This GPU almost burned the house down

[@crewdawg16]

If someone were to get mad about you charging for such a quick repair just remind them: “You’re not paying for the minutes, you’re paying for the years.”

[@ACOnetwork]

Had that situation couple of times and costumers are angry and not happy... I would say if you knew what to do you would do it and to find the issue is years of experience

[@MichaelDeHaven]

Yep, the card didn't work, now it does. That's exactly what you want. Sometimes it's "easy" sometimes it's a pain in the @ss. You still have to cover your time, as a tech, but you, as a customer, definitely want to pay for easy if you had a choice.

[@nomorebrofist]

Indeed, like how many people on this planet can quickly, accurately or consistently diagnosis the problem a (modern) gpu has AND AND fix it with the precise skill of micro soldering, not much as we know

[@raidshou]

yes, they were paying your years of knowledge. If the customer know how to, they can do the job themselves. I have a lot of customer where when I fixed the "common issue" and they want it to be fixed free of charge, I usually tell the customer first hand the rate before checking the issue, even its as simple as a driver update or settings, I will still charge minimum charge. if the customer argue, I will just tell them why send it to repair if you know how to fix it yourself. don't give free service, it makes them want more free service.

[@romanstingler435]

and the thermal cam :)

[@Jeb223]

Thanks for fixing my board :)

[@KurimeYT]

How much did he charge you?

[@northwestrepair]

@@KurimeYT fair.

[@KurimeYT]

@@northwestrepair Just say the price, whats so wrong with that?

[@northwestrepair]

@@KurimeYT if you ever send one to me, price will not disappoint.

[@nedyahyakcam]

@@KurimeYT enough to make it worth while for NWR as a business while also being cheap enough to make it worth while to fix it and not jump on ebay to get a new one

[@Laggyness]

Easy repair or not. The board was essentially worthless to the customer in the state it was in. It was your expertise that was able to quickly diagnose the issue. I know that still doesn't keep people from being lame but hes paying for the time and experience here. 👍

[@BigJohnno66]

Agreed, you definitely need to consider time and experience in the cost of repairs, given the capacitor itself is only worth 10 cents, and you do get a clean, new thermal paste and pads for a good as new GPU. With the price of new GPUs these days, repairing a decent GPU is very worthwhile.

[@mimireich]

That Northridge Fix's "Magical" word caught me off XD

[@wtrojanow]

That all Alex references always make my day 😂

[@kanshashiteiru6552]

5:45 this is called experience, people pay for experience, but for some reason sometimes they think you didn’t spend enough time on it or it was easy, because you finished to fast. Graphical designers know what I’m talking about.

[@davidtaylor3882]

Best GPU repairs on the tube man. Thank you.

[@yunodiewtf]

I'd still check the ripple across 12V caps to make sure they aren't dry. If one failed others might follow from the same batch.

[@peterlarkin762]

Yep it's uncommon for modern caps to go randomly, it's almost always a bad batch or badly specified for the circuit. I bet the others will have a high esr and some voltage loss.

[@abeerfaisal1986]

It's actually a shit Brand itself

[@cinlung]

If I was the owner, seeing you found such easy issue would actually make me relieved that the board is ok rather than seeing you having to drill the board thru to fix it. I would prefer paying your rate just to find a simple and easy fix vs seeing my gpu put on an open surgery.

[@madmartigan9720]

The only thing I hate about this channel is that I love it too much. Always entertaining to watch you fix stuff !

[@stewiegriffin6503]

now you know how "that guy" feels everyday. pure dopamine.

[@NonLegitNation2]

i mean it's pretty easy when 99% of your GPU repairs is replacing burnt connectors lol.

[@stewiegriffin6503]

@@NonLegitNation2 am power mosfets

[@sarahkatherine8458]

0:09 If you want to know what the customer wrote, just listen to what he read in slow motion.

[@barbarianzg8826]

not that the owner had fair price of repair but he got insight in his gpu first hand..can you get that in any other repair shop? and that is priceless these days

[@Perkeletricksterservantofrher]

nice lets go you fixed it ! right on!

[@francoisleveille409]

Fire it up!

[@SianaGearz]

This is why dual rail and quad rail PSUs should be preferred. They are harder to build with, but it's worth it. They are now executed as virtual rails, so each 12V rail gets its own OCP circuit, but the power for them is common.

