It's honestly not viable, because employee hourly pay add up fast vs what your card is worth sometimes. And believe me someone with these sort of skills isn't cheap hourly/monthly. - A small repair shop business owner (formerly a big repair shop)
that other guy is connector and power MOSFET expert, and not a GPU expert. of course he will deem it no fix, invoice customer and invite you to watch next video.
That other guy is overwhelmed he has a lot of work and cannot spend hours working on a device just to be called a master, for him time is money and that's the sad truth
@@jsnldnI prefer reputable people with a history of success. I’d pay any price this guy wants for his GPU specialization. Literal diamond in the rough.
Way to keep those pads in line! Let this be a warning to all GPUs who enter your domain. Better comply sooner than later. Excellent work once again. Russ
Dude you're a fucking legend. Every time I watch one of your repair videos I'm just amazed by the quality of work you do and how far you go to fix an issue.
10:30 thanks for that tip. Now I will know that, if I have any ripped pad, then it's better to check all of them, one by one, for any broken traces, but with much more closer zoom.
Great fix! While some repair shops would just decline to fix it, you went through an effort and actually solved it! If you need some special consistency of flux, you can manually mix resin powder, IPA and glycerine, but I do not know how it would perform with such precise application. For oxidized surfaces you also need an activator/acid, maybe it would be best to buy high quality liquid flux and manually adding glycerine to desired viscosity.
its just numbers. The real subscriber count is maybe 10-15K at best. Everyone else is like a ghost. Otherwise i would be getting 50-70k views on all videos but i dont
@@northwestrepair I don't believe that you have so many ghosts in the channel Tony. But one strange thing that did happen with your channel is that I got unsubscribed about 6 months ago and I was wondering what's going on with Tony, has he stopped updating his channel, and then I found out that I couldn't find your channel in my subscriptions at all. I honestly don't know what happened maybe it's a bug in UA-cam, who knows.....
When seeing this light reflections from the liquid under the microscope I would recommend to use some glasses with the polaroid effect Filter. Those glasses are used by the dive guards to better find the people in the water in sunny conditions. I have one, and it's amazing. You'll get them for 50 bucks. Maybe that helps you seeing the contacts better under the microscope and cut out the blending reflections...
Not sure. It's basically super tiny lines on the glass. Over here it's called polaroid effect. I googled it: What is a polaroid? Polarizing lenses from ZEISS Precision sun protection lenses with polarizing filters @@eugyscan
You may want to experiment with cutting a piece of wick and using tweezers, along with hot air, when trying to salvage a badly weakened array of pads like this one. With a little bit of heat from your pre heater and hot air, it could save you some headaches. IMO
I have this card. It sucks. Had to replace my fans because they made weird grinding noises. After my warranty replacement and a few months later the problem came back. And the coil whine is awful.
AMD cards are great, if you get one from an exclusive AMD maker. Companies that make both Nvidia and AMD, like Asus and msi, seem to fall short on the AMD side, in quality and performance.
@northwestrepair Noticed werid audio in the last video, maybe related but the camrea would cut out when you flicked a switch on your multimeter it seemed like. Check an outlet for a bad ground? or a bad UPS/surge maybe?
👍🏻 your a beast pappy keep on teaching what kinda flux do you normally use for this kinda stuff im trying to be a half as good as that guy on youtube kinda guy
What are people doing to these GPU's. I must be the only one on this planet which has had no issues with any GPU's that ive used since 2007 and to this this day.
Can you do a video where you point out what SMD parts you test are like with labels or info bubbles and how to find the rails, what to look for first and so on. a BASIC beginners guide to how you start your testing. I have repaired GPUS and know the basics of where to start but I always have to find a video on said card and follow along and find issues. I LOVE YOUR VIDS... I have learned so much but need some tips and training from the MASTER. :D hehehe
This level of troubleshooting is way beyond most people’s skill. Repairing telecom boards, typically near the price of some of these “old cards” just for repair. See company CTDI for example. “Repaired pads” seem to correct a board defect rather than a component defect. Mind you, this work is fine for Graphics cards, for a telecom part where 911 may be involved… I’d want insurance for that kind of liability. I would not expect much from a Warranty on a defective board, like new pads, or cracked PCB, other than being limited to “best effort.” Perhaps at most a discount on rework. It’s inevitable there will be unhappy customer(s) at some point. 80-20 rule.
