Thought you cleared that out huh🌝, some people are still complaining about it🙃. they probably think that when you end the video you stop working on the device, which usually happens After you give it to big boss for final assembly (I think). Nice work by the way I really like the Graphics cards repairs especially in these times.👍🏻🙂
I like how he smiles, after he found the problem, even after hundrets of repairs. That's just so satisfying to watch as it is to fix problems by myself 😃
that tiny piece on the edge connector gold plated finger you mention is broken off around 1:20-1:50 is actually meant to be that way, it's so the power is applied in certain sequence if hot plugging
Well done, you're definitely getting better. It's normal for the memory MOSFETs to have both very low and absurdly high values ( 8 Mega Ohms sometimes)
at 5:59 in you see it clear as day, which means the original mosfet was probably still in perfect working condition but wasn't working because of the short. nice work !
@@KimoKimochii First of all, I'd not say it's time for upgrade on a 1070 Second, have you seen the PC market lately? Cause it's absolute trash when a GT 1030 costs about $200 here...
Man I absolutely love your channel. I am so glad I stumbled upon it. You are an amazing teacher and so enthusiastic about your work. Keep up the good work and I look forward to watching more of your videos.
So glad I found this video! I don't have any issues with my PC, but if I do in the future, I know where I'm going!! Awesome to see old school electronics repair like this still exists in our 'throw away' culture. A culture that's been impacted by this pandemic and the shortage of PC components at normal MSRP caused in large part by unscrupulous bot/scalper network cockroaches, profiting from people's hardships. Fantastic work! Good luck to you! Subscribed and liked!
Hey @NorthridgeFix when applying heat near aluminum capacitors like you do here a neat little trick is to use the blade from a box cutting knife as a heat shield. Just rest it against the side of the capacitor and it'll dissipate the heat. Heck you probably have a load lying around somewhere too :D
I like to see your smile when a device got working, I know your felling in that moment, that why this work is interesting, hope all your full of smiles
You are a great repair man for the electronics. Keep up this great work, not to mention these helpful videos. I have already benefited from your excellent skills and advice. Thank you so much!!!
SEEING YOUR VIDEO AND THE OTHER THINGS THAT I ALREADY LEARNED ,I MANEGED TO DISCOVER A PROBLEM ON THE ZOTAC 1060 MINI.THE MOSFET (MO4) OF THE VRM FOR THE VCORE,WAS ALTEREDED IN COMPARASSION TO THE OTHERS.I ALREADY REMOVED OTHER COMPONEND NEXT TO THIS MOSFET BUT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BORD(Q37)....THANKS VERY MUCH FOR TEACHING ME.
I'm so glad I subscribed to your channel a few months ago. I can tell you get full of joy when you know something is fixed. You always give that little laugh and smile and say "The Job is done" Keep the videos coming! I like the video card ones so far. I also commented on a video where a customer had a expensive mobo. I think he needed it fixed that day because he needed it for a presentation. I'd like to know what happened to it? There was no follow up or mention what fixed his issue. Also, if my 3070 ever needs fixing. I'm coming to you :D
I imagine it must be a great feeling to get the hard fixes working, lots of successes during the day to feel good about. You always seem so happy in the vids when you fix it 👍🏽
My guess as a guy who works with graphics cards there was ESD shot when replacing thermopads. I know that from my personal experience. It's a common problem. As you can see very easy to find and fix issue. As usual amazing job @Northridge Fix! I am glad that those aluminum caps don't pop up when working near by 😉
You are the hot air master! Thanks again for your generosity doing all the videos - it takes a lot of time. Better than factory - you set the standard to strive for in my lab 🤓 There is no substitute for experience. Awesome vids.
a trick to find low resitance 'near short' components is to put a little power on the shorted rail and use a thermal camera to look where it's getting hot or cover the board with alcohol and see if there are any hot spots, where it evaporates faster.
