For everyone whose day I clearly ruined by not checking the CMOS. This morning I reset the CMOS and tested the motherboard with a different CPU, PSU, RAM and GPU. The motherboard is in fact still not working. Also, I know Predator is an Acer sub brand. My holiday brain just misspoke. Thanks for watching, bye!
I worked at ubi MTL during the summer of 2022 and I can absolutely confirm that Acer Predator were the PC sponsor of the Berlin Major. I remember seeing that exact case on the platform / stage thing that the players competed on so it absolutely could be a PC from that tournament, not sure if they did co-branded sales including the wallpaper or not.
The fact that Ubisoft can't provide better PCs than this suggests there was some embezzling going on there. I highly doubt Acer just gave them the PCs. The world of corporate sponsorship is a scammy shitshow. The best outcome is increased prices for consumers.
If I had to guess: the participants or the staff got to take the rigs home, something happened the cheap motherboard in shipping, and it got put up on North American eBay.
As a Semi-Pro Seige player, seeing that background, I can confirm that, the pc u have is very likely to have been in the berlin major, we had a "major" around the same time and we were using hand me downs from a pro league and this system looks almost identical (ours used 3060's) and that wallpaper was only ever used during the major. I am VERY jealous
Then he felt obliged to tell us exactly what he meant by that. I'm not sure my life was really improved by that. Not that this channel is about improving my life in any way whatsoever.
The very first thing you should try in these situations is clearing the cmos. It's very easy and quick to do, doesn't require dismantling anything, and can fix the problem surprisingly often. There's no reason not to try it. And the funny thing is that if the culprit is the cmos, when you don't check it you may get the false impression that the entire motherboard is bad, and trying another motherboard will just strengthen that confirmation bias if the other one seems to work. It may well be that there was nothing wrong with the original, you just had to clear the cmos to make it work. This can cause you completely unnecessary extra expenses.
I had the same reaction (no screen / no post) when upgrading my RAM and I forget to turn off the XMP profile. So reseting first is indeed a very good option.
That's what I would try first as well. Clear CMOS, check the RAM and then try the GPU and other parts. Could be that previous owner was doing something in bios and broke it.
I'm very curious why every tech UA-camr seems to have forgotten that almost all motherboards still have beep codes for troubleshooting, and the PC speakers, with the slide-on connector, are like $5 for a pack of three on Amazon. Am I just that old, and this is forgotten magic of eons long past?
Yeah 🤷♂, I have one on all my PCs I just got a new pack of 5 for $4.95AUD Delivered off Ebay down here... After reading Dawid's replies yeah makes sense for serious channels but this is Dawid 😂
Well, I'm not old and I have a spare beeper in a bag with other small PC stuff. IIRC it is not quiet standardized, though, so without a manual it can be quiet tricky to decipher...
That mobo looks cheap and specifically made for the pre build, the gpu too, so it probably doesn't have that feature, my mobo has the lights and the sound thing and it really helps me when I have some problems with my ram in my first build
mobo probably didn't come with built in speaker , but basically anyone who builds regularly pc's has one lying around and it had a connector for it this guy isn't bright, didn't even bother removing the bios battery to see maybe that would reset the mobo lol
The surgical process is so well practised now that it makes me wonder if there is a parallel universe where Dawid is a famous heart surgeon. Losing scalpels in the endless abyss of some guys open heart surgery.
I dunno, I’ve always thought that bad PSUs give you all kinds of weird, seemingly unrelated symptoms. They do more than just go pop and release the magic blue smoke.
