RTX 3080 ASUS TUF - Prior Repair Attempt Disaster - Can this be fixed?  

Wow that was real mess. You did great job to bring it back to life!

I am an experienced IT professional, with a first degree in electronics and a doctorate in computer science. So, I appreciate the work of an expert like yourself. I also know the limit of my own experience. I would like to think that I could do some of the work you do - I can follow the theory etc. But, I do not have the tools or experience in your specialist field and I know I would be stupid to try. I also suspect I would not have the patience for all the very fine detailed work. In other words, I know my limitations. I recently bought a fairly expensive graphics card. If it should ever fail, I would not attempt to repair it myself, but would happily send it to you. An expert knows his limitations. What I learn from your videos is not to attempt the sort of work you do. You make your work look simple - it is not! You are a highly skilled professional whose work can be admired and appreciated by us lesser mortals.

No need to apologize, you make an excellent point. Great work as always. I always learn something new from your videos.

This is the catch22 of repair being so prominent on RU-vid now. Being in repair myself, I now see TONS of people watch major repair channels and think "I can do that". Which is great...if they take the proper route to learning electronics and electronics repair. Most don't. I spend almost all of my time on Reddit repair subs BEGGING people to properly learn electronics whenever I see a post about someone "getting in to repair". 99% of them just end up coming back and begging for help on something they demolished. It's really sad and bad for the repair industry. The repair world needs more repair technicians! I want more around even if it takes away from my business! However, we need proper techs and not these people that watch 3 Rossman videos and decide that they can also do it immediately. So RU-vid has helped get the word out about repair but also caused the quality of repair work to plummet at the same time. It's a sad turn of events as I see totally unqualified people taking high-paying, high-risk work that they have zero business taking. I'm seeing people come to RU-vid and Reddit begging for help on a job they took! They need help with a customer's item, not their own. It's sad and not good.

The guy is the GOAT of electronics repair. Never seen anyone put in so much effort in repair. But I bet he made a good chunk of well earned money. Assuming he itemizes charges based off what is worked on instead of a no fix not fee model.

Just heard about you from your video cards 6800/6900 series die crack problem. Now im watching all your videos. Great repair man.

Really nice work as allways. I can't believe that someone can do this with a customer card. One thing is if you screw up you own card, but a customer? Thank god you fixed it. The customer should have sendt the card to you first. Not the other place. Keep up the good work.

Nice work. good to see there are people who actually care about customers.

it is a pleasure to watch your videos. Hello from Italy

great work making something out of that mess

great work again! i giggled when you got all stern and the previous repair work. thanks for the upload!

nice job, i repair a lots of gpu hd7000, rx400-500 gtx 900 gtx 10. and almost everyone comes with reflow in the gpu and some in memory, reflow with a national ugly flux Branded "Delta" . thats nasty! argentina the hell of cheap reflow attemps

Best gpu technician in youtube that I have watched so far.

cool and sad story! I was hoping to see a "before" scope of the power stage before the inductor!

Yeah.. thats why a thermal cam or even isopropil alcohol is your best friend for finding the root issue.

i would love to see you and buildzoid work on something :))))) idk ...just something...lvely content as always

i just went through a very similar experience with a 980Ti. it had a dead dual N-Fet in the Memory VRM but someone removed 5 of the VRAM chips instead and also ripped pads and traces out of the board doing that. the actualy problem was an easy fix but the VRAM damage was bad enough for me to write it off as a no fix because of the ripped data lines

Toller Beitrag und tolle Arbeit! Gleichzeitig macht mich so ein Beispiel auch sprachlos! Das Leute Reparaturen an Fremdgeräten anbieten, obwohl es ihnen offensichtlich an der Erfahrung im Löten, als auch der Fehleranalyse mangelt, das ist schon heftig! Dafür aber auch noch Geld vom Kunden zu verlangen ist der Gipfel!

Congratulations Kristian for how you approach it. Keep it up.

Thanks Kris, good video. Enjoyed your comments on the work done by the previous tech. If you don't the right tools and experience rather don't try on expensive cards😂

Ich muss immer wieder sagen. Krisfix ist einer der besten auf diesem Gebiet. Always nice work my friend 👍

Vielen Dank fur ein modifiziertes Bios! Dmitry hat es auf eine Yandex-Festplatte gelegt. Alles Gute! Viel Erfolg bei der Arbeit!👍👍

Very nice fix and properly measured criticism of previous repair shop.

its always fun to watch some one as experiance as u working ... thanks u very much great great video..

Great job fixing this mess 👍🙏😀

Huge effort you went to, such a patient fellow!

There is no reason to apologize for any harsh language. If I had been doing this repair the whole video would've been one long bleep with asterisks covering my mouth. I have repaired alot of stuff After customers or other shops attempted repairs and it drives me insane how badly people treat other peoples things. I recently replaced a pciex1 slot that someone had tried to "fix" and in doing so they destroyed the battery holder and a cap that was near by. Since the board booted they gave it back to my friend and said it was fixed. After a week of losing bios settings with every shutdown and crashes under certain loads he brought it to me and 5 mins later identified the issues and spent $10 to repair it properly and the things the "tech" had messed up. Lo and behold The guy isn't reachable anymore so my friend was out some money but at least now he has a working motherboard. I love your videos and watch them quite a bit. While I wouldn't try most of the repairs you do I can do the basics. Thanks for the content and keep on doing what you're doing.

