Yes you're right. That cap looks bad but it's testing good. I ended up changing the Mosfets again this morning along with that bad looking cap. Short was gone like before. I powered on the device and Mosfets went bad again. Laptop is going back to the customer unfixed unfortunately. .
@@NorthridgeFix Hahaha You always foolproof your videos, so i knew you did! That job was too good of a tease. You gave it your best. 👍 As Hristo Stoichkov says - "Sum tie win, sum tie lewn". 😂
@@NorthridgeFix this is VCC_CORE core line where blown resistor and capacitor you got the short. Most likely a rare event happened - cpu itself is shorted. IC is battery charge controller. And mosftest near by IC gives VIN line
Was going mention that cap amazing work as always HP should seriously offer you a consultation job to help them design better labtops you seem to always be fixing these things and would have a great many ways to help them improve this line.
@ARI GOLD EXPERIENCE but it's sad coz I have a laptop with a similar problem that, similarly, led me to a rabbit hole. I think the processor might be shut, in my case :( I had great hopes that this would give me some pointers. Nice video, tho ;)
I think your work is amazing. Some of the process you use today were simply not available when I went through college, and I totally respect the new advantage processes I'm learning. I think your skills are spot on, to the point, and well equipped to get it done the best way possible. If you say it's a no fix, after learning what all you go through here, I more than respect that. It's not time effective.
When I do stuff like this it is real hard to give up, even if it is no longer cost effective to repair... I respect your ability to say "No Fix" and move on.... I need to learn from you on that I think. :)
high respect to show these repairs ( fix or no fix ). Your expertise has te be paid anyway. After watching your videos, i feel more confident for my own small repair shop. Im often presented challenges. Sometimes im too afraid to even start the repair. But after watching this, even a no fix seems acceptable.
Sir im a cellphone and computer technician here in the philippines and i wanna thank u for your videos i learned so much about troubleshooting, ive watched all your videos and keep uploading.
Failures are not less important than success. They concur to improve your job quality and experience. Bravo!!(In Italian it means "I congratulate with you"). Regards from Italy.
È capace di sostituire solo le porte usb, per il resto non è un riparatore ,si ferma davanti s piccoli problemi,come adesso per un banale corto in giro è perduto.
Non ritengo sia proprio così però fermarsi così presto significherebbe dichiarare il 90% delle riparazioni no fix il che non renderebbe certo il suo lavoro remunerativo. Ha buona tecnica però questo si.
Good attempt, you have to draw the line somewhere. I hope that the customer watches this video to understand that you made a genuine attempt to fix the problem.
This guy is just learned everything diy. He doesn't know how to properly proceed with fixing motherboards. It begins with reading the schematics to understand how the device works. It doesn't have a charging issue, he already put a fully charged battery inside from a donor laptop and proceeded to remove the ic that is responsible for charging the laptop. Big time fail.
Brilliant video! Very good reminder that although something might be possible to fix, it isnt always economic to spend the time to do so (especially when you dont have a schematic and board view). Thank you!
Crazy when you see something on camera before he sees it, and it gets looked over several times. Sometimes having a second set of eyes is great! Maybe consider livestream repairs?
Hello Alex, I'm Caleb from Nigeria. I discovered your channel few days ago and ever since, I've been going through the videos on your channel. You've got great technical skills to show off your ability in this field, you're good at what you do, nice work. Needful to note, seeing all the great works here, I didn't hesitate to hit the subscribe button plus smash the like button for each an evey video I cover, seeing the quality of your works, I started smashing that like button just from the beginning of the video . You're good, pls keep doing more of this . I'd like to know where to get circuit schematic for motherboards of different laptops, hope you wouldn't mind telling me ? #I hope you find this comment .