@@SkyDown15 you clearly didn't use the dissolved rosin flux. rosin burns at much higher temperature than gel flux and you need to try really hard to burn it. second if you use IPA dissolved rosin - that doesn't apply much rosin making it easier to clean (not like rosin paste or solid). and that aside rosin just smells nice not like those gels that stink to heaven.
How do you know (in some cases, not necessarily here) that the problem doesn’t lie with the customer’s PC or environment? Could they have a faulty power supply, or a poor connection in their PC? Is there machine simply being suffocated by poor thermals? I’ve had instances where a computer functions perfectly fine for days in my shop, but crashes constantly in its home environment. I’d assume that since people are shipping JUST their cards to you, that you have no idea of the conditions of the customer’s PC or the environment they operate in.
What is one of the reason for pads like that just coming off the surface of the PCB. Is its too much heat or just something more on the manufacturing side.
customer should be extremely careful taking this card apart for thermal paste "after your warranty ends" or just moving it around. any minimum tension on the pads then whoops, no image again.
i bought a brand new MSI R9 380 "crashing Edition" it never worked right from day 1, id run GTA 5 it would go through the loading screen id get into single player load up online try to set up a heist id be playing the heist for 5 minutes then crash to desktop with an error AMD display driver has stopped responding and has recovered, this was a regular thing, it annoyed me for 3 months straight! i gave it the benefit of the doubt i thought drivers would be updated and fixed but they never were, Amazon who i bought it from were really cool they accepted an instant full refund while i was still using the card they gave me 30 more days to send in back and told me to buy a new gpu so i got a Asus strix GTX 960 which worked perfectly, not sure what was wrong MSI or AMD, Nvidia drivers seem more reliable i doubt ill ever know what was wrong with the 380, the 380 had one more issue, while looking at the desktop idle there was a black box apeeared center screen for like a millisecond if you blinked you miss it it was almost like it was trying to open CMD prompt without any writting on.
Hey bro, I've been following and learning from you for a while and i need help Could you talk in a video about Asus Rog Strix RX 5700 loose Heatsink/PCB contact in the end of the card and their overheating issue even with new thermal paste applied , i think the reason is the loose contact of the GPU with it's heatsink, and thank you in advance 🙏🏻 Much love from Algeria 🇩🇿
I will be looking for a new Nvidia graphics card soon is there a brand left that you recomend? I used to always get EVGA ut they dont make cards anymore.
Pad hell. I've seen many reballs by you , so imma confidently say that msi f'ed up during the board layering process or with pads and heat exposed poor choices/methods.
Can these pads rip when taking off the cooler in theory without ever noticing ? just like you can pull out cpu from am4 socket when taking off the cooler for example ?
it may be like that. But more logical reason is weight of the whole GPU. too heavy and too thin pcb/board (cost reduction) and you have it - too much tension and then ripped pads.
This is a nightmare, Tony. Just say NO. Sometimes it have to. Your friend (the other north-something) seems to have learned it a long time ago. I don't know. man. BTW, in some european countries, today you have a Name Day. So, Happy Name Day, Tony.
This particular card likes you so much that she just wanted to get back to you so that you could caress it back to health again 😂
Sneaky son of a diddly.
This comment had me rolling 🤣
Every repair shop should have this kind of dedication
doubt about it, most business nowadays only care about profits, margins, etc.
yea true@@MiriadCalibrumAstar
@@MiriadCalibrumAstar Makes sense to be honest... Everything has become so expensive.
It's honestly not viable, because employee hourly pay add up fast vs what your card is worth sometimes.
And believe me someone with these sort of skills isn't cheap hourly/monthly.
- A small repair shop business owner (formerly a big repair shop)
hairline fractures r a b*tch... he was lycky thay wherre in the outer layer...
Yeah that other guy would have called it a no fix and still charged you. You are awesome sir!!!
that other guy is connector and power MOSFET expert, and not a GPU expert. of course he will deem it no fix, invoice customer and invite you to watch next video.
time is money.
