whoever sent this to you is LUCKY you're such a nice guy. I'd have returned this as a NO FIX even if I had your skills, the card was just a complete mess with these wires, solder mask and broken traces...
Exactly why you'd never become a genius with this kind of mentality, unless you challenge the odds and not stay in your safe place, you'll never grow up fully.
Omg I know where this came from I had the opportunity to buy this exact card for $150 usd but when I seen photos I backed out knowing there was some shotty work under the cover.
In theory there is no no problem running wires over the board. Problem is that wires were in strange places, for example sequence and +3.3V rail definitely shouldn't be connected together, UNLESS either of those are redundant in this particular board design. And execution is poor, as wires ran over the board should be glued down and masked and cured properly, to fix them in place and protect them. Still, if properly executed, having long wires is not pretty, but it's electrically sound usually. Unless there's PCI-E dataline that needs to be phase matched to every other line, then your wire in that line also needs to be certain length, and it will create strange inductance stuff and noise, which may be within tolerance or not. I mean, inherently using wires to transmit power and in some cases even signals is okay. I still wouldn't do it. But hey, if it's 150 dollar card, and guy who did the shoddy work found it from a trash, it may just have been nice plaything to have, not a serious project to fix and sell. I do stuff like this myself, for myself, quite regularly, it's not meant to be sold. Of course if someone gullible stranger would offer money for my hacks that may work, I may sell, but there'd be no warranty lol. But I'd never market stuff like this as working GPU. Besides, if the core and memory chips are fine and dandy and seller knew it, they alone have some value. Who knows if this was meant just for parts.
good man! a friend that is already gone from us, told me this: if you are going to be a tech, always start from the curiosity to the willing to do you best. trust you knowledge and experience. the rest is user error
well i always try to repair my Stuff myself, like my 2060. Replaced a mosfet, worked like a charm for 2 years now and its dead now. on the other hand i had a rx570 which smelled like a firecracker after i was done with it....shit happens
You truly are a professional at what you do! I worked as a Mechanic/Tech for 50 odd years and repairing somebody else's work can just compound the repair work. The customer is always liable for correcting shoddy work and I always enjoyed making it right the first time even if it does not always go the way I want it to go. I sometimes have to go a lot deeper to find and repair other issues and I hate it that the owner has been left holding the bag for somebody's crappy work.
Card is a wreck? Don't fear. This technician has no life, so he will stop at no length to fix it. Not like the other guy who will say "no fix". Jokes aside, I love these videos, Tony
At 17:30 you can see that the PCIe Slot power is way too high (it should be 75W max), that's why the card is throttling. But this makes perfect sense if one of the resistors is broken, because then no current sensing can happen, which makes the controller think the card is drawing too much power. Weird that it was working initially, maybe the previous repair bridged the broken resistor by accident.
I had a TUF 3070, very good cooler design - hotspot under 75C. The card shown here had a similar performance after you fixed. Definitely a card worth repairing. Still amazing how people get to damage such cards knowing all we know and how to avoid it.
I would love to see the look on northridge's face opening this bad boy up. I have a feeling this would have been a no fix. You got it done like it was nothing.
i had the same model too and ended up knocking two resistors off when i replaced the thermal pads. i have no idea how since i was extremely careful, my assumption is i bought the GPU used off ebay and the weak soldering of the resistors wasn't my fault but the past owners fault. I was VERY lucky and found a local guy that was able to fix it and only charged me $60 for the fix. It took him 3hrs to fix it because he kept getting distracted by the music he was blasting and the beer he was drinking the entire time, lol. Edit: I actually considered sending it to Northridge Fix but he quoted $300 and an additional $100 if I wanted it fixed in a week. And there was no way in hell i was paying $400 when i had just spent $560 on the GPU.
seems like whoever fixed it previously has a good understanding of electronics and diagnostics but didn't want to deal with that crack so they fixed any broken connections with jumper wires, once the PCB gets put into a slot horizontally it flexes just enough to make one of the missed connections intermittent.
