Ryzen 9 Damaged CPU. Is it fixable?. Bonus Atari Board 

Thank you Alex!! I was able to successfully install the socket and install the video mod (UAV) to have awesome S-Video output on my Atari 800XL!

This channel gives us philosophy, life tips, relationship advice, postal & shipping advice hell he even shows us how to fix electronics. All we need now is some cooking advice ; ) great channel mate

Thanks Alex for all the knowledge you share. By the way 5 syringes 5% off, 25 syringes 25% off, …., 100 syringes gives 100% off !!?!! 🤔 that’s awesome.

All I can say is that most people have NO IDEA how small an item CPU pins are! And the skill and dexterity it takes to replace one even WITH the right equipment! Marvelous work Alex!!

...these motherboards from the 80s ❤ I hope to see Alex work more cards like this in the future. Usually a desoldering pump is used to remove these chips but, as Alex also said in the video, if you are not very careful the pads fly away with pleasure.

Alex can I say you are the best shop solderer on the planet. I used several categories to derive this title and they are: 1. cleanest 2. most efficient 3. proficient in multiple styles of soldering and desoldering 4. improving the overall quality of shop performance by educating and giving back to peers in the industry 5. Overall knowledge of components, their function and the theory of how they work together. After considering these and adding the total points in each category I have determined that you are by far the best. Congratulations!! unfortunately Im no one of importance. I am merely a disabled combat veteran single father that is self taught and due to finances am forced to repair my own electronics or buy broken items and repair them for my boys. We enjoy the challenge and it shows my boys that you should continue to educate yourself through out your life and the more you learn the more self sufficient you become. this should be one goal we all share and thanks to you we have learned so much. please don't let my lack of importance or worthy title defer from my official non official title you have been awarded lol. all kidding aside you are incredible keep doing what your doing! Be safe, stay healthy and God Bless! I apologise if I missed it but maybe one of your videos you could do a little bio on who you are, where your from, how did you get into the industry, how you were able to start your own business etc. not with any sensitive information of course safety and security is priority. I'm just a curious nerd. haha. anyway your awesome and thankyou for your time and videos! God Bless!!

You make it look easy Alex and it is for an experienced technician as yourself but I think what viewers tend to miss is your unbelievable dexterity and the magnification they are looking at. Once again a great educational video. Thank you.

Another good thing to use on bent pins are a small syringe "pipe" that you just push down on the pin and align it done that so many times 0.5mm or 0.7mm pencils are usable too :) Great done Alex as always keep up the awesome work! :)

Respect for doing this repair. I think most repair shops would pass on repairing broken pins on a CPU. BTW. I'd like 100 syringes flux for free.

I can't believe I never knew the pins were just soldered to pads lmao I don't know what I thought but damn, way more simple than I realized.

7:58 ,,Practice makes perfect“ In Germany we say „Übung macht den Meister“ ; which basically means in English „Practice creates masters“

Terrific. No annoying, bad background music playing throughout the video, obscuring his words.

Nice. What it’s worth mentioning is just how fragile such older boards are to work with. Mainly due to older manufacturing techniques. In video can clearly see some of the tracks and resist/conformal coatings are lifting. Board working fine I guess but over time with not a lot of heat during prolonged use and age the traces have a tendency to delaminate from the board making such repair works much more sensitive to further damage. Hence LMS and experience a must. As always nicely demonstrated here. 👌✌️👍🇬🇧

Learnt this type of thing in tech school, but never really got the full hang of it, soldering and unsoldering I was good at, hope to take this back up again soon. Nice work as always Alex.

The tools and equipment you are using are amazing. I have an Associate degree in engineering and I’ve never seen the school use anything your using. Just soldering iron and wire solder. Great channel showing your skills and allowing others to learn and fix themselves.

I remember straightening pins on Pentium 4 CPUs a long while ago, this was a very common problem with PGA chips. People were too careless when trying to insert them in the sockets. With the Athlon CPUs that problem did nox exist but then they broke the die because there was no heat spreader and they did not attach the cooler correctly.

You should make a T-shirt with " Low melt solder is magic" :) Great content as always :)

Damn. I really need to get some low melt solder. All my solder jobs are so hard. Great educational video, once again!

Hey Alex, Greetings from Argentina! Thanks for show u us all the process and effort on making those repairs! In the left wall under "Northridge fix", please put "Better than factory". WOW that atari board looks gigant compared to what we have now

jste fakt šikovný, supr, rozum, hlava, praxe, ruce, a oči, díky za videjko :)

Totally agree, I remember when i was a young technician, back in the day and I learnt most of how to do from my C&G 224 qualification but the actual work had to be learnt hands on. The best way to learn is get in there and learn from your mistakes. Loving your content btw! 😉

I love soldering. I used to do a lot of it because I'm a locksmith and some cars required disordering of a smd chip to program a new key. Love your videos

Great work! Love the channel. Much respect for what you do. I totally agree, you can read all the material in the world, but it can't take the place of hands on. I can solder, and I can desolder, but I do not have the equipment or the level of expertise that you have. Once again, good job! Happy New Year!