I had one customers PC whose kept shutting down under load due to faulty PSU. It also damaged the GPU which no longer outputs and fans do not spin. Another customers PC had a faulty unit, which would take 45 minutes to respond after pressing the power button. It would make a "click" but wouldn't power on for a long time. I verified this with my PSU tester, same thing. New PSU, works perfectly. I have also seen a couple of PSUs that exploded as soon as I plugged in the power cable... One was a PC I bought off of eBay so don't know if it survived because I returned it. The other one was from early 2000s, and was lucky because every single other component worked perfectly. Also someone who worked in the office had a mini Acer PC, in less than 1 year, the PSU decided to explode, I opened it up and yeah massive scorch marks on the underneath of the PSU..of course this one was proprietary so had to overpay for a replacement on eBay but the replacement was from a better brand (FSP, the one that exploded was Lite-on, a company I've had a few bad experiences with)
I love this format of video, the process of elimination and finding what works and what doesn’t is part of what makes salvaging/diagnosing pc’s worthwhile. And seeing dawid go through it is a treat to say the least😂
Dang that Prostate 🤣 @60 a trip to the bathroom is an adventure! Cliff hanger there around 13:00 really glad the card worked, Thanks for another great video, Hope the new space is working out for you Have a nice day Dawid!
I'm betting 50 bucks that mainboard still works if you just tested it with a PC speaker and reset the BIOS as well. FIGHT ME. Please like absolutely please 666K Dawid, exorcise Elma once and for all with a PC speaker i'm begging you!! And PSU tester while you're at it, both of these things cost like 20 bucks total...
checking, the cpu power was plugged in, this board just has a 8pin (plugged in) and a 4pin (unplugged), it should be just fine only having the 8pin plugged in
Love seeing my name on the Patreon list in every video... Makes my happy to support such an amazing UA-camr and person... Dankie Dawid (also if you wanna feel special just know you are literally the first and only Patreon I'm supporting - You damn well deserve it)
Riser cable just introduces another failure point, well illustrated in this video. But if your average gamer understood the first thing about failure analysis, AIOs wouldn't exist. Meanwhile, you can buy a GPU support for $10 or just use some Legos to support it. My takeaway here is never buy a pre-built with a GPU riser cable. You wanna spend $50 on a good riser cable for a DIY build, that's your business. I'd rather spend it on more storage.
Power supplies do not always “fail spectacularly”. I’ve had systems overheat and loosen solder on a PSU causing failure. The system would flash the lights for a split second when attempting to power on. LED lights “lighting up” definitely doesn’t mean the power supply is ok. It means nothing lol.
@@thesolver1970 hmm i shave regularly and cut my hair once a month and i can tell the difference between acer and hp then again he is a clown and not an it guy
Some of the ducting gizmos in that case might actually make a difference, particularly to GPU temps. Front fans don't create much air flow beyond the front half of the case, they just swirl it around there and raise pressure at the back which actually impedes the GPU fans trying to pull in air through the PCI grille. Vanes or ducts can straighten air flow and get it to the back of the case (under the GPU). Even without the "Ice Tunnel" duct those GPU and CPU temperatures were actually quite impressive but our esteemed host seemed pretty glib about them.
if it was me doing the examination, I'd also reset the BIOS on a mobo before swapping it out. just because it's faster to take out the battery instead of unscrewing the entire thing.
Yep, remember checking everything and the fix was swapping dead bios battery. Apparently some mobo post and say that battery is dead, but some just refuse to start.
I would remove the bios battery and see if perhaps the last owner did a piss poor bios update and bricked it. I say that as I nearly bricked my pc when I decided to “what could it hurt” update my bios even tho I didn’t need to. Removing the battery did the job to reset the bios and I got life back out of my pc.
Forgive me, but did you try resetting the bios? I had a dell optiplex which used to lose its mind everytime there was an improper shutdown mostly due to power outage, I had to reset the bios for it to work again.
15:36 but you did say you bought it a long time ago so maybe that can be chalked up to the dark ages of GPU pricing when a 3070 was worth $700ish by itself, which brings me to the end of this comment, until the next time thank you for reading, bye bye!
@@doobybrother21 i didnt say that they were stupid. i just said that the number 6 is pretty special for them. if you have peeked in to the kabbalah and zohar and even talmud you will know that was i just said above its true :)
Sometimes a faulty nvme drive make the pc not boot. I was building a pc once and got a faulty crucial p2. Whenever I plugged it in it didnt make the PC boot , removing it would make the pc boot.