[@K31TH3R]

That's not bad advice, and yeah, the key takeaway from this mode of failure is definitely a lesson about always using a quality power supply in your builds. I had a similar failure when I had a GTX 980 Ti blow up it's #1 core VRM phase while it was hooked up to a subpar Enermax Triathlor Eco 1000W single rail PSU. OCP did eventually trigger, but not before it melted PCI-E cables and came close to starting an electrical fire. The irritating thing is that modern high end GPUs now have such high transients that it's difficult finding a multi-rail or virtual rail PSU in multi-rail mode that doesn't get an itchy trigger finger with OCP when you're running overclocked GPUs that can burst load to 600-700W. I needed to swap a nice multirail Seasonic Focus 850W out of my build for a single rail eVGA G6 1000W because I have an OC'd Liquid Devil 6800 XT that would constantly trip the OCP with the Seasonic unit. The G6 on the other hand just doesn't care at all, but now I have to do a "trust me bro" that the OCP is tuned right in the G6 in case something goes wrong.

[@Anthony-fd8mh]

Love watching you work and the screw was going to be the only thing to mention but ya took care of it. Good Job!👍

[@TheDeucer1]

The great thing about having knowledge is, you are not getting paid for the 5 minutes it takes to repair the gpu. You are getting paid for the years of experience it took you to learn how to fix the gpu in 5 minutes. And then I saw the top comment. lol

[@yourhandlehere1]

I have the same card, so far so good. High clocks, low temps.

[@tourmaline07]

Very grateful for people like yourself who do GPU repair - just found out my 2080ti is on it's way out , crashing under load after 5 minutes with artefacts suddenly starting yesterday. Spoke to a UK based tech (Matt @b-Hawkgaming) who said the memory controller has been literally fried (a hotspot so subtle it's not picked up on monitoring) :/ , guess I'll be getting a 4080 Super earlier than planned... I'd have reached out to you if you were UK based my situation. As for this video - I'd not be too worried about it being a short fix - the amount of expertise you need to repair these things is very high. My educated guess as a viewer on my own card was that the solder balls under the core was degraded and with thermal expansion was causing the core to disconnect from the memory channels , but you can't beat actual repair experience - I had no idea about the hotspot issue before talking to him.

[@Apollo-Computers]

I had the same happen with my 2080 ti reference board and ekwbs first waterblock for it.....

[@tourmaline07]

@@Apollo-Computers Thanks for sharing - my card is an MSI Gaming X Trio which is air cooled , can imagine that happening with a waterblock too. My card would get to ~70C core /85C hotspot and crash immediately with artefacts on the screen. Thankfully I can still use my PC for work (typing this comment on it) in the meantime...

[@Apollo-Computers]

@tourmaline07 yep mines sensors all reported being in the 40's. The blocks cold plate was milled slight too much and the thermal paste would eventually "pump out" and leave parts of the die without any contact.

[@tourmaline07]

@@Apollo-Computers that's very unfortunate - hope ekwb sorted you out with a replacement card because of their defect. I got my card second hand during the mining boom (cashing in on a Vega 64!) .Reckon it would have been mined with also , hammering the memory controller and VRAM. Wish I'd have stripped it down and replaced the pads and paste in hindsight but I figured the card ran warm because of the default fan curve which was very quiet.

[@ondrejsedlak4935]

12:18 So you basically spent years learning how to repair GPUs just so you can get people to send you broken ones, repair them, and then spend hours playing games on them. Then repeat the process. Genius!

[@Zvxers7]

And he has a very great taste in games I would let him play on my gpu, if i had one

[@Bronwyn031]

I had a 65" LG 4K TV that suddenly stopped turning on. Opened the TV up and traced it to a blown capacitor on the power supply board. TV worked for another year till the screen was damaged in an indoor ball throwing contest, don't ask. But it's a good day when your fix is something as simple as a blown electrolytic capacitor and 2 years of electrical engineering.

[@michaelgarciarodriguez2969]

man i love it how you explain everything and basically, you make it easy understand. ♥♥♥♥♥

[@wtrojanow]

Hi there Tony That was quick and entertaining It seems I can sleep well as my PSU has OCP among the other protections See you

[@quadttro8569]

yeah i remember using Linkworld PSU, it fired up and burned all the curtains behind it. I was lucky to be fast enough to extinguish it. After that i only buy superflower and seasonic PSUs due to their reliability

[@harlequintheserpent7016]

This wicking difficulty is exactly why I pull out the legs using some heat, and then plop a microdrill bit into my screwdriver and carefully bore new holes into the solder - just enough for the new legs to pass through. Generally gets the job done way faster than any solder sucker 9000, I'm not even talkin wicks. Too bad this technique is mostly forgotten in the age of SMDs. Also this trick can be used for some orifices, which you need to have bone dry, but they're just denying to cooperate. A hole is drilled, packed with flux, and when you apply the wick and some heat - boiling flux does it's best to push out as much solder as it can. Works better when the heat is applied from both sides.

