MSI GS65 Gaming Laptop, No backlight - LFC

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[@NotThatGuyJD]

A customer saying they found the fault is a dangerous proposition.

[@Adamant_IT]

Yea normally I tend to disregard customer diagnostics, but when the customer has taken the cover off and pointed at a melted component on the board, that's enough for me to pay attention and say 'oh yea that's probably the issue...'

[@NotThatGuyJD]

@@Adamant_IT oh 100%

[@robinsattahip2376]

Seldom works out, and those are the kind who like to blame you if it is something more serious.

[@MarcStift]

I really enjoyed this repair and especially the fact you used yamcha's death scene to indicate how that inductor died hahahah.

[@BertisAU]

Such a satisfying fix. Nice improvisation too!

[@piernov]

I liked the analytical mindset a lot there, and the quick estimation of the power limit at the end was a nice touch. Just a note, ferrite beads are also used for EMI reduction, and sometimes they are added "just to make sure" it's gonna pass the regulations without issues.

[@josephking6515]

How's the studying coming along @piernov? Do we get to call your *Dr* now of if not then soon? I wish you well whichever it is.

[@piernov]

@@josephking6515 I defended last December, went fine, so yes that's now done.

[@radio-ged4626]

Cap shorted, coil sploded. Nice fix and great explanation.

[@j1e1r1r1o1]

ohhh great oldschool nostalgic #LFC thanks Sir...very good and clean job! full respect!

[@cephasbanda1531]

Good fix 🔧like always. You make it sound simple.

[@johnhagen31]

Always a pleasure to watch you work

[@badonrani4059]

Nice repair and alway great video hope to see the next one soon

[@CenturionProps]

Hi Adamant, it is Roman again, literally called you few minutes ago. Just suggestion that it would be cool to have our Dell 17” on your KZbin as well. Very cool videos and your commentary throughout the process is amazing! Thanks!

[@QuentinStephens]

Top work as usual.

[@SaycoPworrell]

Like how you explaining the purpose of components and trouble shooting explanations

[@bienhelado204]

I think I learn more from your explanation of your thinking process than anything. Much appreciated.

[@trainmaster0217]

Great teaching video. I learned something today. Thank you.

[@PhyllisGladys]

Nice Logical approach to a simple fault. Well done.

[@harriscom9255]

Very satisfying video, thanks.

[@gabrieln5357]

Nice presentation! You speak on my language! Very clear!

[@carlojoselitochua2954]

Done watching, thank you very much for the informative repair video. I have learned significantly more troubleshooting & repair lessons in this tutorial video and to your other repair videos as well compared to my ENTIRE 4 YEARS OF COLLEGE due to the rotten & outdated standards of education here in the Philippines. I hope you will soon have a mini-series for Schematic & Boardview-free Voltage/Power Rail Tracing[12V/18-20V Main Voltage Rail, 5V, 3.3V, CPU/GPU Core Voltage Rail, DRAM Voltage Rail, IGPU Voltage Rail, System Agent/Northbridge Voltage Rail, PCH Voltage Rail, BIOS Voltage Rail, Battery Power Rail], Proper method of testing/checking of potentially faulty MOSFETs & ICs/Controller Chips, CPU/GPU/PCH Reballing and BIOS Bin File Editing.

[@Energizer37]

Really enjoyed this one.

[@somewaresim]

Nicely done Graham. You do love your huge soldering iron tips! 😉

[@Adamant_IT]

Yea, new soldering station is going to be the next upgrade. There are smaller tips available for the TS100 / Pinecil style irons, but it's tough to get good heat transfer on them. I have a 1mm bevel tip, but it just doesn't have the thermal mass for motherboards. I tend to only use it as a last resort when I'm working on 0201 resistors.

[@lemagreengreen]

@@Adamant_IT Did you end up upgrading? just curious, I'm in the market

[@chris_hertford]

Great video thanks!

[@biotrekker]

Beautiful job.

