Some jobs are EASY some are HARD and sometimes we trip over our own feet & fall down the RABBIT HOLE

[@MrTehudson]

i just want to say im a mechanic have been for 40 years i can't literally build an engine with eyes closed but probably could do a lot lol but i do repetitive jobs all the time and that sorta thing happens to the best of us in any field here in canada we call it a brain fart and yes i feel like an idiot when it happens i like your channel because i do pc's every now and then and your my go to guy you always get a thumbs up and i watch every video for entertainment as well as knowledge merry xmas or fill in the blank whichever applies

[@Jonathannew-cp7fj]

Thanks for showing that, i thought i was the only one who made mistakes like that and your right no other (apart from rossmann) would ever show their mistakes... Great stuff!!!

[@LONETK]

The power of editing my friend. Great videos and thank you for your honesty. All the best for 2025 from the UK

[@nigelfewster]

Definitely do a video on the repair of the faulty power supply, it will be interesting to see what the fault could be since it seemed to be supplying voltage.

[@LearnElectronicsRepair]

I most certainly will

[@getmefix1921]

I think I know why it won't start. The standby voltage is only 4V. Most likely the supervisor IC is not even turned on. Without it sensing the PS_ON signal from the motherboard when you press the power button, the PWM IC will never wake up to start switching, therefore the power supply remain "dead". Other scenario would be the supervisor protection kicks in because it sensed the low standby voltage. It is after all, a 1V difference.

[@LearnElectronicsRepair]

@@getmefix1921 Let's find out 🙂

[@phalton16]

You're only human 😂 like all of us. Got me talking to my phone while watching you 😂😂

[@Pulverrostmannen]

I saw it early and had a good laugh for it. thanks for sharing your little mishap

[@roygmrobinson7285]

Brilliant! there is so much rich learning from errors. Bravo for your openness it is endearing. thanks I'm off now to make my next few mistakes for today.

[@patzik1910]

Hilarious one, stuff like this never happens to me 😉 Thanks for sharing

[@doruciobanu2261]

You plonker😂😂😂 please acknowledge this came from a place of love not hate as I too ran around a machine with a power fault scratching my head in disbelief only to realise I connected new PS to machine but faulty PS to mains😂😂😂, love your videos and still believe you're one of the best over KZbin, soon Ill be joining in as I too am an electronic engineer myself and building up my equipment before launching over KZbin. All the best to you man

[@LearnElectronicsRepair]

Go for it - KZbin is a lot of fun if nothing else!

[@lrdisco2005]

Remember Christmas lights wired in series, checking every bulb. Miss the 70s.

[@patrick2159]

Hi Richard, these things happen. As I always say, you are only human after all. Good of you to show it. You recently said yourself that problems are often created by the user even if there are no problems. This is a good example. Nice video.

[@AjudaTecnica]

logo percebi que vc não alimentou o HD com a fonte externa... isso já aconteceu comigo! rs

[@GregM]

Been there myself. Spoted the issue at 9:07 where the overhead shot showed only 2 cables from the replacement power supply for the ATX and EPS

[@bhringer]

A road well travelled for me as well.

[@GiC7]

Thanks

[@1pcfred]

You got it fixed and that's the important thing. So good on you there.

[@baz5853]

Been down the same rabbit hole myself, sometimes we get tunnel vision 🤣

[@luc_libv_verhaegen]

Nice one, i chuckled all the way. Especially when you dug your own hole deeper with stating "Go figure that guys" or "Richard's magic fingers". Now that i wouldn't run into as i wouldn't be narrating a recording to begin with ;) When i went back, i had another good chuckle when you wiggled the sata power connector and stated "i can see that this doesn't look like it's quite plugged in properly". Comedy gold :) It's when you started wiggling those sata cables that i suspected the issue, and the following overhead shot clearly confirmed it, and i likely also would have missed it if i had my nose on it. I do wonder whether i would have spotted the issue so early if you had not forewarned us... Next time you have one of these, don't do the intro and only reveal that you fooled yourself at the end and that it was obvious in the edit, that would be quite the test for your viewers :) Personally, I much prefer fooling myself with the switch on the back of the ATX psu. Another graphics card gets plugged in and the machine is suddenly dead as a doornail. I then test the previous one which now also fails, and then the same goes for onboard graphics... Then the ssd and ram comes out for the next round, before the power supply is deemed suspect, and then... Not again... Humans... Terrible creatures...

[@paolomonai9511]

Merry Xmas, Richard. One thing is reality and another thing is the show played by a lot of youtubers. I think that it is very important to show mistakes, misjudgements and such...the true and only path to learn. Regards from Italy.

