Everyone: WOW the repair is amazing etc. Me: No one even noticed the "Make Earth Flat Again" hat i spent most of the editing time on I have no hope for humanity anymore.
@@thelespauldude3283 Well the latency would depend on the length of the connection, not if it's a wire or a path on a PCB. Both use coper and wires cab be shorter than the path of a signal path on a PCB. Remember Cray? they were once the absolute super computer masters. Well some of their early computers were using wrapped wires between the components instead of a PCB with traces. This allowed them to design the computer in 3 Dimensions rather than 2 Dimensions as a PCB forces you too do. That way the data paths were shorter and they could run the system at higher frequencies. This is part of how they were able to provide more performance than their competitors. So wire wrapping or soldering the components is harder to do, but theoretically they could be faster. Cut hey, even if you were forced to run it slower it would be a very cool GPU. Just a PCI-e connector and a blob of wires and components. In fact Cray were also water cooling their supercomputers, but of course in their own interesting way. I'm not sure how the cooling of the components were done, but they didn't use a radiator to cool the water. Instead they made the cooler a decorative waterfall that was letting the water fall down a panel and end up in a little pool. Today you can buy similar waterfalls that can be mounted to a wall as a decoration. Again to make their computers more art than equipment they made the chassi look like a round bench. In the middle there were a tower with parts of the computer. The "bench" was even covered with cushions. A little of topic but for real, wire wrapping was something Cray used to be able to make the fastest supercomputers on earth back in time.
@@ThaWoundedFoxI highly doubt any manufacturer would go through this effort on an RMA. It would be cheaper for them to just salvage the core and reflow it onto a brand new PCB that was assembled on a pick and place machine.
I replaced backlght LEDs on my old 75" too when they went out. Not possible anymore on my new OLED. Tho if a Pixel fails on oled it's just one Pixel and not the whole screen.
Same lol I blew my mom's mind when I got her a soundbar because her TV speakers have this annoying rattling sound. The soundbar came with a separate controller which sucks, so I tried all evening to get it to work on a single remote via the TV settings and such. Eventually I found the Apple TV siri remote has this feature that it can learn other remotes inputs and I just settled on that. Every couple of months she calls me just to thank me because she can hear so well now. I enjoy the compliments but it feels wrong because deep down I know I ain't shit.
Yeah, it's like watching a video of someone doing brain surgery. Nevermind that, it's like watching a video of somebody digging up their great-grandad and resurrecting him!
Ive done board level repair for the last 30 years im now 44 and have arthritis in my hands. Im now taking heavy painkillers that make me shake so had to hang up my soldering iron. I do miss the challenges of fault finding but i dont miss fixes like this you sir have the patience of a saint i hope you were paid well for that fix as you deserve every penny. Loved the video great job
I decided to get away from board lever work ages ago... I did it for aerospace too... multilayer boards suck,, no way you can work on some... they just can't handle the replacing components on them... and the stuff is made like junk in factories,, the components, if you can get them are often proprietary, and hard to figure out what the numbers are, not always labeled. The once in a while fixing a bad solder joint is ok, but with the microelectronic components they are just way too tiny to mess with (a soldering iron can do more damage)... I worked with components under microscopes, with the best equipment there is to test in engineering.. It is usually cheaper to buy a whole new thing, than to mess with things, especially when replacement parts cost more than a whole new. Add neurological disease, with shaking hands and no way. The CPU pins on my Asus Z790 motherboard would be impossible to mess with. if they get touched the board is ruined. Power supplies can be fixed often, if the parts are labeled to find a replacement.
@@retiredat44 Wow! How'd you get into that. Been thinking of getting into engineering myself since i've already got my foot in the door for the defense sector in multiple ways. It's just a no brainer career move now. Would love to do what you were doing, but in the defense sector. Sad part is, i think i'd have it easy since more than a few pieces of hardware i've touched were so old that they actually had chipsets instead of north and south bridges and most of the chips are large enough to be fairly easy to manipulate.
I'm sorry, man. Arthritis sucks. I'm 66 and my left knee is giving me a bad time. I take 3 Tylenol and 3 motrin after I get out of bed then wait 30 minutes before I try to move around. Getting old is hard. My Mom is 91 and still doing okay, although she doesn't get around very well anymore. I used to do board level repair. It was very satisfying to find a problem and fix it. But these days with ultra tight spacing, multi layer boards, and all surface mount components, I just warranty replace the board. Tracing down a broken trace internal to the board is too much agony for me.
I thought the same. I think that the cheaper 4090s haven‘t enough - i forgot, its more at the beginning of the video - powerstages (?) so it gets more hot.
A month ago, I knocked a mug of coffee over on my desk right above my PC standing under my desk. It abruptly switches off, and I understandably lose my mind. Over the next 2 days I carefully disassembled and cleaned every millimeter of my motherboard, CPU, RAM and Graphics card, and apprehensively switched it back on. Everything worked perfectly, and I felt like the king of the world! Watching this video, I realise I am nothing. I know nothing. I will achieve nothing. YOU SIR, ARE A GOD AMONG MEN! AMAZING WORK!
And this is why never place any PC or electric device below the desk level. If you cant do it, then get a new desk. Its much cheaper than killing your PC with a dumb accident. The cheaper solution is, that dont eat and drink at the desk.