Technicians without a clue about this matter should use their time for other things instead. Watching Toni's videos beforehand would have provided a fundamentally better understanding. 😉
If the other person was a MASTER then what is your skill level name? VERY nice repair... Your repair to the other person was like oil n water... I cannot wait to send my card to you to see what was found. On your waiting list...
How well are those Wera mini screwdrivers holding up? Are the PH0, PH00 and PH000 tips rounding over from use? I am referring to the Philips tip screw drivers. The more 0's in the number, the smaller the tip.
wires ?! ?! ?! well for me looks bad, in other way you can see what it was done. 24:00 normally when the clock stuck low is a sigh of bad power OC (shunt mod) done badly, common problem, they do it to force more power usage before it hit performance power limit. I have no idea why that wire was even there. Good video
I do have a question considering my gpu I've tried to contact k2a about my 4090 delta being high with no response im in warranty but am worried the heat could make it fail what woulf u advice
This is a very sad state of affairs, to do this to you, send a card in to be fixed with no prior warning about the bodge job underneath. Me I would have sent it back without looking into it but unfixed. And they wonder why this card crashes. It's atrocious, the shoddy work that has been done to this card, the guy is lucky you're a forgiving person, I'm surprised you would even consider fixing some other person's stuff. No wonder it crashes after a certain temp is reached. Good on you for even looking at this card
Omg that is an abomimation of a repair. With those long wires and black poop. Lmao. Cheers to you bro for doing this nightmare and at the same time for giving us entertainment🎉
Noob Saibot was the only character in UMK3 for whose moves the computer enemies had a lower chance of countering or blocking. It's actually built into the code of the game that when the frame comes where you would hit the computer opponent it rolls a chance whether to grab you or counter in any other way. The chance decreases on every retry of the level. It's how the arcade versions made you spend more coins. You would be tricked into thinking you're doing better, when you're actually only winning because you paid more.
This awesome video reminds me of the TV show "Botched" where master surgeons repair and correct horribly gone wrong plastic surgeries. In this case, I think **you repaired the GPU equivalent of a botched BRAZILIAN BUTT LIFT** 🤣🤣🤣
On GPUs, is the purpose of the 0-ohm resistor for noise reduction or just because of lazy / ineffective design to bridge the traces outside of the PCB?
I want to buy a new GPU but idk wich one to get. RTX2xxx faulty gddr modules, RTX3xxx cracks, RTX4xxx cracks plus burning connectors. AMD a total mess! Please give us some advise, I just want a reliable product and decent performance.
It took him more than two hours to fix this mess. 🥰 Some problem cases require even more time. 🤔 Streaming without knowing how long the work will take would be a huge challenge (he would then have to provide even more verbal conversation 😛). Both for him and for the viewer.
The solder mask kills me. I see this a lot on TH-cam, people buy the UV mask and they don't buy the light sold right from the same place because they already have a UV light but that doesn't do you any good if it's not the right frequency of UV light. It's not a particularly wide range of light the difference between frequencies is drying in a few seconds or if they get lucky a few minutes or maybe not at all if they weren't lucky. Not knowing that using a specific frequency is kind of understandable but in the daytime I'm pretty sure there is a free source of UV if they would just venture outside their cave. What a mess. Oof.
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You are probably the only person that would attempt to repair a wreck like that. Your work ethic is above all the rest.
Agreed , Even i want to skip if thing has been frankensteined
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whoever sent this to you is LUCKY you're such a nice guy.
I'd have returned this as a NO FIX even if I had your skills,
the card was just a complete mess with these wires, solder mask and broken traces...
I believe for Tony it is a personal challenge to fix such a mess.
A customer sent it I'm sure after some jackass did this to it
@@kiwichess Challenge and good content. This man is a genius in every way.
