakage testers can operate at high voltages, sometimes up to 2 kV.
Electrolytic capacitors usually don't like hot, but only when they are heating themself. When soldering them in (think about SMD reflow) the heat can be as high as 260 Celsius for a couple of ten seconds. You can check any datasheet about this. So hitting with the hot air for a short time is not so critical. They will explode under current only.
@@zsoltkohler7096 Ambient heat of a reflow oven is very different from concentrated heat of a hot air nozzle.
I've seen plenty of people hot air tool capacitors until they popped the vent (radial electrolytics) or exploded (SMD electrolytics).
I've had the aluminum foil trick backfire on me since it insulated the heat, I probably didn't have small enough tip on heat gun though.
Can you make a full guide on how you repair a gpu? tools needed, finding shorts, etc....
How do you send power to graphics card to find hot chips???
Would definitely donate if you did!
Yeah! That'd be great actually.
multimeter and that's all. and knowledge about how to use it
It's VERY hard to show how to use years of experience in a short time.
Go check out louis rossmanns videos. They are very good. He also tells the gist of it: Many failures have to do with the power delivery. They can be fixed. But on GPUs it's not rare at all to see a dead GPU chip. This will not be permanently fixed by heating those chips. Replacing them requires very special equipment.
So if GPUs have a black screen it's a good sign. Artifacting cards most likely have issues with the package it self and therefore are not worth fixing. You can try to bake them to extract a few extra months of usage.
I love this kind of videos how one man's trash is another man's treasure. I bought a MSI GTX 1070 ti on ebay still waiting for it in the mail. Pretty much self learning about things right now I also fix broken broken glass ipad air 2 and it's such a good feeling fixing things you just gotta practice at being good about it. You will never break something if you know how to fix it, unless is broken down to a point of no return. I also fix some jbl speakers I do love those speakers 😁
how are your repairs going?
Finally found a channel that can actually fix faulty gpus 😃 but why so few subs? You should be on the top of the repair list! Thanks for the awesome vid 😁
Plenty people do it just the people who make the components don't want you to fix them when they have newer better stuff coming up.
rip ears ..
What do you mean...? The audio level is perfectly- *AHHH! WTF!* >_
WOW I've been watching your stuff for a while now. I work on robotic automation for my career. so everything you test makes complete sense to me. I bought a sapphire r9 390 with very similar pcb, and the exact same issue. when I was troubleshooting, and got 66 Ohms across to the drmos I instantly remembered this video. just shot here to confirm my suspicion as I normally work on robots not pcb's. Thank you! I will be making a patreon contribution!
I can't afford to be a patreon but Ill watch your videos so I can learn more and hang out :). If you put ads I don't mind. Edit: that was an awesome repair! Good job
This is so cool, I wish I had the knowledge to be able to repair stuff like this. :)
Your English is spot on. I understand everything you say, thank you for the great work.
Bro how is TH-cam not paying you for these videos. So informative, very well produced and edited. Love the music.
same question ? i dont understand how yt not paying him for videos can we get some explanations why?
I see you haven't been to the Louis school of flux usage.
lets aaad a little bit of flux!!!
@@stonefx83 Ye, first time watching, I was like damn, this man likes his flux..
just the right amount of flux..as said by rossman
A micro-Paul of flux
3:06 Thanks for the earrape
if he knew anything about editing, he would have saw that spike in audio
Dayum... this guy could bring anything back to life.
You must be some sort of savant to repair so fine a piece with such a huge soldering tip. Like one wrong move and you could have screwed it all up but you moved fast and didn't miss once. Very impressive. You really need some proper equipment because you definitely have the skills.
you can use flux on the solder points so it would be easier just like what he probably did based on the color
I saw the thumbnail and thought to myself that this is going to be one of those "rehot cpu bro" type of videos, but was pleased to find an actually proper repair. Keep up the good work!
don't know where you are eli, but you are the boss. good work, and quickly figured out this one, it could have gone way further while failing, but now it will run someone for 3 or 4 years.
This video inspired me not to buy defective cards, spares and repairs and in bad condition! Thanks!
Just a few days ago I bought by mistake, an XFX R9 290X 4Gb paid 55$ shipped, on ebay, and today comes a video of Eli on the subject!
I will take a cue and try to fix it, hoping everything goes well.
As for Patreon, it's a nice idea. I wanted to make a donation but I did not know how.
You will surely improve the already excellent quality of your videos, and yes, you absolutely need a tripod for that camera! Ciao!
Can you maybe try if it works to solder a DVI port and flash the BIOS of a NVIDIA P106-100 Mining card?
This would be a great find if those cards could be repurposed as an actual Graphics card including Display out.
From what I've heard, nvflash locks those cards, but you have soldering equipment and a chip flasher.
