Macbook killed by a spec of dust...

[@robmorgan1214]

This is the type of robust design we've come to expect from Apple... it's not like dust protection is a problem many other significantly less expensive electronic devices have ever needed to contend with let alone completely solve...

[@rossmanngroup]

their market cap has went up 10x since i started doing youtube videos they destroyed right to repair bill in NYS they're winning. who needs dust protection when you're winning to that extent? they're doing it right

[@robmorgan1214]

@@rossmanngroup You are correct sir. The sheep don't like the shepherd... they like that sexy bad boy wolf. Happy new year man! Welcome to TX! You're making a big difference but your personal Goliath won't go down without a real fight and you're no longer fighting alone. Many people out here have tech skills and spent the pandemic doing something about the suck this ubiquitous corruption has spewed all over our country and internet. We keep a low profile but one of us will succeed and disrupt the technology sector before they can say buggy whips... moreover the crooks are slowly loosing their death grip on the system and their ability to dominate the narrative and the economy. Too much dementia passing for leadership too many unexplained glitches in the matrix. Those sheep are starting to notice and those sheep ain't loyal. You're doing a great job. Don't worry the cavalry is on the way.

[@jamewakk]

@@rossmanngroup proof that people are idiots

[@AmauryJacquot]

I have to open my intel mbp every 3 months or so to remove the dust bunnies...

[@mowtow90]

That is what I dont get. It looks like an M1 Air. That thing doesnt have a fan or air intake - how did that thing went in? If it was factory , it would of shorted long time ago...

[@AUATUWVSH]

how to use macbook: >dont drop it >dont stuff it in a bookbag >dont use the keyboard >dont get it wet >use it in a cleanroom

[@TruthDoesNotExist]

fine Ill just use an external keyboard, Oh wait apple doesn't put USB ports on anything anymore

[@mgancarzjr]

>don't even use it in a cleanroom Fixed your greentext.

[@dyo1001]

How to use MacBook: >dont

[@vaibhavsrivastva1253]

My father has a Compaq laptop which is older than me, and it works till this day. (hard disk replaced once [not crashed, just upgraded]], keyboard replaced twice[fell down]). My HP Pavillion 15-something has already crashed 2 times in the past 4 years.

[@worldtownfc]

Apple engineering is so good that a speck of dust will end your MacBook. Truly revolutionary. Don't hit the bottle too hard after the New York Right to Repair Law got killed a few days ago. Cheers to 2023, Louis. Always delivering insightful content.

[@Arexack999]

Not killed, that would have been honest. It got lobotimized rather and then paraded around town to show ' justice' been served.

[@snowimperfect2550]

For people who want to skip 7:25 is where the dust is. 9:15 is when the MacBook magically works.

[@thedude7319]

I love how youtubers know each other and reference each other with ease, makes the world seem more warm and cosy

[@CircleOfTheSeptagram]

26:45 Hearing Louis say "it was the jizz" in a bewildered tone three or four times had me fall out. Some days, you just have a moment like that.

[@ViperChief117]

Kinda crazy that a single spec of dust can destroy an entire computer? I might need to dust my MacBook every so often. XD

[@quietackshon]

You may or may not know this: What is the etymology of "debugging".

[@robonator2945]

that's an air isn't it? Aren't the new air's completely isolated? If that's the case then it sort of makes sense, without a fan or anything blowing dust around inside the design wasn't created to account for that.

[@TruthDoesNotExist]

@@robonator2945 not really, dust makes its way into stuff like this if there is even a small opening, the changes in air pressure or air thermally expanding when the computer is in use and heats up will force dust inside. with a medium or even low quality computer like a chromebook this should not be an issue

[@tofailtowin9046]

Not destroy, just disrupt

[@OmniscientWarrior]

@@quietackshon was due to the first problem a computer had was due to a literal bug being in the machine physically. Once the bug was removed, the computer worked correctly again.