Exactly why you'd never become a genius with this kind of mentality, unless you challenge the odds and not stay in your safe place, you'll never grow up fully.
Tony is awesome
Omg I know where this came from I had the opportunity to buy this exact card for $150 usd but when I seen photos I backed out knowing there was some shotty work under the cover.
In theory there is no no problem running wires over the board. Problem is that wires were in strange places, for example sequence and +3.3V rail definitely shouldn't be connected together, UNLESS either of those are redundant in this particular board design. And execution is poor, as wires ran over the board should be glued down and masked and cured properly, to fix them in place and protect them. Still, if properly executed, having long wires is not pretty, but it's electrically sound usually. Unless there's PCI-E dataline that needs to be phase matched to every other line, then your wire in that line also needs to be certain length, and it will create strange inductance stuff and noise, which may be within tolerance or not.
I mean, inherently using wires to transmit power and in some cases even signals is okay. I still wouldn't do it. But hey, if it's 150 dollar card, and guy who did the shoddy work found it from a trash, it may just have been nice plaything to have, not a serious project to fix and sell. I do stuff like this myself, for myself, quite regularly, it's not meant to be sold. Of course if someone gullible stranger would offer money for my hacks that may work, I may sell, but there'd be no warranty lol. But I'd never market stuff like this as working GPU.
Besides, if the core and memory chips are fine and dandy and seller knew it, they alone have some value. Who knows if this was meant just for parts.
another amazing repair! That un-cured solder mask was truly shocking!
It was probably too dark. Black UV resin doesn't cure properly if it's too black. The green UV mask he uses is a better color.
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I'm here, so addictive this channel
good man! a friend that is already gone from us, told me this: if you are going to be a tech, always start from the curiosity to the willing to do you best. trust you knowledge and experience. the rest is user error
I swear it wasn't me Tony.
Bravo Tony! Infact you have made a "wired repaired" display card back to its original "wireless" state.. Good job! 👍😂👍
well i always try to repair my Stuff myself, like my 2060. Replaced a mosfet, worked like a charm for 2 years now and its dead now. on the other hand i had a rx570 which smelled like a firecracker after i was done with it....shit happens
Your story is both entertaining and educating 👍
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Lol
Unbelievable the Frankenstein previous repair.
You truly are a professional at what you do! I worked as a Mechanic/Tech for 50 odd years and repairing somebody else's work can just compound the repair work. The customer is always liable for correcting shoddy work and I always enjoyed making it right the first time even if it does not always go the way I want it to go. I sometimes have to go a lot deeper to find and repair other issues and I hate it that the owner has been left holding the bag for somebody's crappy work.
He owes you 10 dinners with fancy wine for that, I would ve never even try to repair that
31:13 minutes in and, WOW
You are the best in gpu repair and deserve a great reward..🎂👍🏻
Card is a wreck? Don't fear. This technician has no life, so he will stop at no length to fix it. Not like the other guy who will say "no fix".
Jokes aside, I love these videos, Tony
Hats off to you, you are a true master!
That's one hell of a repair, i was thinking you should have scrapped it at first sight, but only you could save it, great job.
At 17:30 you can see that the PCIe Slot power is way too high (it should be 75W max), that's why the card is throttling. But this makes perfect sense if one of the resistors is broken, because then no current sensing can happen, which makes the controller think the card is drawing too much power. Weird that it was working initially, maybe the previous repair bridged the broken resistor by accident.
Looks like the 2 long wires were bypassing the sense circuit
@@brnmcc01 Jesus, so the solution to a ringing fire alarm is to disable the alarm (and ignore the fire)
@@brnmcc01 they weren't bypassing it they were just connecting it since the traces were broken due to the crack.
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Wow! You will become my favorite channel
I had a TUF 3070, very good cooler design - hotspot under 75C. The card shown here had a similar performance after you fixed. Definitely a card worth repairing. Still amazing how people get to damage such cards knowing all we know and how to avoid it.