Those cards can be bought for around 70$. If the mod works, you could transform them into a full GTX 1060 6GB
wow man: it takes more than a bios flash to turn a crypto miner into a graphics card. Even welding on an hdmi would need a mux chip.
@@paublusamericanus292 I don't know if modern GPUs still use dedicated mux chips. At least AMD have them integrated onto the GPU as far as I know. Not sure about nvidia though.
But probably there are a lot of passives missing like resistors and capacitors.
Mate I didn't know we were going to the club at the end of this Haha ; )
Cool video man. Keep posting and improve your audio.
YO ? how is TH-cam not paying you for these videos. So informative, very well produced and edited ? i dont understand how yt not paying you for videos can we get some explanations why?
Wow .Fabulosa the combination of light, músic and electrónic solder
Hi Eli,
recently I've discovered your TH-cam Channel and watched all of your videos. First of all I've to say that you're pretty talented and got a lot of knowledge. But I still don't understand wherefrom do you know where you have to read the voltages. For example from 3:42 to 5:10. How do you know which pins you have to read with your multimeter? Thanks in advance, happy new year and good luck for the future.
Moritz
eli: with that memory chip up top row looking so ragged I was sure it wouldn't fire up. good job eli. way to go.
thanks! I learned something today. Thank you for sharing your expertise.
wow this is very cool! you just replace 2 tiny components and the gpu works again! :0
borefittyfie: the trick, or the huge knowledge is knowing what and why. that you do with your knowledge and he is brainy.
HI and thank you again. Good to see you witha patreon page. I would ask for videos on following: 1. identify common voltage rails on a video card and the components you should be looking for where you can test for these voltages. I have a 1080ti card i have been working on for all year on and still have not been able to work out what is wrong with it. This may help. Thanks again. Alex...ps: SYKAAA
Song used in video is: Siro - Xinspiratio ;) ;)
finally found real tech who explain well with actual result :)
You are good on this. Keep going don't stop.
Please do a Mail-In Repair Business... your Skills are really outstanding.
ye I buying GPU regularly on ebay before and buying broken gpu I make nice money over year but as I move out of UK I can do this anymore but is always definitely good idea nice to see your channel improve I wish you have this gpu repair videos about year ago as will defo help me now is for me just for get some information good job as always my friend
I had a few broken graphics cards off Ebay. Only managed to fix 2 of them. The last one Palit 1050 ti had a blown mosfet in the VCore selection of the VRM and I lose resistor for the 12v sense line that prevented the card from powering up, just drawing around 30ma for the linear regulators. Fix those 2 issues but the card had no display, fans spin and all the voltages and current draw seem normal. Even tried to reflash the BIOS, still had no effect. After all that I managed to short the GPU!! Still good experience I guess. The card wasn't exactly cheap paid more than I should have. The previous owner / seller had already tried to resolder the mosfets as they were not even sitting straight. The warranty sticker on the screw was broken as well. I wouldn't recommend buying a card that someone has already messed with. didn't heated up the GPU in an attempt to reflow the the BGA balls, but that just getting desperate in my opinion. The card probably way too new to have issue like that.
You are very talented. I wouldn't know what to check where with multimeter to begin with not to say about soldering smp components, your gear is elite too. Good work!
Love the vids man, keep it up. I hope you get to 100k subs soon.
You're my hero!
I'm having some trouble with my card... it works but .. I feel something is failing. If you were in my country definitively I would send my failing electronics for repair :-D.
Impressive..... this guy deserve way more subs that he have allready...
Respekt, well done 👍🏻👍🏻
Subscriped you ✌🏻
I have a ZOTAC GTX 970 AMP Extreme Core Edition (long name I know) that sometimes works well with heavy rendering and modern games, but sometimes it randomly crashes while rendering, gaming, idle or even booting.Tried it on different computers but there's no difference.
The crashes are very random like: full screen random single-colour, black screen whether before boot or after boot and sometimes the fans go full blast at boot with no display not detected with 6 beeps from the Motherboard. These can happen at anytime.
I took the card to a technician but he was unable to point out a faulty component. I've been randomly watching repair videos and the card seems OK. One big thing to note is that I removed 3 shorted Mosfets (with no shorts on the main 12v rails) but turns out the Mosfets were not faulty, I put them back the shorts were gone. Later on the shorts on the Mosfets are random so are the crash symptoms still random again. The Mosfet models are five of MDU1513 and ten of MDU1511 the PWM controller is NCP81174.
I'm suspecting a contact between the layers of the PCB. It's driving me crazy man.
What are your thoughts?
great music! I know this is an old video but dang. Good music.
I love your camera quality and lighting! keep it up with the music too!
Very interesting, Just curious as to the name of the stress test you used at the end of the video?