[@LearnElectronicsRepair]

Very true... and then we do it and still don't learn the lesson 😉🤣😂🤣🤐

[@luizapolinario7529]

Com certeza vai ser um vídeo interessante o reparo da fonte ruim!!! Excelente vídeo!!! 👍

[@LearnElectronicsRepair]

I will make that video early in the new year 🙂

[@mainecoonman]

Invest in a power supply tester which will quickly show the status of all the power lines from the PSU. It's the first thing I test with a dead PC.

[@gbondbasic]

nice one rik

[@LA9RKA]

I recon it have happen to all of us doing faultfinding. Sure it's not the first time and not the last time that i have done something similar.

[@jjab99]

We have all made silly mistakes. I remember earlier this year; I was repairing a Power Supply and as it was dead as a dodo, I assumed that there would be nothing in the capacitors........ I was very VERY wrong and had two very nasty shocks that really hurt a lot!!! That is one mistake I hope I will never repeat again. Take care and stay safe everyone, Joe

[@bookerol]

I'm not laughing at you, but with you ;-)

[@sivoltage]

We are all going senile lol. So easy to forget a connection like that. Need to write up a simple checklist.

[@LearnElectronicsRepair]

Yep we are born to deteriorate, sh!t happens it seems

[@2009numan]

its because the sata isn't been powered because you didn't connect a cable from the external psu you had it connected too

[@LearnElectronicsRepair]

yes 😁 and this video is here to demonstrate that these stupid things happen no matter how experienced we may be. 🤪

[@chrishartley1210]

@@LearnElectronicsRepair I was waiting to see how long it would be before the penny dropped. But yes, we've all been there.

[@thomasw6169]

If bench is full of cables, this can happen easily. I had many times no signal on the scope probe, just to find it's the wrong probe or channel.

[@marcellipovsky8222]

We call it brain-fart moment. It happens. Things like power button connected to reset and vice versa. Connecting another bad PSU that you forgot to place on the "correct" pile. This is why we need these holidays. To rest and load some energy to do stuff.

[@DracoMcGuyver]

Nothing electric will work unless it is plugged into a working power source. I saw that the hard drive and disk dive were still plugged into to dead power supply when you were testing with your good supply. Great video.

[@mkrleza]

This stuff happens more than people think. And the first computer I opened was a C64 back in the 1980s.

[@alandrury9955]

Yep, been there too and have the t-shirt. In penance that power supply should definitely be repaired

[@LearnElectronicsRepair]

Yep agreed

[@johnwilliamson467]

Got a break out board for testing power supplies and and such from the usual China sources was cheep also. Helped with these problems and a cheap source of voltages and usb chargers. Regard showing how thing are really does show integrity BRAVO.

[@markweiss5152]

"Shit happens" To all of us. Thanks for showing the truth.

[@romancharak3675]

When there are a bunch of wire harnesses and cables all in a small space, these things will happen.

[@colingill9317]

I thought it just only happened to me. We are not alone.

[@LearnElectronicsRepair]

Rest assured. You are not alone 😉

[@kvn864]

done this myself once or twice lol

[@triumphgt6mk4]

Sometimes its so obvious we can't see it. We have all spent 20 minutes looking for something which is in your back pocket, which is more annoying when it would have been easier if your glasses (which we always missplace) wern't hiding on top of your head at the same time !

[@LearnElectronicsRepair]

Sometimes its so obvious we can't see it. And that is exactly the point here!

[@davidhollfelder9940]

Hiding in plain sight .. did you swap the power connectors (the first time) too from the other PS to the drives? Yes, I get ahead of myself also.😮

[@lambert0259]

8 mins in and i can see the hard drive power supply cables are still connected to the old power supply, Easily done. i've done things like that in the passed.

[@mesterak]

I did this a couple times over the years lol

[@Audiofix101]

I don't see where you have connected the hdd to the known good psu and I'm screaming at the TV

[@robertwebb5586]

the SATA cable

[@Karthor.]

8:07 is it connected to the other PSU? lol 9:07 okay yeah it's not connected to the other PSU i could totally see myself doing that mistake lol and yes i would like to se a repair of the PSU :)

[@LearnElectronicsRepair]

I think we all did someting like this. And for those who didn't yet, believe me you WILL 😁

[@robertwebb5586]

Well a Pizza for Richard....

[@paul-alexander]

Been there , done that, repeatedly

[@LearnElectronicsRepair]

And every time you will say you learnt the lesson 🤪

[@robertwebb5586]

I always use a known working power supply First..

[@georgibayramski8178]

You use external power supply and data power from original power supply! 😮

[@Dutch_off_grid_homesteading]

Heya, lol well we are humans so a mistake is easy to make

[@robertwebb5586]

well what the h*ll....LOL did you curse it first..lol