3 Asus ROG Gaming Laptop Repair No power- The first one has Liquid Metal Spill

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[@dallanc5199]

THANK YOU! I have a ASUS ROG GL502VM that has a failed power issue. I didn't even know these were repairable! I already contacted your company and have my paperwork to send it in tommorow. I am so happy to see you are able to fix these. I hope mine is fixable as well :)

[@serrioton1858]

Hey, is your laptop working? Plz reply I'm facing the same issue. I have an Asus Rog g15 2022 which failed 3 days ago.

[@todd9391]

This guy is awesome, and a hell of a tech, teacher and all around good guy.

[@nasersiddiquee7253]

and he make shiny joints. :D

[@ShermanMR2]

It was so cool meeting you the other day. Thanks for taking the time to personally help me with purchasing some tools and supplies from your shop. When your customer came in I can totally tell that you are a total people pleaser and happy to help your customer. Until we meet again…

[@Jim_M_75]

I will never get tired of your smile when a job is done and working Alex. Thankyou for the content brother.

[@aardiie]

I think the takeaway from this episode is DO NOT use liquid metal ... Thank You 👍😊

[@patx35]

Some manufacturers use liquid metal from the factory. However, they typically have protection keep it from leaking.

[@milkonbean]

Liquid metal is excellent at heat transfer BUT if you don't know how to apply it correctly then don't try use it

[@Rare_K_]

there is a use for liquid metal, but it's completely stupid to use it on laptops. laptop cpus are not meant for overclocking = why liquid metal laptop coolers are wimpy, and don't have any pressure to hold them tightly against each other = why even try to apply liquid metal, it's just gonna spill everywhere. + 90% of the population can't even apply it properly = just forget about liquid metal in hopes of getting 1-2 fps more in games.

[@mintynuggets]

I think it's fine to use if it's on a console or desktop where it won't be moving around much

[@nobertoketch7837]

They never listen. Now the costomer has to spend another $2,000 on a new laptop because of liquid metal!!

[@doyinger1]

I think the takeaway should be, DO NOT purchase a ROG gaming laptop until they can come up with a better solution for keeping the PCBA cooler. MOSFET voiding and bad Caps are also a huge issue for this laptop.

[@cihiris2206]

I find these repairs so fascinating. The beneficial part to me is seeing the trends in bad manufacturing so that I can avoid those particular brands :) Thanks for the great honest videos!

[@fred306801]

When I see someone take something like this and preform there skills it is like magic. To bring something to life like this is amazing.

[@lolnotsofunny19]

I didn’t expect my laptop (the third one) to show up in one of his videos but thank you also I love your work

[@lolnotsofunny19]

@@Stefan_Van_pellicom around $300

[@nazdhillon994]

hey which zephyrus/rog model was your laptop ?

[@lolnotsofunny19]

@@nazdhillon994 it was a GA502 15”

[@serrioton1858]

​@@lolnotsofunny19 you live in USA?

[@caioquadros6868]

I do learn more with that short and rich videos than others very prolix and boring. Thanks, God speed .

[@bornjcan]

I learn a lot from your work. Thanks for posting all you have. There are lessons in EVERY video you post. Even the non fixable ones. Your methods of troubleshooting are remarkable. Btw just the name liquid metal scares me knowing is being used on electronics, and then you show the negative effects. Watching from Jamaica.

[@janosgorondi9514]

Good day, Alex. Your videos are always great and in this one you did a lot of measurements. Every time I feel that something missing for me, you always telling the result of measurements, but could you please, organise a small window in any corner of the screen to see the multimeter result? Thank you for your hard work to show us a lot of tricks in this job.

[@thomasconrads4149]

Very nice repair! Lot to learn about proper soldering. I changend two switches of my PC-Mouse today and it workt great! Normaly i struggle with desoldering and soldering on little electronics... but since I watch your Videos I lernt alot about soldering and how to do it . Keep up your great work! Greetz from Germany

[@JoeyDoesTech]

Enjoyed this one being a bit longer Alex, thankyou for the content 😁😁

[@ovalwingnut]

You R "our" 'IT national treasure.... and even though you don't... you're still SMOken! Cheers

[@fo22zz]

You are getting my passion for microsoldering going again

[@shaileshgavali8762]

You do always epic , but if your visible multimeter, DC power meter, hot gun meter at right corner which will helpful for us ! You are always our mentor 👍 😊

[@japc4326]

It's nice to see you take pride in your repair.....when we see you smile...we know its a winner!...John

[@Gehqster]

The Bob Ross of fixing parts. Thank you Alex for what you do

[@reyalsboongaming895]

"It just plays games, it is a gaming laptop so..." Love this guy's sense of humour

[@byronwatkins2565]

Liquid metal does have 5-10 times the thermal conductivity of thermal paste; however, it also conducts electricity. It is absolutely essential that it NOT be spilled onto the circuitry. Evidently, most people use far too much and it squeezes out and causes shorts. Better use thermal paste unless you know what you are doing. A 1 mm diameter bead will spread to cover 3-15 square cm depending on surface roughness. Seldom would anyone need more and usually should use less.

