GTX 1080 FE Graphics Card not Detected. You'll be surprised why.

[@giliduran]

Seems to be another classic case of "I don't know what happened it was working fine. I didn't touch anything".

[@joseensenat8296]

correcto amigo

[@GregM]

Its a case of not me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@fullraph]

"I swear I didn't do a thing! I removed the original heat sink with a hammer but that's about it."

[@hycron1234]

"I didn't change anything, it was working fine yesterday!" **meanwhile customers dog chewing on the internet cable in the background**

[@F9023JFjcDfsdfw2e]

"They put those drugs on me osifer".

[@WertzOne]

House teached us a valuable lesson, EVERYBODY LIES.

[@chireaionut8473]

true... and it never is lupus.

[@retr0ricky]

Great show!

[@gastongl404]

no, the customer didn't lie, the GPU was losing components from stress like a guy losing his hair, probably bcz of Elon musk tweet about bitcoin

[@NormalsOverrated1987]

Normal's Overrated

[@gerrymichaud3851]

X-Files; Trust No One

[@imadb2933]

The title must go like this : Trying to repair a donor board .

[@biomedicalelectronicsengin7192]

Hahaha...nice

[@easley421]

My thoughts exactly. Did he get the customers board mixed up with his donor? Jesus that's ridiculous.

[@easley421]

@@chriszerzelidis3097 what? No. You're confused

[@goku445]

The components are blown/destroyed.

[@goku445]

@@gregorylawson4107 Are you the board owner?

[@todormiroleskov8663]

I think that the customer lied that the board was working. 🤷

[@JesusChrist-sx1lf]

@@laboratorioassembler No, that was 100% a donor board since selected component were missing. Those sell really cheap, maybe even was thrown away. Imagine you pay 60 USD + shipping for Alex to replace components and fix it for you. Maybe you end up with a working gtx 1080 for under a 100 dollars in the end.

[@biomedicalelectronicsengin7192]

It can be

[@AmerM7]

Sure it was, when it was new 😂

[@CoolKoon]

@@JesusChrist-sx1lf "No, that was 100% a donor board since selected component were missing." - What idiot would literally rip components off of a donor board though?

[@smachta]

Lesson learned: if you use liquid metal, some of the components will disappear and go to the 9th dimension🤪

[@pow9606]

maybe T2 took them to phone home. 😅

[@RNG-999]

But I've used liquid metal on over 35 GPUs for over the past 5 years and not a single one has even been close to getting damaged yet.

[@undefinedchannel9916]

@@RNG-999 woooosh

[@lrgamito]

components went to Narnia

[@trolojolo6178]

@@RNG-999 35 GPUs in 5 years. That means you destroyed 7 graphic cards every year. Wow this doesn't look like you are doing a good job.

[@toyoakitakahashi2461]

I think that he got it from ebay for parts and wanted to see if you were able to fix it

[@crisflashin]

I think the same

[@michael.a.covington]

That is the only plausible theory I've heard here so far. Even if the customer is dishonest, the customer must have been thinking *something*.

[@garyr7027]

A viable conclusion indeed... for a fact this just didn't happen out of nowhere.

[@SubjectiveFunny]

It is actually so cool that you can do your work and record it all for YT. Unlimited content PLUS you always have evidence for customers as to what work you did. This couples beautifully with KZbin.

[@Thomas_Aslaksen]

"Board was working for 2 days, and suddenly many components jumt of the boeard. The didn't want to be an Nvidia part and they finaly was able to run away." I'm so glad that I don't have to deal with this lies. I know that I wouldn't be able to shut up, and scream to the cust that he is stupid to think that we wouldn't see that he was breaking his own card. I'm really impresed with your work, and that you are able to stay so calm when cust lie to you. Thanks again.

[@axcellopez4101]

😂

[@thegottessocke4541]

Thats the Business

[@keranamu63]

i was hoping alex manage to repair and replace those missing one and send the bills to that customer. what i wouldn't want to see is customer denied about those missing component and say there's none missing before he mailed it.. that's gonna be something. i cant help but thinking aside from customer maybe lying, what happened to the card tho.. bad solder from manufacture? but too many component missing. a surge after that liquid metal upgrade that pop those component out overnight?

