Always looking to move around with the content if I can and enjoy it 😊 Hence why today's episode is slightly different! If you enjoyed please consider subscribing to the channel 😊 Have a great rest of your day!
Tip, never ever use Isopropyl alcohol on a monitor. It can remove an anti-glare coating if it's provided on it. Only water and fiber cloth! Works a treat!
@@calvo131 I'd suggest staying away from lens cleaners as well, they're also quite aggressive. I've completely destroyed my motorcycle helmet's visor by wiping it with Zeiss lens cleaner and a high quality microfiber cloth, thinking just like you - that since it's "designed to clean without stripping off coatings", and I bring it with me anyway to clean the lenses - it'll work great for cleaning the visor. Turns out those lens cleaners are made to be safe for glass, but not plastics, and can easily destroy at least some coatings used for plastics. Since then, only using water, with a little bit of hand soap occasionally, when just water isn't enough.
I would avoid using water on screen because if the screen protective stickers in 4 sides are worn out, then you end up with a shorted screen. I always use usual screen cleaner fluid and suggest to everyone.
Small suggestion for extra content plus may help to sell part-working laptops ... if you have access to a screen tester (one with lots of connection cables and ability to send test patterns) you could then report the the quality of the display in the laptop. Replacement panels are very pricey and buying random broken machines hoping to get a good panel is hit and miss .. so being able to buy with confidence could be a real benefit. Just a thought. Keep up the great work 😀👍
Joey for later laptop diagnosing: 101 Don't plug in charger on first diagnose. Always measure coils resistance first. If a CPU or GPU mosfet is shorted 19V- to the chip then you could end up with a dead laptop even if the user used the laptop from battery therefore there is a chance that it could be saved.
Hey mate! I've been watching you for a while and while you mostly work on consoles (Which is super cool!), I mostly work on laptops. In this case, you're probably right by saying that the chip is gone for good. This is a truly huge issue going on with basically all the major PC brands, especially when it comes to gaming stuff. I never worked on that board in particular, but it seems pretty similar to the industry standard of having multiple phases to power the main chip. Again, most likely the chip itself is dead, but just a few of them survive and the cause of the issue is often a blown mosfet. I'm specifically referring to the one present in the power phases. A voltage drop test will tell you everything you need. There is the possibility that the short occured near one of the coils of the dedicated GPU. In that case, you can somewhat save the laptop by removing the shorted mosfet. At that point, almost certanly the GPU will be dead, but the laptop should power on with the integrated GPU and work only with it. The dedicated one would show as not working on device management or will just not be shown at all. Hope this can help you in future laptop projects!
I'd just like to thank you for being an inspiration for me. I've Been watching your channel for a few years now and i've slowly been building up my own skill set by watching yours and other tech repair videos. Last week i finally plucked up the courage to buy a nintnedo switch lite with a faulty charge port and was an honest seller. After the nerve wracking removal, i successfully fitted a new charge port... all without a microscope (i was too impatient, it arrives next week) Thanks again Joey keep up the good work.
11:40 - yes, you are correct, the ground is on the right. You can also confirm which is ground just by looking where the traces are going. In this case, the traces on the left of the caps lead to a coil and you wouldn't install a coil on the ground plane. It would serve no purpose.
The box is from an Asus laptop, and this laptop is HP, they are different brands. I subscribed and watch several videos every day, they are very interesting to me. Greetings from Bulgaria!
Can you do a video of people sending in their broken devices for you to try and fix or sell for parts? I think it would make a good series and helps reduce e-waste
Modern CPUs havenless than 2 ohms to ground, gpus less than 0.1 ohms you have to lift all the inductors to try and find shorted mosfets if you suspect they're bad
This is the reason why I don't bother trying to buy faulty electronics on websites trying to repair them. Like you pointed out, those screws were tampered with. If the seller already gone through the trouble to diagnose a faulty CPU they should have disclosed that. Instead, they chose to be deceitful because they knew they would have taken a loss if they didn't.
As the saying goes, it's never the CPU.. until it is. But it's never the CPU (until it is). It's extremely rare for a CPU to be dead on a laptop, desktop or Mac (I mean obviously it happens, it's just much more likely to be a Mosfet, cap or inductor). It's certainly far more rare than the APU on a console going bad.
Great vid joey- could you give us insights into your thought process as you do these? A lot of times I see you say “this many ohms is ok”. But what exactly are you going by? How are you determining if low or high resistance is good in any case? Thanks
I was given a laptop that just stopped charging, thought it was the battery but nope. Tried a couple of things but I'm not any tech head, had to buy a whole motherboard for it. Weirdly enough that was an HP PAVILION as well, not a gaming one but it does make you wonder if HP are going through a bad patch or maybe just cutting corners to save money.
