Fixing a Viewer's BROKEN Gaming PC? - Fix or Flop S3:E10

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Another Fix or Flop is on deck! This viewer's gaming PC doesn't turn on... which is never good! Can we fix this BROKEN thing? Stay tuned! By the way, if you live in the Orlando, FL area and have an issue with your PC, apply to have it (possibly) fixed for free today! gregsalazar.com/fix-or-flop
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#FixOrFlop

[@cheese0069]

can you fix my life

[@leonardoc.1584]

Try clearing the cmos

[@GregSalazar]

Someone help this person 😅

[@MarcoGPUtuber]

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

[@-ver6459]

@@MarcoGPUtuberis it possible to learn this power?

[@benroberts2222]

Replace one part at a time and see if you get a picture out

[@dazeweeble]

I love the Fix or Flop series, it's like watching one of those mystery or crime shows where you're trying to figure out whodunit along with the detective who's on the case.

[@kevinb9830]

I'll tell you what it will never be - the CMOS! Otherwise the video would be a minute long lol

[@domodedowo2003]

I also like the series, but can’t get, how people still buy crap from AMD..

[@Bill30006]

@@kevinb9830 maybe, but it takes what 30 sec to do as opposed to taking out a GPU where taking out the card could take more let alone putting another in and hoping the right drivers are installed. Best case, it works, worst case, it did nothing and you move on. Also I'm pretty sure one of these, clearing CMOS did fix it.

[@purpasmart_4831]

The amd 3000 series were way more popular then intels equivalent at the time.

[@kevinb9830]

@@Bill30006 yes, that's my point. You will never see it because it wouldn't make a long enough video.

[@DuneRunnerEnterprises]

Hi,Greg! Sometimes,the drain on the CMOS battery IS a sign of cerious electronic damage - the battery being shorted,and drained.....

[@Unreelness]

This has become my favorite series on KZbin as of late lol. Your stuggles feed my need for drama without wasting my time keeping up with the Kardashians 😂.

[@dulshafer]

Keeping up with the K-SKUs? With the 11900 Ks? With the deep Kool fans?

[@taufikridwan5229]

agreed, watching someone's broken gaming PC is always better than watching the kardashians

[@grimey900]

I've literally gone from zero knowledge about computers, to now having a good general grasp on how these things work! Appreciate everything you do for us Greg, love this amazing series

[@my-yt-inputs2580]

I have a feeling your customer bought a broken system. Rather than fixing it I would have asked him if he wanted to ask for his money back. Although in the end a new replacement motherboard seems to have solved the problem.

[@ronsage452]

Love this playlist and I watch every one of them. It is encouraging that there are still honest people in the industry like you.

[@il0linuface]

Love these videos! I just love diagnosing and figuring out what/where the issues are and fixing them to the best of my ability, so this scratches a neat itch in my head. Keep it up, been watching *a lot* of these lately.

[@GregSalazar]

Thanks for watching them! It allows us to continue doing this for free for folks!

[@smipy]

@@GregSalazar tip- Look out for pee stains or water marks on PCB when looking closely. If found change case or block the gap from where the rat may enter. Lost my mobo and graphics card this way.

[@RiftWalker111]

Good video as always, thanks for these.

[@zacharyhill4346]

Stumbled upon your channel last year and I absolutely love the series ! It keeps me itching for more where I watch older videos. Also keeps me knowledgeable as well as we have 6 high end gaming and editing rigs in my house 😅 and 1 server so far 😁

[@marcoachaves822]

Thanks a lot for another great job Greg! Kudos

[@darkstar1260]

The most usefull and loved series (in tech communities) this year, thanks Greg Salazar for coming up with such a useful videos 👍

[@zirael2077]

I'm so addicted to these, your content is just so clean and good looking/feeling, keep it up!

[@hovanthecool1995]

I love this series, Greg. Keep it up! Kind work for your fans!

[@jimd6478]

Hi Greg from the UK, Just found your channel enjoy your videos, you are one of the few people who do these sorts of videos who make them interesting to watch. Thank you.

[@pompeyjon1979]

Thanks Greg, I love this series, educational and entertaining!

[@unitybeing777]

I didn't get an ad, Greg. Congrats on fixing the pc and well done, Merry Christmas!

[@hubble37]

Greg you always do a great job analyzing and diagnosing the issues and taking the corrective action to fix these PCs!

