Expensive Asus Strix G513QY Laptop Repair - Suddenly won't power on.

[@richardwestmacott1433]

It is amazing how such a small fault can render a complete computer scrap without component level fault diagnostic skills. And this is now also expected to be done without circuit diagrams. Nice job 👍

[@TomUlcak]

golly, you're so smart... 😏

[@bryanbrewer4272]

@@TomUlcak 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@iTCXtreme]

😊👍👍👍

[@JerryRecords]

How does the circuit board get damaged in the first place? What are these customers doing to their devices? 😂

[@IsmaelJb_]

They do not need to do anything to their devices. These things are designed to run hot and fail 1 microsecond after the warranty expires.@@JerryRecords

[@twitch54304]

I love how happy Alex gets every time he sees a successful repair. I’ve learned a lot from this channel even though I’ve been doing the same thing for years. I record the microscope for every repair but I only do it for the customer. Maybe I should start posting them too.

[@racing_mntage1584]

Yea it's a good idea

[@chartier67]

Alex really takes pride in his work.

[@M.R.C.R.]

You realy should make the videos also, so more people can learn from them! We need repair and not buy no for a faulty 5 cent capacitator! This is no future if this dont stop!

[@M.R.C.R.]

Cool job! I have a ASUS TUF Gaming with the same problem, ASUS repair shop told me they would replace the motherboard, have to order it first, needs 6 weeks, then repair starts. Cost $1000USD plus repair. This looks to me like a insentive to sell more new Laptops but not a repair. This world will go down the drain with solutions like this. We need more repair shops like NorthridgeFix in this world, keep the good work up. Thanks for all this videos!

[@tomg1956]

I am a retired auto mechanic who specialized in diagnostics. In addition to a paycheck, the feeling of accomplishment when something comes in broken and leaves working was great.

[@twitch54304]

And yet another shop referred you to fix a laptop! That’s 2 in a row now! Everyone knows you're the man with the master plan! Thanks for the video Alex

[@tramthai8238]

I just love this instructor's sense of humor and how he teach us to fix the computer's issues. Easy to follow, calm attitude, work smart not hard attitude...Thanks so much for teaching us your skills and knowledge, I really appreciate that! I already subscribed to this channel so I can learn from this wonderful instructor :)

[@fimbles1015]

You make this look so easy when in reality its an extremely hard job to do with high risk of damaging the thing your trying to fix. Awesome skills :)

[@gregfisher216]

Great work Alex! better than factory ! Your smile when you get the computer fixed is priceless!

[@Cnightz]

I'm super impressed with how well you can speak English and also annunciate it as well.

[@paulshoulders179]

I do really enjoy your videos I worked for almost 40 years on electronic organs keyboards and amplifiers I had that same look when I completed my repairs. Watching you makes me want to get back into doing some repairs and now I know where to order all kinds of things to repair with. I enjoyed your kiddos being in the video. Be safe keep on making the videos.

[@10100rsn]

I love companies that clearly mark their components and list their datasheets and pinouts. Vishay has always been great at this. ;) There are two versions of each of these SiC chips. There is a non-A 5v PWM version and an A version that is 3.3v PWM. Just don't mix A and non-A versions... SiC651 - Mouser Part # 78-SIC651CD-T1-GE3 - 5v PWM SiC651A - Mouser Part # 78-SIC651ACD-T1-GE3 - 3.3v PWM SiC638 - Mouser Part # 78-SIC638CD-T1-GE3 - 5v PWM SiC638A - Mouser Part # 78-SIC638ACD-T1-GE3 - 3.3v PWM

[@rizkhan3368]

Lovely work! I wish I could do this , but in which country I live , we just live month to month, I used to do this work in a company workshop as an Engineer until 2002 , eventually moved on to a higher paying job. But I love the way things have advanced and component level repair still being alive and well, plus great work by Alex.

[@M.R.C.R.]