Do post cards work in modern PC's? I was just thinking of how handy that would be, but something in my mind is saying they don't work with modern PC's for some reason... Am I right or wrong?
One thing I find that helps with troubleshooting, most motherboards still have a speaker header so keeping a supply of those little piezo electric beepers on hand to plug in really helps with this because they still have beep codes
You should get a speaker for the motherboard, really helps with identifying issues, for example you can remove the ram and if the system bips it means the mobo and processor seems to be working, if doesnt bip the problem is on the mobo or cpu since the system looks for the processor first, ram second.
Great video as always! I also said “I bet it’s the riser cable” right off the hop, so we were both at least partially right lol. As a huge VR nerd, I’m very much looking forward to your next video! OptimumTech did one recently where he used it for his racing sim… perhaps you’ll be breaking yours out again? 🤔
This is why I don't want to mess with vertical mount video card brackets. Sure, when they work, they work, but it's always going to be an additional and arguably unnecessary point of failure.
Could be the CPU mounting bracket. LGA 1700 is notorious for memory issues when not properly mounted. The official bracket design doesn't apply pressure evenly. That's why aftermarket brackets are so popular. And, if still not working, it might have corrupted BIOS. You can either sell it cheap, or buy a SPI programmer.
Fyi, in the past PCs would "beep" errors. So the front panel header should have an option to connect a buzzer and it will beep a code that will be referable via the manual. But watching you diagnose, is way more fun :).
hey david , just put some aux speakers in rear aux port(green ) it may give you sound beeps like signal for different posting etc issues which you can google for what error it is according to brand
I found the exact listing you posted. Sold for the exact same price as you paid for it. It states that the motherboard does not boot. You knew exactly what you bought.
PC Diags 101: (I agree on the system speaker comments from others, but if somehow not available:) Remove all the add-on cards, Ram, GPU, SSD etc. Reset Bios. Check CPU seat. Test post with known good CPU, GPU, Ram, PSU start re-adding original things. My bet would be the board is fine, but had a bad bios loadout. Someone tried to OC improperly maybe. Otherwise fair enough process.
It's amazing that a dead motherboard can still send power through the computer. In my experience, it often doesn't work at all. It's totally dead. When the RAM was broken, my Computers always got stuck on the post screen. Dead CPU nothing, dead PSU nothing at all.
I recently fixed my RTX 4090, i7-13700 build. You wanna know why it stopped turning on? One of my RAM sticks went bad. The motherboard refused to boot while that stick was plugged in. It works fine with only the one good working stick in it. That is how annoying PC problems can be. I tested each stick in all 4 RAM slots until the system booted. 😩
Hey Dawid, great video as always. Love your style. BTW, what is the benchmark overlay software you use for game testing? I can't seem to find a link in your videos, and i haven't heard you name it before.
Good lucky with the VR! Unfortunately, it can be really complicated to get VR to work optimally, but if you're testing a popular title like Half Life Alyx, it should work right away. It's absolutely wonderful to play in VR after you got your "VR legs", but start with something simple like Beat Saber and maybe use teleportation in Half Life Alyx, otherwise you probably gonna feel nauseous your first time.
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For everyone whose day I clearly ruined by not checking the CMOS. This morning I reset the CMOS and tested the motherboard with a different CPU, PSU, RAM and GPU. The motherboard is in fact still not working.
Also, I know Predator is an Acer sub brand. My holiday brain just misspoke.
Thanks for watching, bye!
Flash the BIOS, you've got a CH341A from another video I remember I think?
Seeing it's ACER it must have some Elma
Did you try to clear the CMOS?
Psu failure on load. Not steady cpu voltage
Did you check that the jumpers are all in their correct position? If clear cmos jumper is left in clear the system will not boot
In today's video Dawid refuses to admit that he has an Acer PC by repeatedly calling it an HP to try and shame it into working.
I choose to believe this
There is no greater shame than being called an HP. 😂
@@DawidDoesTechStuff what about being called a dell?
@@stolenchaserAdele is a great artist!
