Zotac 3060Ti Failed repair attempt 

Best repair I've ever witnessed. Your diagnostic knowledge is most excellent.

metallic brush used to hunt down those traces is brilliant 👍

After a year of GPU repair researching, this is hands down the most informative video i have ever came across so far! Thank you for the precious and valuable information you make available for the public. Even the Super Pro Max Tester XL info in the other video i needed so much! Thank you ! ❤

Dear Tony! Maybe some of the viewers does only see they have spent 52 minutes on a video and it was "only" for a torned off resistor, but the catch is in the details. I think you always do visual inspection first to shorten the diagnostics time to around 1-2 minutes and you already found this problem, but you showed the viewers every detail from the start to the finish and then everyone can see how a torned off part cause big and complex problems. This is one of the most detailed repair video i've ever seen, worth to watch every second! Maximum respect and keep up the good work!

Hey Tony! Bloody excellent video! Not only do you do what you do, but you also explains how and why. Way above my level of knowledge, but to me this thoroughness is a great learning experience. Thank you!

Stumbled upon your channel, you are really good at explaining every step. I had a great time, thank you

Masterpiece! It's so impressive how you patiently analyze piece by piece and try to tell us what's going on.

Big LIKE on this one... Your realtime thought process makes all the difference... Also, that metallic brush is a pretty handy tool to hunt down those traces. I definitely praise what I've just learned here. Reverse engineering at its finest! Good job, keep up the good work! Cheers from Bucharest, Romania.

Amazing, this is quality content. You are great at mentoring

The title of this video kept me in suspense the whole time. I refused to look at the comments. Was this failed attempt by a different company or did you also fail to repair it. Excellent video. I remember my grandfather watching this old house on tv and I imagine that if younger me was here to watch myself watching this it would remind him of my grandfather.

Great Video. Of all the GPU repair videos I've watched (Northridge Fix, Eli Tech and Tech Cemetery), This has got to be the most comprehensive.

Serves as a good reminder that these repairs take time, patience, skill and a dollop of curiosity. Edited videos give the mistaken impression that gfx cards are quick fixes. Granted it was a guided repair but every troubleshoot and repair take time even for the professionals.

Amazing that 0 ohm resistor is so close to the screw I suspect the enduser tried to clean up or repaste the card and ripped it with the tip of the screwdriver, is so tiny that he likely did not notice.

Thank you for the knowledge.

Love your vids. Thank you!

Thanks again northwestrepair for the awesome repair video. Always lerning somthing new from your video thank you.. Btw love the super tester mega pro xl 🎩.

Good repair! kinda wish to see the cards fully put together and looking all healthy lol but can't believe it was one torn resistor crazy.

Yes, it's an old vid.. but still, very nice tracing and finding the 0hm jumper resister that was missing. Nice repair here. Gratz! ;)

Hey that's my card, I've got a Zotac 3060TI! I hope mine doesn't end up in a video though :/

Thx for the brush tip 👍 gonna try that one on a pny 1060 6gb that I don't have a close enough boardview. Great job once again, thx for sharing.

Good job, this video is the one should be watch by so called repair shops!! so hard to find ripped components esp on graphic cards stupid 0 ohm resistor makes it look like a dead one, even someone very experienced like you spent a lot time to get it done.......... I dont know why they really dont work on bordview, it makes the life so easier... cuz while we travelling on the bord with wires to find paths we can rip off another component too. On phone job there is plenty of schematics and softwares to solve a problem, graphic cars crazy expensive but no one works a software which can help a lot...

You got me scared for a moment, as my Asus Dual 3060ti has Hynix memory. Luckily, no "X005" at the end. I googled a bit about it and it seems, mostly Zotac and Gigabyte (what a surprise) are affected.

Wooah... You are the man! Perfect diagonitic skills.

so cool. love all the side information snippets.

You make this job look like so easy. Great work. I wish in my country we have a guy like you. Love from Turkiye.

That is a nifty trick putting that brush on the end of the probe. I'll have to remember that one.

Sleepy fix, some trains are coming ;-) glad to hear this long video from you, impresive job!

Impressive!!

I always enjoy watching your videos, they are instructive and easy to follow. Thank you.

I hope you read this. It was the best 52 minutes of 2024 for me. Thank you. I learned a lot of new things. Already subscribed to your channel.❤❤❤

nice man! reading the title i really thought it was a no fix , but i'm glad i stayed until the end

brush idea was pretty good. Good find. So tiny parts wow 🔎

Excellent video!! I have exactly this model (VRAM hynix) and the last time I cleaned it, in the core I used Noctua NT-H1, I replaced the 2mm thermal pads (that's the size) from Thermalright, in the VRM a thermal pad is needed of 1.5mm and the original pads as they were not damaged, I reused them placing them behind the VRAM between the PCB and the backplate (they fit well). This model does not have a temperature sensor in the VRAM, I just hope that this helps to improve the lifespan of the chips

Very informative ! Failed repair like this are still a goldmine of information. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. (edit : and you still managed to save it in the end)

I would give a hundred thumbs up, as bill and ted would say most excellent!!

Thank you for the video! Can you please tell me: a) Where do you get these schematics from? b) What flux do yo use? c) What do yo use for cleaning excess flux?

metal brush technique has changed my life

you are simply genius.