Would be interesting to see a compilation video of a bunch of your rejected repairs like 30 seconds in you say no fix for this reason, next....and so on. Appreciate you sir. Thank you for sharing your skills knowledge and experience
bravo for the excelent video... try on the coil that you removed to inject 3 volts 3 amps without the coil on the motherbord. with your thermal camera you will see the short circuit... becareful without the coil and inject the voltage on the side with the short circuit...
Absolutely love your show, awesome how you show all the steps you go through and find it adorable how you call your dad "Big Boss" xD hope you and he have a good new year
Don't know what's happening to me I don't usually like a video before watching it but with your videos, I always hit the like from second 1 man! Hahaha! Keep them coming, please!
Curious why didnt use the spare board instead of doing that work? Love the videos tho, I tinker some with electronics as a hobby, and have learned a lot from you.
I'm quite thankful that my HP laptop still works and performs well except for a minor battery problem that can be resolved; if I have the money to replace it.
If you had the circuit diagrams do you think you would have been able to fix it Just thinking that right to repair would have made a massive difference here
Its irritating to me these companies are not forced to release their board diagrams. So many people want to just virtue signal about caring for the planet or more likely they are ignorant to the fact these boards end up polluting landfills only because we cannot fix them. If we had a way to read what does what on these boards the likely hood, they could be repaired goes up by at least 80%! Something here needs to change, and more people need to be onboard with the right to repair!
You can't win them all pal .great video love watching . Out of interest when you injected voltage in to that cap .does it matter what side of the cap ?
Great job as always, I'd like to ask, what is the microscope that you are using? I have decent digital microscope but with built in screen, would like to get something decent without screen to connect to bigger4 lcd
This video shows your good behaviour& honest.thank you sir.
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Great troubleshooting! By the way, where did you got your hot tweezers and what diameter are you using on the hot air nozzel? Thank you for the sharing!
Hi Northridge, just checking if there is any update on your training course... I would be interested in learning from you. Great Video. Cant fix them all.
Hi there , how do you know that on which side of ceramic capacitor must inject the power to find the short ? any side can we inject ?? please explain in your next video . thnx
Hi Alex, big fan. Why send it back with no fix? Why not give the customer the option to replace the board with a board you source on eBay? I usually can generally get any motherboard on eBay for between $75 -$150 with a warranty. I don't have your knowledge, patients or skill so that's generally how I handle repairs and then I sell the defective boards back on eBay stating exactly what issues I had with the board. I think it's a good option and I bet a lot of your customers would appreciate the option.
Thanks Alex, you doing a great job here, I think your grey hair is multiplying becos of the experience you are gathering. Keep it up. Do you have a zoom camera for viewing motherboard on sale, if yes, how much?
Got a spectre with a similar taste for smoked flavor, never solved it, burned a fingertip or two since I have no FLIR. The screen was good and the battery wasn't swollen so it's parting time, not all is lost, I'm starting to love the infamous Asus ROG's lone since they are almost always fixable...
...because it never indicated that it was shorting? Fractured or not, it was still functional. That's the mindset you HAVE GOT TO follow if you attempted to fix a laptop and didn't have the same model to extract any components from. So let's assume you try to remove that cap anyway because you didn't like the way it looks. Great, now you gotta find out its working voltage and capacitance. With no schematics to go on about and no capacitance measuring device, good luck with that.
Hightect Technician. I love their Machine in repairing Laptop most specially the Microscopic system that has Monitor in zooming small parts of Laptop. Is this Machine available in the Market???
omor eh i just dont have strenght to be doing all these, in as much as i enjoyed the video. once the motherboard is bad i cant sit and be wasting my day on it, very clear, i tell the costumer to buy a new motherboard or better still add money and swap for another system. but no cap your work is amazing and those tools you uses i wish i have them. #Greatwork😁👍 🔥
What type of a soldering wire you are using? And how much temperature of the air do you use for removing the chip whithout damaging the pcb. And the diameter of the nozzle did you use the remove the small components?