If you have this skills, go ahead open a side business first, and when you see progress step in full power, the world needs this people that fix computers today and more tomorrow!

[@gaineredison390]

My most favorite joke from you comes when you thank Big Boss and I always keep on repeating the video over and over just for that. It goes that....... "Thank you Big Boss, the boss of all bosses" it makes me bust into laughter🤣🤣🤣 Other words ,apart from that,i learn much from u in this field. Thanks for the effort. Am also called Alex from Uganda but today it's been a loss ; Big Boss wasn't there to be thanked.

[@alikharmandar1727]

I love your smile when you see an image on screen. Nice job...

[@donraptor6156]

It is absolutely astounding the kind of dexterity you have

[@glennbarker222]

You are one smart bloke, well done, I am in awe of the work you do on such small components.

[@Iam_Dunn]

Always amazes me that such a small part can bring down the whole system. Another one kept out of the e-waste bin! Great job! :) ❤ from 🇨🇦

[@stealthkori]

Returning back to the micro soldering field after 4 years and this video had me smiling as well at the end. Display on after troubleshooting like that is worth every minute!!

[@naderkaddoura8588]

at 5:55 when you removed the ic it hit the cap that was already hot and it got out of its soldering points

[@nyyppaeee]

Heyyy I have the same laptop. Fully working though, but good to know it's salvageable like this. Earned a new sub!

[@panchalhansaj9575]

16:15 yes yes Happy to see your happy face... Good Job... keep it up.

[@Alycanj]

well done, you make repairs that other places won't try to find look so easy to fix.

[@MarqueeShift]

Same thing just happened to mine, had to give it to the authorised repair shop in my country, now I'm praying

[@j340_official]

One small capacitor renders an entire machine inoperable. That’s wild. Thanks for the video.

[@cetocoquinto4704]

You know a guy is in his top level skill when he shows you how he works...cheers man love the father/son tandem of business you have there...same as our business setup here in philippines..cheers man!

[@Envy701]

Excellent fault finding process performed. Well done.

[@DarrenSteele-mx3ks]

That was enjoyable to watch and YOU have eyes like a hawk sir!

[@jontewigh2798]

you can just see the pride he has in his work. it is awsome to see. =) good job!

[@emmanuellimjoco4709]

Philippines here, i hope there are technicians here like you.

[@sheldonkupa9120]

We should appreciate that this repair shop actually knew you and came up with good advice to that person.👍😄

[@Sirkostas81]

I have the same exact model , and one day suddenly the laptop wasnt power up and no signs from the charging lights either, and after reading some forums about asus laptops not powering up i feared the worse. I mailed asus explaining what happened and their answer was leave the laptop with its charger for more than two hours on , i thought it was a complete bs to be honest , but i didnt had anything to lose before shipping it to their service center , so i plugged it for two hours and it actually worked and the laptop came back to life .

[@Tech875O]

Always high-quality content on this channel. Great stuff! Is Big Boss your uncle?

[@kulibo1]

Love watching you work. It's like a therapy.... 👍😁👍

[@Kumar.7867]

17:06 Little tip if you press the power button for little long it'll defiantly shut down i have g713qe

[@trevorhardisty6255]

What a smile of your face when you powered on the laptop.😁

[@fatihsenturk5698]

Any job with love brings the perfection. And you are the biggest example of this Alex. Masaallah :)

[@UNCLEBGA]

I mentioned before that I requested to see some components you replace next to a tape measure to show how small some of the components are. I hope you can do this.

[@mornax]

He's done size comparisons many times. The most recent one was during the M.2 NVME SSD repair from a couple of weeks ago, with a picture of a penny in the video thumbnail. Go to the 9-minute mark.

[@rickorr2181]

If you compare the size of the cotton swab he uses to clean the area, you can easily see how small the components are.

[@pure-gaming]

respect to the other shops admitting they cant do it instead of doing it bad

[@dennisfahey2379]

A Master Tech. Great sense of humor too.