Is Acer better than HP? In my experience Acer (and Dell) have been worse than HP.
I worked at ubi MTL during the summer of 2022 and I can absolutely confirm that Acer Predator were the PC sponsor of the Berlin Major. I remember seeing that exact case on the platform / stage thing that the players competed on so it absolutely could be a PC from that tournament, not sure if they did co-branded sales including the wallpaper or not.
true
The fact that Ubisoft can't provide better PCs than this suggests there was some embezzling going on there. I highly doubt Acer just gave them the PCs. The world of corporate sponsorship is a scammy shitshow. The best outcome is increased prices for consumers.
Imagine how wild global economy has to be that a PC assembled for a tournament in Germany ends up broken and sold in Canada.
It was even shipped from the US 😮😮😮
Yeah, it really is crazy.
If I had to guess: the participants or the staff got to take the rigs home, something happened the cheap motherboard in shipping, and it got put up on North American eBay.
Do you resell this back to Ebay 😂
This PC is more broke than me.
Maybe the IceTunnel froze it.
Manufacturers naming of cooling accessories is so tacky.... Everything has to have ice, freeze, chill, or frozen in the name.
Don't forget the letter "X"@@volvo09
ye just too much cooling the mother board could not take it rip
The ice tunnel was just too powerful for its own good.
It's from acer better than expected
As a Semi-Pro Seige player, seeing that background, I can confirm that, the pc u have is very likely to have been in the berlin major, we had a "major" around the same time and we were using hand me downs from a pro league and this system looks almost identical (ours used 3060's) and that wallpaper was only ever used during the major. I am VERY jealous
Was going to be in the Berlin Major but failed due to the world's cheapest GPU riser.
PC clearly has Acer written all over it.
Dawid: Calls it HP 😂
I'm suprised he didnt call it a Dell (Alienware)
same garbage different dumpster
@@antongrekov7710 Exactly, they’re all just the same pile of crap to me. 😂
@@DawidDoesTechStuff clap clap clap
"Prostate shattering pile of crap" almost had me spit out my morning coffee 😂
Then he felt obliged to tell us exactly what he meant by that. I'm not sure my life was really improved by that. Not that this channel is about improving my life in any way whatsoever.
@@cv990a4 dose he know where it is
Haha it was the eye contact for me. I was shook 😂😂😂
i'm subscribed to that shit
@@AnnaDoes the eye contact definitely made it even better! 😂
As a Romanian I can say that 13 year old Romanian kids do not buy broken prebuilds, they do way worse.
They steal and break the already broken prebuilds?
@@ArtisChronicles wth are u talking abt?, u have never been to romanis
India and egypt has more scamers and its a loot safer
@@andreirintye8916 fake news!
@@ArtisChroniclesno since we can get a job and get a pc were in india people scam and steal and they aren't punish for it
@@andreirintye8916 I'd better live in Romania than in India(and I'm from Hungary)
The very first thing you should try in these situations is clearing the cmos. It's very easy and quick to do, doesn't require dismantling anything, and can fix the problem surprisingly often. There's no reason not to try it.
And the funny thing is that if the culprit is the cmos, when you don't check it you may get the false impression that the entire motherboard is bad, and trying another motherboard will just strengthen that confirmation bias if the other one seems to work. It may well be that there was nothing wrong with the original, you just had to clear the cmos to make it work. This can cause you completely unnecessary extra expenses.
I had the same reaction (no screen / no post) when upgrading my RAM and I forget to turn off the XMP profile. So reseting first is indeed a very good option.
Imagine how horrible it would be if he did that in the first place and it was just CMOS? The video would be like 30 seconds long.
I came to see if I had missed him clearing the Cmos
That's what I would try first as well. Clear CMOS, check the RAM and then try the GPU and other parts. Could be that previous owner was doing something in bios and broke it.
I would not be surprised if he forgot that after calling it a hp later in the video...