You got me wanting to drop a grand on tools lol I love these videos thank you sir. I appreciate you. Thank you for sharing your skills knowledge and experience. I'm interested in the deal on 100 flux syringes for 100% off

I'm never going to do repairs like this but it's fascinating to watch!

I really admire you man. I see how you took the opportunity of making yourself seen out there. Your smarts really make you admirable. You are a role model not only for me but for every little shop like yours. Thank you!

Since many years I like to fix electronic devices. It's been two weeks only that I found you on youtube but I can tell you that you are the best repairer I found on youtube until now and your videos are amazing, Always full of good advices not only about repair itself but also about mindset. I'm actually out of work and you are the one who motivated me to open my own repair shop. I should buy a few interesting things in a month or two like your awesome microscope. Keep it up

For through-hole components I have a desoldering station which has a vaccuum pump. It does wonders, no low melt solder needed! 🤩

been watching your vids bought me tons of help when i need to repair some of my electronics

The donor processor is Core i3-2350m that is SR0DN reference written on the CPU introduced in 2011

Salam Alex. I learnt new thing of your great video today. I don't even know how to restore the CPU pins if damage and to use solder wick to clean remaining tin on the through-hole pads. Previously, I used desoldering pump ( sucker ) which is not perfectly clean 😅. Thank you so much..!!

My soldering days are long over. But I just love watching Alex and hearing his voice. Brings back the memories.

We need people like Alex on TV!! Life experiences need to be taught to everyone. So inspiring is this man! Thanks 🙏

Every video you make we learn alot. .good job. .. happy weekend sir

I have personally tried this and you made that look way easier than it was for me haha

9:30 UPS Man - "Sir, we are going to need another truck. Yes, at least one more."

That Cpu pin job was awesome, your really the man !!!

Perfect, tnx Alex for Video. Greating from Germany :)

Fantastic job! I used to fix radios & CRT TVs in the 1970’s, I wished we had the tools that exist today!

bro that was a perfect soldering, its amazing your skils, i recall did the same different way, i fixed a miss pin for a pentium long time ago with a needle

i wish these where in 4K that would be amazing. great video as always

I always enjoy watching your videos and admire you You have a commitment to your customers You have a high sense of responsibility towards your customers and this is commendable From Iran

I remember fixing Socket 478 P4 pins all the time with burned bread ties by fixing it in the socket hole of missing pin. At least 3 different times. I would stress that I wouldn’t be held responsible for any further damage. Glad I never fried anything doing it. Thanks for sharing your experience, strength, and hope.

Nice video, very good. Thank you for it. Greets

Good video! I learned several good technical tricks.

Pins to the left of me, pins to the right, here I am stuck in the middle with pins! This video made my ear lobes tingle with delight! Loved it! Bravo!

i enjoyed to watched this video because of the nostalgic Atari's board that i repaired many years ago. thank you

i love to watch this i wish i hade a guy like you in my town. And i love the comment in this video and Europe Netherlands and Cyprus to :)

I had no idea CPU's were repairable. Something as delicate I thought it'll be game over. Good to see someone with skill and equipment attempts something what by the looks of it is pretty challenging )

Love this channel, my dream job. Great work king! 👍

Well done Alex , your attitude is excellent! Be bless 🕊

the low melt solder and hot air is brilliant gonna bookmark this for use later

Thanks! bro, curitiba city from Brasil GOD BLESS YOU.

Nice work Alex, we have to thanks to those old people who create those board and micro ship they was the firsts and we you see all the advanced in technology, new resistor, caps, etc.. and look to those 80 or 70 circuit you realize how much humanity advanced love those retro tech and the microscope is out of this world, hey Alex do you see how much mask that board have in the upper face and how much a little mess on the back of the board??? those trace look better days or to much hight temp lol...

Congratulations for the channel and for the awesome job you do every day Alex! I just have a quick question related to what you have shown in the second part of this video: would you recommend that desoldering technique, using low melt solder and hot air, for big dip ICs (40-48 pins) like the ones you may find in a Commodore 64 machine? Or for those cases is it better to use a desoldering gun? Thanks!

I've been straightening CPU pins for years with my naked eye, but I can see where the microscope comes in handy, especially for broken pins. Luckily I've never needed to repair a broken pin as that is beyond my skill/equipment

Sharing knowledge very much appreciated

I got blamed for putting a password on an iPad pro 12.9 1st gen that the customer never put on there….. after screen connectors and filter replacement because I botched the repair and it won’t work properly……..got to love them 😅

I can clearly see the difference between the version 2 and 1, by watching older videos, the blue one doesn't give such sharp images, now I enjoy watching these videos more.