I like the work you do very interesting. Keep up the good work and if I ever have a broken graphics card I will be sending you a quick message lol
Wow you are brave. De-soldering near electrolytic capacitors with not covering them :)
This guy is a genius! Love u♥
Hello, if you could make a video of everything that needs to be checked and how to do it in detail, it would be a great contribution to the community that follows you. And you would also help those of us who have graphic paperweight cards. Thanks
Thank you for your videos as a new subscriber I'm learning alot. I have a rx390 that might need a demos chip but the IR3553M are little dorrent code . But would they still work ?
Great work, i dont know anybody who is skilled and able to repair like you. I think you can earn money teachin interessted people in your area. Soldering for beginners, soldering for advanced, electronic repairs etc.. I would come if i live in your area, but i dont - so hoping for more videos. Subscribe is set.
"Suka já zaplatil sto" killed me :D
Man, I love your chanell. As I repair laptops/GPU/mobos myself, I really enjoy watching you. :D
wow bro youre so skilled from where did you learn all this things, ofc practice makes better but ..wow youre like an engineer from SILICON VALEY:D big up
Your channel is great
Thank you for the free tips
I wish I could have such diagnostic skill ......
this one "thumb down" is from the guy you bought this graphicscard .... xD
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@@clevername8832 i´m not sensitive .. but WHY you have to write ? ... for what ? .. you get it ..
@@clevername8832 what are you talking about? What shit did he chat, he paid the uploader a compliment...i dont get it.
I think you just made yourself an easy comeback target. Not so sharp are you!
@@TechTalkTobi "not so clever brain" , not sure about clever name. Bit tough for him to actually think of one, so just wrote what he wished he could think of.
Yeah your English isn't perfect but its clear enough to understand what you meant with your comment (quite funny actually). Clever name's brain obviously doesn't have the power to comprehend some simple things.
He made himself "an easy comback target", the fool.
@@clevername8832lol.... Whatever.... Too late to try redeem yourself now..... and what was your original comment doing? You really are as thick as 2 planks ain't ya.... Go revise some life skills... Read a few books, then you may get to grips with this 'communicating with others' business.
That is one nice camera holder you got buddy.
when i bought broken stuff on ebay i gotten lucky and it works
Luv ur vidz very theraputic, i'd like to diagnose and repair these for profit all year long...!
Really you have a great contents
I hope your channel become big in TH-cam good luck
Your channel can go super far bro. Just need better production quality. Good luck and I'm subscribed 👍
Wow mate! Mad skills! Super impressed!!
Nice work, man. Subscribed.
Hi great videos. I was wondering where do you get the knowledge to reapiar the gpus. I have some basic knowing about electronics and i have a couple of gpus that i will like to repair just for fun and get some practice, well my point is how do you know wich part is wich and how to mesure them. thanks for reading this and for your videos hope you grow up ;)
Hey bud can u please share your station temps ? I mean what u use for your heat gun and soldering iron. Love your repair vids
Lovin' it Eli. Your smashing it but how much time do you have to improve your production value? Your vids make me want to watch until the end and that's essential. Paterson to get help with better equipment and just watch other bigger channels and copy their production techniques. Good Luck.
he don't upload video anymore
leon deco why the fuck not?
Great video , you have me wanting to repair stuff now ;)
I have purchased several broken boards on ebay to try to learn electronics and how to fix these boards. Could you tell me how to find out what the chips behind the GPU are and how to find out the value to purchase replacements. I have several of a couple of brands boards and some of the black chips have no information on them or the board. I have taken it that these are inductors. If not, what are they if you can tell me. I put them on a transistor tester and they read 1139 ohms and at one point one of them read 43.25H. I have no idea about these numbers as they are 0603 parts. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks and stay well.
hi man congratulations you have 10k sub now you grow so fast why as you are best you are much better than me keep doing good job
Awesome vid, will a different chipset work for a gpu? I was thinking of buying a broken GeForce rtx 2080 ti and swapping the gpu with another cheaper card.. will th is work
first of all, what are the chances that the chip is the only thing that fried on a broken 2080ti, my guess is you'd have a short due to something before the chip would actually die.
dude.... superb work there. instead of recycling it, u got a very good card running! keep that bad boy running more games! its time has been spare XD
Just subscribed!!
How did you learn this stuff?
Self taught or school?
Keep up the videos, they are great!
Indeed you explain the way of repairing video cards properly but dude.. the camera is angled way too shitty. At some points we (your audience) cannot even see where you are pointing to the GPU.
Great job on fixing your graphics card.
HI, could you tell me what was the temperature (ºC) that you used to solde / desolde the components with your hot gun? and what is your hot gun model? thank you and pardon my bad English. Saludos desde España.