TBH you can buy a refurbed working and intact ASUS for the same price. We have 2 of them. For a non working laptop with bits missing, I wouldn't have touched it. That having been said, there are many things you successfully diagnose and repair that I'd be afraid to go near.
Rule #1 of a laptop: If it is dead in any way and it's not directly power related (no shorts, power supply works) then it's probably good for the bin. Salvage what you can off it and move along quickly before it costs you as much time as it did money. Yes, I know some can be fixed... but most bigger repair places just toss a new MB in and pat you on the head with a big bill. It's just not economical on any level to try to save them if it isn't obviously power related.
Great content .....but i would much prefer 1080 30fps than 720 60 fps .. then my primitive laptop wont freeze every 10 seconds and I can see detail rather than the lightning fast action that the 60 fps provides
GG Joey, you found the problem using your skills. Sad about the real damage... I think you can get a working cpu and then swap it. It could be interesting!
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Box says Asus, laptop is HP.... also, 130 pounds for a laptop that old, without wifi card or ssd? Wouldn't pay that if it were in working condition tbh. Nevermind the screen damage.
That's so true! Whenever I get those by clients, I just suggest them to replace the hdd with an ssd because the cost of a replacement caddy most of the times is not worth it at all. Like a good ssd and some tape will do the job even better ahahah
Unfortunate fault, but for a gaming laptop, it is a great price. Same spec Dell XPS goes for about 200 euros (excl. shipping) (170 pound). I wish they'd cost less.
I'm not sure it'd be right to call this a gaming laptop. It has a dGPU but more falls into the budget ultrabook category, often cooling is a bit of an issue with these machines even with the low wattage (1050Ti, 1650 etc) GPUs. They work but they're not made for long gaming sessions. That said, neither is the XPS!
Oh Joey! You paid £130 for a "no power" hp laptop? I buy a bunch of "no power" Dell laptops from eBay sellers, but I try valiantly to never pay more than $50 for them. Sometimes I get lucky with an easy fix, but usually I just get another dead laptop for my parts pile. Best wishes to you.
Always looking to move around with the content if I can and enjoy it 😊 Hence why today's episode is slightly different!
If you enjoyed please consider subscribing to the channel 😊 Have a great rest of your day!
Joey, try to fix some gaming headphones
Tip, never ever use Isopropyl alcohol on a monitor. It can remove an anti-glare coating if it's provided on it. Only water and fiber cloth! Works a treat!
my dad destroyed my old monitor like that
Makes complete sense, thanks! :)
This is why I use lens cleaner, it's designed to clean without stripping off the anti reflective coating from lenses
@@calvo131 I'd suggest staying away from lens cleaners as well, they're also quite aggressive. I've completely destroyed my motorcycle helmet's visor by wiping it with Zeiss lens cleaner and a high quality microfiber cloth, thinking just like you - that since it's "designed to clean without stripping off coatings", and I bring it with me anyway to clean the lenses - it'll work great for cleaning the visor. Turns out those lens cleaners are made to be safe for glass, but not plastics, and can easily destroy at least some coatings used for plastics. Since then, only using water, with a little bit of hand soap occasionally, when just water isn't enough.
I would avoid using water on screen because if the screen protective stickers in 4 sides are worn out, then you end up with a shorted screen. I always use usual screen cleaner fluid and suggest to everyone.
Small suggestion for extra content plus may help to sell part-working laptops ... if you have access to a screen tester (one with lots of connection cables and ability to send test patterns) you could then report the the quality of the display in the laptop. Replacement panels are very pricey and buying random broken machines hoping to get a good panel is hit and miss .. so being able to buy with confidence could be a real benefit. Just a thought. Keep up the great work 😀👍
Joey for later laptop diagnosing: 101 Don't plug in charger on first diagnose. Always measure coils resistance first.
If a CPU or GPU mosfet is shorted 19V- to the chip then you could end up with a dead laptop even if the user used the laptop from battery therefore there is a chance that it could be saved.
Theres gotta be close to zero chance the user didn't attempt to plug the laptop in before selling it when they noticed it wouldn't turn on.
@@justinth963Absolutely correct, but every plug in increases the chance of failure.
Usually there is some varistor that clamps the voltage.