I am sorry that you put in all of that time and had a no fix result. I have repaired video/audio electronics for over eighteen years in my own shop and I frequently have no fix results. In order to get some money for my efforts, I charge an up-front thirty five dollars troubleshooting fee. At least I earn thirty five dollars when I cant charge the client money for a no fix situation. Frank Frank Reiser Video/Audio Service, Caldwell, NJ.
That's a bad and somewhat selfish wish (though I understand where you're coming from) you're essentially wishing him and his family a lack of a work, business and general livelihood just so he can fulfil your curiosity.
Another great episode of my favorite TV show. 😁👍 That ugly cap has been bugging me ever since 1:57 😠🔥
Yes you're right. That cap looks bad but it's testing good. I ended up changing the Mosfets again this morning along with that bad looking cap. Short was gone like before. I powered on the device and Mosfets went bad again. Laptop is going back to the customer unfixed unfortunately. .
@@NorthridgeFix Hahaha You always foolproof your videos, so i knew you did! That job was too good of a tease. You gave it your best. 👍 As Hristo Stoichkov says - "Sum tie win, sum tie lewn". 😂
@@NorthridgeFix this is VCC_CORE core line where blown resistor and capacitor you got the short. Most likely a rare event happened - cpu itself is shorted. IC is battery charge controller. And mosftest near by IC gives VIN line
Was going mention that cap amazing work as always HP should seriously offer you a consultation job to help them design better labtops you seem to always be fixing these things and would have a great many ways to help them improve this line.
@@em0_tion I miss players like Hristo Stoichkov ,,
I highly respect that you show no fix, it shows integrity.
@ARI GOLD EXPERIENCE but it's sad coz I have a laptop with a similar problem that, similarly, led me to a rabbit hole. I think the processor might be shut, in my case :( I had great hopes that this would give me some pointers. Nice video, tho ;)
Wish you would use spoiler alerts
@@unnamedchannel1237 Wish you would watch the video before rushing to the comments to find them 😆
Spoilers
100% 🙌. Definitely
I appreciate you uploading no fixes, helps us noobs understand the diagnostic route when dealing with tricky boards like this.
This is like watching an operating room procedure performed by a skilled surgeon. Thank you for allowing us to see how it is done.
Surgeon: its not fixable. Send back to family 🤣
It's amazing how fast time flies when fault-finding in electronics.
I think your work is amazing. Some of the process you use today were simply not available when I went through college, and I totally respect the new advantage processes I'm learning. I think your skills are spot on, to the point, and well equipped to get it done the best way possible. If you say it's a no fix, after learning what all you go through here, I more than respect that. It's not time effective.
When I do stuff like this it is real hard to give up, even if it is no longer cost effective to repair... I respect your ability to say "No Fix" and move on.... I need to learn from you on that I think. :)
I suffer the same
Same. But its a difference if you do it for yourself or if you need to get paid for
One of your even more amazing fixes! Your thousands of hours of hard precision work really shone through
Respect brother. I have toiled the internet for years looking for you. It doesn’t get any better.
high respect to show these repairs ( fix or no fix ). Your expertise has te be paid anyway. After watching your videos, i feel more confident for my own small repair shop. Im often presented challenges. Sometimes im too afraid to even start the repair. But after watching this, even a no fix seems acceptable.
Sir im a cellphone and computer technician here in the philippines and i wanna thank u for your videos i learned so much about troubleshooting, ive watched all your videos and keep uploading.
This is the real life in a repair shop. Sometimes the equipment fool us. Thanks for sharing.
Hey, I'll allow you to take a shot at fixing any device I own before I let any other EE out there. I respect your work!!!
That real time resistor blowing video was killer! Love the videos brother!
The whole video I was looking at a cap that was bothering me and looks like it's cracked or something. It drove me nuts.
same
man.. same... i was so annoyed by it.. that capacitor is my nightmare now
Must be hard to draw the line on this, so near, but (maybe)so far. This type of repair must haunt you 😂
Failures are not less important than success. They concur to improve your job quality and experience. Bravo!!(In Italian it means "I congratulate with you"). Regards from Italy.