[@danandrei96]

oh wow, this felt so much like one of the old videos, I'm glad things are moving forward with the shop, the channel and FUTO but I do miss these videos now and then. Just Louis, a dumb macbook board and a bottle of booze. Hope you enjoyed it as much as we did Louis, have a happy new year

[@HurtsEnd]

He drank straight from the bottle…. He wasn’t lying when he said he was going through it and went through some tough times. I hope you get better now that your in texas and not as stressed 🙏🏼

[@llagona]

I once dissasembled a laptop to remove dust and apply new thermal paste. I mounted it back and used it for some hours when suddenly the screen went dark. The computer kept working , just the screen was all black, but external motinor showed image. ... long story short, during the reassembly, I had left some of my finger grease in one of those connectors, specifically in the screen light power supply. Not that my hands were dirty, but somehow my fingers were not totally washed prior to the handling. It made bad contact and over the time the contact heated up to the point of melting the plastic and ruining proper further contact of that pin and its neigbour Clean all connectors before mounting them , people. I lost this laptop because of some small grease in a loaded pin of the connector. Good video, good work Luisito

[@patcaza6166]

self pity and alcohol, way to go Louis !

[@Leadballooner]

Drinking straight from the bottle never ends well 🤣😆😂 Happy New Year from Northern Ireland.

[@user-zn9ht6mf6t]

@Louis Rossmann (1:18) - A tip for your wobbly microscope. Loosen the tension until there's just enough of a gap, then take a small, broken up piece of cardboard and wedge it in between. Once you tighten it back up, it should stay in place better. It might be a hick solution, but it'll get the job done in the meantime.

[@merwindor]

Louis just started drinking and the scope is already drunk as hell.

[@matthieuchampagne8140]

happy new year Louis ! have fun with this bottle my man ! Hard worker deserve hard liquor !

[@SuperSixForFive]

It's almost infuriating. Run into this before and immediately started jumping and stomping the ground out of euphoria and irritation. Top 10 hardest diags honestly.

[@thephoenixking1086]

02:04 "Piece Of Sh*t" - That my friend is something I say a LOT when repairing computers and things just do not want to work for no reason.

[@MovieTime.39]

Me: So Louis, what caused the issue with my computer? Louis: It was the Jizz

[@biff647019]

It may be my fault for not searching, but I haven't seen any board repair videos for a long time now. I miss it. You give me the slightest confidence that I could do this. Bought an OP laser light I want to mod to be even more OP and never would've considered it were it not for these board repair videos.

[@IanBPPK]

Kurt and Louis, an unlikely crossover I wasn't expecting. He's damn good on his constitutional law knowledge, and I hope he covers any major R2R legal victories as they arise.

[@yepee1]

Lmao. Chat: 'Check the cable' Louis: 'Not the cable' Jizz on cable: evil laughing

[@vfclists]

The OS on Louis desktop doesn't look like Windows. Is it XFCE on Linux?

[@rossmanngroup]

XFCE is best

[@user-pv7gt4mi5b]

@@rossmanngroup Based

[@deusvermiculus1072]

@@rossmanngroup my man running the OS of freedom!

[@amongsussyballs]

i didnt know louis was this based

[@NotttC]

​@@rossmanngroupbased but what distro?

[@KC-bi9jw]

This is why I always run my laptops thru the dishwasher once a month

[@pacadet]

The Genius bar HATES this one simple trick.

[@solanumtinkr8280]

Maybe the "jizz" was a metallic contaminant, conductive.... I remember once a GPU connector has issues with the coating coming off the connector prongs and it was conductive... Might explain the odd colour. Was there anything metallic that colour in the Macbook, or could it have been a iron/steel filing that got inside (E.G. from a home/work environment it is on)?

[@AdrianStaicu82]

Metalic robot jizz 😅

[@Hakucookie]

Looks like solder paste that didn't fully reflow when the connector was soldered to the flexible pcb?

[@solanumtinkr8280]

@@Hakucookie Sounds like you may have guessed it...

[@fieldlab4]

Maybe an issue from the factory. Maybe a bit of solder.