Hey mate! I've been watching you for a while and while you mostly work on consoles (Which is super cool!), I mostly work on laptops. In this case, you're probably right by saying that the chip is gone for good. This is a truly huge issue going on with basically all the major PC brands, especially when it comes to gaming stuff. I never worked on that board in particular, but it seems pretty similar to the industry standard of having multiple phases to power the main chip. Again, most likely the chip itself is dead, but just a few of them survive and the cause of the issue is often a blown mosfet. I'm specifically referring to the one present in the power phases. A voltage drop test will tell you everything you need. There is the possibility that the short occured near one of the coils of the dedicated GPU. In that case, you can somewhat save the laptop by removing the shorted mosfet. At that point, almost certanly the GPU will be dead, but the laptop should power on with the integrated GPU and work only with it. The dedicated one would show as not working on device management or will just not be shown at all.
Hope this can help you in future laptop projects!
I'd just like to thank you for being an inspiration for me.
I've Been watching your channel for a few years now and i've slowly been building up my own skill set by watching yours and other tech repair videos.
Last week i finally plucked up the courage to buy a nintnedo switch lite with a faulty charge port and was an honest seller.
After the nerve wracking removal, i successfully fitted a new charge port... all without a microscope (i was too impatient, it arrives next week)
Thanks again Joey keep up the good work.
For future reference.
HP RIGS THERE WIFI CARD TO THE MACHINE ITSELF ON SEVERAL MODELS HP LAPTOPS WONT BOOT WITHOUT THE SERIAL MATCHING WIFI CARD
Hi, maybe consider removing all these de-coupling capacitors from below the chipset and retest for short, one of them could be shorted instead.
The components of the back, where you have the hot spot. You could use a tiny drop of isopropyl alcohol and see where it evaporates first.
11:40 - yes, you are correct, the ground is on the right. You can also confirm which is ground just by looking where the traces are going. In this case, the traces on the left of the caps lead to a coil and you wouldn't install a coil on the ground plane. It would serve no purpose.
My face has never felt more welcome to a UA-cam channel! 😃
The box is from an Asus laptop, and this laptop is HP, they are different brands. I subscribed and watch several videos every day, they are very interesting to me. Greetings from Bulgaria!
Can you do a video of people sending in their broken devices for you to try and fix or sell for parts? I think it would make a good series and helps reduce e-waste
Modern CPUs havenless than 2 ohms to ground, gpus less than 0.1 ohms you have to lift all the inductors to try and find shorted mosfets if you suspect they're bad
This is the reason why I don't bother trying to buy faulty electronics on websites trying to repair them. Like you pointed out, those screws were tampered with. If the seller already gone through the trouble to diagnose a faulty CPU they should have disclosed that. Instead, they chose to be deceitful because they knew they would have taken a loss if they didn't.
they've not necessarily taken the ssd screw. some modern laptops come with the slot unoccupied for you to drop it in.
As the saying goes, it's never the CPU.. until it is. But it's never the CPU (until it is). It's extremely rare for a CPU to be dead on a laptop, desktop or Mac (I mean obviously it happens, it's just much more likely to be a Mosfet, cap or inductor). It's certainly far more rare than the APU on a console going bad.
Great vid joey- could you give us insights into your thought process as you do these? A lot of times I see you say “this many ohms is ok”. But what exactly are you going by? How are you determining if low or high resistance is good in any case?
Thanks
That has got to be the slowest meter I've ever seen ;-) Or is it just set at a really high resample rate for smoothing or something?
That HDMI port seems banged pretty good. That's a hefty dent
Would be nice to have a link showing where to buy the component sample books and usb connectors
Can we get a kickstarter going to get Joey some new gloves? :)
Somehow he just don’t recognize how disgusting it looks 🤢
Hi there, great channel!
I want to learn more about electronics. Do you recommend any course or something like that?
Hello from the US Joey love the videos . Where did you get the pic of the DS parts behind you. I would love to find one .
I was given a laptop that just stopped charging, thought it was the battery but nope. Tried a couple of things but I'm not any tech head, had to buy a whole motherboard for it. Weirdly enough that was an HP PAVILION as well, not a gaming one but it does make you wonder if HP are going through a bad patch or maybe just cutting corners to save money.
Hi Joey, Have you tried disconnecting the battery and discharging the board with the power button. Just a thought.
You could get the infiray thermal cameras, they have great resolution and for this type of case it would be useful
TBH you can buy a refurbed working and intact ASUS for the same price. We have 2 of them. For a non working laptop with bits missing, I wouldn't have touched it. That having been said, there are many things you successfully diagnose and repair that I'd be afraid to go near.
I don’t know if you have any experience with computer parts but would you try gpus?
Oh no.. what a pity.. but thank you for the interesting and entertaining video.
Rule #1 of a laptop: If it is dead in any way and it's not directly power related (no shorts, power supply works) then it's probably good for the bin. Salvage what you can off it and move along quickly before it costs you as much time as it did money.