[@space4ace582]

Another great fix from our new "Canadian" friend. Nice work Alex!

[@iamperplexed4695]

Next time he should see Canada and not Québec.

[@knoxmwape6895]

Everytime i watch your repair video's its a new lesson for me. Keep up the good works my teacher 😊

[@theoldbigmoose]

@ 13:57 on the reinstall of the FET, there is solder squeeze out that Alex removes with a heat iron. I have seen this happen before, and there is never a short under the chip. Can someone explain to me why this happens that there is never an under chip short? Thanks.

[@j.lietka9406]

Alex you're awesome! Welcome back from Canada!

[@bblod4896]

At 4:27 The difference between 651 and 638 is 13. Sorry, had to answer that question. 😬

[@swastikmakwana2003]

SIR UR WORK OF ART IS GOD GIFTED I LIKE AT THE END WHEN U SOLVE THE WHOLE ISSUE WITHOUT ANY FAIL U GIVE UR 99.99% TO MAKE THE CLIENT HAPPIER LOVE FROM INDIA ♥❤❤

[@TheMrFive]

Always suspect the capacitors. That's often all it is. What do I think? Beautiful. Thank you all for making the effort to do this. Being part of the trickle of sanity and decency in a world set up to undermine these virtues.

[@itunesaccount760]

Got the Same laptop with the same issue, Local place couldnt resolve it and said itll by 800 Bucks to fix... lord have mercy

[@asterchades]

Honest question: how likely are chips to be damaged by heat during (de)soldering, either with an iron or hot air? Obviously you don't want any more heat than necessary during removal or installation, but I've wondered just how much caution is actually warranted - even when dealing with 30 year-old components.

[@rizkhan3368]

would not recommend soldering Iron for chips, do it as shown by Alex with a quality hot air blower, professional flux and good quality solder as demonstrated by Alex , the temperatures are what are recommended for use on silicon based chips, I used to do this 20 years ago, would have loved to have a shop like Alex , but do other work now, I think Alex has a video on what temperature to use and how to evenly spread the blower at a safe distance.

[@tomkroebel]

Alex cools processor with his bare hand as heat sink. Take this, CoolerMaster! ;-)

[@NightCrwler]

Damn! That's why I LOVE your videos! You are amazing and before watching your videos I knew NOTHING about microsoldering but now I do my own repairs myself and some minor to average repairs on people that ask me if I can fix their devices problems when they know I'm a computer techy, I've studied computer science and programming but after watching your videos for several years I added microsoldering as well. Thanks alot for your videos and help!!.. ❤

[@smarthome2660]

Pushes past the pain, " that's why we have two hands ", Golden.

[@glassmarble996]

16:29 a happy repairman is a good repairman

[@WagnerFelix]

I like your passion, your hapiness it's clear when the laptop powers on XD

[@rancid_]

Alex is the Gordon Ramsay of electronics repair.

[@iamperplexed4695]

Gordon Ramsey is a schmuck.

[@lu34lyf]

no way Marco Pierre White 🤣

[@danwat1234]

Rocking my 2008 Asus G50VT laptop that I have run for years 24 7 crunching on CPU and GPU it just won't die, seriously. And I'm running slightly overclocked X9100 my main machine to this day probably time to upgrade

[@tylercoombs1]

Shocking, a dead MOSFET on the power delivery system. I don't know Asus, do you think you might need to add some thermal pads to MOSFETS on the V Core of a gaming laptop?

[@belelegnmulugeta8956]

Amazing job start loving your video's

[@ena6631]

Impressive, awesome as always.