I'm very curious why every tech UA-camr seems to have forgotten that almost all motherboards still have beep codes for troubleshooting, and the PC speakers, with the slide-on connector, are like $5 for a pack of three on Amazon. Am I just that old, and this is forgotten magic of eons long past?
Never heard of it, even on reddit
Yeah 🤷♂, I have one on all my PCs
I just got a new pack of 5 for $4.95AUD Delivered off Ebay down here...
After reading Dawid's replies yeah makes sense for serious channels but this is Dawid 😂
Well, I'm not old and I have a spare beeper in a bag with other small PC stuff. IIRC it is not quiet standardized, though, so without a manual it can be quiet tricky to decipher...
That mobo looks cheap and specifically made for the pre build, the gpu too, so it probably doesn't have that feature, my mobo has the lights and the sound thing and it really helps me when I have some problems with my ram in my first build
mobo probably didn't come with built in speaker , but basically anyone who builds regularly pc's has one lying around and it had a connector for it
this guy isn't bright, didn't even bother removing the bios battery to see maybe that would reset the mobo lol
9:40 No way!! A Samsung Galaxy Z Fold SSD!!
😂
LMAO!
The surgical process is so well practised now that it makes me wonder if there is a parallel universe where Dawid is a famous heart surgeon. Losing scalpels in the endless abyss of some guys open heart surgery.
A graduate from the Derp University College of Medicine.
If you have a Mobo Speaker you can plug one in and it will give error beeps.
Exactly what I was thinking. Very likely a corrupted BIOS.
For troubleshooting: Buying motherboard speaker beeper helps me a lot.
I have like 37 of them laying around from various free PCs I've picked up over the years.
0:13
Dawid definitely got his wallet stole by a Romanian.
No, he gave it to them.😉
Maybe I’ve been the Romanian child all along.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff I mean there are alot of people in romanian called david and also dawid prob ??
@@DawidDoesTechStuff aha
A wallet drops on the ground... Who's gonna reach it first? light or a Romanian?
I dunno, I’ve always thought that bad PSUs give you all kinds of weird, seemingly unrelated symptoms. They do more than just go pop and release the magic blue smoke.
I can confirm my 2 previous (and only) dead PSUs just turn the fan and rgb on, and nothing else, so it looks exactly like that computer lol.
I had one customers PC whose kept shutting down under load due to faulty PSU. It also damaged the GPU which no longer outputs and fans do not spin.
Another customers PC had a faulty unit, which would take 45 minutes to respond after pressing the power button. It would make a "click" but wouldn't power on for a long time. I verified this with my PSU tester, same thing. New PSU, works perfectly.
I have also seen a couple of PSUs that exploded as soon as I plugged in the power cable... One was a PC I bought off of eBay so don't know if it survived because I returned it. The other one was from early 2000s, and was lucky because every single other component worked perfectly.
Also someone who worked in the office had a mini Acer PC, in less than 1 year, the PSU decided to explode, I opened it up and yeah massive scorch marks on the underneath of the PSU..of course this one was proprietary so had to overpay for a replacement on eBay but the replacement was from a better brand (FSP, the one that exploded was Lite-on, a company I've had a few bad experiences with)
I asked for one like this to play and well, does anyone know where to find Office and Windows keys? I need them haha
Poor you but at least I come to your aid in BNH Software you may get it
$750? The old prostate did get quite a workout ..
One may wonder what the monetary value of a human prostate is 😂
Really like the double Don't Touch edition 3070. Hopefully they will fit some real Makita circular saw blade in the 4070 Don't Touch edition
I think it's really cool that you found one of the PCS from the Berlin major. It's actually kind of cool for someone who plays a lot of R6
I love this format of video, the process of elimination and finding what works and what doesn’t is part of what makes salvaging/diagnosing pc’s worthwhile. And seeing dawid go through it is a treat to say the least😂
Dang that Prostate 🤣 @60 a trip to the bathroom is an adventure! Cliff hanger there around 13:00 really glad the card worked, Thanks for another great video, Hope the new space is working out for you Have a nice day Dawid!
I'm betting 50 bucks that mainboard still works if you just tested it with a PC speaker and reset the BIOS as well. FIGHT ME.