[@2009numan]

Great video Graham

[@gogee8510]

Nice job and commentary.

[@rolfsinkgraven]

Nice info again thnx.

[@geraldh.8047]

You are an amazing teacher.

[@hasanmahmood30]

Good job 👍

[@man350z]

I like how you talked yourself out of checking your work (temperature of replacement).

[@Adamant_IT]

Haha, I actually did check it, but I left the recording paused and didn't notice until after I'd put all the screws back into the bottom of the laptop. The first turn-on is actually a retake after I realised the recording was paused 🤦‍♂️ Rather than do a 'trust me bro' speech I figured I'd explain why there would be nothing to worry about after all.

[@ivangerginov5648]

I've heard that some places will refuse to work on stuff that the customer has checked beforehand since they've ruled out the most obvious and easy fixes and the only remaining ones are the board repair stuff, which is hard. The employees are looking for easy fixes only, I'm guessing. Good thing you're not doing that practice. Awesome video as always

[@Adamant_IT]

Taking on all the hard jobs is how you end up with a wall of dead-end tickets that don't make any money - ask me how I know. So while I'll try to have a look, I don't think it's unreasonable to pass on a laptop where the customer's given you reasonable belief that it's a rabbit hole. However, customers are very often wrong, so I take anything they say with a fist of salt. This time though, the customer could literally point out the fault to me, they just didn't have the means to fix it, and didn't know why it had happened, so it was a good match up for me to finish what they started.

[@ivangerginov5648]

Yeah, that's fair. From a business perspective it doesn't make much sense to take on the hard jobs so I don't think anyone can blame you for passing on some of them. Thanks for the reply

[@ralphj4012]

Good analyses and repair. I was initially horrified that you hadn't disconnected the battery first (before disconnecting the screen), and then saw that the customer had. Phew!

[@markg3506]

Nice fix.

[@seanmacdude]

Another great fix

[@fellpower]

It was sooo clear, that it was the cap. it took 10sec to see that

[@machinainc5812]

I’ve a GS65 Stealth (Intel 8th Gen) but with the gold accents. I love it but the board being upside down really sucks for quick upgrading.

[@colinreece3452]

Graham off topic: I recently watched one of your old videos, in it you commented on the PC had cheap RAM. This got me interested cos I too have cheap RAM in my PC. when I Gooogled it I found comments from other ppl and some seemed to be gamers as well. Most of them said they found no real difference except price in having cheap RAM compared to the more (named) brands, they all performed no problem on their games. So it seemed to me a bit like buying sports clothes, if they had a logo they must be good lol.

[@Adamant_IT]

Slow RAM isn't going to break a machine, no, but there's plenty of real-world gaming benchmarks that can show 10-15% swings in FPS between, say, 2133 and 3400 RAM. If you're running a 1440p high-refresh monitor, that's the difference between hitting your target 144fps or having to push for it. It's worth noting though, that some situations just don't care about RAM speed because they're bottlenecked by something else, so this isn't a flat performance increase everywhere. For fast timings it gets more complicated than that, and depends on workload and tuning, but that's for when you care about squeezing out the last 2% performance.

[@colinreece3452]

@@Adamant_IT aw thanks Graham, I wasn't having a go at you or anything I am a bit of a layman on this, I just wanted your opinion really.

[@jkboyett2]

Thanks for the informative video! Quick question, I noticed that you tend to use a large "knife edge" soldering tip a lot, even when working on small components. Is there an advantage to something like that as opposed to a smaller soldering iron tip that's closer to the size of the component? Seems like that larger tip would be harder to use especially in more crowded areas on a board. Just curious. Thanks!

[@Adamant_IT]

Smaller tips start getting into specialist territory. A smaller knife edge than mine exists, but I can't find it. People keep labelling the tip I have as a "KU" when it seems a lot closer to just "K".

[@rossgee2950]

Why do you not use low-melt solder when removing components? Is this a personal preference or is there a technical reason?