[@anonymunsichtbar3715]

It's a passive cooled MacBook Air. How can get such stuff in there?

[@nonyabidness6492]

I've come to the conclusion that before any repairs I'm soaking the board in alcohol

[@Drazil100]

He actually has a video on why you shouldn’t do that. If you clean a board before trying to fix it you are also cleaning off your clues as to where the short is. These clues in many cases allow you to find where the short is with mostly just your eyes rather than having to spend brain power. This also helps you conserve mental energy for harder boards that you can’t just solve by looking at it.

[@nonyabidness6492]

@@Drazil100 too bad, the ship has sailed

[@Drazil100]

I found the video. It’s from 4 years ago and it’s called “Why fix logic boards before cleaning the corrosion?”. Don’t need to take my word on it but at least check out his.

[@Mallchad]

@@Drazil100 'cleaning a board before trying to repair it is like cleaning a forensics scene when you show up' paraphrasing

[@nonyabidness6492]

@@Drazil100 nah I believe you, it's just something that fixes a lot of issues I run into repairing boards in the field.

[@andrewwebber5910]

I really miss these repair type videos as I find them so informative and interesting - please keep them coming :)

[@Tsiikki]

Happy new year! Hope it is better than 2022!

[@Thomas_Aslaksen]

I'm so glad that you have started repair vids again Louis. I hope to see many more repair vids in the future. Happy new year and love from Norway

[@thediydentalchairguy7269]

Check to see if the tension screws (or set screws if that is what they are) have locktight on them. It makes a night and day difference on retaining tension.

[@RoseKindred]

Nice whisky. I fixed my laptop with Vodka. It wouldn't work so while having a little too much, I hit it, and it power cycled on. I cannot explain it, but hey, it worked.

[@Gatorade69]

Try to use isopropyl 91% next time. Vodka still has a lot of water moisture in it.

[@RoseKindred]

Yea, but Vodka tastes better.

[@XionEternum]

In regards to your microscope mount and not knowing its design personally; I would speculate that the reason that specific swivel is loose when you've tightened that specific adjustment as much as it can be is because of one of three possibilities in order of least likely to most likely: 1. Least likely: You're adjusting the wrong thing for that specific swivel joint. I'm sure you know how it works though, but it never hurts to sanity check ourselves. 2. Far more likely: The swivel joint is missing some sort of friction gasket for its adjustment screw. 3. Slightly more likely: There's possible damage to the adjustment screw itself either from the relocation or reassembly. If #2: I would suggest a cheap fix being to mash up some shredded tissue paper with a little water into a thick paste and shove a clump of it down into the adjustment screw socket and up against the joint. Let it dry somewhat before reinstalling the adjustment screw. Test to see if you get resistance in the joint as you apply pressure. If you don't, then you may need to add more paste. If you still don't, or doubt this will work on initial inspection, then asses other possible solutions as I'm unaware what may be preventing this from working.

[@LEXXIUS]

I think a piece of paper around the shaft, either 1 or 2 layers, should do the trick. The paper paste method would just disintegrate over time, I'd assume.

[@XionEternum]

@@LEXXIUS Quite the contrary; this method is used for custom fitting wads for shotgun slugs, and is very effective and resilient. Would it degrade? Certainly, but not at all quickly, and it's intended to be a firm yet somewhat compressible friction gasket for the joint.

[@grantrennie]

A spec of dust and a little moisture in the air and that's the end of some electronics these days 🙄🥃

[@TroyMackay]

The suspense is killing me! That nice bottle of whiskey perched on the edge of the table near that screwloose microscope!

[@heytheresakitty]

Board repairs are so relaxing to watch. Ty for this on new years good Sir!

[@MyklCarlton]

M-Scope - try a rubber O ring? Nothing works? Probably a hint to take the day off! Happy New Year!

[@panbrood]

Why would you want to rotate it that way anyway?

[@MonkeyJedi99]

@@panbrood Some uses of a desk microscope are not on flat objects.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

I agree. A thin rubber/neoprene/silicone "washer" would do wonders.