[@hrodberht3152]

It's mind-boggling to me how many people are willing to buy a product they do not understand, and open up and tamper with their $1000+ device, before spending 20 minutes worth of research into what it is they're buying or how to apply it.

[@sarges1712]

@@hrodberht3152 I certainly don't get it. I mean, w/ liquid metal you need some barrier to prevent spillage, right. So taking a laptop that [I assume] didn't have liquid metal and putting it on seems like it's asking for trouble... but what do I know. I'm a Playstation gamer who only knows a thing or two about PCs. having said that, last night I ordered a Rog Strix Scar 15. Intel 12900H, 3070ti, etc that uses liquid metal. I imagine that one was user error but now I hope these have a barrier to prevent the liquid metal from spilling onto the board lol... seen a video of the application process, etc but haven't seen an actual video or pic of the chip pre heat sink.

[@davido3403]

I have seen people cover the immediate surrounding area on the CPU with clear nail polish but this stuff is all over the board!

[@lence2775]

@@sarges1712 it has a barrier to preventing liquid metal from spilling and its applied by machines if not mistaken.

[@lucymc0191]

wow what a great video alex ... a short shop work flow can we have more of this please .. and also nice to see big boss included in your videos ... regards joe from uk

[@scamazonprime]

Love the longer videos. Great job as usual

[@fullwaverecked]

Hard to hide the coop from an old whiley fox. Good job. Cheers!

[@MarkVender]

Thank you! I am a hobbyist and learn so much from your videos. You are always very informative. Great videos! I am addicted to watching your videos 😀

[@johnhiggins9838]

Good day Alex, I enjoy watching your steady hand on the micro components. Being a retired electronic keyboard tech for 50 years you have a unique method of troubleshooting. I have a curious question on the liquid metal contamination. Might compressed air not blow the metal from under unseen connections. Of course I wouldn't do it on or near the work bench for concerns of future contamination. As always IMHO!

[@michaelaltun]

its probably already damaged the CPU.

[@robertpage2023]

I think sucking is always better than blowing. NO! I'm not gay................HA!

[@KeyserSolsi]

Or even vacuum it off with a small nozzle.

[@3mariusx]

you can try with a lot of isopropilic alcohol and a very smooth brush. I managed to save one like this but it can also push the liquid metal even further.

[@alexandercherednichenko6381]

@@michaelaltun can CPU be replaced?

[@polli3578]

My joints never shine.. unless lit. ;) :p And i concur. one does not simply apply some liquid metal without proper knowledge. 1070 RIP.. ;)

[@pushup2830]

Sorry sir,,,, I'm from Indonesia, I always learn on Asus and Apple videos In my country, it's difficult to find tutorial like this, also coz i'm a poorguy😅 But,,, I hope,,, if you are free, please upload it often every week may god repay your kindness

[@13ig13oots]

I used to own an amplifier that someone described as having more dry joints than a hippie's ashtray.

[@AtifMian88]

@northridgefix when you get time can you make a video to go over all the tools and equipment you currently use and your website links you are doing an awesome job and we greatly appreciate the repair videos keep them going

[@klevrepairs]

Great job as always. Thank You. Allah protect you and your family my brother.

[@2loco]

Ameen.

[@sdj33]

i come for the smile after the fix!

[@archie6702]

Hit three birds with a single stone. Good work. Love from India

[@marsvandeplaneet7786]

Nice job! Got my 'dosis' Northridgefix today. Now I can resume my day. Kind regards. Marcel

[@ahedtech8142]

ما شاء الله اللهم اصلح ما بيديكما تحياتي للخال big boss

[@Arschrat38]

I've been building PCs for myself and all my friends and acquaintances for 20 years, always without any major problems! Once a mainboard and once a RAM kit were defective immediately after purchase from the dealer. Nothing more! But who has tried liquid metal on this? You can do it if you do it right. Apply a drop of paint to all surrounding components and only apply a tiny amount of liquid metal! And not the half tube and certainly not directly on the chip, but on a cotton swab and therefore on the chip! First protect everything properly then a little bit of liquid metal and everything will be fine! And also important: It is best to use it only on nickel-plated surfaces, not on aluminum or copper

[@syahbanhrflasherchannel5451]

I don't miss anything to your videos and watching every day that your video to learning about laptop repair,iPad,phone that so good i think,especially to interesting for me is like to repair VGA. that's so good.