I think that high resistance reading on first gate is part of a problem. Resistance you read came from pull down resistor. It's usually around 8-10K because that's value of gate discharged resistor used. Too high resistance on first gate can leave it closed when it should be open and destroy second mosfet in process. It will probably die quicky again.
6:12, as y say before, grafic cards, need do be preheat undernet the board, to make easy to remove mosfets, and cover aluminium folid the caps, using this metod mosfet is out in 10 seg or less, in a dayli basic work, it will show improve in time and quality of repair.
If the mosfet gate is less than infinity or the resistance of the drive then the probability is that the source - drain is also short. I usually measure the body diode of the mosfet to see that there is no short there.
This is a great idea. I use an RF can from an old piece of test equipment to do the same thing, when I have to apply hot air near sensitive components. It works extremely well for me. Only thing is you have to remember to pick it up with tweezer, as it stays hot for a quite a while after! Fred
i am a bit disaponited you didn't notice that tiny solder blob stuck to that capacitor next to the mosfet you worked on, but i am impressed with the speed you found the fault
The gate of a mosfet, out-of-circuit, should look like a capacitor: checking it with DC, from gate to source or drain, it should read as an open circuit. In circuit, of course, will vary depending on what it’s connected to.
Did you try reading that first mosfet after replacing the bad one? is it possible that the high reading on the first one was caused by the short on the second one? Sorry if this is a dumb question. Thanks for your videos and positive attitude :).
from my past experience usually ppl got short circuit because of not using a surge protector n a cheap psu without 80+ bronze sticker, rarely ppl got this issues when they r using that 2 tools
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته اخي العزيز تعلمت الكثير منك والله يوفقك في كل خطوة بس لو تسمح اذا تعلمنا كم وقت يأخذ معك ليذوب اللحام وكم درجة تحطها وعلى كم تكون مروحة الحرار وجزاك الله خير استاذنا الكريم
hi, it would not be bad to check the signal shape of the repaired phase. because I know that transistors rarely burn out on their own. here, either the driver did not give the correct signal form or the transistor overheated. if there is an opportunity, can you check this in your videos, if you have an oscilloscope. it would be informative
I have this exact same card but i Hurd a pop when I plugged it in to my new computer. and I belive I popped some of the resistor or caps thats under the headsink I was wondering if could repair mine or what parts I need to replace.
How do you quickly remove the chips from the board? I'm working on one and after heating it for so long and adding flux, the components won't come off...
@NorthridgeFix, good day sir, can you teach me the basics on how to check for shorts on a motherboard or how to test the components with a multimeter plz?
I think you should install a hard drive with an operating system on the motherboard that you did the tests on it to see if the graphic card is fully working after the system boot's up.
thats btw a typical issue with the "low profile" 1070s and 1060s (overheating in general), coupled with (cooling) design flaws they are doomed to die "fast". A few friends had such small 1070/1060s, at least 2 of 3 i know are already dead. One of them was obvious.... no heatsink or contact to anything on the VRMs, they easily got roasted over the years. Only the temps.... my "full size" 1070 was always running cool af (55 or less) but i didnt realize for years it wasnt even boosting. My 1070 was used FOR YEARS with only 1513MHz GPU or so (instead of 1900Mhz+ Turbo clocks). But still, with turboclocks i also had only 65-69 degree for barlely a noise, meanwhile my friends had 75+ on the GPU (and additional missing proper VRM or Vram cooled) but already the single fan running at 1600 rpm+ (vs my manual fancurve for making the PC very silent but still cooler lol) Luckily my 1070 i had survived everything (and now sold for a higher price i paid in 2016 BRANDNEW!...), but i also looked for a card with proper cooling of ALL components. Sadly on newer cards they tend more and more to give a sh*t about cooling some things.... sometimes its the VRMs, sometimes the Vram itself, sometimes even both on the cheapest models. And then there is the coil whining.... never had this with any GPU, but since some years i see more and more coil whining especially at the modern GPUs (2016 and newer)
I wish you were in my country man, i have an RX 580 that is showing the same issue but repair men here dont want to repair it they just say its dead they wont even bother to take it apart and test it. very sad had it for three years and decided to break in the perfect time in the hardest time for gpus because of the shortage of chipsets . buying a new one is not even an option .