[@Zambiziify]

Hi, Excellent stuff!.. I have been following your Channel for a while now and enjoy watching you carry out repairs, I really like your work, how you explain your though process and demonstrate what to keep an eye on etc, Illustrating the Practicalities of doing such repairs. However, this particular repair caught my attention as it being an Asus ROG branded Laptop, I did catch a glimpse of the Laptop sporting a Ryzen CPU, albeit this being a Laptop repair is similar to my own, which I have just built a new Ryzen 9 7950X3D on top of the ASUS ROG X670E-E Platform.. So, as you can imagine this video grabbed my attention more so than your others.. I only wish I knew as much about PCB's/Electronics as you do AND have the confidence to attempt a repair of my own, seeing that I have been building systems for 20 odd years and the number of systems which have basically been thrown away *Most probably* would have been a "Simple" repair job (I say Simple, however I understand its far from simple what you do in practice) This video has most definitely made me rethink what is possible/Cost effective when weighing up what my next steps are whenever I next encounter faulty MOBO/GPU/PSU component/devices.. Anyway, Great repair job & Excellent Content.. Cheers!!

[@hazemasbaie4942]

عمل رائع و تقديم مميز ... استفدت كثيرا من فيديواتك ... تخياتي لك من ليبيا

[@lrmcatspaw1]

I understand very little of this but I love watching the repairs. EDIT: Btw I have this laptop and I replaced the liquid metal with kryosheets just to be safer.

[@erdaler1682]

thank you for thermal camera... thank you Alex and big boss... maşallah...

[@James-oy9no]

Your videos are absolutely amazing! You are a brilliant man and what you do, I love to fix and build computers but watching your videos it’s truly inspiring! Keep up the excellent work sir 💪💪👍👍

[@mikag642010]

Nicely done! You earned a Sub ❤

[@lukeskywalker3891]

Hello, I am amazed how good you are in repairing this! You are the best ! I do own the same model. I am begging you, would you please repair mine, too? I will ship it to you. please? I beg you !

[@ctecrwp]

Alex where is thermal cam stand. I could see that the heat was on side of mosfet while your attention was on power leads and keeping thermal stable.

[@distantfirst1723]

Alex cringes and loses some of that repair happiness as he sees the dude's login Icon, and thinks to himself "hmmm thats an interesting looking eagle..." 17:15

[@a51ky53]

Great video... Another happy ending... Keep up the good work

[@AlexRubio]

I remember I was the only person in southern California to do micro soldering , data restore and iphone repairs level repairs back in 2009 sh* how times have changed

[@thenima]

You made it look so easy!

[@MicroageHD]

hehe

[@tmark33]

excellent job master 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@boromoose]

17:08 Screen displays Wednesday February 1. Was that the last time it was working when it died?

[@evalangley3985]

Still remember my Asus G73JH-A1... The biggest 2000$ lemon I ever owned... Asus is on my blacklist since then... and with the recent AM5 fiasco, it is obvious that nothing has changed...

[@philippepourrat2256]

Hi Alex, I cannot see using a syringe, so what kind of FLUX do you use ? Liquid, paste ? with a paint brush ?

[@NorthridgeFix]

northridgefix.com/product/amtech-nc-559-v2-tf-flux-10ml-syringe-plunger-2-needle-sizes/

[@Maveric193]

Another fantastic video. Thank you for the effort you put into these. Please can you tell me how you find out the value of that cap without schematics please.

[@massumking6498]

Good video Alex. Well worth watching

[@SugaRashi]

Great work 👏👏

[@ilisvlad3134]

You are doing such a great job. Keep the good work. ⚡

[@jordanmesa8820]

grand master. - from philippines

[@harshitc4249]

Having same issue Asus tuf f15 died while playing game no lights nothing, showed at a local shop they fixed the no power issue but there is no display they even tried heating GPU, kinda worried about processor(both gpu and cpu are hot)

[@paschalokeke3216]

Soo sweet ans soo amazing i felt the joy of successful repairs too

[@pitimhh1751]

how do you know what ohms the capacitor is when shorted and burnt?

[@occamraiser]

Surface mount micro soldering...... a marvel to watch.

[@drmohammedalmasri]

A small tip for you Alex: 5 seconds press on the Power button on the laptop would turn it off immediately Great video as always!