[@DCCoreDrive]

I recommend tweezer type measuring probe for SMD parts.

[@metazare]

My drink of choice is Wray and Nephew white rum, it's 126 proof. Very smooth too, so much so it's easy to drink way too much and not realize it until you try and stand up. I like to mix it with a Guinness to make a steel bottom.

[@tapiolankiira1968]

For guy who is trying to resolve alcohol drinking problem, bottle of hard liquor is not necessary the best present

[@zinnium]

It was rice dust! We had this happen to us on several iPhones were customers got them wet and used rice to dry them out. super annoying to try and figure out.

[@DimkaTsv]

Then shouldn't there be other symptomes of water damage?

[@slam4815]

Some of us like to follow along with chat even if we view after the live stream. Can you enable chat replay? Thanks, and Happy New Year!

[@kareno8634]

*HAIL to Kurt **_and_** Louis!* Thanks for the Lesson, I shall keep this in mind. My Neighbor, who's Skilled in many areas, always reminds me, "Think Simple". You know, most times he's right, it's dealing with those that LIE & Cheat that I have hard time keeping away. *Cheers!*

[@podnaponom]

Bro has the most calmest rage I've ever seen! 4:15

[@sofakingrad3530]

I have a mid 2017 MBP. The hard drive has a SMART error and my local shop said that it is a terminal problem. Cant solder in a new drive and now it is in the Apple hospice program. Nice to know I spent $4,000 on a disposable computer. I need to find an old 2010 to upgrade to..

[@seanshomeshop325]

seeing rossmann drink whisky from the bottle while i drink half shots of gin and tonic has me in awe

[@sokoloft3]

Good to see you using a linux distro. I use xfce4 DE too on my installs. Going to fully make the switch here soon with either kubuntu or majaro kde.

[@MattLitkeRacing]

I sent my MacBook Pro in for repair in November. Thanks for the quick repair

[@joeuser1858]

I was waiting for Louis to clean that connector Texas style with some of that whiskey instead of the iso alcohol.

[@HappyQuailsLC]

Maybe disassemble and place a shim inside to take up space in that tightener and create grip, maybe using a very thin piece of suede, if possible or plastic to enable cushioned grip and ability to tighten more.

[@1Grainer1]

about comment about checking cable pinout, i think someone very vaguely meant: since we know PPBUS pinout from motherboard to cable, you could try to trace those pins to the other side of the cable which would tell you which pin on sound card would be PPBUS connection

[@re_negado]

Macbooks make the PlayStation 5 look like the sturdiest and most resistant thing ever built.

[@SK_1337]

looks like the microscope got a sniff of the bottle and was behaving drunk XDD

[@ProDCloud]

Why do so many tech reviewers continue to ignore the build quality issues of the Macbook Pro, and only talk about the specs/look/feel of the system? How can they in good conscience continue to ignore Louis' multiple videos talking about the obvious planned obsolesent qualities of such systems? Hell, even reviewers like Jerryrigeverything, only cover the immediate durability of products but never detailed issues like these.

[@--_DJ_--]

Clicks.

[@willia3r]

they probably get sponsorship/free goodies from the companies manufacturing the systems that they are reviewing. Also known as _"conflicts of interest."_

[@TruthDoesNotExist]

even the specs are not good, I have a ten 13 year old xeon with 32 gb of ram and 16 cores 32 threads and my laptop is a ten year old 120$ thinkpad with 16gb ram (could be upgraded to 64 for a measly 60$) and 1tb SSD and now ten years later there releasing a 1500 dollar computer with the same specs ( alot of times lower) lower build quality and less ports, yeah no thank you. And to top it off I think I wont be supporting an opnely communist company like apple

[@rossmanngroup]

they get 1-5 million views a video, i get 10k they get real sponsors and high CPM. I move across the country because my business was doing worse now than it was 4 years ago and in 10 yrs on youtube got a free label printer... they're doing it right. do not criticize why they're not doing it like me, ask why I'm not doing it like them. you should emulate the people who are winning, not the people who are losing

[@TruthDoesNotExist]

@ThreeJS hp and dell laptops are trash, hence the price difference

[@theEDMdragon]

Not me buying one of those fanless MacBook Airs for its claimed reliability just for Louis to burst my bubble and show me how vulnerable they are 😂

[@iDeadlyyy]

This is the second time I have seen something like this. First time was sand in a macbook pro. Luckily cleaning it was enough to fix it somehow. Happy New Year!