Hello Alex I had 4 shorted MOSFETs in my GTX 970 so I replaced them but they shorted again. I noticed something very strange is that when I spray a contact cleaner on the corresponding Gate Driver the short is gone, but when I tried to power the card again the short is back. I did that about 3 times and the short goes away every time with the contact cleaner on the Gate Driver. How can that happen?
There was a tiny blob of solder left of the mosfet that appeared to be bridging. It was later cleaned off and wasn't making any contact.
What time is it where you are? Do you edit your vids late at night after a long day of work? It is 9.30 am here in Ireland.
haters gon hate
I was about to tell you 😂👍🏻👍🏻
There was a solder blob on the left side of the mosfet that was near an ceramic capacitor.
Great work man.👍
Thought you cleared that out huh🌝, some people are still complaining about it🙃.
they probably think that when you end the video you stop working on the device, which usually happens After you give it to big boss for final assembly (I think).
Nice work by the way I really like the Graphics cards repairs especially in these times.👍🏻🙂
I like how he smiles, after he found the problem, even after hundrets of repairs. That's just so satisfying to watch as it is to fix problems by myself 😃
the smile of victory 😊
LMAO I knew I wasn't the only one who realized that.
I like too.
Yeah it's awesome.
that tiny piece on the edge connector gold plated finger you mention is broken off around 1:20-1:50 is actually meant to be that way, it's so the power is applied in certain sequence if hot plugging
01:20 Its how it is normally. No tiny piece is broken off.
Right. Its for hotplug!
true pcmr indeed.
Mine looks the same at that part
Same with RX580 ASUS DUAL OC
its in all pci-e cards, not only video cards. its strange hearing it from him, he should see this every day haha
Well done, you're definitely getting better. It's normal for the memory MOSFETs to have both very low and absurdly high values ( 8 Mega Ohms sometimes)
"we" are getting better and better
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind
On the gate? Wow.
The moment of happiness where you performed a successful repair is something that makes me so happy.
It's just genuine happiness.
One of the few nice things about the GPU drought is seeing graphics cards getting repaired instead of skipped and replaced.
I love the small chicky smile on his face when he smile when something is good or even bad. Love you Sir. You gave me courage to fix my things too.
at 5:59 in you see it clear as day, which means the original mosfet was probably still in perfect working condition but wasn't working because of the short. nice work !
You always chuckle a bit when its working... like relief... Successfully fixing things is a good feeling...
In 10 minutes you fixed something that without all the background experience you already gained would take hours to fix. Good job
thats why people pay experts for their services, not time. There expertise has been building for decades.
I love your smile when the card works. :D
So happy you are finally doing gpu repairs, they are so entertaining to watch for me
Hey just as I was thinking of getting my zotac mini 1070 repaired somewhere this comes out now that's some nice timing.
time to upgrade
@@KimoKimochii First of all, I'd not say it's time for upgrade on a 1070
Second, have you seen the PC market lately? Cause it's absolute trash when a GT 1030 costs about $200 here...
Can you do a quick video on testing mosfets, diode and caps? Explaining the settings on the multi meter, what multi meter and tips you use ect?
That would be great but I'm guessing he is too busy! Maybe he can slip the odd nugget of info into videos, like this one. And we will learn that way.
Man I absolutely love your channel. I am so glad I stumbled upon it. You are an amazing teacher and so enthusiastic about your work. Keep up the good work and I look forward to watching more of your videos.
So glad I found this video!
I don't have any issues with my PC, but if I do in the future, I know where I'm going!!
Awesome to see old school electronics repair like this still exists in our 'throw away' culture.
A culture that's been impacted by this pandemic and the shortage of PC components at normal MSRP caused in large part by unscrupulous bot/scalper network cockroaches, profiting from people's hardships.
