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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...
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.
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.
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
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. 😉
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🎉
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.
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...
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.
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 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
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
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.
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** 🤣🤣🤣
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
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.
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.