[@OnStageLighting]

"Probably just a loose wire" - such a classic.

[@wongway40]

straight from the bottle ooof - so we now going classy!

[@emmoemminghaus6455]

Louis, that is the Louis i want to see... remember the Repair while emptying a bottle of Jägermeister... i think i am not allone with this.

[@frenchishard]

Bonne année à vous Louis, de la part d'un fan français !

[@margingalaxy9826]

Love to see with you again with board repairs ❤❤❤

[@higgydufrane]

Thank-you for everything you do and will do in the future. Seriously, Thanks...................

[@evennot]

"World doesn't have to make sense, it just has to make money" in this context a brilliant saying

[@andrewphi4958]

So, I'm not the only one working this day. Yay. Happy new year!

[@RealSalica]

Happy New Year to all of you !

[@expertbrian8314]

Jizz in unwanted places is usually the cause of all of life’s problems

[@thecon_quererarbitraryname6286]

Your underrated comment suddenly got pregnant 😂🤣

[@calfirecrackpotspodcast2505]

Put some carbon paste on the joints of the scope! It’ll hold it steady without over tightening it! Some advice from a bike mechanic.

[@Turboy65]

You should get one of those microscope camera systems that does stacked focus imagery.

[@jub8891]

would this be a flaw in their connector design? the size of the contact is so small that a speck of dust could easily get in and cover the whole contact

[@rossmanngroup]

It is possible to make these so that even water cannot seep in, much less dust.

[@natenussey6282]

If you made a drinking game out of this video where the drink word was jizz, you'd get totally smashed during the last few minutes! Happy New Year Louis.

[@maayatheperson9635]

What laptops do you recommend other than apple? More specifically, how can I convince my parents if necessary?

[@asiastormy8728]

Biggest lesson of the Day : Pre Check all Equipment and Setting before starting your podcast recording. Happy New Year.

[@JD-uf3lf]

Instead of taking roids to really tighten down that mount, how about just using a clamp to disable the rotation entirely?

[@ReluctantRoboticist]

You would be able to straighten the microscope easier if you had made more damage on the whiskey earlier in the video.

[@waldemarhachaj]

add counterweight to microscope thing to make it stay in position. Great video.

[@swishiestmetal6215]

Louis after a swig: I'm an owl Also Louis: brauh!

[@yasirrakhurrafat1142]

" They always have a little jizh on it " Literally everytime he said jizh . I diyed laughing .

[@TheBigfatclown]

Happy New Year Louis From BFC in Quebec!

[@alextoddslick]

Can we please have more Louis Rossmann late night board repairs!

[@max_ishere]

I'm having a debate with an apple fan boy about the design of apple products. And to have this debate I need to find examples of why the engineering is shit. But with this video I can't tell them that a MacBook is not resistant to dust because I don't expect a connector to work if it has dust around it.

[@sameregarde]

OMG louis with a bottle of fine whisky = instant thumbs up hope your 2023 is better than 2022

[@thisismyalias]

Alkohol kills many more people than any other drug. Weird to see how people still celebrate that substance.

[@edgar9651]

Are you sure they sent you that TX bottle to drink and not to clean boards? Or maybe you can use it for both. Happy New Year!

[@Hugmir]

I love your detective work like in this one.

[@fieldlab4]

Grounded shield lines on the cable should be only grounded on one end of the cable. If connected on both ends, they might carry current and not shield as well.