@@talos86 Not necessarily. The desk setup we have at our tiny flat simply doesn't have the space for the two workstations it needs to support, and even if replacing the desk had the potential to fix that issue, it'd rival the cost of the PC that's sitting under it if not exceed it (a lot of it was handed down or bought used or gotten for free)
one important thing is, don't underestimate yourself. You reacted emotionally, but then made the right decisions, to ultimately resolve the incident. I know I once pressed power button on laptop right after spill incident.. All the difference here is skillset.
I've watched over a thousand hours of repair videos at this point. I went from Louis Rossman, to NorthridgeFix, to ModzvilleUSA, to TheCod3r, and now I watch a sh*t ton of your videos. I will be getting my tools soon and have confidence I will do well. Thank you and everyone else here on youtube for the thousand+ of hours of knowledge.
I get $150 for Xbox X and PS hdmi replacements. And I have gotten them down to a science. Can have them done under an hour thats fully disassembled and reassembled. This is baby work compared to what you just did. Some comments saying $400 and $500. I see $1000 to $1500 value easy. The skill needed to do that work without damaging further is world class alone. Re-balling chips.... Serious work there.
@@calceus2640 $1000-1500 is not half the price of a 4090. i can get a brand new 4090 for $1600. why should i take the risk of fixing a broken one that has no guarantee that it wont break again later.
So many repairshop can do this but they don't. normally this kind a repair costs more than a new device.i think this man just took this as a challenge and video oportunity. Great job btw
Thinking of that BGA chips.. There's literally thousands of ways this repair could have gone wrong. But here you are, a true champion of rework. Even Louis Rossmann would salute to you, sir. At this stage, repair is probably way more fun than actually gaming on that 4090!
Can't speak for him on this but doing repair rework is not what I would consider fun, mostly because you know that one mistake, one slip - and at best you have to clean up and start over, at worst you broke/damaged something you can't fix like the PCB and you have to get very lucky to find like he did.
This is the kind of work that is done out of passion, as otherwise it would be economically unviable. It is clear that you are passionate about your work. Congratulations and continue
This is crazy man. I can believe you can do all that and have it be cheaper than a new card! I can't tell you have careful I have been with my 4090. It is 13 months old now. Knock on wood, never had a problem yet. I use a bracket that came with the motherboard to support the card to keep it from sagging or cracking. Great video man!
I thought I was a pretty decent amateur DIY fix it guy, but then I see this and I am very, very humbled. I can't believe that was a viable repair. Hats off to you sir.
Just found your account. Holy crap this is the craziest repair I have ever seen on a PCB. I am an ET that only gets to replace component level items, so much respect for the rebuild. Had to of taken 20 hours easy, right? I would never even dare something so time consuming. If it didn't work I would of lost it.
Not gonna lie, I love your repairs but this video with all the hard work that included all that transplant from a dead card onto the other one which already has been a donor (stripped off of almost everything), plus the epic music made me cry. Of happiness man. Bless you, and all your hard work! You are an incredible electrical & IT engineer ! May you live long, healthy, and may you find all the peace and love and happiness that you deserve, my friend!
Man, you are the electronic engineer that I wanted to grow up to be!!! The repairs are just works of art. Never thought this level of repair is possible and I just kept watching till the end... Respect!
This guy is a god at fixing these type of stuff, I could never deal with this type of work, I don't understand all the solutions you use and for me it seems like it is messed up being wet from it all and then you just show it spot clean. Amazing
@@ahmedbenlahrech5352from my middling understanding, each specialty will have its surgeries, ophthalmologists doing cataracts, OBGYNs doing hysterectomies, so while neurologists focus on nerves and CNS, doesn’t mean they won’t have some complex ass surgeries bordering specialist neurosurgeons
"But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career." You have skills I will never have. It is nice to watch a master at work...I bend a few pins on a motherboard and I just trash it and go get another one cause I have zero skills :(
Well, you could have given it to someone who can fix it you know. There are people who will fix things for a sixpack of beer or your sisters phone number or something. Or money, but depending on what it is that needs to be fixed it may or not be worth it. Bent CPU socket pins can be a quick and fairly easy fix if you find a guy who has magnifier and tools for precision work like for example I used to have. I would have fixed bent pins for free or a beer or two. Unless the bent pins are very badly bent in which case the socket has to be replaced and you start looking at special equipment being required that cost more than a thousand. Meaning a specialized workshop like this guy making the video has.
If this were an episode of a show called "The Technomancer", I'd pay full platform subscription fees to binge watch a gazillion seasons of it. I found this video while searching for instructional videos on how to disassemble, clean and reassemble my 1080FE safely (didn't find any that helped), and promptly forgot all about it. You, sir, are an inspiration and a distant benchmark of excellence for an amateur like me whose enthusiasm far outstrips my knowledge. Subbed, and many thanks for sharing your thought process as you worked. I didn't understand most of what was happening, but I hope to learn more while watching more of your work.
I’ve worked in repair industries before (boat mechanic’s assistant, semi truck lube tech, e-bike mechanic) and no matter what particular object that needs repair, there’s always that one project that you look back on and you’re like, “how tf did I get that working?”. This looked like one of those! Congratulations man, that was like watching a surgeon do a full body transplant, perfectly.
This was extremely impressive work and world class attention to detail…and you even filmed the entire process. Hats off to you my friend. Truly amazing!