That other guy is overwhelmed he has a lot of work and cannot spend hours working on a device just to be called a master, for him time is money and that's the sad truth
@@jsnldnI prefer reputable people with a history of success. I’d pay any price this guy wants for his GPU specialization. Literal diamond in the rough.
Way to keep those pads in line! Let this be a warning to all GPUs who enter your domain. Better comply sooner than later. Excellent work once again. Russ
Dude you're a fucking legend. Every time I watch one of your repair videos I'm just amazed by the quality of work you do and how far you go to fix an issue.
You are becoming a true legend in the community man. Nice to have someone like you around.
10:30 thanks for that tip. Now I will know that, if I have any ripped pad, then it's better to check all of them, one by one, for any broken traces, but with much more closer zoom.
Great fix! While some repair shops would just decline to fix it, you went through an effort and actually solved it!
If you need some special consistency of flux, you can manually mix resin powder, IPA and glycerine, but I do not know how it would perform with such precise application.
For oxidized surfaces you also need an activator/acid, maybe it would be best to buy high quality liquid flux and manually adding glycerine to desired viscosity.
it's not practical
I have a hard enough time getting an rj45 connector on a cable that I can't imagine ever successfully fixing those tiny pads. You do impressive work!
4K subs away from 100K Tony, you've made it buddy.
its just numbers. The real subscriber count is maybe 10-15K at best.
Everyone else is like a ghost.
Otherwise i would be getting 50-70k views on all videos but i dont
@@northwestrepair I don't believe that you have so many ghosts in the channel Tony. But one strange thing that did happen with your channel is that I got unsubscribed about 6 months ago and I was wondering what's going on with Tony, has he stopped updating his channel, and then I found out that I couldn't find your channel in my subscriptions at all. I honestly don't know what happened maybe it's a bug in UA-cam, who knows.....
When seeing this light reflections from the liquid under the microscope I would recommend to use some glasses with the polaroid effect Filter.
Those glasses are used by the dive guards to better find the people in the water in sunny conditions. I have one, and it's amazing. You'll get them for 50 bucks.
Maybe that helps you seeing the contacts better under the microscope and cut out the blending reflections...
I think you meant to write "polarized"?
Not sure. It's basically super tiny lines on the glass. Over here it's called polaroid effect.
I googled it: What is a polaroid?
Polarizing lenses from ZEISS Precision sun protection lenses with polarizing filters
@@eugyscan
Damn you must love board repair. I would have given up after the first reball
WOW u really are spectacular at what u do. I could watch u repair cards all day and I work in cars lol
Goodness. Secret ripped pads now? It's like you needed to know the speakeasy password to their exclusive failure club.
Incredible repair that one! The determination and patience required to carry out that level of fix is rare!
Amazing video. Your really good at your job!
Tony stands by his work. That sneaky son of a diddly 6900xt 🤦🏻♂️. Another job well done.
When good said let there be light you didn't mention that you're the god! God tier repair 👍
Good job doctor as always. I think you love AMD even more after this repair
it's a pleasure to watch quality work. Thank you.
I've done a good bit of component level soldering. Then there's this. Good god man.
As a member of the 'internet', I reciprocate by saying Hello Tony.
Awesome ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
Feels good after watching 🤩🤩🤩
Your skill level is second to none!
You may want to experiment with cutting a piece of wick and using tweezers, along with hot air, when trying to salvage a badly weakened array of pads like this one. With a little bit of heat from your pre heater and hot air, it could save you some headaches. IMO
Or using hot tweezer like nrf
Tell your customer to not wigle the card when installing/removing it.
Thanks for the video.
9:43 caught me off guard 😂
I have this card. It sucks. Had to replace my fans because they made weird grinding noises. After my warranty replacement and a few months later the problem came back. And the coil whine is awful.
MSI & Gigabyte lately are to be avoided! they're quality went even lower ...
thanks
How do those pads get damaged?
dropped the card. Bent due to weight etc.
Right hard work 💯
U are amazing Sir
The Guru Of Patience
Great job on the fix.
AMD cards are great, if you get one from an exclusive AMD maker. Companies that make both Nvidia and AMD, like Asus and msi, seem to fall short on the AMD side, in quality and performance.