[@daviddouillet4138]

Watching all the PCDC to the end for the Algo, plus a comment for the engagement challenge. Been watching since the Hasewell Series videos my friend, very happy to see the channel going forward!

[@tmanarmy2014]

Love this playlist ❤

[@RenatoG1848]

Amazing content as usual sir. A friend of mine just built his PC studying your videos.

[@iiTzbean]

Love that you actually go through your comments and like and comment back

[@johnpaulbacon8320]

Great job on the fix. :)

[@slvr_l7732]

thank u for the video series i love it much eventho sometimes just about "simple" fix

[@ynsignia]

Let's go, Greg!! Keep this up coz I learned a lot by watching your series.

[@DixiesOfficial]

love the videos Greg! appreciate the honest self you are! much love your way

[@tsuky_3027]

Favorite series! keep up the good work!

[@GregSalazar]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@nickwhitton6610]

Love these video's Greg

[@ericnieman8650]

Great content my man! I look forward to the next the flip or flop

[@kahiem2545]

been binging this series keep up the great work man

[@xPOSSUMx]

love these videos helped a lot when i built my pc and it didnt post, turned out to be a memory training issue...... had to post adding 1 stick at a time was weird (12th gen at release) but works well now! keep it up!!!

[@Meat88]

I like that you showed the troubleshooting steps you take.

[@RalphvandenBerg]

Very cool series. I'm learning a lot. Though, I'm always rooting for outcomes where you are able to fix the issue instead of replacing it.

[@Fluid14]

I love love this series

[@CoalitionGaming]

Very cool, dude. Glad that this series has worked out for ya. Fixing PCs for YT content can be so hit or miss. But Greg never misses! :P

[@haados7159]

awesome episode keep coming these videos.... love from Finland =)

[@benjamintan2733]

If CMOS battery voltage is close to 0v, it means there might be issue with motherboard short circuiting, or the motherboard hasn't been powered on for a very very long time. Could be BIOS chip burnt in this case. You can try to get the BIOS chip replace.

[@DavidUnderhill]

a dead battery (0v) is not a dead short.

[@supersolidsnake7772]

Or maybe it's a dead CMOS battery :)

[@MrCougar1825]

yeah i agree only reason i even watch this guys videos is to watch how much shit he does wrong its funny to me and all the idiots in the comments that think they are techs it makes my day it really does most mb will boot with a dead bios battery and the time and date will reset every time you boot it

[@LPgmxDan]

​@@MrCougar1825I think older stuff are more dependent on the bios battery

[@MrCougar1825]

u got it thats old school stuff

[@dezwilliamz]

Good to see someone else from, O-town! You just so happened to show up on my feed, so a like and a sub! Keep it up and let me know if you need any spare parts.

[@postedinthecut1565]

These are so useful to learn how to fix computers thanks man

[@GregSalazar]

Thanks a ton for watching!

[@quixmith]

Brilliant work, far more than I would be comfortable doing with my own rig. Bending pins makes me uncomfortable lol. Great work there boss!

[@JohnPamplin]

I think the user sent you a bad board, and he KNEW the problem.

[@justsumguy2u]

It's certainly possible....no way of knowing for sure

[@Collin_J]

Which would be a clever ploy had the user sent in a mobo that wasn't selling for $30 and less used on eBay. There's been some builds where I wondered, but not really with this one

[@knuckleheadcomputers]

Nice video as always my friend

[@bradskeyt5444]

I love what you do the world needs more people like you it is so awesome how you help people keep it up you are a hero 💪

[@maxtornogood]

Greg has a new Fix or Flop out? I'm right here for it! 😊

[@fpshooterful]

As someone who use to work as a PC technician, i love this series!

[@brett9000]

I enjoy all these videos it is one of my favourite things to do fixing a PC hunting down the problem piece by piece and I always wonder how did that random damage happen like this one did the person buy it broken?

[@LCol718]

Been subbed for a long time. Just started watching this series. When i saw the i ❤ papa, just made me smile. Keep on with the great content. God bless you and your family.

[@UTFapollomarine7409]

God bless and love the work you do bro.

[@CReese-os8fc]

Got SO PUMPED when the CMOS battery check showed flat batteries, but I also cheered with you when the new board posted! HAHA Love this series, thank you for helping so many people!