This isn’t repair, this is ART my dear sir. These days with the economy and masters like you being so rare, no one could afford the labor costs. Amazing video
The first thing that comes to mind, was that you are an amazing transplant "surgeon" in your own rights and realm, using equipment and methods that I can see but not comprehend. I am amazed by the amount of effort and care put into the transplant of the components from the old PCB to the donor one. Good work and amazing.
I haven't done any board level repair since all you needed was a soldering iron, some cleaner and a solder remover, your skill level in topped out. I think the last repair I did was replacing memory chips on a GPU with only 2 MB vram back in the 90's. Honestly, I'm truly impressed that you are able to work with these modern components so easily. Great job!
I reattached one mosfet a long time ago and thought I was cool...your skill is so impressive. I could watch you do this all day, it's mesmerizing. Great fix!
The fact that you can repair and understand it all is amazing. The patients you must have as well. I enjoyed the entire video. The song for “the transfer” was a good fit for the process. Keep it up!
I agree - I'd expect it to be cheaper for him to get a new 4090 than transfer the components onto a donor board (which itself was damaged). Feel for him a little , there's no warranty which would cover obvious impact damage like that .
@@northwestrepair$500+ as far as I'm concerned, it is better than paying $2000 for a used one on eBay of unknown origin and condition. Keep up the great work and entertaining videos 👍 Cheers 🍻
@enkur1972 A 4090, I hope he charged at least $400, no make that $500+ for this repair. It's a 4090, a used one on eBay is around $2000+. At least this one had been looking at, all temps checked, serviced and has a guarantee on the repair. A used one from eBay is, well, it could be being sold for a bad reason. No, paying at least $500 for this 4090 repair is definitely better than paying $2000 for a used one from eBay of unknown origin and condition 👍
This repair is nothing short of amazing. The amount of things that could go wrong and for it to all go right shows years of experience doing this and saving money to buy equipment to save time. I know at one point you had to do this with sub par equipment and it was even harder but the amount of work even with all the specialized equipment is crazy. Thank you for saving these gpu’s!
Your knowledge and skill handling these boards is amazing , I was captivated and if I wasnt too old , I would be requesting to come work under you for free to learn this craft as its extremely interesting to me. Great repair.
High-end GPUs usually comes with 3 to 5 years warranty. If the GPU stop working the user send it back to where he originally bought it and they should send him a new one.
@@iLeicha 2-3 years is standard for pc parts, high end or low end makes no difference. some manufacturers might offer an additional 1 year warranty on some products, but you're not getting a 5 year warranty from retailers unless you buy their extended warranty. they would go bankrupt if they did
@@iLeichaNvidia and the manufacturers don't recognize the damages done to the 4090 in most cases so you literally have a paper weight card when it breaks power connector and PCB cracking on the 4090 is not covered by warranty LMFAOOOOOOO
I'm more thinking of the person who ripped their board apart only to discover that it wasn't the board that was the problem! That donor board must have had a story. I'm guessing this was a miner though, so limited sympathy.
You sir are an amazing person to sit there fix something so complicated. I commend you for your hard work and attention to detail. I wish I knew of a person with your skills in my country. All the best and thank you.
In Poland, we have service technicians who repair damaged pads with great success. You need to manually remove the pads that are close to the damaged ones and which look good but in fact do not stick well, then use a very hard solder mask to attach the new ones (transparent soldermask) . All you need is willingness, good equipment and knowledge. They normally provide a warranty for such repairs and it is very rare for someone to come back with a complaint.
a rare skill that to make some repair techs almost super human at what they do, super precise soldering, i envy the skill you've achieved my guy! keep on doing god's work!
As far as answering the tag line that 50% of all 4090s will end up in the trash, I guess it is because there are many of these boards that need such extensive repair that very few technicians can do it, or most people would not pay to have this amount of work done.
Just Unreal your skill is masterful. I'm speechless at your precision. I've been told masters make the act look easy...you sir are a master at your craft! ❤
OMG what a repair! You have definitely memorized a very useful skill. I wonder, do you get neck cramps? I don't think I would have this much patience... bravo!!!
Any GPU can break at some point. NVIDIA being the top of the star recently thanks to all melting connectors and some weird ass cables. I would rather solder them directly onto the PCB and not give a single F about the looks.
@@jonny11bonk That's how I fixed a grand son's 4090 after a melted connector that even had a safety clip to make sure the wire was secured. Works great now and been running that way for a long time now.
@@jonny11bonk Looks are useless in pc world to be honest. people dont even waste their time looking the hardware, they waste their time in the damn screen. i still dont get it with all this crap about looks lol
I am a PCB engineer at a megacorp and this skill astounds me. The best I can do is QFP / QFN package rework. Anything BGA I send off to people like you, thank you for making this video!
I have a degree in Computer Science, so I mainly deal with software issues. But I have to say I'm impressed with your skills. You're a wizard. My hat is off. 👍
I have always envied people who can do such repairs, use all those tools, fix small components and know exactly what they are doing. Looks so amazing to me.
I have never seen this kind of thing done before, I have done some simple soldering and repair, but not at this level of technical complexity ... thank you for the video, it is fascinating to see how this is done ... I wish my university course had been better, but they were a bit useless in teaching practical skills, and there was so little student support, that it was impossible to make enough money quickly enough to have enough time to sleep and remain focused ... sadly the tertiary education sector has declined over the past decades, and is now almost if not completely dysfunctional unless you are rich enough to buy what may still exist somewhere but is not offered for free anymore (at least not in my country) ... I am very jealous of people who get to actually learn and do such fascinating things, but I continue to try teaching myself stuff on a budget of nothing
Everyone: WOW the repair is amazing etc.