[@highchiller]

I was eager to do a bit repair work here and there myself thanks to many of your videos, but I quickly noticed that like 90% (if not more) of requested fixes were software related. It was quite frustrating. I actually never had a case of "it won't turn on anymore." So I wonder how often you have software issues in and how you deal with customers asking for a fix of some OS shenanigans. Honestly curious.

[@Adamant_IT]

Yea, certainly when you start out it's all software and dead HDDs. I have a fair number of no-power style jobs come in, but I'm well established, and the channel also funnels this kind of work my way. But that's a double-edged sword, boring software fixes are what pay the bills because you do five of them at the same time on one bench while you watch youtube, instead of spending hours concentrating on a single device.

[@andycola1001]

Where Can Find MSI Schematic Anyone Knows?

[@Zyxlian]

That's a crazy looking keyboard layout. Lots of duplicate symbols.

[@Adamant_IT]

Letters with accents on them. Couldn't tell you which language specifically though!

[@wladewig]

I've watched your notebook repairs over the years, and was wondering if you could recommend a windows OS notebook that has backlight, touchscreen, at least 1TB SSD or nVME drive - best bang for the buck CPU with excellent battery life? This would be a purchase for my Wife - who isn't into gaming. I know that is a lot to consider - really why I"m asking as I respect your repair professional knowledge and expertise?

[@crazyengineer470]

Does someone know how to fix a windows 10 update. On my laptop I'm trying to install windows 10 22H2 but everytime the laptop restarts to install, it says unable to install update. And in the settings for windows update it tries to install windows 10 21H2 but that says download error and above that is the windows 10 22H2. Does someone know how to fix this problem??? Please let me know 🙏

[@dejanpetkovski8761]

PWR_SRC is known as the Input Power Plane Source is not a power for a display.

[@Adamant_IT]

Ah that's fair, I would have expected it to have gone through some kind of other regulator/mosfet/check before getting to the screen. I just glanced at the schematic again, and I can see that it's the main rail itself 👌

[@dejanpetkovski8761]

👍@@Adamant_IT

[@darrencain7628]

Do you use leaded or lead-free solder?

[@Adamant_IT]

Leaded

[@tim0steele]

Might be worth reminding people to always unplug the laptop battery before doing anything with the screen...

[@WilliamBrwn]

I have a question. How many times do you see broken hinges? Is it a frequent problem?

[@Adamant_IT]

Yes, fairly. I feel like it's gotten less over the past couple of years, but still a common issue.

[@seguramlk]

YT is not sending your videos man to subs, man. Had to search the name of your channels

[@Adamant_IT]

Always the way 😔 I recommend using the Subscriptions feed, instead of the home feed. You'll always see everything chronologically there, not messed with by the algo.

[@joevwgti.]

Could you please, possibly again, give us other IT folks an update on what you use at home for computery things? Just curious.

[@Adamant_IT]

I did a fairly detailed rebuild on my home rig in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j33cmmCcbLxqq6M TL;DW - It's a Fractal Torrent, Ryzen 5800x/RTX4080 build

[@Ed31003]

so your micro-screen is on a arm did you make or buy?

[@Adamant_IT]

It's a standard monitor arm, if you find an arm that has the 'socket' side of the hinge on the end, instead of the 'ball' side, the Andonstar scope mounts fit right in.

[@Ed31003]

@@Adamant_IT don't why i didn't see that before but very nice mine is mounted on a block i fashioned to have it higher but the arm is very nice

[@jeremysaise]

Technically it’s a No fit :)

[@baghdadiabdellatif1581]

Great work 👌👏👏 Great content as always Free Palestine ✊✌️

[@wayneg296]

👍👍😎✌️🤟🇺🇸

[@abora3d755]

🫡شكرًا لك

[@Swenser]

Hi champ. It's time to break the internet. I think for your next video you should shave off your chin wig. See how much money you raise for charity.