[@zx8401ztv]

The owner has to be telling lies, the liquid metal was a smoke screen, i would send it back unfixed. Don't waste any more of your time on it.

[@wulff8615]

I agree with you.

[@biomedicalelectronicsengin7192]

Agree

[@eillswim]

Just take longer to repair it. Then charge them a shit ton, Ez profits

[@goku445]

He can check if he actually used liquid metal.

[@zx8401ztv]

@@goku445 The only liquid metal i know is mercury, that's not a good metal to handle. I hope that stuff is not related to mercury.

[@ashleynery8092]

looks like you was given a donor board to repair :)

[@tech_jims]

I surprised Alex didn't send it back as a no fix I would have lol 😁makes you laugh when customer states card just suddenly stopped working, err yeah OK its clearly been messed with or had poor prior repair attempt, as half of it is missing 😆🤔,

[@netpackonlinesolutions3254]

@@tech_jims agreed, I would also call it a no fix.. it's a good donor 😁

[@ninjapug6190]

Yeah I was thinking this too lol

[@tech_jims]

@@ninjapug6190 it's like all the compents suddenly fell off in the middle of the night and gpu suddenly stops working, must of been the gpu fairy's 🤣

[@HazeAnderson]

ditto

[@diytechspirit914]

I wont even bother with it. if it was used for parts most likely the gpu is dead. Good work ;)

[@LSDale]

Instead of Hiroshima bomb, maybe a Tornado came through this board.

[@imadb2933]

👌🤣🤣

[@johnny4498]

Hiroshima bomb is way worse than a tornado bro

[@EldaLuna]

more like a huge asteroid from space you mean.

[@10100rsn]

10:23 10:24 10:25 Lots of discoloration around the components and vias. Seeing the back it looks like he tried it in the oven.

[@andrewchapman2141]

How did all those components go missing there's something a miss there definitely no way liquid metal caused that .

[@em0_tion]

Probably damaged in shipment when the customer received it from a questionable seller. 🤷‍♂️ Those components are knocked off clean by pure force, no solder/flux/liquid metal signs whatsoever.

[@56-thiagofrener99]

@@gblargg lmao good one

[@qT_p13]

I hope he doesnt accuse you of stealing/swapping parts. Im glad you do this stuff on video so you have proof of what is really going on.

[@frozenicicle]

One guess though unlikely is that the customer installed a aio cooler/water block that wasn't compatible with the Founders edition 1080, and when he screwed down the water block some of the components got crushed/ripped of the board. Though one would assumed that the customer checked that the AIO was compatible before purchase.

[@mbwatson1000]

Ah yes! I was thinking the customer had simply lied, but what you suggest is possible. It is also possible that he had a correct water block, but was ham-fisted when installing/removing it, crushing all those components. Maybe he failed to follow the installation instructions.

[@joshua199628]

I recently bought 1 10cc flux syringe and 2 wires (Enameled and non-Enameled) from you, all i can say is, they are perfect ! The flux works flawlessly !👌🏼

[@dallie8206]

I've been watching this channel a few months now and I'm encouraged to take up my sapphire radeon R9 270x card and attemp a fix. I'm a electronic technician for years you I know my way around electronic. My microscope was stolen but have my table magnifying glass so i will give it a try. Thank you my friend.

[@Stratotank3r]

I always use my spatula to apply liquid metal and give the the card a good scrape to remove unneeded parts ;-)

[@paying-for-freedom]

Was just going to bed. But this just popped up and have to watch. Always happy to watch his videos.

[@rm4213]

Same here

[@lukaswalczak93]

If there was no previous repair done on this card, I can not imagine how such damage is even possible. How can you rip off so many components while replacling the cooler. Really weird. Great video as always.

[@CoolKoon]

The answer's kinda obvious: apparently the customer has lied his ass off, that's how...

[@deniswauchope3788]

This board with its missing parts reminds me of a job I had many years ago. A customer brought in a top-of-the-line dual deck cassette recorder by Harmon Kardon. He decided to take it apart for some reason, so he turned all the little "screws" he found when he took it out of its case. All those "screws" were potentiometers used to set levels, and there must've been 50 of them! Since he'd voided the warranty by doing that, he brought it to me- and it took me a couple of days to get all the levels re-set, but I enjoyed doing it. One of the only times I got to repair something where nothing was wrong with it but a dam fool owner!