Me: No one even noticed the "Make Earth Flat Again" hat i spent most of the editing time on
I have no hope for humanity anymore.
I saw that and laughed a bit
I guess the joke fell flat.
i saw i was too busy trying to make more versions of the hat and failing.
I was busy contracting a local company to make them
Saw it😅 but I was even more amused by the flux smile face 😂😂
Not many people can say they have a hand-built 4090 - bravo dude
Now how about a wire wound 4090. Skip the PCB and wire wind everything! Now that would be next level...
@@blahorgaslisk7763the amount of latency a wire would have would make it perform like a 20 year old gpu
@@thelespauldude3283 Well the latency would depend on the length of the connection, not if it's a wire or a path on a PCB. Both use coper and wires cab be shorter than the path of a signal path on a PCB.
Remember Cray? they were once the absolute super computer masters. Well some of their early computers were using wrapped wires between the components instead of a PCB with traces. This allowed them to design the computer in 3 Dimensions rather than 2 Dimensions as a PCB forces you too do. That way the data paths were shorter and they could run the system at higher frequencies. This is part of how they were able to provide more performance than their competitors.
So wire wrapping or soldering the components is harder to do, but theoretically they could be faster.
Cut hey, even if you were forced to run it slower it would be a very cool GPU. Just a PCI-e connector and a blob of wires and components.
In fact Cray were also water cooling their supercomputers, but of course in their own interesting way.
I'm not sure how the cooling of the components were done, but they didn't use a radiator to cool the water. Instead they made the cooler a decorative waterfall that was letting the water fall down a panel and end up in a little pool. Today you can buy similar waterfalls that can be mounted to a wall as a decoration. Again to make their computers more art than equipment they made the chassi look like a round bench. In the middle there were a tower with parts of the computer. The "bench" was even covered with cushions.
A little of topic but for real, wire wrapping was something Cray used to be able to make the fastest supercomputers on earth back in time.
What? Anybody who practically had to rma their gpu has one of these. What are u talking about lol.
@@ThaWoundedFoxI highly doubt any manufacturer would go through this effort on an RMA. It would be cheaper for them to just salvage the core and reflow it onto a brand new PCB that was assembled on a pick and place machine.
My mom thought I was a genius when I replaced a couple of caps in her flatscreen TV and got it working again. Then there's this guy.
😅😅😅 Well moms are moms
Your mom is right !
I replaced backlght LEDs on my old 75" too when they went out. Not possible anymore on my new OLED. Tho if a Pixel fails on oled it's just one Pixel and not the whole screen.
well this guy has been doing this for years so definitely a master already.
Same lol I blew my mom's mind when I got her a soundbar because her TV speakers have this annoying rattling sound. The soundbar came with a separate controller which sucks, so I tried all evening to get it to work on a single remote via the TV settings and such. Eventually I found the Apple TV siri remote has this feature that it can learn other remotes inputs and I just settled on that. Every couple of months she calls me just to thank me because she can hear so well now.
I enjoy the compliments but it feels wrong because deep down I know I ain't shit.
I have no idea wtf is happening in this video, but I feel a large amount of respect for this man
Yes.
I'll tell you.He proved that magic exist
Same...
+1
Yeah, it's like watching a video of someone doing brain surgery. Nevermind that, it's like watching a video of somebody digging up their great-grandad and resurrecting him!
You know theres an AI server somewhere watching your videos thinking "this human is valuable"
This is absolutely correct :D
LOL no the AI is thinking that human has the wrong number of fingers.
There's an AI somewhere thinking dirty thoughts while watching his videos.
No its thinking how can i recycle this and make money from plagiarizing his content...
@@scottstamm7022"Whoa... exposed contacts... kinky"
Ive done board level repair for the last 30 years im now 44 and have arthritis in my hands. Im now taking heavy painkillers that make me shake so had to hang up my soldering iron. I do miss the challenges of fault finding but i dont miss fixes like this you sir have the patience of a saint i hope you were paid well for that fix as you deserve every penny. Loved the video great job
I decided to get away from board lever work ages ago... I did it for aerospace too... multilayer boards suck,, no way you can work on some... they just can't handle the replacing components on them... and the stuff is made like junk in factories,, the components, if you can get them are often proprietary, and hard to figure out what the numbers are, not always labeled. The once in a while fixing a bad solder joint is ok, but with the microelectronic components they are just way too tiny to mess with (a soldering iron can do more damage)... I worked with components under microscopes, with the best equipment there is to test in engineering.. It is usually cheaper to buy a whole new thing, than to mess with things, especially when replacement parts cost more than a whole new. Add neurological disease, with shaking hands and no way. The CPU pins on my Asus Z790 motherboard would be impossible to mess with. if they get touched the board is ruined. Power supplies can be fixed often, if the parts are labeled to find a replacement.
Christopher's complete tissue and bone ointment. Thank me later.