Please like absolutely please 666K Dawid, exorcise Elma once and for all with a PC speaker i'm begging you!!
And PSU tester while you're at it, both of these things cost like 20 bucks total...
This is why I am sad that they stopped putting a PC speaker header on a lot of new motherboards.
Those dont touch stickers gives me uncontrollable laughter!! EPIC!
Anyone who is stupid enough to stick their finger into a spinning fan isn't going to be able to read that anyway.
clear the cmos wouldve been my first move, after plugging in the CPU power connector which wasnt plugged in. pretty sure that board is fine.
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How do you know the CPU power connector wasn't plugged in?
might want to rewatch the video, the Mobo has 8 + 4 EPS & the 8pin was plugged in until Dawid removed the Mobo
checking, the cpu power was plugged in, this board just has a 8pin (plugged in) and a 4pin (unplugged), it should be just fine only having the 8pin plugged in
Also should've tried mobo video outputs, lol.
The ice tunnel reminds me of old school dell where they had all sorts of shrouds and plastic junk for the fans and drives😂
"Prostate-shattering pile of crap" is going into my growing list of Dawidisms.
I've had one of those before - worst constipation ever.
@@Lurch-Bot The user name of Lurch somehow makes your post even more appropriate.
Love seeing my name on the Patreon list in every video... Makes my happy to support such an amazing UA-camr and person... Dankie Dawid
(also if you wanna feel special just know you are literally the first and only Patreon I'm supporting - You damn well deserve it)
NGL Vertical GPUs is a pretty good idea considering how heavy those mfs are, good on acer for doing that, but that front panel tho
Riser cable just introduces another failure point, well illustrated in this video. But if your average gamer understood the first thing about failure analysis, AIOs wouldn't exist. Meanwhile, you can buy a GPU support for $10 or just use some Legos to support it. My takeaway here is never buy a pre-built with a GPU riser cable. You wanna spend $50 on a good riser cable for a DIY build, that's your business. I'd rather spend it on more storage.
When aesthetics took over functionality a ton of issues with pcs started to happen
Power supplies do not always “fail spectacularly”. I’ve had systems overheat and loosen solder on a PSU causing failure. The system would flash the lights for a split second when attempting to power on. LED lights “lighting up” definitely doesn’t mean the power supply is ok. It means nothing lol.
Dawid is slowly starting to look like a homeless dude who hasn't been to the barber in years
you mean like a typical IT dude?
@@thesolver1970 hmm i shave regularly and cut my hair once a month and i can tell the difference between acer and hp
then again he is a clown and not an it guy
@@r3tr0c0e3but you also dont have a 4090 lying around
Some of the ducting gizmos in that case might actually make a difference, particularly to GPU temps. Front fans don't create much air flow beyond the front half of the case, they just swirl it around there and raise pressure at the back which actually impedes the GPU fans trying to pull in air through the PCI grille. Vanes or ducts can straighten air flow and get it to the back of the case (under the GPU). Even without the "Ice Tunnel" duct those GPU and CPU temperatures were actually quite impressive but our esteemed host seemed pretty glib about them.
if it was me doing the examination, I'd also reset the BIOS on a mobo before swapping it out. just because it's faster to take out the battery instead of unscrewing the entire thing.
First rule of dead pc. Check for cmos and bios issues. Don’t ask why I know this, 😂😂😂
@@seanmack1087 we've all been there.
Yep, remember checking everything and the fix was swapping dead bios battery. Apparently some mobo post and say that battery is dead, but some just refuse to start.
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"Thank Gaben that worked" is what I say everytime I need to come up with an excuse to open cases in cs
00:10 ...the fact that my country is mostly known for scams is amazing
No keyboard detected. Press F1…. Always makes me laugh
I would remove the bios battery and see if perhaps the last owner did a piss poor bios update and bricked it.
I say that as I nearly bricked my pc when I decided to “what could it hurt” update my bios even tho I didn’t need to.