[@urbanmec993]

Great work as always ,calm and proffessional, you don't care if customer lies or not, if he wants his card fixed this is how much he should pay, if he doesn't he should pay for the diagnostics and time spent on it, then get his card back. period.

[@JackSparrow-jr7qc]

I agree with you,, that physical inspection is very important to find out what happened to the board. very inspired me, Thank you Mr. Alex..

[@biomedicalelectronicsengin7192]

Agree

[@gansitomarinela38]

at the beginning of the video i was wondering why you didn't make the initial inspection as you always tell us to do. i salute you MASTER.

[@JesusChrist-sx1lf]

What most likely happend was customer lied and gave you a donor board, hoping you would replace the componenets and fix the card for him.

[@NasheedPog]

I was watching so carefully as you did the visual inspection, and I saw a few places that looked a bit weird. Then you got to the back, and I just leaned back and started laughing haha. Good luck on replanting that forest

[@biomedicalelectronicsengin7192]

Exactly

[@RN-pf8vr]

The customer is 100% honest. No way he would be lying. 😈

[@gastongl404]

u know that type of customer is the worst, usually, they lie, make troubles and try to find exploits, even if they got their GPU's fixed for the first time, also for the second time, if our dude was tired and refuse to do the same job for the 3d time, they will not hesitate for a second to leave a bad review with 2 pages of complaints about his business been trush

[@biomedicalelectronicsengin7192]

Hahaha...😁😄

[@suryavanshib]

Awesome ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻 Good that you didn't quit👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@instrukcion14]

Thank you so much for your work. I like watching your videos. I'd like to open my own repair shop but currently, I'm PhD student working on a magnetic bearing. Hopefully, I will be able to make a similar video with a comparable impact. Thank you

[@kamisarma]

I love the GPU repairs :O Keep up the good work

[@Mostasteless8805]

So I have been watching a lot of ur videos today just found ur channel recently and you sir have become my new idol and I hope to one day meet you and shake your hand. Also can’t wait for part 2.

[@bisengimanajeanfidele84]

Northridge fix big up to yourself you touth me a lot greatings from Rwanda-Kigali Eastafrica

[@JMDangler]

I was surprised when there was no heat spots at all on the thermal camera. But no wonder why there’s no heat spots, because there’s no components left to get hot LOL.

[@atthrusto]

I'm a new fan of your channel.. When I was fixing cell phones, I had drawers of cannibalized parts. Having those "donor" parts saved countless people. Keep up the good work. And yes. Customers fib all the time. Me: "Has this been in water recently?" Them: "Nope" Me: "What do you do for a living?" Them: "Deckhand for a charter fishing boat." Me: SMH

[@CoolKoon]

"Customers fib all the time." * snort * yeah, this was almost certainly just a fib...

[@pgperkos]

Either he dropped it, he tried to fix it searching for the short removing components or he bought it that way and send it for repair.

[@DSD-u2m]

This could be a fault card laying with customer from months. The customer must have done experiment and fingering on it. I also get some people like this who give me their electronic devices to repair after keeping it in scrap for months. But now I am leaving my part time electronic repair work, as I have problem in my both eyes and can't afford microscope. But I am happy to watch your repair videos. 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

[@tristshapez]

"Eh hem, my dog was... bringing me my shoes and they errrrr fell apart in his mouth".

[@kandyfix9221]

You’re improved so much regarding video cards

[@gibbo4809]

Would love to see you repair this board. Thank you for the video Alex.

[@henrybartlett1986]

I’ve just started learning electronics and these are fantastic presentations.

[@WarPhotographer1974]

“It worked fine”… yeah, right.

[@stvnseegal]

It works perfectly fine when powered off ;-)

[@dominikcar5570]

Where do you find the schematics for the GPUs? Or do you just know by heart what/whever/how connects?

[@aliassaila8037]

The board worked fine when installed first-time !!! telling the truth is the best thing every time.