Yes, I don’t recall him fixing a Sapphire card
I bought a used xfx 6600xt and no problems ever
@northwestrepair Noticed werid audio in the last video, maybe related but the camrea would cut out when you flicked a switch on your multimeter it seemed like. Check an outlet for a bad ground? or a bad UPS/surge maybe?
JEsus! So much work! Would ask the price of the GPU minimun to fix this lol
There is no way on earth this card wasn’t dropped or abused somehow with this many ripped pads on the core.
👍🏻 your a beast pappy keep on teaching what kinda flux do you normally use for this kinda stuff im trying to be a half as good as that guy on youtube kinda guy
Quite the pain in the butt with those pads, at least I know who to send my 4090 to when it catches fire or succumbs to its own gravitational pull
Do you have a 4090
@@RohanSanjith Yes I got one for MSRP luckily enough when they first came out
Thank you for your contribution
Gotta love those illegal "warranty void if removed" stickers :/
What are people doing to these GPU's. I must be the only one on this planet which has had no issues with any GPU's that ive used since 2007 and to this this day.
Yes just keep it cooler than 75C, don’t overclock it and don’t bump the case. My Voodoo2 from 1998 still works
this card should have been kept as a donor board. those pads will not last long. but good repair as usual.
Great fixi feel most places would just say cant fix it and it would become e waste
Youre the best
I appreciate your use of old school millennial memes
wow thats a nice repair there great job m8
Can you do a video where you point out what SMD parts you test are like with labels or info bubbles and how to find the rails, what to look for first and so on. a BASIC beginners guide to how you start your testing. I have repaired GPUS and know the basics of where to start but I always have to find a video on said card and follow along and find issues. I LOVE YOUR VIDS... I have learned so much but need some tips and training from the MASTER. :D hehehe
Nice!
This level of troubleshooting is way beyond most people’s skill.
Repairing telecom boards, typically near the price of some of these “old cards” just for repair. See company CTDI for example.
“Repaired pads” seem to correct a board defect rather than a component defect.
Mind you, this work is fine for Graphics cards, for a telecom part where 911 may be involved… I’d want insurance for that kind of liability.
I would not expect much from a Warranty on a defective board, like new pads, or cracked PCB, other than being limited to “best effort.”
Perhaps at most a discount on rework.
It’s inevitable there will be unhappy customer(s) at some point. 80-20 rule.
MSI: Pain, MSI AMD GPU: Ultra Pain
I think you need one of those magical anti-glare lights for your microscope for better visibility.
Darn pcb faults , looks like custom reinforcement for those pads specifically
Is basically impossible hand-eye coordination when looking through a magnifying lens ..
Tony why don't you use liquid rosin solution as a flux? Like IPA dissolved rosin? You can literally make it with the consistency you need.
It can be stable at higher temperatures 👍
I guess because removing/cleaning burned rosin flux is itself the hell
@@SkyDown15 you clearly didn't use the dissolved rosin flux. rosin burns at much higher temperature than gel flux and you need to try really hard to burn it. second if you use IPA dissolved rosin - that doesn't apply much rosin making it easier to clean (not like rosin paste or solid). and that aside rosin just smells nice not like those gels that stink to heaven.
Manufacturing part defects samples too
Nice fix 👍🇵🇹
Great video. what is your warranty period?
Impressiv Job 💪🏼 respect 😉👌🏻🎉
How do you know (in some cases, not necessarily here) that the problem doesn’t lie with the customer’s PC or environment? Could they have a faulty power supply, or a poor connection in their PC? Is there machine simply being suffocated by poor thermals?
I’ve had instances where a computer functions perfectly fine for days in my shop, but crashes constantly in its home environment. I’d assume that since people are shipping JUST their cards to you, that you have no idea of the conditions of the customer’s PC or the environment they operate in.
To be honest, i am starting to be afraid to buy a new gpu because how fragile they look in your repair videos.
Eh just don't whack your board hard and it'll likely be fine. But of course the more money you put into it, the more you risk losing.
What is one of the reason for pads like that just coming off the surface of the PCB. Is its too much heat or just something more on the manufacturing side.
customer should be extremely careful taking this card apart for thermal paste "after your warranty ends" or just moving it around. any minimum tension on the pads then whoops, no image again.