Love your videos

Kris your being to nice, If you don't have a clue, Don't even start working on others just stop, Send it to Kris & learn something. Guesstimating never fixes anything your only lucky if you do fix something! Sorry to the owner off the GFX card, glad kris was able to repair it.

A pro at work…well done.

I support your attitude. It's very exhausting when we gotta waste time fixing somebody's incompetence.

If you cant fix shit then just send the card back with no charge of fee. Admit its beyond what you can repair and done. Then maybe you lost one customer but not the rep of your entire shop. Glad you could fix this mess for the owner of the card. keep up the good work!

Your english is excellent. I'm russian-speaking and I understood everything 😁 and thanks for mod bios

awesome repair as always .♥♥♥♥♥♥. dear kris you are good man whit good manner.

i think the customer is lucky that the card is working thanks to you, the other guy who tried to "repair" it should be ashamed.

Great video!

Good Job, Nice Skills. 🤓👍

What I am sure of with all this rework this card will have a higher probability of failure in the future. This customer has spent a lot of money for the purchase of this card, all the time in the first shop removing all the mosfets then I don't know what else. I have watched Kris grind through board layers chasing a crack (not on this card) and he seems to go above and beyond values ascribed to a fixit shop. A very fine technician. I am not an ai, but an old human over 75.

That poor customer. I'm sure you get mad seeing such crap work. Your technique is flawless

Type: Disaster As a field engineer, I can totally relate to this. Fixing someone else’s “work” is never fun.

You mentioned that ram pads were torn off. You've had this on a bunch of other boards as well. Other repair channels that use air instead of your fancy machine don't seem to have This problem. I think that your chip remover needs to run a tad longer before trying to lift the chips. I suspect that during the chip lift, colder air gets under the chip and the solder freezes right before the solder surface tension separated. A bit hotter could prevent this if that is what's going on.

Hey man im sending to let you know that the reason that i havent sended the email for my 3090 repair is because Asus accepted my warranty claim and they sended a brand new card. Thank you for those videos are extremely informative.

Good job Bro 👍👍

If your going to work on electronics work on your own or work on something you bought DOA on Ebay don't build your skills on customer devices.

why wasn't the card RMa'd? was it water cooled, anyway, astounds me that people give such expensive devices to tech repairers that havn't a clue. glad you found the easy fix after all that work it must have cost as much to fix as to buy it in the end?

Wow, the previous "repair attempt" was.. I don't even know what to say besides it was f**king awful! Replacing almost everything but a single MosFET! I don't have a thermal camera, but surely even idiots would think to check for hot spots/overheating components? Can be a risk to burning the back of my little finger though lol

Good work

After seeing the mess the left behind them, you think they care about the customer if they dont care about the card ? I dont think so.

Hi Theodore, thanks for another instructive video, I have question as always! why the first coil from top get hot but the coil next to that mosfet was normal? was that camera issue or I am missing sth?

Have a 1080 ti aorus xtreme where in normal idle mode it work just fine but in a game it crashes to desktop after about 5 seconds, the computer doesn't freeze or anything the graphic card does just restart according to the windows log. I have seen a video where the PWM controller IC was actually messing things up but it would be hard to test, but I have an oscilloscope so that could be a way I guess? Do you use a isolation transformer with the scope and ground it by the probe clamp?

Все понял даже с моим знанием английского) Спасибо за биосы для rtx3000

Hi Kris! Can you tell me what thermal camera you use ? Best regards!

Asus tuf 3080 abused in a cramped mining rig with no air flow, tuf's corner cutting Vram cooling apparatus accelerated the destruction. If you wonder why Asus tufs are always on special deals, then now you know why.

It is the technician's fault for accepting work on the card in the first place... don't attempt repairs if you don't have the necessary tools and experience

Don't you sorry about anything, its really good that you show that there is still a lot of uneducated ppl out there who just don't care.

A few years ago my Laptop gtx 1070 with MXM connector started crashing with ridiculous colors on the screen and immediate reboot. I replaced it with a new card. Would you have been able to repair a mobile mxm card? I guess the error was nothing special, maybe ram or power supply.

funny to see some Louis Rossman mentality coming through

Omg my card is also RMA'd for no picture to Zotac. I hope they dont find the actual problem and just replace the card to me 😁

How much was the repair in USD?

RU-vid is full of so called Technicians. They are self taught with no formal electronics training, they can measure volts and ohms and use hot air to change components. If they are lucky things work, sometimes.

repairs in Kriss videos looks so "simple", because of that many so called "technicians" think they "can do it". big mistake . it took years to look reair so EZ. strongly recomend homemade technicians stay hundrets of miles away from this level of repairs... better go play barbie 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I know this. Two Cards missing at the same way you talk abaut. 😂 A 2070 and a 2080 srap metal

Good Job , Thank you