@@retiredat44 Wow! How'd you get into that. Been thinking of getting into engineering myself since i've already got my foot in the door for the defense sector in multiple ways. It's just a no brainer career move now. Would love to do what you were doing, but in the defense sector. Sad part is, i think i'd have it easy since more than a few pieces of hardware i've touched were so old that they actually had chipsets instead of north and south bridges and most of the chips are large enough to be fairly easy to manipulate.
I'm sorry, man. Arthritis sucks. I'm 66 and my left knee is giving me a bad time. I take 3 Tylenol and 3 motrin after I get out of bed then wait 30 minutes before I try to move around.
Getting old is hard.
My Mom is 91 and still doing okay, although she doesn't get around very well anymore.
I used to do board level repair. It was very satisfying to find a problem and fix it. But these days with ultra tight spacing, multi layer boards, and all surface mount components, I just warranty replace the board. Tracing down a broken trace internal to the board is too much agony for me.
Sorry to hear that & at your age that way not fair.
I can't wrap my head around half of what you're actually doing, but I can't stop watching either. Excellent work my friend.
The amount of work needed for this repair was insane 😱
I'd really like to know how much this cost. This was an insane amount of work indeed!
at least half of New Card's price for repair cost.
@@venerandarain3 an RTX 4090 is $2000 CAD. You say this repair cost $1000? I highly doubt it.
You forget the experience of doing these kinds of repair
@@timarc9895 time he wasted on that card and transfering all that stuf it make sense to cost that much
this is a reminder that there is always someone better
It’s a humbling thought but one that definitely comes with age!
yep
anyone should be able to do this with a bit of practice.
@@icanseeall-inthisreality lol
@@icanseeall-inthisreality A bit? This man has years of experience. Not just practice
I dont think i ever learned why 50% of all 4090s will end up in the trash
I thought the same.
I think that the cheaper 4090s haven‘t enough - i forgot, its more at the beginning of the video - powerstages (?) so it gets more hot.
I mean through the video it's clear that theyre a pain and prone to break easily. I mean if you can't fix it... its gonna end up in the trash
He sorta got one 4090 out of two cards, though this only really explains half of 4090 PCB's.
because it takes 2 to repair 1
Pad damage found after lifting the GPU, but he didn't really explain too much about it.
the first successful brain transplant. in a gpu for now....
Now we need someone try to transplant the GPU into our brain so we can render our po..i mean games directly in our brains at 4K ultra settings.
@@UnimatrixUA-cam
@@UnimatrixUA-cam dude i used to have a broken GPU for such a long time (aphantasia)
@@UnimatrixUA-cam I mean, we already have infinitely powerful specs inside ourselves. It's our imagination.
I think EVGA does this for their returns/warranties. Well, used to do this anyway or at least until their stock runs out.
A month ago, I knocked a mug of coffee over on my desk right above my PC standing under my desk. It abruptly switches off, and I understandably lose my mind. Over the next 2 days I carefully disassembled and cleaned every millimeter of my motherboard, CPU, RAM and Graphics card, and apprehensively switched it back on. Everything worked perfectly, and I felt like the king of the world!
Watching this video, I realise I am nothing. I know nothing. I will achieve nothing.
YOU SIR, ARE A GOD AMONG MEN! AMAZING WORK!
And this is why never place any PC or electric device below the desk level. If you cant do it, then get a new desk. Its much cheaper than killing your PC with a dumb accident. The cheaper solution is, that dont eat and drink at the desk.
First mistake PC on floor
@@talos86 Not necessarily. The desk setup we have at our tiny flat simply doesn't have the space for the two workstations it needs to support, and even if replacing the desk had the potential to fix that issue, it'd rival the cost of the PC that's sitting under it if not exceed it (a lot of it was handed down or bought used or gotten for free)
@talos86 Yep it's a working or gaming place and not a place to eat lunch, snacks or having coffee! 😅
one important thing is, don't underestimate yourself. You reacted emotionally, but then made the right decisions, to ultimately resolve the incident. I know I once pressed power button on laptop right after spill incident..
All the difference here is skillset.
I've watched over a thousand hours of repair videos at this point. I went from Louis Rossman, to NorthridgeFix, to ModzvilleUSA, to TheCod3r, and now I watch a sh*t ton of your videos. I will be getting my tools soon and have confidence I will do well. Thank you and everyone else here on youtube for the thousand+ of hours of knowledge.
I can't even desolder popped capacitors properly and then there's this guy... mad respect.
you need more flux
At one point in his life neither could he
just give up because its not possible to learn, the internet contains 0 information
It's not as hard as people think. You need lots of flux, heat, & practice.
takes time to learn, how much have you been doing doing this for?
This wasn't just any fix... you took it in, nursed it to health and sent it off its way... There's actual love in this video.
No amount of money is proper compensation for this level of patience and dedication.
I bet when his neighbour's dog dies this dude resurrects it
I get $150 for Xbox X and PS hdmi replacements. And I have gotten them down to a science. Can have them done under an hour thats fully disassembled and reassembled. This is baby work compared to what you just did. Some comments saying $400 and $500. I see $1000 to $1500 value easy. The skill needed to do that work without damaging further is world class alone. Re-balling chips.... Serious work there.
at those prices might as well buy a new gpu? lol
@@LCJammer correct.
@@LCJammer There is good damn reason why repairmen is not exactly popular occupation. Especially for this kind of work.
@@LCJammer would you tho? or instead send it to repair for half the price of the new 4090?