[@dafalzonAUS]

Northridge Fix in the (Asus ROG)Short repair business

[@ps5gamepl4ys]

Lucky Video 3 repair in One , Oh Yeah!!!!

[@georgikolev9601]

well done northfix you fix everything

[@annierenard5954]

master degree in perfection and patience

[@Old_Man_Pete]

It's the smile of satisfaction that shows you enjoy doing what you are doing, and that's stopping our overpriced electronics from going to the big circuit board in the sky 👍.

[@DanRing]

three for the price of one! well done

[@SpartanV295]

I’m about to send you mine, I used to do circuit board repair, had IPC certifications but it’s been a while since I troubleshooted or was in the industry. I have a GU502DU motherboard from ASUS, buddy said stopped working, I checked the mosfet with the meter one side is 20V other side is 4.20-4.5V so I definitely know a component is shot just can’t determine which one it is.

[@77radeon77]

El conector de batería , yo lo habría fijado con un par de gotas de pegamento bicomponente, solo un par de gotitas y queda sujeto de una manera mas firme y soporta mejores temperaturas.. un saludo.. Desde España...

[@scamchan]

3 peat crazy good pro level work!!

[@ABTUTS]

thermal camera is lifesaver for real, good job

[@komalmishra2257]

I don't even know shit about this but this video is much better of asmr then the asmr ones and information is next level so keep going❤

[@nelchan2421]

cleaning Liquid Metal is a big waste of time

[@dylanjimenez7126]

U should do some tutorials for id and specs of smd electronics I have like 10 years on this type of things and man still learning with ur videos. The most awesome is how fast u id the problems and know voltages, resistance, and how works each element. Really hope u can do tutorials Where I live I have to fix my own things bc the people here isn't honest and don't are so transparent like u on the videos.

[@LiveType]

That looks like way too much liquid metal was applied with zero isolation. 100% user error. Also what's with the massive amount of Asus laptops having vcore MOSFET failures? Heat problems? Or just that Asus sells an incredible amount of them?

[@repairmen7323]

The latter

[@AlexSanchez-qy9jd]

your the man Alex! 3 in one video... that's probably a normal 30 minutes for you lol... you probably could have done like 6 motherboards if you weren't needing to do the video at the same time!

[@donaldhenke2750]

that flux is great stuff. thanks for the info......................

[@sgrichardson85]

My take from this video is think twice before buying ausu. Been good in the past but not sure now days. Thank you.

[@DiJAndy]

I am considering about metal battery tab from third repair. What is worried me is any shaking won't cause any problems with the connection

[@santhoshaon6189]

Gaming laptop wants to play game but This laptop even born when i play game!!😄👍

[@theworld4115]

الله يعطيك العافية انت والبغ بوس

[@FG-Supercharged]

Wow. Considering how "insignificant" a capacitor is versus, say, a semi-conductor chip, you'd think that electronics components manufacturers would be doing something about the failure rate of capacitors and how they are actually impacting the environment (landfill, rubbish, etc.). I appreciate Alex's stance here in fixing what he can here. Seriously, how often is it "just a capacitor" that contributes to landfill for those that don't/can't get this type of repair? It almost seems like a capitalistic intention to allow this by the Electronics Industry!

[@gerrymichaud3851]

I was going to use liquid metal on my AMD Threadripper until I read about it. Stayed with a good thermal paste

[@MrOlegBoldyrev]

Alex, why don't you use a wick in this case?

[@Anthony_The_Chicken_Licker]

Scientist spotted 🤣

[@stefanlechner]

Wow...great long video to relax on weekend and watch your incredible work. I just asked myself why using liquid metall on a notebook that is not made for it to use. I would never do that. Thanks for this "asus"-session, it was very interesting. Greets

[@tahaabderaouffritis1161]

I think that was a gaming laptop, not a notebook. is it that laptop on the right that didn't work ? he said it's the liquid metal one. 18:00

[@electroboy7422]

بإسم الله أحسن الأسماء. I did not expect to hear the name of God in a channel like this. Like

[@TubeMeister1000]

Thanks a million for the guidance 🙏🏽

[@isthkar123]

love your repair video buddy very relaxing to watch .

[@muratakcan7221]

Turkiyeden selamlar sizleri takip ediyorum ve severek izliyorum başarılarınızın devamını dilerim iyi günler.

[@zGiGi]

This guy is like a heart surgeon but for electronics !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@t.s.8783]

Good jobs, but i miss the removed metalpiece (23:55). 🤔

[@splytlyckety]

Use clear nail polish around the cpu for protection if you wanna use liquid metal.