È capace di sostituire solo le porte usb, per il resto non è un riparatore ,si ferma davanti s piccoli problemi,come adesso per un banale corto in giro è perduto.
Non ritengo sia proprio così però fermarsi così presto significherebbe dichiarare il 90% delle riparazioni no fix il che non renderebbe certo il suo lavoro remunerativo. Ha buona tecnica però questo si.
Good attempt, you have to draw the line somewhere. I hope that the customer watches this video to understand that you made a genuine attempt to fix the problem.
Last words is very important to me. I ever worked on a board that spent 8 Hs and nothing result. It so wasting my time.
Love from Indonesia
I love how this guy diagonised bit by bit ,though not to full success ,but it was the best example for a leaner like me
This Circuit that blow is switching power supply. Google about it, simply 2 mosfets, 1 Coil, capacitors and driver.
This guy is just learned everything diy. He doesn't know how to properly proceed with fixing motherboards. It begins with reading the schematics to understand how the device works. It doesn't have a charging issue, he already put a fully charged battery inside from a donor laptop and proceeded to remove the ic that is responsible for charging the laptop. Big time fail.
Brilliant video! Very good reminder that although something might be possible to fix, it isnt always economic to spend the time to do so (especially when you dont have a schematic and board view). Thank you!
I really love this video because you are an honest Technician. Good job!
Crazy when you see something on camera before he sees it, and it gets looked over several times. Sometimes having a second set of eyes is great!
Maybe consider livestream repairs?
Amazing explanation! I'm from Argentina and while I learn to diagnosis boards I'm practicing my technician English. Thank You a lot!!
Hello Alex, I'm Caleb from Nigeria.
I discovered your channel few days ago and ever since, I've been going through the videos on your channel. You've got great technical skills to show off your ability in this field, you're good at what you do, nice work.
Needful to note, seeing all the great works here, I didn't hesitate to hit the subscribe button plus smash the like button for each an evey video I cover, seeing the quality of your works, I started smashing that like button just from the beginning of the video . You're good, pls keep doing more of this .
I'd like to know where to get circuit schematic for motherboards of different laptops, hope you wouldn't mind telling me ?
#I hope you find this comment .
Keep doing the good work, fixing and helping customer's to fix their devices.
resisting a rabbit hole is hard for me. I respect that you know when to say "no fix"
Would be interesting to see a compilation video of a bunch of your rejected repairs like 30 seconds in you say no fix for this reason, next....and so on. Appreciate you sir. Thank you for sharing your skills knowledge and experience
The shop I’m building will work just like this.
Love it. Thanks for your experience
bravo for the excelent video... try on the coil that you removed to inject 3 volts 3 amps without the coil on the motherbord. with your thermal camera you will see the short circuit... becareful without the coil and inject the voltage on the side with the short circuit...
I truly appreciate ur work...watch every single detail of ur video ....I m a learner ....n learnt so many things frm u
Absolutely love your show, awesome how you show all the steps you go through and find it adorable how you call your dad "Big Boss" xD hope you and he have a good new year
i like the no fix videos more because they are the ones that are more educational
Glad that there are still honest people. Great Channel too.
I learned a lots n lots work ethics from this channel
Congratulations on such an amazing achievement, can't wait to see your channel grow even bigger.
1:59 bottom right corner capacitor looks literally split in half, skips it, sees tiny hole in resistor 😁
I was screaming at the screen that he completely ignored that part.
Are you using the new leds ring light? Maybe it's just placebo effect but image looks more clear and bright!
I greatly admire your work. And I am learning alot on your channel. By the way what is the colourless substance you are pouring on the board.
Don't know what's happening to me I don't usually like a video before watching it but with your videos, I always hit the like from second 1 man! Hahaha! Keep them coming, please!
I appreciate your honesty, big respect!!