[@fabioflaibam5006]

Greetings from Brazil! 🔥🔥🔥

[@claytonmorgan8625]

Wow... I can just imagine the thoughts running through your mind!!

[@sean2525]

What are all the locations where more mosfet's would go? Watching you measure them between the 4:00-5:00mins mark, there are lots of the mosfet pads with no mosfets. Are they deemed too redundant and not necessary? If you put mosfets there, would the board work? Thank you, great content as usual.

[@westmallelover]

I am sure that you ve seen prior repair attempt , even before missing comoponets , you re a skilled

[@sandipparmar3784]

From your work we getting more help to find out tracing It's becomes more easy

[@dzcapssoula8581]

i always start my morning with northridge fix video ♥

[@RedRaccoon69]

looks like the components were crushed by the backplate that was required to mount the AIO..

[@TheDoomerBlox]

Usually, if you were to take an "AIO" to a GPU, that would imply the zip-tie method of just strapping a CPU AIO to the GPU.

[@tschupbach]

Wonder if the customer put it into a toaster oven and then gave it a good whack to remove the liquid metal (and lots of other components) before sending it in?

[@alcasey3551]

WOW! big plot twist at the end; I wasn't expecting that!Maybe they ripped while packaging? It couldn't have worked with all those missing components.

[@BizzyVlogs]

I’m sending in an item this week, my Mercedes key. I really hope I see a video of it. Cheers.

[@em0_tion]

Totally worth the fix attempt if you can find a donor board and the client agrees with your price quote. Hope to see part 2. 👍 I hate a dishonest description, only thing it accomplishes is wasting more of your time. A repair technician is neither stupid, nor blind. 🤦‍♂️

[@nisaprotv5866]

Logically the 5v was missing from the moment the components got off the board, I highly doubt if the board ever worked for even 1 day.

[@chethankiran5478]

I love you sir.... 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻You are my God...... Love from India 😘😍😍🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@MentePositivaRafael]

Worked until the client chiseled the components off the board, nice one haha

[@thomashenden71]

A link to part #2 of the video, please? 🙂

[@shastrichandoo817]

Great troubleshooting. The customer thought he could trick you with his comments.

[@XxSteelPhoenixX]

Tough one, for sure. You're a good man.

[@mrsaizo0000]

Wow, must be a case of bad soldering. Didn't owner say it was liquid cooled? Perhaps he damaged it when placing the backplate onto it. Also the temperatures sounded strange..

[@fkjos7682]

When he is measuring ohms/continuity .. I only see one probe. Where is he connecting the other probe of the multimeter?

[@RANDOMNATION907]

Where could the missing parts be? I would like to believe a person would notice circuit board components laying in the bottom of the case but, then again look at all the craziness going on in the world right now.

[@zohaibsiddiqi715]

Just about to fall asleep but saw that northridge fix posted and knew what I had to do

[@ChrisYarzab]

Thanks!

[@tonytrilex2555]

Who do you guys recommend for Middle Eastern food in Northridge I used to love Pita Pockets?

[@NorthridgeFix]

My mom and my Wife

[@mrtarunsharma]

We know if you attempt it you can definitely fix it. Hope for fixed part 2.

[@redtec1]

good video alex blessings to your family and you

[@Asif-jd2km]

Repair guy : what's wrong with your GPU Cust : I don't know it didn't working and I did liquid metal few days ago and used two days then this happened! Repair guy: okay! We will check His mind - what I'm going see :!!

[@SlickBuysModsandRepairs]

How does he know which components are for 12v, 5v, etc? Schematics?

[@neil1266]

Experience as well, he is an extremely talented guy👍

[@stefantodosic2013]

Thank you for your time and effort uploading excellent videos for our education, it has improved my skills tremendous...

[@rodgerdodger8801]

Is there also a missing component at 9:05?

[@Lg6798-b1f]

I got this type of work sometimes for myself but i don't know how to charge this. Because even resoldering components the chip can be die, look the thermal paste on transistors.

[@boosie111]

Love your videos! Renewed my love of electronic and computers overall. Just a college student who does iPhone screen replacement and looking to expand! But I am always scared of messing with the motherboard, not after watching your channel! Just ordered a solder gun and a motherboard holder. Can anyone suggest what else I might need to get started?