[@Leeh187]

Unless its a Dell Inspiron 14, those things take at least a 20 second press.

[@orange11squares]

it's a basic thing, everybody knows this, Alex knows this as well, problem is it's not wise to force power off while the windows is loading.

[@Leeh187]

@@orange11squares meh, been doing it for years and never had a problem

[@danriu]

@@Leeh187 you can literally damage your operating system, files can get corrupted, it happened to me when I had a faulty power plug that was causing my pc to suddenly shut down I didn't know what was causing it at first so i tried to turn on the pc several times(like 6) until windows started throwing a repair screen xD, I went through hell to troubleshoot and find out it was a faulty power plug on my no break UPS, I was breaking my head believing it was my power supply, but nope literally just changed to a different plug and the problem it's gone, I had to reinstall windows like 3 times through the process because I corrupted the OS due to keep on shutting down while booting lol.

[@Chokerdown]

I find this stuff so intriguing ...loved watching this...ty.

[@zexelM]

14:11 Is there a blob left on the left side of the chip?

[@freelander1794]

Very good work as usual. I was wondering how did you determine the value of the capacitor that you replaced. Thanks

[@antoniobarra2752]

10-100 nf

[@Macazian]

Just a polite FYR for future videos. Asus is pronounced, "Ay-Soos" at least officially from the company. :) You may also "Google" how to pronounce ASUS as well. Great expertise and hand steadiness in your repairs and loving your videos!

[@superkoopatrooper4879]

I have this exact same laptop. From day one it would run and stay at 90c no matter what. I had to reapply thermal paste and I was horrified to see that beads of liquid metal scattered all over the board itself. I looked it up online and it's the number 1# problem with the laptop. Now I have to worry about capacitors blowing too lol.

[@supergeekjay]

Liquid metal is a joke. I can see PS5's failing in droves soon enough as they use it. If it is used lay down, no issue, but vertical, well, physics! It runs from between the CPU/heatsink and drips everywhere it shouldn't!

[@impaugjuldivmax]

@@supergeekjay nice bs, mommy's engineer. beads of liquid metal scattered all over the board because some noob can't properly take up the panel that covers a CPU. a liquid metal sits on place when a right person done all the needed procedure and it keeps 8 core CPU's at

[@supergeekjay]

​@impaugjuldivmax Personal attacks, very immature. There have been confirmed cases of liquid metal seeping. Do some research, and get English literacy classes while you're there. Learn empathy and people skills too.

[@impaugjuldivmax]

@@supergeekjay if unqualified person can't keep the topic he reacts on someone grammar skills. you dont know what you are talking about, therefore do not write all this bs about liquids on motheboards

[@supergeekjay]

@@impaugjuldivmax I've been doing electronics, IT, and appliance repair for well over 20 years and have a repair business but hey! I'm unqualified says some guy on KZbin who doesn't know me. 😂😂

[@Wusses]

im rly liked when item is fixet and smile after that every time

[@tuomasholo]

Amazing diagnostic and repair. Liked and subscribe.

[@laurdys5421]

jago service apa sja nih si bapak ini ..hehehe..manttul pak

[@rsgr3963]

I always thought the best practice is to use glove and anti static bracelet for handling capacitors

[@citronaze]

Great job👏👏👏👏👏

[@talatparlatan9054]

Hallo Alex ! I watch lot of your Videos its awesome. Thank you to teach me about repair fix gpus or console stuff thank you . I hope you make more videos bro thank you

[@Teslalabor]

How do you know the correct values of the capacitor? Not a single Word on this in the Video.

[@NorthridgeFix]

It's usually 5uf-10uf. I got mine from a donor board.

[@robertbartram5632]

another great vid makes it so easier with all the tools to hand,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[@stringbeanrg]

That was quick no body could but you did🎉

[@SanthoshK-bj3uv]

You are knowledge is great sir

[@hamza_blingos-khebra]

fix things like a boss , salamou alaykom