I would love to see the look on northridge's face opening this bad boy up. I have a feeling this would have been a no fix. You got it done like it was nothing.
one of the better videos... any status on that 7900xtx?
Hello, watching this because I have the same model of card. Hope it won't need a repair anytime soon.
Mount your card vertical since modern GPU is just too heavy.
i had the same model too and ended up knocking two resistors off when i replaced the thermal pads. i have no idea how since i was extremely careful, my assumption is i bought the GPU used off ebay and the weak soldering of the resistors wasn't my fault but the past owners fault. I was VERY lucky and found a local guy that was able to fix it and only charged me $60 for the fix. It took him 3hrs to fix it because he kept getting distracted by the music he was blasting and the beer he was drinking the entire time, lol.
Edit: I actually considered sending it to Northridge Fix but he quoted $300 and an additional $100 if I wanted it fixed in a week. And there was no way in hell i was paying $400 when i had just spent $560 on the GPU.
Awesome fix, many congratulations and hope your headache eases soon. 😀👍
Loving the crack excavation music!
Wow you got an atten hot air, I love that thing it's a performer
Top job Tony, despite the 'fix' by persons unknown, you fixed another GPU....... PROPERLY. 😁
YES BATTLETOADS! Fitting for this repair!
seems like whoever fixed it previously has a good understanding of electronics and diagnostics but didn't want to deal with that crack so they fixed any broken connections with jumper wires, once the PCB gets put into a slot horizontally it flexes just enough to make one of the missed connections intermittent.
Technicians without a clue about this matter should use their time for other things instead.
Watching Toni's videos beforehand would have provided a fundamentally better understanding. 😉
Very impressive work sir.
A proper fix yes sir
Awesome job!! i need to practice the crack repair, i have a lot of old cards i can break 😄
Another happy fix by the Master.
If the other person was a MASTER then what is your skill level name? VERY nice repair... Your repair to the other person was like oil n water... I cannot wait to send my card to you to see what was found. On your waiting list...
Tony, amazing skillz!!
Excellent repair!👍
Tony is a master of getting cards off Crack
You are a true genius!!
A master at work
How well are those Wera mini screwdrivers holding up? Are the PH0, PH00 and PH000 tips rounding over from use?
I am referring to the Philips tip screw drivers. The more 0's in the number, the smaller the tip.
Now THIS is how you do GPU Repair 🙂
sometimes on pcie x16 pins on slot is the culprit that cause also some crashes just like the issue of my motherboard before
Wahou, fantastic repair!
wires ?! ?! ?! well for me looks bad, in other way you can see what it was done.
24:00 normally when the clock stuck low is a sigh of bad power OC (shunt mod) done badly, common problem, they do it to force more power usage before it hit performance power limit.
I have no idea why that wire was even there.
Good video
What's that headset you're using?
I do have a question considering my gpu I've tried to contact k2a about my 4090 delta being high with no response im in warranty but am worried the heat could make it fail what woulf u advice
This is a very sad state of affairs, to do this to you, send a card in to be fixed with no prior warning about the bodge job underneath. Me I would have sent it back without looking into it but unfixed. And they wonder why this card crashes. It's atrocious, the shoddy work that has been done to this card, the guy is lucky you're a forgiving person, I'm surprised you would even consider fixing some other person's stuff. No wonder it crashes after a certain temp is reached. Good on you for even looking at this card
24:25... god damnit, you made me look!
Good work 💯
Most of the work seems to be undoing the ultra dirty previous repair...
I had an AMD GPU Rx 6600 and no shorts, but once I plug in the GPU and power on the pc , all the vram memory getting really hot right away
The Messi of gpu repairs 🐐🐐🐐
Wow... just... wow...
great work as usual
I have a question, wouldn't running those wires cause a change in the resistances, screwing up the ohms readings and sensing?