Yes, I know some can be fixed... but most bigger repair places just toss a new MB in and pat you on the head with a big bill. It's just not economical on any level to try to save them if it isn't obviously power related.
i watched this video while fixing my first desktop pc
I wish i could do what you and other content creators like you. i'd save a bloody fortune. nice work matey👍
You can do it. Just start.
u give-up so easy l fix laptops too. u should get the schematic diagram makes your life much easier am happy you doing laptops now
Great content .....but i would much prefer 1080 30fps than 720 60 fps .. then my primitive laptop wont freeze every 10 seconds and I can see detail rather than the lightning fast action that the 60 fps provides
looks like the screen mark is from the spacebar. probably someone put a hefty load on the back of the screen, while carrying it in a bag.
GG Joey, you found the problem using your skills. Sad about the real damage...
I think you can get a working cpu and then swap it. It could be interesting!
Cant win em all, but you also cant win if you dont try! Great video!!
Hey Joey, where did you get those resistors man ?
Links are here pal, also updated description now thanks! :)
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@JoeyDoesTech Brilliant, thanks as always Joey. Looking forward to your next live. 😊👍
Box says Asus, laptop is HP.... also, 130 pounds for a laptop that old, without wifi card or ssd? Wouldn't pay that if it were in working condition tbh. Nevermind the screen damage.
Not into replacing a BGA CPU Joey!? come on... hehe
Same here, why is there a HP laptop in an asus box?
My guess would be the seller replaced this laptop with an ASUS and then used the box for shipping. Hence why the box looks fresh
Yo Joey should try restoring stuff like old Nintendo stuff etc
You need like a blue ball meter. I was hoping for a fix this video, that's like two in a row. 😢
A bad cpu shouldn’t prevent the laptop from trying to boot - I wouldn’t give up on it just yet, personally
I see that your new multimeter is very slow 😅
A missing NVME ssd screw is like a Missing Hard drive caddy for me
That's so true! Whenever I get those by clients, I just suggest them to replace the hdd with an ssd because the cost of a replacement caddy most of the times is not worth it at all. Like a good ssd and some tape will do the job even better ahahah
where did you get the sample books from joey ?????
AliExpress!!
They sell them on eBay
Here :)
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Pancakes, just because. You're still in the green, that's something at least! Great Repair attempt and Video! Thank You. 😊
I thought it would be an ultrasonic cleaner for those crusty nintendo switches.
Unlike consoles... CPUs for laptop/desktops are relatively inexpensive and easy to obtain. Replacing a CPU on one should be a super easy fix.
@@robertb8636 Was the CPU not socketed? Most are.
Unfortunate fault, but for a gaming laptop, it is a great price.
Same spec Dell XPS goes for about 200 euros (excl. shipping) (170 pound).
I wish they'd cost less.
I'm not sure it'd be right to call this a gaming laptop. It has a dGPU but more falls into the budget ultrabook category, often cooling is a bit of an issue with these machines even with the low wattage (1050Ti, 1650 etc) GPUs.
They work but they're not made for long gaming sessions. That said, neither is the XPS!
more great entertaiment while i eat my tea
You can reuse or sell the memory, display, battery, keyboard etc to reduce the loss.
Oh Joey! You paid £130 for a "no power" hp laptop? I buy a bunch of "no power" Dell laptops from eBay sellers, but I try valiantly to never pay more than $50 for them. Sometimes I get lucky with an easy fix, but usually I just get another dead laptop for my parts pile. Best wishes to you.
ASUS box inside HP laptop?
Ejecto cover
Could have just got a board for it
Do a how to clean your xbox series x vid pls
"Asus - In search of incredible"... just not when it comes to customer support... or product support...
Try watch some videos from northbridge asus laptops mosfets most of the time are bad on his videos
Please Never put Alcohol Onto a screen
asus bos and a hp laptop were you scammed when buying this???? cant seem to think why they would discribe a asus when its clearly a HP laptop
Sorry to say but I can see quite a few looses coming 🙈🍍
Damn that was bad!
{ wold sed it to Sorin and ask if he would video the repair
2nd
The makings on the screen come from the friction with the border of the keyboard. HP sucks with this.
ouch and better luck next time but see you later
Repair some mobile phones, change it up a bit that would freshen up the content
Dirty gloves
finally not a game console
You overpaid a little for the laptop I‘d say
buy some new gloves
Asus box with hp laptop 😂
Lmao. You have no idea what GG means do you? Haha it means good game. But you say it in your video. And your not playing a game
GG is also used to say like "Done", lots of people use it like this. I guess it's because you type it at the end of a game.
😂😂 I’m very aware what GG means, I’m just a bit silly :)
When gaming you say "GG" whether you win or lost, it has other meaning which is the "END GAME". Lmaooo you clearly didn't get the message.