Removing the battery did the job to reset the bios and I got life back out of my pc.
Forgive me, but did you try resetting the bios? I had a dell optiplex which used to lose its mind everytime there was an improper shutdown mostly due to power outage, I had to reset the bios for it to work again.
Looking forward to your VR experience. I've done it twice, this year and also in 1991. Quite the difference!
15:36 but you did say you bought it a long time ago so maybe that can be chalked up to the dark ages of GPU pricing when a 3070 was worth $700ish by itself, which brings me to the end of this comment, until the next time thank you for reading, bye bye!
I love that H. R. Giger looking green Alienware chewing the scenery even in the background.
666k subscribers. This channel needs an exorcism.
isnt dawid jewish? if so i think he would find that number to be beautiful
@@polarvortex6601 I'm not sure. At the risk of stereotyping most jewish people I know are very intelligent :)
@@doobybrother21 i didnt say that they were stupid. i just said that the number 6 is pretty special for them. if you have peeked in to the kabbalah and zohar and even talmud you will know that was i just said above its true :)
666 is a number of a man and has nothing to do with whatever you think it is
Very noble of you to use and give a shout out to Linus’s scree driver.
scam-driver
Sometimes a faulty nvme drive make the pc not boot. I was building a pc once and got a faulty crucial p2. Whenever I plugged it in it didnt make the PC boot , removing it would make the pc boot.
The extreme sarcasm in these videos is what got me addicted to dawid's videos
I have a Cosmos Elite and suitable pc. But, I think the lenses might be short throw. I can't get a stable clear image without it being a skull vice.
Anna needs to put Dawid on a stricter allowance.🤣
Isn't Predator an Acer brand, not HP?
He is drunk.
Thanks for another vid Dawid! Can't wait for the VR plays!
You really need a post card and power supply tester
Do post cards work in modern PC's? I was just thinking of how handy that would be, but something in my mind is saying they don't work with modern PC's for some reason...
Am I right or wrong?
@@volvo09 I believe there are PCIe pluggable ones nowadays, but it's usually just easier to get small PC speaker lol
The pcie cards work well and you can see the voltage the rails are putting out
@@CarbonPanther thanks, I have idea why I was thinking that then.
I appreciate you trying to make it feel natural putting in the lexar ram for the sponsor. Love your videos!
can't believe he didn't reset the bios, im 8 minutes in and he's replacing everything lol
One thing I find that helps with troubleshooting, most motherboards still have a speaker header so keeping a supply of those little piezo electric beepers on hand to plug in really helps with this because they still have beep codes
For the price you paid for that PC, seems like it was the one that shattered your prostate along with your wallet.
You should get a speaker for the motherboard, really helps with identifying issues, for example you can remove the ram and if the system bips it means the mobo and processor seems to be working, if doesnt bip the problem is on the mobo or cpu since the system looks for the processor first, ram second.
When i start working on a pc that isnt working i first wipe the cmos. That often helps. Did you try this?
I would have tried that too, just yank the battery and try again in a bit.
he was drunk while troubleshooting this. Basically he just did not want to diagnose the motherboard coz he could just replace it.
Great video as always! I also said “I bet it’s the riser cable” right off the hop, so we were both at least partially right lol.
As a huge VR nerd, I’m very much looking forward to your next video! OptimumTech did one recently where he used it for his racing sim… perhaps you’ll be breaking yours out again? 🤔
you forgot to reset the bios it could have overclocked wrong or have a bad bios update.
exactly
Another episode of Dawid gets screwed on a used PC LOL
Serious question: why is step 2 not connecting a mobo speaker for post error code beeps?
Just posted the same comment. Was wondering the same thing.
he was drunk while making this video.
I have to say, Dawid really likes to tempt the Elma with all these Acer machines.
Acer loser desktop's disappointed at being called an HP at 10:42.
and 11:08
This is why I don't want to mess with vertical mount video card brackets. Sure, when they work, they work, but it's always going to be an additional and arguably unnecessary point of failure.