I love watching your videos. It’s like therapy plus I’m learning a lot. Thanks for the content
This is Outstanding High Quality educational content! Thank you very much.
Curious why didnt use the spare board instead of doing that work? Love the videos tho, I tinker some with electronics as a hobby, and have learned a lot from you.
I'm guessing the donor board is just a similar board not an exact type of board.
My guess was CPU was blown on donor
You're very patient,sometime there only so much can do. At least you stopped when you knew it would take too much time.
I'm quite thankful that my HP laptop still works and performs well except for a minor battery problem that can be resolved; if I have the money to replace it.
If you had the circuit diagrams do you think you would have been able to fix it
Just thinking that right to repair would have made a massive difference here
Its irritating to me these companies are not forced to release their board diagrams. So many people want to just virtue signal about caring for the planet or more likely they are ignorant to the fact these boards end up polluting landfills only because we cannot fix them. If we had a way to read what does what on these boards the likely hood, they could be repaired goes up by at least 80%! Something here needs to change, and more people need to be onboard with the right to repair!
You can't win them all pal .great video love watching . Out of interest when you injected voltage in to that cap .does it matter what side of the cap ?
That Physically Damaged Capacitor...
You Said Very First In The Beginning...
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This video was much more educational than I expected when I clicked.
Thanks for sharing your experience
I love how you narrow the issue love all your videos thanks for your videos and time 😎🤓😄
Great man ...we appreciate a no fix episode to....thank you
This remind me the nice memories when I use to fix 100 of Honeywell smart meters where I found a lot of short circuit on the PCBs
Great job as always, I'd like to ask, what is the microscope that you are using? I have decent digital microscope but with built in screen, would like to get something decent without screen to connect to bigger4 lcd
Big fan, love from Maldives 🇲🇻
this was as instructional if not more than a straight forward repair... Thank you for sharing
Nice work, what is the temperature of your hot air gun ? those parts come off so quickly !!
Outstanding quality and educational electronics channel. One of the best. Thank you for doing it!
This video shows your good behaviour& honest.thank you sir.
Great troubleshooting! By the way, where did you got your hot tweezers and what diameter are you using on the hot air nozzel? Thank you for the sharing!
I am interested to these two questions too. Thanks!
link to amazon tools, get referral too
Your best video. You can't succeed without failures.
Hi Northridge, just checking if there is any update on your training course... I would be interested in learning from you. Great Video. Cant fix them all.
what temps are you running your air and solder irons? Awesome videos, thanks for sharing
Depends on the solder, some have different melting points.
This tool see electonics like predator perfect work
Hi there , how do you know that on which side of ceramic capacitor must inject the power to find the short ? any side can we inject ?? please explain in your next video . thnx
perfect example of proper troubleshooting process
1:57 yellow capacitor in down right looks to me like he exploded
It looks damaged but its working
hi sir ; its really a good video thank you; can i ask what kind of microscope are you using
Yes kudos for showing it doesn't always work out even if just for the sake of time and human resources. 👏👏👏
This is the best educating video in all your videos...Thanks
مجهود عظيم و رائع . شكرا يا مهندس
good call, we all had these types of jobs, they don't pay the bills
Hi Alex, big fan. Why send it back with no fix? Why not give the customer the option to replace the board with a board you source on eBay? I usually can generally get any motherboard on eBay for between $75 -$150 with a warranty. I don't have your knowledge, patients or skill so that's generally how I handle repairs and then I sell the defective boards back on eBay stating exactly what issues I had with the board. I think it's a good option and I bet a lot of your customers would appreciate the option.
Thanks Alex, you doing a great job here, I think your grey hair is multiplying becos of the experience you are gathering. Keep it up.
Do you have a zoom camera for viewing motherboard on sale, if yes, how much?
Hey, Alex I'm just curious do you charge the customer if it's unfixable? I love your work so much ❤️❤️
Nice video thx. Which soldering station do you use?