[@Theopheus]

No no no. You start the video off with "Hello Internet!"

[@AlexisBolton91]

Very impressive nice work

[@EliteRock]

I guess cooling VRM caps might be more important than I imagined - I'm going to make a point of making sure the pads on them are good (or adding some if there aren't any) from now on.

[@DimkaTsv]

You cool VRM, not caps, heh. Caps are usually too high to be cooled, and have specific gaps in cooler for them. Not coldplate

[@EliteRock]

@@DimkaTsv Yes, but I've owned at least one card which had pads between the VRM caps and the heatsink fins (no plate) which you wouldn't think would do much but apparently does transfer a fair bit of heat.

[@TheApotheCarrot]

Returned it with pieces that weren't even included by the customer. Nice.

[@aleksandrbmelnikov]

I push a sewing needle while heating solder from back of PCB. Keep needle wiggling until solder cools, or needle will get stuck in there.

[@GiGaSzS]

Aluminium has high reflectivity and probably that is why it was hard to see it heating up. One thing I would not suggest promoting is that lowering the amount of caps is OK. It is not OK, manufacturers optimize cost by using the lowest number of caps and if low quality caps are used, then they will start slowly heating up and dying one by one. Therefore you should always replace them with at least similar ones!

[@AladimBR]

I had a short on a large capacitor on my B&W Subwoofer. Noise and burning smell was the culprint, I immediately pulled from the power. Thanks to the quick reaction, it was repaired without issues. I guess it could cause a fire if left unattended a nd for this reason, I only plug it during use.

[@tristankordek]

Any bracket is better than none at all

[@marlonjamesbayaras8981]

All atx psu specially those over 250w has over current protect on every rail it's just how they implement the ocp, some has multiple 12v rail that's just derived from a single 12v rail in the psu, those are the safest psu as each 12v rail has its own ocp value meaning the total power where divided, like for a 1000w on 12v rail devided on 10 rails, each will trip at just over 100w, instead of a psu with single 12v rail, that will keep shoving all it's current until it's exceeded it's total capacity

[@sakaraist]

Not quite, OCP is typically only present on multi-rail PSU's whereas OPP is used for single rails. It's also not a spec REQUIREMENT and only a recommendation for to meet ATX standards. There's a fair few notorious PSU models from big manufacturers that have literally been fire hazards due to a lack of OCP. (Also nitpicking a bit, but it's technically VA instead of watts. They can be the same but they can also be significantly different values from eachother depending on the power factor)

[@AnnaVannieuwenhuyse]

The presence of protections still doesn't imply they are implemented in an adequately competent and useful way. 😅

[@trollwarlordxd2639]

the screw for me was a good souvenir 👍

[@markcentral]

Thanks for the cool video. Are caps used on gpus unreliable as part of planned obsolescence or is there a reason why they can’t design any with failure rates after a few years of use

[@krmaster4610]

I think that power supply ouner used had bad stabilisation, that's why capasitor went short.

[@SianaGearz]

Nah it probably shorted due to a manufacturing fault.

[@TheDogSix]

Why are the capacitors redundant? I have a modest understanding of electronics. I wonder why on this board they are not needed and why they are there?

[@AnnaVannieuwenhuyse]

These are there because of peak load capacity and handling worst case scenarios. You can get away with the missing cap, but it carries a theoretical reduction in its resilience to issues like badly regulated power and long cables causing high impedances. In practice, one missing capacitor on the bulk array will be unlikely to give you issues unless you subject yourself to those worst case scenarios.

[@TheDogSix]

@@AnnaVannieuwenhuyse I understand. They are a redundancy thing for special situations. Thanks for the reply.

[@Apollo-Computers]

​@TheDogSix yes and no. I'm not good at explaining, but Buildzoid here on KZbin has a great video on gpu capacitors.

[@XENONEOMORPH1979]

i am posting a hate comment cause ya fixed it with a better screw.

[@u9Nails]

Right?! Where's the box of spare wing-nuts? Certainly bigger is better. Flat screws... when ever was that exciting?!

[@palominomale]

I've seen drywall screws used in cases lol!

[@Thelemorf]

Why is it that smd soldering pros never use or even have a desoldering gun for through hole components?

[@AnnaVannieuwenhuyse]

It's noisy, bulky, and rarely used.

[@Thelemorf]

@@AnnaVannieuwenhuyse not if working on through hole components, then ist noisy, fast and the best tool for the job.