[@mashi_8896]

Its not worth the risk of improving couple of degress by using liquid metal. Better of with quality thermal paste.

[@RandomFile101]

I watch his video's so I can keep my device safe from damage.

[@robertpage2023]

How bout rigging up a vacuum (a strong shop type) and size the suction end down to a very small opening to suck up all this liquid metal. Also, have the main hose of the vacuum run into a plastic bucket at the top and the smaller hose that will do the sucking of the metal set at a lower position on the bucket so that the liquid metal does not go into the main part of the vacuum. It would be an easy way to get rid of all future liquid metal problems on devices coming in. I am still surprised that idiots still use liquid metal on computers especially after you have shown so many devices that come to you for repair with it all over the boards. Great Show!!!!

[@eternalinsignia]

Well the problem it is manufacture who use the LM on the first place. Asus, Dell, and Lenovo have used it on some of their laptop (especially for high performance laptop aka gaming laptop), with MSI following this year. Thus there will be no choice to suck it and use it. Beside, it is not really hard to tame LM. It depends on the manufacture. For example PS5 has really good barrier to avoid LM spill as they make the processor a bit lower than the other component in the board and + more barrier (thus the heatsink on CPU is like plug). Thus unless you open it, it will really hard to spill in PS5.

[@llamapi3]

Nothing like a good ol Liquid Metal bukake.

[@mapled3135]

When You said joint my room suddenly got a lot brighter.

[@sidharthadey4303]

This man is sassy and genius 💪👌👌👌

[@mawizard6341]

I noticed that when you swab away the liquid metal you use ipa on the swab, wouldn't the liquid metal wick away easier if the swab was dry? There's probably a reason that I'm missing.

[@rfr653]

good job mate.

[@rockyfrancisco4691]

You have amazing talent bro!....?

[@manISnoGOD]

all praise is due to god bless you with the Talent good job

[@jacobtc]

Awesome job! Just one question, how do you know what capacitor to replace dead ones with? I'm guessing you can't meassure the capacitance due to it being dead? Do you have a schematic of the boards?

[@MOYOTV]

Because he fixed too many of those devices he remember their value and also he have the same mother boards . So he can measure from it. And for some of them he have schematic of the boards! Here those all from his vids✌️✌️✌️

[@fpk1954]

Alex der TOP-Profi ! 🥰🥰🥰

[@batluckies]

Hi Alex. First, I do always enjoy the work and the videos you do. Top! 👍 But I have a small question. Every time I see Americans use hot glue they heat it and put it manually on the component. Why don't you (ok, you can't answer for the others) use a hot glue gun? It's easier to use and you can work with a higher precision. Thx.

[@Lspixel]

1:59 liquid metal is far better then thermal Paste in cooling , but a single drop outside the target area can lead to short-circuiting , that's why who don't know how use it or don't know quantity to be placed better , He has to take his device to pro. .generaly , you can often find it in build quality laptops

[@clintonswart6670]

This laptop was not even born when i was playing games.

[@piussundayiddi3433]

Hi Alex Best ways of troubleshooting circuit shots without applying voltage to the board? Best and easy way to read mosfet to detect defective ones

[@Darren777Au]

Thanks again for another informative video. God bless.

[@Jake-kw4ql]

3:06 they come from the factory with liquid metal on cpu, and paste on gpu for 2023 models, 2022 models come with liquid metal on both. Not sure about 2021 or 2024 models

[@andreloos7843]

You are doing an amazing Job!

[@Jonathan-ke9no]

Metal liquid is just terrible for temperatures but it is necessary to apply nail polish near the CPU or GPU to protect everything in case of leakage of metal liquid

[@TubeMeister1000]

Thanks!

[@lonnygallant827]

Awesome! Like the longer video! :)

[@samersar3]

Special greeting to the big boss

[@lastblueride5]

"Some of the mosfets are in the middle, in the back, in the side. Asus like playing games. Well, it is a gaming laptop."

[@azharuddin2023]

Nice and shiny joints

[@atiqullahishaqzai2454]

salaam brother's i hope you see this ,i love the videos keep up the great work.

[@radurody9783]

You can use hot running water to clean after alcohol

[@suryavanshib]

Awesome ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻 1 suggestion for you. I think you can use flux dispenser it will be very useful to you.😇✌🏻

[@danielodonnell8998]

very cool fixes

[@tsbeech]

Liquid metal is a nightmare! Big Boss is tha man!!!

[@yh1124]

The ASUS marketing team must hate this channel lol

[@mazsam5232]

awesome job