I don't think a lot of people who watch this understand how impressive this is. Just reading schematics correctly at all takes a ton of knowledge. Not to mention the previous experience needed to understand what minimal voltage will produce the results you're looking for in a thermal camera enough to register, while minimizing potential damage to the board components by overvolting it. All that combined with similar level of dexterity to a surgeon, with just slightly more room for failure. As someone who's been microsoldering for about 3 years this is ultra impressive work. The amount of dedication into learning the craft at this level is so high. Not to mention the thousands of dollars invested to have proper equipment. I'm getting out of the industry soon, but I hope people understand this is leagues above the repair place in the mall that just swaps iPhone screens.
Yeah the seriously overpriced cards should not be having those issues in the first place u understand artifacts after leaving It on for a few years for 6 hours a day lol
You do have skills no doubt, those tiny parts cannot be easy to do, yet you do them like no body's business... congrats. What you do is what I dreamed of doing back in the day. Now I'm just satisfied in watching you do it.
I’ve watched too many video of this guy and I was able to repair my broken laptop. What amazed me the most is his excitement and genuine reaction after repairing stuff. Pure joy a true technician by heart.
@Stein Mauer its not worth 2000 people mine with these gpu's this started with the 1000 series on another level back in 2017 i got my 1070 for 374usd and then it gone up 700usd after 1 or 2 months
I can just imagine how happy that customer is going to be, just the thought of losing a 3090! Amazing Job and as always I am inspired to continue my Fix it journey.
im learning a lot , thanks to you sir , 3 days ago i fixed a 3090 with almost the same Problem as this one , it feels good to be student of this master work
Those Gigabyte cards are notorious for power shorts, I have repaired at least 6 of the 3060 3070 and 3080 cards in the last 2 months. That is a 1.4k card and should be under warranty not sure why they sent it to you but some people can not wait.
Great videos. You gave me the confidence to try and fix my efi boot issue on my MacBook Pro. 30 mins later with a new chip installed I got it working. Many thanks!!
You saved not just hundreds of dollars, but a little piece of the environment too. Guys like this needs more respect, and they should be the ones earning fortunes, not the marketing guys at GPU manufacturers, who makes the lifecycle of these products intentionally short. Huge respect!
You say magic, I say a lot of experience and thought. Top job! Keep the videos going, they are both educational and entertaining. Greetings from Munich, Germany.
I thoroughly enjoy your videos. Most of all, your excitement when the fix works is contagious. I'm not even in this line of work, I am a software developer 🤣 But after bingeing your videos for a week now, I am SERIOUSLY thinking of starting this as a hobby and see where it goes :)
Absolutely amazing! I'm just starting down the path of service technician with an A/V company with plans on starting up my own repair shop. I'll definitely be buying gear from you
I will always remember when I got GTX9800 form a friend back in the day when that card was badass. He had it in a drawer with a lots of other stuff and many SMD components were missing/knocked off because it was abused in that drawer while he was tossing shit around with sharp stuff there for a year. He put it there because one day it didn't show picture, and bought another one, and after a year or so, he gave it to me. Luckly I had similar card (someone gave me, I hoard carp) but it had burnt traces on power side of board. So, firstly, i put friends card in the owen to reflow GPU (that was the main reason I thought for friends card not working) and then I took SMD components from my card and resolder it to friends card that had missing components. Also some tiny traces were damaged from knocking off smd parts but I repaired it with thin copper wire. And after all that crap, abuse, I thought, there is no fucking way that that card will work, and then I plugged that shit in, and I saw BIOS screen. I was so fucking happy that I cannot describe. I could not afford that good card at the time, and yet I had it finally thanks to my handywork. This card worked well for 5 years for rendering and gaming, until I spill some beer on PC and fucked it all up. I will never forget that card, so yeah, I know that great feel when you repair card that was pretty much in the dumpster. I love videos like this! Keep it up!
I have a computer shop. My three guys were out in the shop area trying to diagnose a computer. I walked by and offered my help. After about 5 seconds I switched on the monitor. Problem fixed! Three guys there and none thought to check the monitor power.
I really love how after fixing thousands of devices you still get a FIX (pun intended) out of it. How it must be a great life to do something you love while making a killing.
Phenomenal video and work. You never explained why Gigabyte cards are harder than others? Is this the case with all Gigabyte cards in history or just the recent RTX iterations? I am particularly keen on old graphics cards...
@@arcuz7862 kinda agree but i had a Z97x gaming 5 from them lasted many years with a 4790k now is starting to fail on my old pc that i just saved and put in a box. i didnt have many problems with them.
Super into this! I have to dead GPU that I know are if not the die a simple little solder deal and I've not got the tools, hands, funds or time for anew hobby. Interested in soon sending mine off as your work looked very strait tot he culprit and looked OEM.
Good 6 1/2+ digit voltmeter should see a voltage drop at the shorted mosfet compared to the good ones @ 2-3 amps. Used a Keithley 2010 with 3amp power supply to measure resistance and their power dissipation of copper rails on a welding machine, that I repaired&upgraded once.
Wow, great job. How much did you charge the customer in this instance? Just interested in the logic behind the manpower and mindpower required to do this.
I hate that unleaded solder, the stuff is crap to work with. When I was working in electronics we were forced to move over. I kept a few rolls of the old leaded solder and used it for more difficult solder jobs. I was told to stop but just hid my special supply. Pretty soon the other techs realized I still had the leaded stuff and we're always begging for my supply
From my younghood, i never had a chance for a good PC Build using Gigabyte components, so i never imagine myself buying a Gigabyte GPU or Motherboard at all, Power Supply is also plays an important role so always chose for a good one even if it would be more expensive than other brands
when I replace mosfets, if it's on the Low Side, I always double check the RDS(on) value of the mosfet I'm replacing to make sure it's lower vs the High Side one .
Its so frustrating seeing these very expensive cards without fuses on the 12v lines. It seems very much like the Manufacturers want the card to fry. I know some do install them on there cards but there is a lot that don't.