[@wyokaiju992]

Crazyness how weak macbooks are built.... Ive got a Dell e6420 thats still running with a cracked chassis, liquid spilt in the keyboard, and an EFI ROM that i modified myself to make it boot from and NVMe to mPICe adapter. The fan ingested some hair and bound up while i was compiling on it last night, and despite having no cooling at all, it kept chugging away without crashing, and came back to operating just fine after i cleaned out the fan (With it still running!) You won't see a Macbook built in the last 10 years that would survive as well!

[@putraadriansyah8082]

Hello, can you make a video about the EFI mod you did or bios modding in general? I'm currently learning bios modding (and still not understand). I'm always have a backup so when I did something stupid and brick my board I always have a way to recover it

[@danielthomas1355]

Happy New Year From Wales UK!!!

[@johnbx71]

Just cleaned crap off pcb on 'dc board' (think that what it is)on my "broken" macbook air, had fan running full speed all the time even at 98% idle, cleaned board with isopropyl alcohol, all working normal now. Wouldn't have even tried if not for these videos, thanks

[@Lehpumeh]

I did not expect to hear "Thank you very much to Uncivil Law" in a Rossmann video. Thought I had a Rekieta stream going.

[@id10t98]

What I learned is - clean everything FIRST before you start working on it. I've worked on engines, heavy equipment and other stuff that was covered in grease, dirt and you dont know what and the need to de-grease things cannot be stressed enough.

[@sphinxios]

dont put bottle too close to solder iron u might loose a % or 2

[@interestin9720]

If you haven't fixed your wobbly scope yet , pick up some nylon shimming washers an install them at bolts used for tightening. It takes a few minutes but god does it save your mind.

[@kitcat2559]

At this point even looking at a MacBook wrong or even taking out of the box will kill it, hell even buying it and taking it out of the apple store will kill out

[@shnedo]

1:05 my microscope don't jiggle jiggle, it folds

[@benmitch5217]

Happy new year. Thanks for the videos

[@robonator2945]

odd desktop setup, it looks like a MacOS Windows hybrid... I hate it. I will describe it as blursed and that is the only word I will use to describe it. (also is that KDE or Gnome? It looks like dolphin is the file explorer but it's laid out a lot like Gnome) edit : XFCE actually, another comment asked the same question and got replied to about 2 minutes after I left this one. I guess it's just configured to have a more gnomish layout

[@--_DJ_--]

If I didn't know better I would have thought you were halfway through a bottle of whiskey before writing that comment.

[@probablyjohn5589]

It's very vanilla XFCE. I think even the wallpaper is just the default.

[@sergin95]

I have that same bottle it is straight gas your a braver man then me

[@fullwaverecked]

PLD (Premeditated Liquid Damage, not to be confused with The Great Paul L Daniels). The components are so small, sometimes I feel like I'm having a beer with Elvis at the Spooky Distance Cafe, 9th dimension and Main St... Cheers!

[@ryanzmuda3167]

What do you think about Tim Cook retiring.

[@rossmanngroup]

I want Kathy Hochul to retire first

[@notvisibleconfusion]

@@rossmanngroup every governor needs to retire even ole greg abbott *I'm from texas

[@nonyabidness6492]

@@notvisibleconfusion find a better replacement that wouldn't crash our economy and violate our rights like Beto and his people would.

[@notvisibleconfusion]

@@nonyabidness6492 all I can come up with is Mathew longlastname but he ain't interested in politics so idk who can be governor of texas

[@nonyabidness6492]

@@notvisibleconfusion if an actor is all you can come up with I don't know what to tell you. Maybe stick to social media instead of politics

[@VovanCBR]

Happy New Year from Kyiv, Ukraine. this night was crazy, over 45 Shahed-136 was trying to destroy the city

[@szszsz52]

The Bob Ross of a board cleaning! ;) Happy New Year!

[@shmuck66]

Hi Louis, I near daily take a bath with my 13" MacBook Pro 2015. What do you suggest to keep it working well and reliable in the future?