[@kenanthony2962]

I dig the Fix or Flop series that help others try or fix their damage /broken rig (let the customer / viewer know to change his case that gives him or her better air flow

[@tofally7511]

You thanked me for watching, and I thank you for making such great and awesome videos. I appreciate you.

[@Teruk0.]

Yay! New video

[@jragonwriter6316]

Straigtening pins is SOOO satisfying (when they don't break, of course!)

[@FahQx]

Greg, great series! I have a deep love for everything computers, and watching this series i am learning a lot! But please, please clean your monitor! lol

[@andrewbrown5191]

Good job Greg.

[@Bayareabuttons]

Love the content

[@Gollum577]

Definitely needed a new case

[@justsumguy2u]

Who are these barbarians that keep bending motherboard pins? Did they install their CPUs with a hammer?

[@szymi4001]

I usually hammer a nail in cpu to make sure it holds to the mobo

[@ValFr_]

Hello from France for saying I'm watching this at 2:28 Am and if we had a person like you to help us it will be so helpful for everyone

[@azooisbad]

Jesus that’s an awful case and really messed up build. Idk how you can do that to this poor pc. Whoever sold that to the new owner ripped them off lol. The original builder has no clue how to build PCs. Always love your videos mate! Always look forward to your videos :)

[@tittydaredevil]

Another great video, Greg... I am from India and I literally woke up to this... Great start to the day...

[@cavegamer5989]

i literally just realized you have Starset and Breaking Benjamin vinyl on the wall! two of my favorite bands! awesome!

[@Astejhael]

I was going to ask why you didn't add a screw for his GPU in the close-ups, but I see at the end shot that you did :D good man, going above and beyond even with the little details.

[@quirtthedirt]

This one gave me flashbacks to my first build. I made most of the same mistakes as this build had (wrong ram slots, cable management was a disaster, I dropped the CPU on the pins and had to bend like 3 rows back, didn't tighten the cooler nearly enough, I could go on). Somehow that PC ran and it ran well enough to carry me all the way until I upgraded last year. Great video, really brought me back.

[@richardbean7703]

That was a good watch, Greg. Very nice, and at least I didn't have to endure the tobacco smell of your last Fixing a Viewer's BROKEN Gaming PC. :)

[@tricogustrico]

I never miss a fix or flop video.

[@angelaguilera600]

This channel needs more subscribers!

[@vdvd2090]

if I lived in Orlando, I would use a hammer and give my potato shitputer a good smack then send it to Greg for him to replace it entirely lol

[@Kaiizensasaki]

Watching your videos from France Keep it up man, always a great content to watch !

[@GregSalazar]

Thanks, will do!

[@nocxxito]

Oh un Français qui regarde !

[@shook818]

Great vid

[@pwn0grapher]

You know, as this series goes on, I find myself getting more and more skeptical that people are scamming for parts. I guess if it's only $100 you probably make your money back on the video pretty quickly so it doesn't really matter to you, but it takes away from someone who could actually probably use the fix or flop spot. I don't think I have ever encountered a motherboard where there was that many massive issues in one board... It's like they just threw in all the garbage parts they had lying around. Either way good job, and I love the series. I definitely have learned a few troubleshooting techniques from the videos and comments, even being a seasoned tech enthusiast.

[@NotMuchHere]

or it was a failed upgrade ... how do you bend pins on the mb?

[@iamarabicandiloveamericanp7137]

The owner bought it from someone Greg said the previous owner took his 1660ti so I don't think it's a scam

[@pwn0grapher]

@@iamarabicandiloveamericanp7137 I agree that the owner might not intended it as a scam, but hearing that is actually one of the reasons I feel like it was. The owner got scammed buying a used PC if it came like that and then passed it off immediately to Greg.

[@iamarabicandiloveamericanp7137]

@@pwn0grapher you know thinking about you may be right he bought didn't work then sent it to Greg instead of getting a refund, he would get a brand new motherboard

[@kororma]

i love this series im going to build my pc soon and am waiting on the motherboard to arrive hopefully i don't mess it up.

[@peapant]

I would like to say that you could have tried to force turn on the motherboard with the power supply tester, just a suggestion for the future. Keep up the great work greg!

[@MyWasteOfTime]

Greg talking about that old OLD 8th gen... Me looking left and then right with my 4th gen 4790K still running strong!