@@calceus2640 $1000-1500 is not half the price of a 4090. i can get a brand new 4090 for $1600. why should i take the risk of fixing a broken one that has no guarantee that it wont break again later.
Amazing. You did it like its a minor problem. 99% of the repairshops in my country cant do this. Well done bro. Nice job.
In my country, i would say 99,99 % 😅
So many repairshop can do this but they don't. normally this kind a repair costs more than a new device.i think this man just took this as a challenge and video oportunity. Great job btw
@@erdemyildirim25 I can't imagine this costing less than a used working 4090
This Dude is a single handedly factory with knowlage.. awesome so see someone with true devotion while working.
If a guy who send this for repair see this video , trow some bonus $$$ in there , this was insane repair.
at this point its not even his graphic card
Theseus's GPU?
@@ArminasGondolin Trigger's 4090.
He did actually
Theseus graphics card
Thinking of that BGA chips.. There's literally thousands of ways this repair could have gone wrong. But here you are, a true champion of rework. Even Louis Rossmann would salute to you, sir. At this stage, repair is probably way more fun than actually gaming on that 4090!
Can't speak for him on this but doing repair rework is not what I would consider fun, mostly because you know that one mistake, one slip - and at best you have to clean up and start over, at worst you broke/damaged something you can't fix like the PCB and you have to get very lucky to find like he did.
@@noth606 true, but booting that thing up, watching it post and actually report in the BIOS has to be one of greatest feelings in the world.
1 millipaul of flux was used.
First time commenting on a repair video, but man, you deserve all credit. Absolutely stunning job.
Watching your videos, is like watching a master paint a masterpiece, and so relaxing.
Thank you! Cheers!
Just like Bob Ross the painter
💯%!!
Finally a comment that is grand enough to capture my feelings watching this video. Thank you!
This is the kind of work that is done out of passion, as otherwise it would be economically unviable.
It is clear that you are passionate about your work.
Congratulations and continue
That's what I was thinking, insane amount of work needing some specialised equipment. Can't be cheap to do that much unless you really like doing it
Yes and no, its worth it just to cut down on e-waste alone.
HE'S AN CRAZY GENIUS! great job.
That is why he make it as youtube content
This guy makes youtube videos for a living. The board repair doesn't pay the bills directly.
This is crazy man. I can believe you can do all that and have it be cheaper than a new card! I can't tell you have careful I have been with my 4090. It is 13 months old now. Knock on wood, never had a problem yet. I use a bracket that came with the motherboard to support the card to keep it from sagging or cracking. Great video man!
Imagine repairing a board someone's been using as a donor.
He just did that!
I thought I was a pretty decent amateur DIY fix it guy, but then I see this and I am very, very humbled. I can't believe that was a viable repair. Hats off to you sir.
Wow, this is why you are the GOAT of electronics repairs. Your patience, persistence, and knowledge make for an amazing combination.
The amount of knowledge and time put into this repair is mind blowing. Turning Coal into Diamonds.
Holy moly, that was super impressive! Hope you could take some well deserved rest after that mega fix!
Nope.
@@northwestrepair in Romania they say: rest through work
@@northwestrepair Awesome rescue, and video. How many hours would you estimate this transplant took?
👏
This was his rest.
Re-balling chips is a god tier skill. Probably, the Greatest technician that has ever lived! Thank you for sharing this, I have learned so much!
Just found your account. Holy crap this is the craziest repair I have ever seen on a PCB. I am an ET that only gets to replace component level items, so much respect for the rebuild. Had to of taken 20 hours easy, right? I would never even dare something so time consuming. If it didn't work I would of lost it.
the production value on this video is mind blowing - the editing, the music, adding bits of humor, the practicality - it's in there!
50 + years of repairs and I will still learn from you 😮 That was a lot of work...
Yeah it was.
Not gonna lie, I love your repairs but this video with all the hard work that included all that transplant from a dead card onto the other one which already has been a donor (stripped off of almost everything), plus the epic music made me cry. Of happiness man. Bless you, and all your hard work! You are an incredible electrical & IT engineer ! May you live long, healthy, and may you find all the peace and love and happiness that you deserve, my friend!
Man, you are the electronic engineer that I wanted to grow up to be!!! The repairs are just works of art. Never thought this level of repair is possible and I just kept watching till the end... Respect!
I think I've watched some of his shorts enough that I'm gifted with seeing this on my suggested and I went for it! So glad!
This guy is a god at fixing these type of stuff, I could never deal with this type of work, I don't understand all the solutions you use and for me it seems like it is messed up being wet from it all and then you just show it spot clean. Amazing
As a neurologist, let me tell you I've had way less complicated surgeries. Mad respect.
This would've been perfect if you said "neurosurgeon" instead of neurologist, or I'm just probably r/wooshed
@@ahmedbenlahrech5352from my middling understanding, each specialty will have its surgeries, ophthalmologists doing cataracts, OBGYNs doing hysterectomies, so while neurologists focus on nerves and CNS, doesn’t mean they won’t have some complex ass surgeries bordering specialist neurosurgeons
Pretty rare for a neurologist to perform brain surgery.
@@JB-yx7qh A neurologist could have some brain surgeries on his own brain, tho
since when do neurologist do surgeries? I think someone wanted to sound like a big shot and made a big mistake lol.