That lexar ad was sick. Like a John woo and. Linus Tech tips sponsor ad all in one.
Could be the CPU mounting bracket. LGA 1700 is notorious for memory issues when not properly mounted. The official bracket design doesn't apply pressure evenly. That's why aftermarket brackets are so popular.
And, if still not working, it might have corrupted BIOS. You can either sell it cheap, or buy a SPI programmer.
Dawid.. with your glorious hair and powers of resurrecting PCs ..we should start calling you Computer Jesus!! 😅
I think that case looks pretty dope! The vertical GPU is a good idea too
10:31 The price tag on that mobo made me spit out some coffee.
You could get a buzzer for these type of mobos. Then we can all enjoy the lullaby of some good old fashioned beeps.
Did you get new cameras, cause damn that looks good.
You're videos are so funny, love the innuendos, keep up the good work
Fyi, in the past PCs would "beep" errors. So the front panel header should have an option to connect a buzzer and it will beep a code that will be referable via the manual.
But watching you diagnose, is way more fun :).
hey david , just put some aux speakers in rear aux port(green ) it may give you sound beeps like signal for different posting etc issues which you can google for what error it is according to brand
watching this is the equivalent of Dawid dangling his balls over a tank of sharks 😂
Dawid trying to fix eBay VD-PC??? Hell yeah!
Dawid still has not apologised for calling left-handed calling as lesser people. What a man.
I found the exact listing you posted. Sold for the exact same price as you paid for it.
It states that the motherboard does not boot. You knew exactly what you bought.
0:11 Hey man, when the Pixie had got you, she's got you BAD.
Instant thumbs up upon hearing the sound of of a scifi predator upon the mention of the word predator
PC Diags 101: (I agree on the system speaker comments from others, but if somehow not available:) Remove all the add-on cards, Ram, GPU, SSD etc. Reset Bios. Check CPU seat. Test post with known good CPU, GPU, Ram, PSU start re-adding original things. My bet would be the board is fine, but had a bad bios loadout. Someone tried to OC improperly maybe. Otherwise fair enough process.
this was a rollercoaster ride. 10/10
looks like it's definitely from the berlin major in 2022. One of their sponsors was Acer Predator which is actually really cool :)
It's amazing that a dead motherboard can still send power through the computer. In my experience, it often doesn't work at all. It's totally dead. When the RAM was broken, my Computers always got stuck on the post screen. Dead CPU nothing, dead PSU nothing at all.
Free tip: Most of these boards still have speaker outputs for the POST codes. You can just plug a little mini speaker in and get them that way.
Finished video... wouldn't have helped. Oh well!
Smashing keys on the keyboard is one of my favorite go to moves.
Losing the riser was "wiser"
Thanks for the laughs brother!
7:22 I'm gonna laugh if it's the PSU again.
I recently fixed my RTX 4090, i7-13700 build. You wanna know why it stopped turning on? One of my RAM sticks went bad. The motherboard refused to boot while that stick was plugged in. It works fine with only the one good working stick in it. That is how annoying PC problems can be. I tested each stick in all 4 RAM slots until the system booted. 😩
Hey Dawid, great video as always. Love your style. BTW, what is the benchmark overlay software you use for game testing? I can't seem to find a link in your videos, and i haven't heard you name it before.
Always glad to see a new video from you.
666K subscribers. Best way to celebrate it is with some devilish VR vomiting really.
Good lucky with the VR! Unfortunately, it can be really complicated to get VR to work optimally, but if you're testing a popular title like Half Life Alyx, it should work right away. It's absolutely wonderful to play in VR after you got your "VR legs", but start with something simple like Beat Saber and maybe use teleportation in Half Life Alyx, otherwise you probably gonna feel nauseous your first time.
As wallet-destroying as videos like this can be, these are my favorite types of videos on your channel
Glad to see good ad👏🏻good for u lexar,great memory
You published a video on my birthday! I am honored
u should have tried putting the gpu in another slot ive seen some videos where thats the problem just the slot
Shouldn't it give out beep-codes when you put a piezo speaker in it?