Fantastic work! Good luck to you!
Subscribed and liked!
1:20 tiny piece is not broken off, thats normal. my 2080 Ti looks the same.
but is it broken or is it a pcie standard length of the last pcie line, because it does exist on every pcie device regardless the bus length
@fabian weird flex but ok🙂
I searched for RTX 2080 PCB and it has the same cuted pin
That is standard length, it is shorter to prevent you from not seating the card right
Yes, that is factory standard on all GPU's from nVidia. Not sure about AMD cards.
Hey @NorthridgeFix when applying heat near aluminum capacitors like you do here a neat little trick is to use the blade from a box cutting knife as a heat shield. Just rest it against the side of the capacitor and it'll dissipate the heat. Heck you probably have a load lying around somewhere too :D
There's a special heat resistant sticky tape just for this purpose as well! It's brown/gold-ish colour and semi transparent
I like to see your smile when a device got working, I know your felling in that moment, that why this work is interesting, hope all your full of smiles
You are the boss, you really fix entirely all electronic devices. No matter if its a gfx-card, an ipad or just a benz key. You are awesome. Perfect.
Basic inspection very important! Great job !
You are a great repair man for the electronics. Keep up this great work, not to mention these helpful videos. I have already benefited from your excellent skills and advice. Thank you so much!!!
That first moment when faulty electronics spring back to life. :) I know the feeling.
Sorry, I responded to the wrong comment in the first seconds...
I share the feeling of something working again. It is very nice.
SEEING YOUR VIDEO AND THE OTHER THINGS THAT I ALREADY LEARNED ,I MANEGED TO DISCOVER A PROBLEM ON THE ZOTAC 1060 MINI.THE MOSFET (MO4) OF THE VRM FOR THE VCORE,WAS ALTEREDED IN COMPARASSION TO THE OTHERS.I ALREADY REMOVED OTHER COMPONEND NEXT TO THIS MOSFET BUT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BORD(Q37)....THANKS VERY MUCH FOR TEACHING ME.
I'm so glad I subscribed to your channel a few months ago. I can tell you get full of joy when you know something is fixed. You always give that little laugh and smile and say "The Job is done" Keep the videos coming! I like the video card ones so far. I also commented on a video where a customer had a expensive mobo. I think he needed it fixed that day because he needed it for a presentation. I'd like to know what happened to it? There was no follow up or mention what fixed his issue. Also, if my 3070 ever needs fixing. I'm coming to you :D
New theme for a Tshirt: "The short is gone!" - with a smiley 😃
I imagine it must be a great feeling to get the hard fixes working, lots of successes during the day to feel good about. You always seem so happy in the vids when you fix it 👍🏽
My guess as a guy who works with graphics cards there was ESD shot when replacing thermopads. I know that from my personal experience. It's a common problem. As you can see very easy to find and fix issue.
As usual amazing job @Northridge Fix! I am glad that those aluminum caps don't pop up when working near by 😉
As soon as i saw those aluminum caps i went and grab the safety glasses 😂😂
why is that funny though?
@@lexander9686 🤩you are gay 🤩
You are the hot air master! Thanks again for your generosity doing all the videos - it takes a lot of time. Better than factory - you set the standard to strive for in my lab 🤓 There is no substitute for experience. Awesome vids.
im from Philippines i really like this guy on how he fix gpu and other board this is the reason why im self studying micro soldering
@1.20 min. There are actually two pinns that are shorter then the others just wanted to let you know love your videos keep up the good work🤙
a trick to find low resitance 'near short' components is to put a little power on the shorted rail and use a thermal camera to look where it's getting hot or cover the board with alcohol and see if there are any hot spots, where it evaporates faster.
This here truly demonstrates why expirience is key, great video
Love that “it’s working” smile 😊
What happened to the random heat sink that was just sitting unattached to anything on the board??
I think that high resistance reading on first gate is part of a problem. Resistance you read came from pull down resistor. It's usually around 8-10K because that's value of gate discharged resistor used. Too high resistance on first gate can leave it closed when it should be open and destroy second mosfet in process.