"But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career." You have skills I will never have. It is nice to watch a master at work...I bend a few pins on a motherboard and I just trash it and go get another one cause I have zero skills :(
Well, you could have given it to someone who can fix it you know. There are people who will fix things for a sixpack of beer or your sisters phone number or something. Or money, but depending on what it is that needs to be fixed it may or not be worth it. Bent CPU socket pins can be a quick and fairly easy fix if you find a guy who has magnifier and tools for precision work like for example I used to have. I would have fixed bent pins for free or a beer or two. Unless the bent pins are very badly bent in which case the socket has to be replaced and you start looking at special equipment being required that cost more than a thousand. Meaning a specialized workshop like this guy making the video has.
If this were an episode of a show called "The Technomancer", I'd pay full platform subscription fees to binge watch a gazillion seasons of it. I found this video while searching for instructional videos on how to disassemble, clean and reassemble my 1080FE safely (didn't find any that helped), and promptly forgot all about it. You, sir, are an inspiration and a distant benchmark of excellence for an amateur like me whose enthusiasm far outstrips my knowledge. Subbed, and many thanks for sharing your thought process as you worked. I didn't understand most of what was happening, but I hope to learn more while watching more of your work.
I thought i would enter a video about someone talking bs about the 4090 but it was an amazing repair video. Good job
I’ve worked in repair industries before (boat mechanic’s assistant, semi truck lube tech, e-bike mechanic) and no matter what particular object that needs repair, there’s always that one project that you look back on and you’re like, “how tf did I get that working?”. This looked like one of those! Congratulations man, that was like watching a surgeon do a full body transplant, perfectly.
At that point seems almost easier to build 4090 from the scratch :).......Keep Up The Good Work!!!!
This was extremely impressive work and world class attention to detail…and you even filmed the entire process. Hats off to you my friend. Truly amazing!
Thanks
This isn’t repair, this is ART my dear sir. These days with the economy and masters like you being so rare, no one could afford the labor costs. Amazing video
This repair left me speechless...super impressive, keep up with those! You're my biggest motivation!
The first thing that comes to mind, was that you are an amazing transplant "surgeon" in your own rights and realm, using equipment and methods that I can see but not comprehend. I am amazed by the amount of effort and care put into the transplant of the components from the old PCB to the donor one. Good work and amazing.
I haven't done any board level repair since all you needed was a soldering iron, some cleaner and a solder remover, your skill level in topped out. I think the last repair I did was replacing memory chips on a GPU with only 2 MB vram back in the 90's. Honestly, I'm truly impressed that you are able to work with these modern components so easily. Great job!
This is a master piece. Not only the skillful labor for this repair, but the camerawork, the music, the editing, everything.
You have such an amount of patient that i will not even dream of.
Greatly done.
i don't know how you make this, your patience is legendary. your work is incredible !!!
You deserve a technical and skill award for successfully completing this procedure.
I reattached one mosfet a long time ago and thought I was cool...your skill is so impressive. I could watch you do this all day, it's mesmerizing. Great fix!
The fact that you can repair and understand it all is amazing. The patients you must have as well. I enjoyed the entire video. The song for “the transfer” was a good fit for the process. Keep it up!
Proud to be among the first ones to see this. What an awesome repair. Thanks for posting!
My master, your hands are blessed.
I have been following your work for a long time, you are doing great work.
Congratulations :))
Thank you! Cheers!
What an insane amount of work and attention to detail. Massive respect.
Wow that was an insane amount of work. I hope you got paid well for all that!
Same pay. Repair complexity and time it takes is not a factor.
At least for now.
@@northwestrepair At least take 2x because 2 cards were involved.
I agree - I'd expect it to be cheaper for him to get a new 4090 than transfer the components onto a donor board (which itself was damaged). Feel for him a little , there's no warranty which would cover obvious impact damage like that .
@@northwestrepair$500+ as far as I'm concerned, it is better than paying $2000 for a used one on eBay of unknown origin and condition.
Keep up the great work and entertaining videos 👍
Cheers 🍻
@enkur1972
A 4090, I hope he charged at least $400, no make that $500+ for this repair. It's a 4090, a used one on eBay is around $2000+. At least this one had been looking at, all temps checked, serviced and has a guarantee on the repair. A used one from eBay is, well, it could be being sold for a bad reason.
No, paying at least $500 for this 4090 repair is definitely better than paying $2000 for a used one from eBay of unknown origin and condition 👍
Bro, you are a legend, literally resurrected it from the dead.
This video is incredible, So well edited and very professional, they just needed to show the video footage under the micro ships,
My respect!!!
This repair is nothing short of amazing. The amount of things that could go wrong and for it to all go right shows years of experience doing this and saving money to buy equipment to save time. I know at one point you had to do this with sub par equipment and it was even harder but the amount of work even with all the specialized equipment is crazy. Thank you for saving these gpu’s!
Nothing short of a skilled surgeon. Having a 4090 myself curious to know what causes ripped pads
This was not a repair, this was a surgical procedure! You, sir, are a wizard
Your work ethic, attention to detail, and just the amount you *care* about the work you do is fantastic. We need more peeps like you.
I've done enough soldering work to know that takes skill and patience. Well done.
Your knowledge and skill handling these boards is amazing , I was captivated and if I wasnt too old , I would be requesting to come work under you for free to learn this craft as its extremely interesting to me. Great repair.
