Im always surprised this isnt done more by the board partners more, they have the ability to pretty much do this with automation yet they dont. Would save so much on e-waste
They do offer this service I believe - think back to that Gamers Nexus dead motherboard scandal which was sent back to newegg when they declined the OEM repair
For those that think this job is simple, it is not! You make things look easy, but this is because you have got the right, specialist equipment, and you have the knowledge and experience to use the equipment. So, while I like to encourage people to have a go at something like this, it is important to note that it takes time to acquire the necessary skills - even with the very best equipment.
I briefly worked at a place where I guess some of the previous employees thought they could do component level repair, but without any actual experience. What ended up happening was a lot of computers laying around, unfixed and pissed of customers wanting to know what the hell was going on. If you're interested in learning how to do this, great! But for the love of god learn on your own equipment or see if people will donate you their old broken stuff so you can fail without consequence.
You're probably the only other guy I've seen on RU-vid do this. Could've saved me a lot of days of misery If I knew about someone like you when my H55 Mobo died like 12 years ago. :)
it had never occured to me that the cpu socket would be soldered like the gpu core. with everyone saying how a broken pin is a death sentence for a motherboard, i expected the pins to somehow be permanently fixed to the board. if fixing boards is this easy, it should really be done more often, it would save so much on e waste. and now with amd boards being lga aswell, it is pretty much twice as likely that sockets will get damaged
I love your channel because you just do it, others think it is to hard or to much heat heck what can go wrong right? It wasn't working when it came in so what ever I do I can not break it worse...
Hey Northwestrepair, I find your videos very entertaining and also informative at the same time. Now I wanted to ask what temperature and what percentage airflow you use in the process of socket disassembly. Would look forward to hearing back from you 😄
How do you not have more subscribers? I watch people on here if there’s a crack in the board, they already deem it a no fix and move on a bent pin No fix move on. You… I can fix that.
Didn't even know you could replace the CPU socket or that people still buy older gen damaged motherboards, would have given you a MSI z270 board for free, Had got one in 2017 with bent cpu socket pins from the manufacturer / retailer and they shipped another one free of cost without taking back the defective board.
I was told you don't really want to mix leaded and lead-free solder, something about the result not hardening right. Is that only for mixing new and old solder in the same joint, and since you discard everything you clean off the board it's fine in this case?
Cool video thanks so much I have an asus prime z390-a it has a whole bunch of bent pins in a few different areas so I don’t think it’s possible to straighten them and even looks like someone got some solder in the socket. Somehow I can’t really tell exactly what it is but anyways I don’t have a warming tray. I only have a hot air station. Is it possible to do this with just a hot air station? by the time I bought a warming tray I might as well just buy a new motherboard at that point but since this will be garbage if I can’t do the repair, do you think it’s something that I might be able to do with just a hot air station? And what would you recommend? I put the I don’t see any points on the bottom of the motherboard where the socket comes all the way through so I was hoping that the bottom tray would not be totally necessary. Maybe I could just warm it up with the hot air station at a lower setting for a couple minutes then switch back to the top and turn up the heat. Do you think that’s possible? I don’t even know anybody who does this kind of work in New Jersey so I pretty much think it’s I give it a shot and if it breaks it breaks. I found people that will do a repair but they want $100 to do it. That’s more than half the cost of the board. So what do you think I should do?
great video, I need to do this on a X670 board. I understand the 100-150C for underheat, but how high of a overheat temp did you set yours on? I don't want to melt or damage the plastic socket.
0:30 You didn't warm up the whole mainboard, but you didn't get banana / bow effect, which is often when you heat only small part of the board (especially that heavy part around cpu with coils and radiators) Your socket sit down straight without any valley in the middle. How you accomplished that?
I tried a cpu socket repair. Got too excited and pulled up too soon. Pulled a few board pads off on the top left corner. Think you could get the pads back on, and the socket?
Hello, I have a question... I want to buy a 6700 xt. The question is... from what producer?. I was thinking to buy it from Gigabyte with 3 fans. But I don't really know what to choose.
@@northwestrepair Yes, but I can find atm on the market only the mech version "MSI RX 6700 XT MECH", I can't find anymore in my country "MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT GAMING X TRIO". I'm afraid abit because the Mech variant has only 2 fans, and you know the problem with the AMD cards.. the heating. Even that I find a TRIO variant, is overpriced, is double the price of the Mech one here. o_o. What do you think I should do in this case? Honestly I was thinking to buy MSI aswel. I think I'm gonna go with the Mech, it is what it is. Even better, I found a Mech variant which is RX 6750 XT with a $10 in plus over the 6700 XT. But as you already now TRIO > MECH.
My PS4 does not want to read disc can you fix? I live in Lakebay wa I don't like downloading apps on my phone but if you can fix it I'll do it to contact
One of the reasons why I cringe when I see people put layers of kapton tape on things to protect it from heat. It doesn't work, most of the time they end up de-soldering / melting the things they were trying to protect. Get some damn aluminium foil or something. But as always, great video.
We don't use sticky alu foil because they don't make one that doesn't have a nasty adhesive that reacts poorly to the temperatures involved. It can be stuck down with kapton from the top with backing still in tact but it's a mess, it begins to warp. During a proper heat cycle it's rare you'll see a problem with another component.
@@FrozenHaxor never said sticky foil :) just build a heat shield from the large rolls you wrap your sandwiches up in or make hats to hide from the government.
@@salmon85 Tried that before, stations blow them away, we use them only on edges where you can form them so that they "clamp on". Over-insulating the board during BGA rework actually hinders the progress and you have to manually override the preset during the cycle because it heats up slower, so you end up exposing components to a longer heat cycle in the end.