Got a spectre with a similar taste for smoked flavor, never solved it, burned a fingertip or two since I have no FLIR.
The screen was good and the battery wasn't swollen so it's parting time, not all is lost, I'm starting to love the infamous Asus ROG's lone since they are almost always fixable...
Real struggle is seen here.Thanks for sharing.
sir please make a video to check each component , its method of checking, as some of viewers are new in this fields ,
Yeah! free tutorials!
Why didn't you remove the big red flag -> the capacitor that was fractured?
...because it never indicated that it was shorting? Fractured or not, it was still functional. That's the mindset you HAVE GOT TO follow if you attempted to fix a laptop and didn't have the same model to extract any components from. So let's assume you try to remove that cap anyway because you didn't like the way it looks. Great, now you gotta find out its working voltage and capacitance. With no schematics to go on about and no capacitance measuring device, good luck with that.
Yes please..why?
@@Rodox2k10 bruh, he literally had a donor board with that cap for the taking, would take 15 seconds to swap for peace of mind...
Hightect Technician. I love their Machine in repairing Laptop most specially the Microscopic system that has Monitor in zooming small parts of Laptop. Is this Machine available in the Market???
If you made and sold training kits. I would be very interested. I'd love to learn this skill in my spare time.
How much temperature you need to pickup and then install IC with unleaded solder?
350-380 c
omor eh i just dont have strenght to be doing all these, in as much as i enjoyed the video.
once the motherboard is bad i cant sit and be wasting my day on it, very clear, i tell the costumer to buy a new motherboard or better still add money and swap for another system. but no cap your work is amazing and those tools you uses i wish i have them.
#Greatwork😁👍 🔥
Full credit for the effort, great detailed video
Nice job sir what tools did you use sir? Where do I buy that,
Hi boss I'm very happy for your videos...I have a problem in my laptop HP the fan cpu turned hardly and not stopped...no information...think you.
You are so good and a great teacher! I love watching your videos.
Good Day Sir, watching here from the Philippines. Thanks,
sir which thermal camera u are using? is handheld better or using for phone/tablet better?
Handheld is always better. northridgefix.com/?s=uni-t&post_type=product
@@NorthridgeFix tq sir
nice to see a no fix. Sometimes things don't work out. Better luck next time!
What type of a soldering wire you are using? And how much temperature of the air do you use for removing the chip whithout damaging the pcb. And the diameter of the nozzle did you use the remove the small components?
You murdered that 10ohms resistor! haha
wooow! what an awesome video. also you got a very good gear for identifying a cause of a problem.
thank you ,thanks haha,love the honesty no fix, not economical
Great videos. Thank you. Question: Do you charge anything for a "No Fix" ?
Of course. $65 repair attempt fee for most laptops if no fix.
@@NorthridgeFixExcellent. Many in the industry run with a no fix no pay incentive, but I'm not big on the idea. Appreciate your reply!
@@NorthridgeFix brother time is money so if you charged not a big deal 👍
@@NorthridgeFix what do you consider enough time on a repair attempt before you give up?
@@Vinnie2x Which is nonsense....all work and effort must be reward.
I am sorry that you put in all of that time and had a no fix result. I have repaired video/audio electronics for over eighteen years in my own shop and I frequently have no fix results. In order to get some money for my efforts, I charge an up-front thirty five dollars troubleshooting fee. At least I earn thirty five dollars when I cant charge the client money for a no fix situation.
Frank
Frank Reiser Video/Audio Service, Caldwell, NJ.
I wish you weren’t so busy where you can spend more time on it, i am curious to see where that would go, thanks for the videos
Yes me too, i'm curious too
I wish he continues to stay busy and continue to grow his business what he needs is more techs like him to help.
That's a bad and somewhat selfish wish (though I understand where you're coming from) you're essentially wishing him and his family a lack of a work, business and general livelihood just so he can fulfil your curiosity.
@@sekodry Right on.