[@hightttech]

What solder gun did you order? Might add a DMM and thermal camera to your wish list.

[@biomedicalelectronicsengin7192]

Check google for starter pack

[@mohsentabouna6401]

maybe components detached with backplate and thermal pad ( where there are ripped pads there is force implied ) maybe because of resell value maybe he wants to fix an already donor board I'm gonna stick with '' card got bad for whatever reason at first and then the back components were detached after miss manipulation'' no way of knowing

[@mohsentabouna6401]

also I think vaseline was applied on GPU DIE it's extreme overclocking habit 10:20

[@mantupatra530]

Sir i have a question. What is the temperature of soldering iron when you use primium quality disordering week.

[@brandonbajc2084]

Please do a video on that aorus 3080 waterforce card you showed us you got in the mail from the other video!

[@gurhanbayr5080]

very much interesting board with so many missing components .I dont know how you can have so many missing items. Maybe it is a fabrication issue while there is no visible repair or flux marks (on the ripped components). But the ripper tracks are also very interesting no side rips or rip marks.

[@davvehallberg]

The customer must have put some kind of backplate to hold the liquid cooler, maybe that crushed the components on the back?

[@TheSiriusEnigma]

11:59 you can see the ripped pad and the legs still in the solder. That 3 legs component was torn off the board. Not removed. Also the other missing part shown the same kinds of signs. This is intentional damage. Chances are that this card is dead. And has been for a while.

[@diyfrpandrepairs2669]

That's a lot of work. Will wait for part 2.

[@rogerdouglas2306]

you are a hero for all that work the card needs

[@HoRnEyDvL]

1 or 2 missing components understandable but half a card? I also couldn't see any indication that there was any liquid metal used on that board. Gpu looked like it had normal thermal paste on it.

[@rheography]

i saw the missing components before Alex said it and im thinking this customer story about the board with liquid metal is too fishy. with that many missing components it's not possible for it to work properly for a few days. Maybe this guy just wanted to send Alex a board with a bogus story and see if Alex can figures out with the problem is. Can't wait to see part two. Have a good weekend Alex. TY for all the vids.

[@Simcadepro]

Alex great work gent, tell me would any Flir cam work like mobile phone version ? warm kind regards

[@Evilne555]

Your lucky you have loads of donor boards! .... that would be a no fix for me?

[@ChrisHarmon1]

I got a 1070 I'd like to revive but it says you have too many right now. Might try to check the rails myself it looks fairly easy to test but mine is slightly different from a FE as it's a PNY that is close but not exact.

[@yoyomismo2052]

This happens when adapting liquid cooling sistem that are not for that model, as far as I know there is no io kit for graphics, only for custom cooling systems.

[@udontknowus2]

Looking forward to see you fixing it 😀

[@mbaboyyy9457]

What classes are needed to learn all this stuff?

[@schnookiecakes]

Hi, what Fluke multimeter model you are using?

[@ChrisYarzab]

How about the training that you offer? I've bought several items from your shop to do repairs but I haven't heard from you in regards to training. Do you offer training or are you too busy to offer training? I live near by and I'm interested in learning so I can help you speed up your turn around. Please, reply.

[@fabiolavorbezerra]

Can you make a video to desolder and solder an PCIe slot of an motherboard?

[@FlamboyantArt]

Best liquid cooler replacement ever. Few days working with half the board... 😆

[@will.iam0084]

I think that board not work like customers say, if lots of a component are missing

[@Ryan53799]

I want to learn to repair these cards so bad! I've watched so many of your videos! I really wish you would do a video on a card that green screens under load

[@TheAmerTV]

where can I get similar magnifying glass. I looked every where but I only can find small size

[@hightttech]

You mean, his microscope??

[@TheAmerTV]

@@hightttech No, I mean the white magnifying glass to his right

[@setlec]

liquid metal is a disaster, imo. if the right quantity was applied perfectly with no leaks. then what you will lower the average temperature by 2 up to 3 °C? imo here in tunisia it doesn't matter during the summer.

[@PapaMav]

Like I posted before on your channel Alex, you deal w/so many people who are real deep into the BS....