6:15 RMATF ? Ya bro, ATF should only be used in transmissions😉
i bought a brand new MSI R9 380 "crashing Edition" it never worked right from day 1, id run GTA 5 it would go through the loading screen id get into single player load up online try to set up a heist id be playing the heist for 5 minutes then crash to desktop with an error AMD display driver has stopped responding and has recovered, this was a regular thing, it annoyed me for 3 months straight! i gave it the benefit of the doubt i thought drivers would be updated and fixed but they never were, Amazon who i bought it from were really cool they accepted an instant full refund while i was still using the card they gave me 30 more days to send in back and told me to buy a new gpu so i got a Asus strix GTX 960 which worked perfectly, not sure what was wrong MSI or AMD, Nvidia drivers seem more reliable i doubt ill ever know what was wrong with the 380, the 380 had one more issue, while looking at the desktop idle there was a black box apeeared center screen for like a millisecond if you blinked you miss it it was almost like it was trying to open CMD prompt without any writting on.
Hey bro, I've been following and learning from you for a while and i need help
Could you talk in a video about Asus Rog Strix RX 5700 loose Heatsink/PCB contact in the end of the card and their overheating issue even with new thermal paste applied , i think the reason is the loose contact of the GPU with it's heatsink, and thank you in advance 🙏🏻
Much love from Algeria 🇩🇿
Hello sir plz send video RTX 3080 complete reballing and bga setting
You're awesome, super warranty fix
This card looked toast to me
Hey! Do You even play games or only repair? What do you play? What's your gaming rig?
He plays PC Repair simulator
How is this economically viabale?
13:30 why you running b1 b2 dimm slots on your testbench?
Is it a rule that not all electronics people have a decent microphone?
Do you get more AMD cards of nvidea
way to go msi! we need more trash pcb's!
"Screen is flickering everytime I fart".
God tier gpu surgeon
I will be looking for a new Nvidia graphics card soon is there a brand left that you recomend? I used to always get EVGA ut they dont make cards anymore.
It happens that the memory fried the board,
Pad hell. I've seen many reballs by you , so imma confidently say that msi f'ed up during the board layering process or with pads and heat exposed poor choices/methods.
WoW ............
why the owner still insist these card to be repaired, his card already in massive conditions,
Kinda curious - what's the price tag for these repairs? It seems quite labor intensive, so I presume it's paid accordingly
The card is still alive due to ventilator 😂😂😂
what are these pcbs made out of? like sneezing on them and start ripping off pads
you need anti gril light from north biridge
yeah.
Was that an ex-miner card? What causes pads to fail like that?
where can I get the VRAM testing bootable images for both, nVidia and AMD?
Can these pads rip when taking off the cooler in theory without ever noticing ? just like you can pull out cpu from am4 socket when taking off the cooler for example ?
it may be like that. But more logical reason is weight of the whole GPU. too heavy and too thin pcb/board (cost reduction) and you have it - too much tension and then ripped pads.
Anything that flexes the main board has the potential to tear pads or break solder balls, I'm honestly surprised it doesn't happen more frequently.
This is a nightmare, Tony. Just say NO. Sometimes it have to. Your friend (the other north-something) seems to have learned it a long time ago. I don't know. man. BTW, in some european countries, today you have a Name Day. So, Happy Name Day, Tony.
Why don't you post actual time spent on a cart and cost of repair? would be interesting
i now have this new fear that my XFX 6700 10GB might just melt if i look it wrong.
Hi tony, do you have the memtune image for download?
XFX 6900XT Merc 319 still going strong. \( ﾟヮﾟ)/
So is mine
THIS PCB QUALITY IS SO BAD . MY FEAR IS AFTER 2 MONTH SEE THIS JOB AGAIN .
haha screen flickering every time i fart!
Gotta love the pain in the ass ones :(
what is the best way to learn this ? buy a couple GCards and try to resurrect them ?
also, great videos, i recently started watching ur videos you're a kind of a God haha, great vids! kudos!
If I send you my 6900xt can you make a video of it.
Dont know.
Maybe