It will probably die quicky again.
John Stewart we miss you on the daily show...
love your videos! i'm from argentina and i'm learning so much with you, thank you so much man!
6:12, as y say before, grafic cards, need do be preheat undernet the board, to make easy to remove mosfets, and cover aluminium folid the caps, using this metod mosfet is out in 10 seg or less, in a dayli basic work, it will show improve in time and quality of repair.
Um pingo de solda ao lado do capacitor pode gerar um curto no futuro. 10:41
"No More Short" 😁 Awesome Job !!!.
That video card is worth everything to that owner these days.
Just a 1070 tho it's not like it's a 1080ti🤪
i see you are getting better and better repairing money printing machines :) very nice video ;)
Hah. To the moon ^^
@@jochemcode4570 :D
Where did you put the probes to measure resistance?
Love these videos, not only informative but therapeutic haha
If the mosfet gate is less than infinity or the resistance of the drive then the probability is that the source - drain is also short. I usually measure the body diode of the mosfet to see that there is no short there.
I've got a shielding cover from a laptop charger in U shape and I use it while using hot air station, try to find one, quite handy..
This is a great idea. I use an RF can from an old piece of test equipment to do the same thing, when I have to apply hot air near sensitive components. It works extremely well for me. Only thing is you have to remember to pick it up with tweezer, as it stays hot for a quite a while after! Fred
Your smile is a killer one. Keep smiling.
Thanks Brother
4:48 911 in the house 😂
Waiting for solid.. solid... solid... super solid moment
I like how You say "awsome" after solder pads.
gotta love it when a plan comes together. nice fix
This is my favorite channel now
1:29 that connection is not broken, its just like that, it is made shorter to ensure that ground is already connect before that.
10:20 There was a tiny blob of solder left of the mosfet that appeared to be bridging. It was later cleaned off and wasn't making any contact.
i am a bit disaponited you didn't notice that tiny solder blob stuck to that capacitor next to the mosfet you worked on, but i am impressed with the speed you found the fault
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@@NorthridgeFix now i did :P
you never know about them when you watch someone video right after it comes out and comments didn't show u yet
The gate of a mosfet, out-of-circuit, should look like a capacitor: checking it with DC, from gate to source or drain, it should read as an open circuit. In circuit, of course, will vary depending on what it’s connected to.
@@gblargg Yes; ESD protection is absolutely necessary when working on these sorts of devices.
yep them caps blow good to LOL, did the same mistake to haha, have the burn scar on my foot from it
7:27 visual enjoyment/happiness***
How much does this fix generally end up costing?
I had the 1070ti version by Zotac. It actually caught on fire.
Did you try reading that first mosfet after replacing the bad one? is it possible that the high reading on the first one was caused by the short on the second one? Sorry if this is a dumb question. Thanks for your videos and positive attitude :).
Yes still reading around 200k.
To save capacitor damaging from heat, cover them with metallic shield.
from my past experience usually ppl got short circuit because of not using a surge protector n a cheap psu without 80+ bronze sticker, rarely ppl got this issues when they r using that 2 tools
Can you please make a video on the GTX980TI that came in for repair. Thank you
10:30 small piece of solder shorting out a cap on the left
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@@NorthridgeFix ok, thank you
How much would a repair like this cost?
phisical inspecction is really quick
We're do you find those mosfets to replace it , do you have in on sale on your shop?
This is called the love of creativity 😎 😉
السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته
اخي العزيز تعلمت الكثير منك والله يوفقك في كل خطوة بس لو تسمح اذا تعلمنا كم وقت يأخذ معك ليذوب اللحام وكم درجة تحطها وعلى كم تكون مروحة الحرار وجزاك الله خير استاذنا الكريم
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hi, it would not be bad to check the signal shape of the repaired phase. because I know that transistors rarely burn out on their own. here, either the driver did not give the correct signal form or the transistor overheated. if there is an opportunity, can you check this in your videos, if you have an oscilloscope. it would be informative
where did you buy electronic components for vga card...
please let me know...