This is a great instructional video Tony! I really appreciate your efforts to make such a video for us dumb dumbs out here, I have saved this video in my Library as my how to diagnose a graphics card and how to also repair. Very in depth and basic logic of a Video cards i/o. Cheers!

this is one of the most interesting video i've ever seen!

Best repair vid you've done so far =)

Great video! Like how you gave your thought processes and procedures that you use to troubleshoot.

Wow I was gaslit by the video title I thought you FAILED to repair this 3060 Ti but you were successful !! Because I think we often learn more from our failures than from our successes ...

Brilliantly tracked down the issue, well done

You sounded very tired. Please take care. We need you..

Hello Tony, thank you very much, I am always very impressed about your skills. Also your other channel "Tony", very great knowledge you have, love greetings from switzerland!

You sir are a surgeon...of electronics. Wow

this is kind of art man!

thankyou for sharing your technique.

brush method is awesome!

Thank you for all your hard work. Cheers m8.

I had a GTX 1070 card with main enable voltage missing and the trace was going to a pad where probably a zero Ohm resistor should have been soldered but it wasn't anything there. The pads were looking like factory under the microscope. The second pad had indeed the enable voltage but no resistor was ever soldered there to allow the enable voltage go through. That was the weirdest situation I ever met. Soldered a zero Ohm resistor and the card started to work. I know for a fact it was looking like factory so this baffled me a little bit.

Another great repair video. Thanks again.

Great video. Your knowlegde is impressive.

You are a wizard.

wow, just wow

Perfect job, and awesome brush trick :)

The previous repair guy might be kicking himself :D :D

Mr. Wizard did it again 😁

this was very informative .. good job!

master of GPU

Amazing! Greets from Germany...

Very well done sir, i love ur vids, keep it up 👍

That was 52 minutes well spent. thanks

Slap on the face on the previous repair man, LOL.

My wife said I look all cute gettin my nerd on watching you man. Good repair.

Hey dude, your work is excellent ;-)

Long form content is the way to go

20 minute is max to watch you content by me

Epair excellent fault finding.

That was a hell of a troubleshooting job. One question, would a visual inspection of the board first have allowed you to see the missing component? Granted, it was a small component.

Awesome video

The best video ❤

It was so interesting, i watched the whole video

Haha I got this card, bought it a few months ago for 280$, in great condition, cleaned and repasted it, got lucky and my card came with Samsung memory that OCs to +1600 before starting artifacting and stable at 1500 but the core is meh only +75 OC with temps staying under 80C even managed to get a rank 1 in timespy and timespy extreme with a 5960x, went into a PC for sale.

Every card i had did stay alive and well for years till i sell them but i would clean and repaste every 6 months and always in good case so air is always in case must be cleaned at least once every 2-3 months never had a problem

Great debugging method with that metal brush! If only manufacturers published board views and schematics by default and you didn't need to do all this detective work. And I really don't understand the lack of board views and schematics from the manufacturers viewpoint. Their cards would be more valuable to the customers if the data was available and competitors can always reverse engineer your card if they really want to do that so it doesn't even give any protection against the competitors either. All I can guess is either sheer stupidity or Nvidia requiring the manufacturers to keep the data secret just to be evil (as Nvidia does).

There appears to be a crack ready showing across the chip within the first 20 seconds of the vid, cleat visible by the lighting.

👍👍👍

Nice, good JOB.

Sadly, most repair places don't go to the extent you do, so even if they do watch, your expertise will baffle them.

soo many memory fails after pascal generation, this did not hapend very often in the maxwell times and earlier, these gddr5 5x and 6s are just not very reliable anymore

I have been trying to find or make that soft brass brush. Can you give any direction to obtain something similar?

What kind of solvent do you use? Something like 100% iso or ensolv? Seems to cleanup that flux really nicely

are the bad hynix 3060Tis '46' or '6B' vbios tag cards? (middle group of numbers) I think there are 5 revisions of 60TI so curious!

nice

I have 3 gpus sapphire rx 570 with no temperature showing, full fan speed as well as sudden complete shutdown upon load... And another is 1070ti gaming x with 12 Volts instead of 1.8v on 1.8v coil ( already replaced 8pin small ic but same situation)... 3rd one is Asus rx 580 with sometimes detected but sometimes not.. Also on drivers installation display gone... Kindly advise

Have the same card with 0,2v on 5v rail. Is the chip on backside (up1666q) responsible? Had a cracked cap near the chip. Replaced it without any luck.

wowee

великолепно

One tiny resistor in size of cockroach poop that rules whole board.

I might be wrong be sometimes (like in this video) your voice sound tired AF :)

No se si podrás leer mi comentario. He estado buscando el esquema de esa placa hace mucho. Tengo la misma con un corto a la entrada de 12v. Se en que bobina esta el corto pero no se que componentes van a esa bobina.

Hello, I have a KFA2 GTX 1060 6Gb card, it still worked in the morning, in the afternoon it started with no signal, and since then it doesn't give a picture. Fans run at normal speed, the machine sees it, the driver goes up, but there is no image on any of the ports. Could it be a gpu error? Does it make sense to fix it? Or trash? Thanks.

Can you share a boardview please?

What is that utility called? I haven't seen it before.

what are software you use at 47:47? can i know it, please?

I'd love a(n affiliated) link to that brush. they're hard to find, but damn handy.

hard to imagine it's not cheaper to just buy a new 3060 than send it off for repair

Hi, whats your opinion on Asus, MSI, Gigabyte and Zotac?