Awesome job Alex…. Better than Factory 💯 excellent teacher too… :)

That last desoldering is sooo satisfying 17:36 ❤️

Man you are the man, I literally have a Ryzon 5 from 2020 that I purchased when getting into pc gaming. I pushed to hard bending all the pins, so I went to purchase another one but purchased a ryzon 7. Well watching this video I literally just fixed the Ryzon 5 now I’m about to sale it. Thanks man definitely have a subscriber for life.

Great work! I remember trying to un-bend amd xp 2200 pins by the naked eye around 2002. You made it look so easy to re solder that pin too. Props Amigo!

Agreed! Hands on works for me.

Applying it is something else. Soldering for the first time on my broken controller. I fixed it but He's right unless you do it or practice is you'll never do it. So I'm happy to try and work further on things like this in the future.

Great to see some retro stuff 🙂

I remember our family TV one day making a popping sound and then there was a burning smell. I it was an old RCA tube type TV from 1955 that was used. We only had it about a year when this happened. The repair man came over who used to be an electronics sergeant in the army during WWII. The burned component looked like this thumb-sized component that was a wad of something with two wires sticking out of it. Not sure what it was but he de-soldered the component out and then a new one back in. I watched him with great interest being that I was only 5 years old. We also had an old Zenith huge radio and record player cabinet. I liked watching the old vacuum tubes glow. Those were the days. It was a big deal when the first transistors were being put into things especially the cheap Japanese little radios being manufactured and sold to the public. When I got to college one of my courses was an electrons physics course that taught me how to build circuits using a breadboard. We had big components like on the old Atari you worked on. GREAT SHOW!

Salute idol, greetings from Philippines! =)

Been de/soldering retro stuff for a while, and had lots of problems with large sockets. Sometimes using hot air when it was impossible to suck all the tin out. Low melt would definitely helped me.

you are the best, eres un chingon. gracias amigo.

Thanks bro for sharing while aboard a space shuttle

i totally agree idea without execution is only an idea when you do things to manifest your idea that would be everything wonderful . kudos thank you for sharing...alex

The most beautiful thing you do while we watch you are the lessons of life that you tell to us, appreciated Thanks. 🙂

Oh an Atari 800 XL, this is great. I also socketed 3 chips of mine and created a custom MMU for it. Repairing such devices is fun.

You really good in that work I need one of those microscope

Alex, so glad you pronounce it "Solder" not "Sodder"

شكرا لك على معلومات التي تقدمها وشروحات تحياتي من المغرب 🇲🇦

So if I buy 100 syringes do I get 100% off 🤔😂

clean work as always

Here for the Atari and not disappointed! Thank you!!

Yeah, essential tremor is a PITA. Seriously entertaining watching you do this fine delicate work.

2:27 - I was curious to know what that broken pin did, so I did the nerdy thing. lol... That pin is labelled "AU1" on the AM4 socket, and the signal on that pin is "AZ_RST_L". That is the active-Low reset signal for the HD Audio codec. You would hope the PC would still boot without that signal, but then if the BIOS is trying to access the HD Audio at start-up, it could actually prevent the PC from booting.

You have an important skill, thanks for sharing

I agree Hands-On and practical application or a must and you only learn that the hard way I have a vocational certificate and PC repair and another in it support and have done very beginner level basic Electronics work you make it look easy but I know it's not easy it takes years of practice

Good Job mate for all that you do

Are you filling in for big boss? Great content, absolutely phenomenal.

I was work as reworker and i know this isn't easy even for the best guys in our company. Awesome work becouse you use sezor not special tool to put pin.

8:05 truth. my father has very noticeable shaking hands (and it seems I'm going to the same path) but due to his career, civil engineer, if you ask him to draw a straight line on a paper it will be perfect as if he drew it with a ruler.

I feel relieved I found Alex through this channel he's the insurance my 4090 needs given the melting plug issue.

Drinking my coffee and enjoing you video. What a great day.

Great job!

You are the MAN Alex! I would need a robot hand to do that rework!

Your teaching is amazing

Ahh an Atari 800XL! Beautiful computer, 40 years old and still fun to play with!

Thank for not being selfish to show this to us who’s wanted to learn more.

جميل جدا.. رغم إلمامي التام باللغة الانجليزية لكن حبيت اكتب بالعربي.. جهد جميل واداء رائع جدا جدا.. أنا اعشق هذه القناة.

you are great بتعلم منك والله فى كل فيديو ايمن من مصرليا الشرف طبعا

thank you

With that Atari board, now you are into my regime. Love it!

Beautiful desoldering. Nice to see some gentle Atari treatment.