Very well done. I can't imagine the sick feeling of someone's 4090 shitting the bed and no longer working.
High-end GPUs usually comes with 3 to 5 years warranty. If the GPU stop working the user send it back to where he originally bought it and they should send him a new one.
@@iLeicha 2-3 years is standard for pc parts, high end or low end makes no difference. some manufacturers might offer an additional 1 year warranty on some products, but you're not getting a 5 year warranty from retailers unless you buy their extended warranty. they would go bankrupt if they did
@@iLeichaNvidia and the manufacturers don't recognize the damages done to the 4090 in most cases so you literally have a paper weight card when it breaks power connector and PCB cracking on the 4090 is not covered by warranty LMFAOOOOOOO
I'm more thinking of the person who ripped their board apart only to discover that it wasn't the board that was the problem! That donor board must have had a story. I'm guessing this was a miner though, so limited sympathy.
Best episode of law & order yet!
You sir are an amazing person to sit there fix something so complicated. I commend you for your hard work and attention to detail. I wish I knew of a person with your skills in my country. All the best and thank you.
1000 dollar worth repairs we’ll done captain 🎉
None of his friends can recognize him anymore but he will live lol. Amazing work as usual!
In Poland, we have service technicians who repair damaged pads with great success. You need to manually remove the pads that are close to the damaged ones and which look good but in fact do not stick well, then use a very hard solder mask to attach the new ones (transparent soldermask) . All you need is willingness, good equipment and knowledge. They normally provide a warranty for such repairs and it is very rare for someone to come back with a complaint.
I am speechless... Legendary repair🙌
'What sorcery is this?' Great work from the Wizard once more.
a rare skill that to make some repair techs almost super human at what they do, super precise soldering, i envy the skill you've achieved my guy! keep on doing god's work!
7:18 You missed an opportunity right there "the short is gone"
🤣🤣🤣from northbridgefix.... And from Sorin: "we have a picture! Can't believe!" 🤣🤣🤣
@@adaniel69 better than factory
Hello Doctor... Good surgery as always! You're in different level.. Congrats.
Repair done. Cost: price of a new 4090 ;) - mad respect of your work !
As far as answering the tag line that 50% of all 4090s will end up in the trash, I guess it is because there are many of these boards that need such extensive repair that very few technicians can do it, or most people would not pay to have this amount of work done.
Came for the "Why", stayed for the "How". Amazing work!
Just Unreal your skill is masterful. I'm speechless at your precision. I've been told masters make the act look easy...you sir are a master at your craft! ❤
Damn this must be such a tedious task even for you. Btw, love how you separate two solder balls already joined together 😅
What i think about this repair ? I think you are the goat , that's what i think . Amazing work .
OMG what a repair! You have definitely memorized a very useful skill. I wonder, do you get neck cramps? I don't think I would have this much patience... bravo!!!
your repairs are so fascinating to watch
0:18 Asus would've denied any warranty for that chip on the pcb. (Proof: they did for my mobo)
I was absolutely mesmerized watching you repair that card. I would've just said screw it and thrown it out and bought a new one. Way To Go!!!!
every time i watch a 4090 repair video im glad i bought a 7900xtx
Any GPU can break at some point. NVIDIA being the top of the star recently thanks to all melting connectors and some weird ass cables. I would rather solder them directly onto the PCB and not give a single F about the looks.
@@jonny11bonk That's how I fixed a grand son's 4090 after a melted connector that even had a safety clip to make sure the wire was secured. Works great now and been running that way for a long time now.
@@jonny11bonk Looks are useless in pc world to be honest. people dont even waste their time looking the hardware, they waste their time in the damn screen. i still dont get it with all this crap about looks lol
7900xtx is a nice card if your budget is tight
Amd lagged in all my games and has inferior drivers. Sad but true.
Perfect, upload just before my sleep time
Same
perfect :)
Lol me with my insomnia
The amount of effort and knowledge being shown in this video drives me crazy. You are a miracle worker.
I laughed so hard at 2:54 :P Was not ready for the Law and order thing
I know nothing about fixing electronics, but I do like to watch this kind of video.
I am a PCB engineer at a megacorp and this skill astounds me. The best I can do is QFP / QFN package rework. Anything BGA I send off to people like you, thank you for making this video!
Knowledge + Experience + Precision god bless you 🙏
7:19 and the short is gone
Magical!!
I have a degree in Computer Science, so I mainly deal with software issues. But I have to say I'm impressed with your skills. You're a wizard. My hat is off. 👍
Yeah but 50% of them and nothing of the sort are headed for the trash.
I have always envied people who can do such repairs, use all those tools, fix small components and know exactly what they are doing. Looks so amazing to me.
Reworking someone else's mess is a nightmare. Kudos to you NWR for enduring this repair (build).
I have never seen this kind of thing done before, I have done some simple soldering and repair, but not at this level of technical complexity ... thank you for the video, it is fascinating to see how this is done ... I wish my university course had been better, but they were a bit useless in teaching practical skills, and there was so little student support, that it was impossible to make enough money quickly enough to have enough time to sleep and remain focused ... sadly the tertiary education sector has declined over the past decades, and is now almost if not completely dysfunctional unless you are rich enough to buy what may still exist somewhere but is not offered for free anymore (at least not in my country) ... I am very jealous of people who get to actually learn and do such fascinating things, but I continue to try teaching myself stuff on a budget of nothing