The techs at Microcenter actually know what they are doing. If you bring a computer for repair at BestBuy, they will charge you a lot of money and still not resolve the issue.
Depends on the location. Sometimes you could luck out and the Geeksquad technician knows what they're doing. Sometimes you get what happened on the Linus Tech video.
@@katid571 See the thing is though on Average it probably depends on your Store they send it off to a PC Repair Place to fix it that is what my Local Geek Squad told me they dont do Hard Drives and some other stuff inside the store
The only thing that could go wrong is you break the fan, But even then it must be vary rare to do so... I've never done it in 30 years of manually spinning fans connected to PSU lol. And motherboards have a diodes, And any voltage produced it very minimal. Honestly this subject is nothing to be concerned about! But if you are paranoid it doesn't matter to try avoid doing it.
@@mozzjones6943 But overspinning the fans could damage them. I used to work at an IBM refurb facility and one of the techs would get a machine in the blowoff booth and he'd have those fans SCREAMING.
@@DoomGuy9001-MK4 Eh, not always. I've killed a motherboard before by spinning the fans too fast. It's rare due to the many protections on boards nowadays but it's not impossible.
@@mozzjones6943 It's always better to be safe than sorry. If I leave my fans in place I will always hold them still as I've popped a motherboard before by using my old vacuum cleaners blower function. It span the fans up way faster than they would normally spin and whatever protection was on the motherboard clearly didn't do it's job.
Probably at 15 bucks an hr, 17 with good commissions 😂. Manager probably makes 19 And I'm pretty sure I'm being generous on the prices 😅 But I'm no hater because if you play and leverage your cards right in a lot of career Fields you come out on top
One thing caught my eye. When dusting off with compressor I always take the case out the back door to blow dust off. Had one guy would need a new video card about once a year... multiple cats hair and he never cleaned his PC. Clean house, but dust adds up.
that little kiosk would be a great place to offer marketplace deal hardware validation. Allowing someone selling/buying a system to prove it works. would be a great sales tool too. You could snag upgrades or peripherals while in store after checking that your new to you system works.
Let's take more field trips behind the green doors into the service departments. Great video especially when management actually allowed you to talk to the techs and interrupt their diags, albeit just briefly.
Microcenter in Brentwood gave me a dead x570 motherboard, wasnt their fault. I had them diagnose it and I let them know that i had purchased it from them when i got a bill and they confirmed it was the motherboard. They said nbd, and I didnt have to pay and offered to give me a newer better one if they didnt have the one I bought in-stock. 10/10 service. I dont know if I was the acception, but I definitely wasnt even pushy about the issue and they were super accommodating regardless.
I don't live near Miami but I am looking forward to MicroCenter opening up that location so we can get more great content like this. Thank you for what you do Greg, you are an amazing and invaluable teacher.
I've seen many videos from different RU-vidrs doing stuff at Micro Center and every time I see one I just think: I wish we had that here in The Netherlands. Building anything beyond a generic pc here usually requires shopping at multiple online vendors
Hello and salutations once again, I've been posting comments on all my favorite RU-vid PC related channels on not having a Micro Center in AZ, we would truly love to have one in AZ. The closest one is in Tustin CA, its still the dream to have a Micro Center in AZ. Also keep up the good content that you provide. This episode was very insightful on what goes on in Micro Center which is really cool to see.
I disagree with charging to fix if the parts came from them. My local PC repair place doesn't charge for diagnose but they will show you what was the issues they found.
@@yarogrigoriev1609 This isn't a question of charging for replacement parts. As stated in the video, new parts that are assembled and defective are replaced for free. They make it right. The _diagnosis,_ however, involves separate labor and a separate department. And those guys don't work for free.
@GregSalazar that's where if it was their parts that they sold, they should not charge. It's like selling a car with broken parts and charging the buyer to find out what's wrong.
This series is cool and honestly such good marketing for micro center not only are they getting advertising so pple shop there but now I’m actually thinking about applying for a job to my local one. Wish me luck 🙂
Greg, this first guy was entertaining and had a good personality. You should see if he wants to partner with you on fix or flop! Well if he lived in Florida I guess.
Those prices are high, but to do it yourself and having to troubleshoot different parts of hardware is intense especially if you don’t have spare parts to make sure a specific part is the issue .
If you have the warranty from best buy, they wont charge you a diagnositc fee nor do they charge a restocking fee to replace the faulty part if you bought it from them
I dont know how I feel about performance pay. It can have the illeffect of people pumping out half baked repairs. Though the do more work get more money would have been real nice during my years in Geek Squad as usually work load was highly imbalanced. The number of things that we got done incorrectly from service center who were paid per repair was crazy though. System sent out for failed HDD, they reinstalled the OS?
A valid point of criticism. Though I will say their repairs and diags are almost always double-checked by management and verified through multi-component testing. Nothing like what I've personally experienced from Geek Squad "repairs."
5:26 I'm pretty sure the fan on that cooler was still plugged into the fan header when he yanked it loose.
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No matter what equipment you work with after couple of years you act either more careless or less than a noob user. These headers have no locks and as long as you pull it up nothing will hapen even after thousands of cycles.
I also noticed, but he held MB, so there was straight pull up. I worked in the industry where we assembled plugs/connectors and believe me, the individual pins hold very well…but still a gentler approach would not be amiss 😅
It was one of the questions I had with your series, whether someone that wasnt you could buy the parts and build the PC themselves in store rather than using the knowledge bar and then test the post at that monitor/power station?
Is that like the "Genius" Bar at Apple stores that all they do is tell you to buy a new iPhone/iPad/whatever without doing any type of troubleshooting? /s
It'd be really nice if Gear Up came to NY (specifically Westbury, or anywhere in the NYC area). Probably never going to happen, but hey one can dream right?
Anyone remember the store "frys", or previously "incredible universe "? Trying to find help but couldn't, miss labeled components, terrible stock, and worthless employees?
If they are going to regularly be blowing dust out of systems they REALLY need a blowoff booth. It's safer, doesn't get dust blown all over the place, and the tech wouldn't have to kneel down. I'd like to see the same kind of video about the Geek Squad... not that Best Buy would allow it.
im just trying to figure out why its 100 dollars extra to add an aio its not really that much more difficult than an air cooler honestly i can added a small fee 25-50 bucks but damn 100 bucks
@@profosist its not that many wires atleast anymore most of them are 1 to 4 wires and most fans are linked together these days shit i built my first pc with a artics liquid freezer 3 aio added like 5 minutes of time
@@originaldeadclown some if the RGB ones have 2 wires per fan and at least 2 if not spaghetti coming off the cpu block. It's why I like fractal's offerings, clean one wire
Hey guys. I'm the dude in the video. I was a heavy smoker which is why my fingers were stained. I have been without cigarettes for the last month though. Just wanted to clear that up for y'all.
@@ibeagangsta I didn't mean to be rude, i just know how much smoking ruins people so Im happy you're done with it, keep up the awesome work you guys do
can I work here? It's nice to see this actually done correctly, except for the air compressor. they are more prone to water/condesation blowing thru the air hose.
things are slightly different here in the uk if i buy parts and not working they can not charge us for a diagnostics check if parts was purchased at said store
Soo either that manager recently ate some Cheetos or he's a very heavy smoker lol. idk how that stood out to me so badly but once I noticed it I couldnt look away haha
Microcenter sold defective parts, if deemed for replacement, Microcenter should pick up diagnostic fee. Would they be happier if the original buyer just brought back all components for return?