[@DeagleGamesTV]

I still have a system with a 2nd gen i7 ive had since 2009, the things dont die.

[@IxXDOMINATORXxI]

This was a good one Greg, sad bending the pins didn't work. My guess is between the bent pins and the paste under the socket somthing probably fried under there

[@Rathial]

I love these videos

[@FracturedFaithMusic]

5:25 that damn bundle at the front of the rig moved on its own and I'm like "ah yes, nothing a casual exorcism can't fix" lol

[@pfoxessjd]

I actually said "broken gaming pc" when you said to say it with you 😂 Give this man 1m subs before the year ends guys.

[@iconoclast485]

That's crazy I made a video on fixing the exact same type of board in like 2019 the bent pins were in the opposite corner of the socket and were a pain to bend back into place and I ended up having to use my phone to magnify the pins so I could see exactly how the pins were bent and they were bent all the way back and curled up. You doing this with no magnification is awesome to see.

[@AXWagon]

Hey, Greg. Do you bench test components before installing them in the case? I do that any time I change the board out on any PC I've worked on so far. Saves time putting everything in and then taking it back out should something not be working. Love the series as well as the PC cleanings!

[@abyssalflame6562]

Keep these awesome videos coming my dude!

[@jernigan007]

ok this is crazy... i have the same cpu & mobo. with a 1070 ti. sheesh i need to upgrade. cant wait to see what you do here

[@mikeang6052]

love your show

[@alliasinfinite3697]

Hey Greg don't know if you will see this, but I have a crazy one. I left my pc on while sleeping. When I woke up it was frozen so I shut it off. Ever since, when I turn it on it will get to windows logo then shut off. I have reset cmos(even changed battteries), I have swapped RAM slots etc, and even re seated cpu and cleaned mobo. Never seen a pc boot to windows screen then shut off. I even swapped to old HD. It even shuts off in bios screen.

[@WouterVerbruggen]

The bend pins could have shorted easilty, breaking something down the lines. You might also want to take a look at socket pinouts. Many pins are grounds, which are mostly redundant with each other. A missing ground or vcc pin usually has practically zero effect on the motherboards function. Also that battery voltage is surprisingly often an issue. Even if it's still some 2.8 volt some boards can give issues, at least around 2010 era boards that I work with commonly myself.

[@ryanawol77]

Love this Vid. It truly is a mystery at what level is the motherboard broken? There seems to be many issues with it. Boy oh boy, that Deepcool case is really bad, especially if someone's running a K-skew CPU. But there's tons of Mesh cases that's cheap online. I hope that the owner can spare some budget for a new case in the future.

[@projectbumblejeep4190]

when I have to straighten pins on either cpu or socket, I use a utility blade. Perfect thickness for the gap between the pins. Hope this helps. God bless, stay well.

[@BladePocok]

Almost 1 month old content, but still content!

[@mr.dogeface]

9:45 Nice hair Great video as always! Keep up the good work

[@Tribute2JohnnyB]

That cable management.....YEEEESH

[@samdzn]

what a nice guy

[@robertmacdonald345]

Hey Greg, Awesome Video as Always, But I can't help but wonder if you are Being taken advantage of. Who Buys a PC 2nd hand and Doesn't want to see it working??? And if it was Working , how does this stuff happen, because if bent pins didn't work for you, How would it work If the PC was viewed working before it was Bought. ??? Cheers great Videos Enjoy your Holidays and Have a good New Year to you and your family.

[@rHinosYth]

Love the Scorpions Blackout album cover.

[@John-uc6gb]

Good video. I still have my old 8700k and board. Good CPU and board at the time. Thank you

[@Shat_Tastic]

im pretty sure it would run better with out the case !

[@onizuka]

I have a choked airflow front too...that cyberpc case, so bad. but i got a few (3) bequiets to push all the air out and keep it okay

[@jac9759]

lol it should be "fixing my viewers gaming pc, but first, lets roast the heck out of it"

[@KidDr1ft]

the tv had me tripping for a sec. just a "screen saver" 😅😅

[@jefferyodegaard4081]

Been watching you now for months and watched all the back episodes too...wish you had another category to go along with fix flop and cleaning. A straight build channel with 3 expense levels...alternating between amd /Intel. You could showcase different cases that you like.

[@Oopsie26]

I swear we never know if we’re gonna get full hair Greg or short haired Greg 😅