Hello there from Romana ! How much would a such type repair cost ?
Hey, When you remove a Mosfet, how many degrees do you set the heat gun to?
What's your success rate on items that come on your bench. I like to see the ones that can't be repaired.
I would love 2 know how you determine how much you charge? Is it a flat fee + parts? or a per hour fee ? Either way I am glad I found this channel..
Nice work. I need 5x cards repaired prob same issue
Hello north how much air and temperature remove mosfet
there is a small blob of solder at the side of the mosfet, i thinked it will cause problems but it didnt
I have this exact same card but i Hurd a pop when I plugged it in to my new computer. and I belive I popped some of the resistor or caps thats under the headsink I was wondering if could repair mine or what parts I need to replace.
how much heat do you apply when working such board?
You are the man!!!! Love the channel even though I have no idea wth is going on lol
How do you quickly remove the chips from the board? I'm working on one and after heating it for so long and adding flux, the components won't come off...
@NorthridgeFix How much does this fix generally end up costing?
@NorthridgeFix, good day sir, can you teach me the basics on how to check for shorts on a motherboard or how to test the components with a multimeter plz?
Gotta like it when you get the fault quick lol. Great job as always.
No tape over the bits you don’t want heated?
I think you should install a hard drive with an operating system on the motherboard that you did the tests on it to see if the graphic card is fully working after the system boot's up.
thats btw a typical issue with the "low profile" 1070s and 1060s (overheating in general), coupled with (cooling) design flaws they are doomed to die "fast".
A few friends had such small 1070/1060s, at least 2 of 3 i know are already dead. One of them was obvious.... no heatsink or contact to anything on the VRMs, they easily got roasted over the years.
Only the temps.... my "full size" 1070 was always running cool af (55 or less) but i didnt realize for years it wasnt even boosting. My 1070 was used FOR YEARS with only 1513MHz GPU or so (instead of 1900Mhz+ Turbo clocks). But still, with turboclocks i also had only 65-69 degree for barlely a noise, meanwhile my friends had 75+ on the GPU (and additional missing proper VRM or Vram cooled) but already the single fan running at 1600 rpm+ (vs my manual fancurve for making the PC very silent but still cooler lol)
Luckily my 1070 i had survived everything (and now sold for a higher price i paid in 2016 BRANDNEW!...), but i also looked for a card with proper cooling of ALL components. Sadly on newer cards they tend more and more to give a sh*t about cooling some things.... sometimes its the VRMs, sometimes the Vram itself, sometimes even both on the cheapest models. And then there is the coil whining.... never had this with any GPU, but since some years i see more and more coil whining especially at the modern GPUs (2016 and newer)
hi from istanbul. i love your successful repair smile
You are doing a great work
How do I desolder a stubborn MOSFET M3056 that just won't come off ?
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تسلم أخي ياسين. الله يجعل كل ايامك سعاده
Wont that small solder cause a problem on the capacitor at 10:30 ?!
Read the pinned post... 😉
@@arlemooldijk1595 oh thank you 😅😅
I think this time you are more happy then the costumer :)
I wish you were in my country man, i have an RX 580 that is showing the same issue but repair men here dont want to repair it they just say its dead they wont even bother to take it apart and test it.
very sad had it for three years and decided to break in the perfect time in the hardest time for gpus because of the shortage of chipsets . buying a new one is not even an option .
Ha ha. I always love your little smile when you have beaten a problem 😋😋😋😋
Hello Alex
I had 4 shorted MOSFETs in my GTX 970 so I replaced them but they shorted again. I noticed something very strange is that when I spray a contact cleaner on the corresponding Gate Driver the short is gone, but when I tried to power the card again the short is back. I did that about 3 times and the short goes away every time with the contact cleaner on the Gate Driver. How can that happen?
I just sent my vega frontier hopefully it can be repaired:D