Hello , I just found your channel because I was searching for Video Card repairs. I have a GTX970 G1 Gaming that isn't even allowing the PC to power on. I decided that i wanna learn how to fix stuff like Video Cards, Motherboards, Smartphones and I also know this is hard to achieve, I know that there's a lot of studying and searching to start understanding the basics. But you kinda served me as an inpiration. So how did u start repairing things? Any eletronic repair trainning? Any advice of where to begin? Btw I already work on Fixing Kyocera Printers but I need to make some extra cash and I think repairing things like cellphones, laptops.... could be a nice way. Congrats for the nice videos :)
Nice work bro. Keep it up. ♥️
U hear this constantly I have a gtx 980 ti am familiar with electronics not much with surface soldered boards but enough to know flood soldering is a tedious process.. card gets power fan stays on high with a black screen ...mosfets or ? There is no short in pcie plug
What replacement resistor/fuse did you use? it looked like a straight 10A fuse.
Best channel on youtube!
That was just amazing man I loved it
you're freaking amazing man!
I'm a little confused, how did you figure out it was that capacitor and memory controller? how did you know what parts to replace them with? Great video btw!
I learned quite a lot from your videos. I will send some rubles your way once you set up your Patreon. удачи
Where do you buy your chips?
in a perfect world will be like this to fix them all.
What do you think about uploading fails too?
that's what makes a win
Eli i am your fan Numbers One .
best hard job in the word
Ali Tech, u r a Pro. Hands down. Which country u from brother?
Your videos are really good, it would also be nice if you could make some video friendly lessons of how to diagnose bad parts, how to repair those parts, or just give some tips on where to starts on this comment lool
Dude people praisin buildoizd over clock, you are for real. I thought he was great but for me build doizd is OK but you are great.
nice video thank you very informative
I just found ur channel and i have watched couple of videos. I have a question that prbly u heard like milion times, but: how did you learn that stuff? I know that 75% of this came from experience and you are not able to safe all of that broken hardware, but where did you start to learn it? Very nice vid mannnn.
chuzzzta: my guess on his electronics knowledge. 1. He is Russian. 2. In Russia they are not a throw away society. 3. Russian's are really good with electronics, and like to play war games. 4. If your card breaks in Russia, local electronics technicians were trained in electronics for the military, which means a local guy good in electronics trained Eli how to be a tech, and showed Eli what the rails on video cards are, what voltages they are supposed to be, and when one shows up like this, the first thing Eli does, is 1. Checks the pcie rail voltage. The gpu, and memory voltage rail which is a much lower voltage. 2. He checks the 12v rail. 3. he checks the 3.3 & 5v rail, and if any are not shorted to ground, then the caps are ok. 4. He checks the fuses for the main 12v rail, and the gpu fuse. Somewhere one of the rails will be shorted or open. Then he can put a power supply on that rail, with exactly the voltage it is supposed to be, and sees if a part gets hot. Just logic.
If its an Evga card under warranty then it can be worth it. I bought what was supposed to be a working Evga GTX 1070 FTW for 200US on ebay, the card was DOA, i claimed warranty with Evga and now I have a brand new card. It was worth it, seeing as I paid $200 for a new GTX 1070 FTW. I think the card died due to stress as it was covered with a silicone grease and one of the small pieces looks like it exploded.
Hi one question,
I made a mistake and bought one of those cards from a chinese site.The cars is XFX RX570 4GB dual fan.
The card works in games perfectly with no artifacts but has the following problem:
When in idle status or when browsing a web page,the gpu disconnects (you hear the disconnect sound) monitor turns black and instantly reconnects and keeps doing it many times!
I have tried to 1)change PSU 2)try different port (hdmi,dvi) 3)try different pci-x port 4)flash bios 5)tried many different drivers 6)changed the time limit gpu has to give response
Nothing works.The strange thing is this problem happens not the day you connect but the following day!
Can this problem be repaired? I repeat ths card doesnt have problems ingame
Did you flash the proper bios? You might need a cheap programmer from eBay. It has a clip for the ROM chip
Hy man did you find the problem?
Good day @Eli Tech, what are the common repair for gpu turns black screen and hangs? Thank you
this channel is awesome!
Also, Ebay is full of scammers. Some people lie that you sent the component broken or with parts missing, and they ask for refund. They're also taking parts of the component and sell them separately. I wouldn't advise you to do business on Ebay.
beautiful work bro
Hi Eli, I had a question. I have a vega frontier edition. i took off the stock cooler to triedto water cool it, but i think the thermal paste i used was slightly conductive. I turned it on and it wouldn't show any thing on screen and the whole computer would turn off. I took every thing off cleaned the die and put the stock cooler on. with both 8 pin power connectors plugged in it showed nothing on the screen, but if i plug in one power connector it works, i can alternate this. So as long as one connecter is plugged in it worked. but not after some more testing nothing seems to work. any ideas on how i can repair this? Thanks
I will donate on any platform available. All for you.