0:55 Hi Tony, what exactly is that device you use with customers' GPUs to power them? Is that something you created yourself?
The 3.3 line was most likely one of the cracked trace ;)
Omg that is an abomimation of a repair. With those long wires and black poop. Lmao. Cheers to you bro for doing this nightmare and at the same time for giving us entertainment🎉
Noob Saibot was the only character in UMK3 for whose moves the computer enemies had a lower chance of countering or blocking. It's actually built into the code of the game that when the frame comes where you would hit the computer opponent it rolls a chance whether to grab you or counter in any other way. The chance decreases on every retry of the level. It's how the arcade versions made you spend more coins. You would be tricked into thinking you're doing better, when you're actually only winning because you paid more.
Just fuse remove to gauges of wire for super mild burn out protection / gpu ram even vrm ic aka integrated controller ai adapts
What a load of gunk the other guy laid upon that PCB.
Hell of a diag/repair!
Man how come you got all these skills?! Where did you learn to know all this ? Pls
Wouldn't this be something to clean up in an ultrasonic/IPA bath?
I would have returned to sender this shit. Holy hell.
Nice job man.
Hello🤝good job gratulation 👍👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👋👋👋👋👋
This GPU was summoned from hell
that was fantastic bud
what is the can of spray please?
Dear God...
What monster would do this to an innocent GPU. It doesnt deserve that even if it is an Nvidia card.
Did you finally get the transparent mask?
Just out of curiosity, the TUF sign in the bottom right should be lit up with RGB. Why isn't it?
did he just put a warranty sticker at the end
what gpu riser do you use that gives pcie 4.0 x16? it has full bandwidth speed as well?
Impressive!
how come a separate stopwatch when running benchmarks?
This awesome video reminds me of the TV show "Botched" where master surgeons repair and correct horribly gone wrong plastic surgeries. In this case, I think **you repaired the GPU equivalent of a botched BRAZILIAN BUTT LIFT** 🤣🤣🤣
oh wait, i need a beer for this one!
performance mode and the other mode bios on the switch. It might be a vbios issue on the switch?
do u charge extra for the prior repair attempt ?
Nice
good work
On GPUs, is the purpose of the 0-ohm resistor for noise reduction or just because of lazy / ineffective design to bridge the traces outside of the PCB?
they are there for reconfiguration and diagnostic during rma .
Muito bom !
thats the problem of some costumers just because they saw on youtube video as a easy fix they asume a less payment or free
Hero
Earned his pay on this one.
I want to buy a new GPU but idk wich one to get. RTX2xxx faulty gddr modules, RTX3xxx cracks, RTX4xxx cracks plus burning connectors. AMD a total mess!
Please give us some advise, I just want a reliable product and decent performance.
Would you consider doing some streams? I've become addicted to your videos 😂. Nothing too serious to be honest (taking about streaming)
It took him more than two hours to fix this mess. 🥰
Some problem cases require even more time. 🤔
Streaming without knowing how long the work will take would be a huge challenge (he would then have to provide even more verbal conversation 😛).
Both for him and for the viewer.
Time for sleep!! Job well done
amazing
I would have just told them to vertical mount
We need more AI voice overs from NRF.
The thumbnail is fire! 😂
Perfect Job
The solder mask kills me. I see this a lot on TH-cam, people buy the UV mask and they don't buy the light sold right from the same place because they already have a UV light but that doesn't do you any good if it's not the right frequency of UV light. It's not a particularly wide range of light the difference between frequencies is drying in a few seconds or if they get lucky a few minutes or maybe not at all if they weren't lucky. Not knowing that using a specific frequency is kind of understandable but in the daytime I'm pretty sure there is a free source of UV if they would just venture outside their cave.
What a mess. Oof.
This "another master" thing hahaha very funny.
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Dope song!
that furmark on such low resolution doesn't do the trick, not enough stress; cool fix though, cheers