[@AnnaVannieuwenhuyse]

@@Thelemorf which is why they dont have one. It's a small fraction of the work they do

[@johntet]

Don't just look for OCP . Everyone claims to have it on their unit nowadays. It better be a quality PSU that has been tested and reviewed and OCP actually works (unlike GB with it's majestically explosive OPP)

[@peterdeyanov5056]

FLIR camera is very useful tool. Among your other tools. Compliments for quick professional job! And again, nice video edditing! Sorry for the late comment. When I get home from work, that's when you wake up. :)

[@TheMeistermeister]

Everytime you repair each GPU, you make Rossmann squirm. LOL.

[@ronnierobinson1502]

Sorry for a daft question, How come the card works minus the cap..great videos....just found you and im binge watching hahah

[@saitampoldog1517]

Why'd u cut the cleaning part :( i was so excited about it

[@blooddiamond5396]

you had me worried last night, I'm watching your video and it cuts off with a series of loud switching snaps. you know like a cockpit flight recorder catching the breaker panel pops as a fire eats through the electric lines and the voice recorder capacitors allow the tape to capture the moment of its own death.

[@_droid]

Heh, it's always a diode or capacitor. Usually when an electrolytic fails you can see it. Those solid state ones tend to blow out the bottom and burn everything in the vicinity. I had a shorted motherboard the other day and even with 20 amps nothing got hot except the connector. I took the connector off just in case but no change. Really annoying. Maybe an internal power-plane short or who knows what. I need an x-ray machine. :))

[@PrimalRampageGaming]

Great job as always 👍

[@EliteRock]

2:10 - that card must have been running in a case with some serious 'negative pressure' (sucking air in everywhere) to have accumulated all that lint.

[@ZodiakSL]

Great videos! Please keep them coming. WAY better than that other repair guy 😆

[@CNC295]

The problem with the card is that it is a PNY

[@sylwesterirla9246]

thank you

[@christiandk09]

I got a 6750 xt which is probably arriving in a couple days, but i have a 600W psu, but the xfx website says minimum recommended psu is 650w. Can that cause an issue like this or anything similar? Should i get a new psu asap?

[@thewebheadgt]

600 should be fine as long as your CPU doesn't chug too much power. Search power supply calculator and input all your components to check your actual psu wattage requirement.

[@tacibana88]

Sell that 600w psu..buy a better psu for it..better be safe than regret later😅😅

[@Apollo-Computers]

Depends on What your 600 watt psu is

[@misterhoudi2824]

What thermal paste do you use?

[@81uciu]

I thought removing those capacitors without solder sucker from Alex is impossible 😮😮😮😁😁😁

[@Zvxers7]

Wick works great, but the sucker is more convenient

[@tandzan]

No fuses on the board?

[@darrenmurphy6251]

was that cap before or after vrm ,wierd fault that one, how many amps would you feel safe to put in to see some heat ?

[@alanpang8223]

Could you not use a solder sucker instead of wicking?

[@aliensounddigital8729]

I was going to get a PNY videocard a year ago. Haven't had one since the 90's. Is PNY quality still okay?.

[@The_Man_In_Red]

Have been using a PNY 3070 for over a year, great card at least in terms of cooler design. Same cooler as the one in this video. Don't see a lot of PNY 3000 series cards make it to Tony's bench. There's another one called "Cheapest 3080Ti fix ever" that's a good watch. From what I understand Palit / Gainward actually manufactures the coolers for PNY, and PNY mostly is known for making Nvidia Quadro cards. They have been around almost as long as Nvidia. Their XLR8 cards seem pretty decent but they ain't no EVGA. Also I've heard mixed reception about their warranty service. Personally I don't really care. I just want my card to have a good cooler design for a fair price so I know it will undervolt very well, anything else is just whatever. I would probably buy another PNY card over a poorly-designed and overly expensive MSI or ASUS card and PNY has done well with 3000 & 4000 series at least in terms of cooler design. Big heat sink and lots of thermal paste & pads. They don't really give them big boost clocks though like some of the other brands. All in all PNY is alright. My opinion might change if my 3070 dies suddenly in the next 2-3 years lmao.

[@lyziqco6555]

So how do we know if my psu has the over current protection or something ,

[@carleynorthcoast1915]

I think it's required for certain certification

[@wtrojanow]

Hi three, you can check this in the description of your PSU that you can find in the user guide or Google

[@jonwhite2706]

i see you talking prices but just wondering do they contact you first tell you what gpu they have to fix ? and you ever reply back saying not worth fixing kinda deal or hows that work ? they don't just send you there gpu ?

[@RANDOMNATION907]

On one of your recent videos, you accidentally "Overheated" one of your soldering irons. Did it break it or need a new element?

[@manlapazjohn5554]

Cqn i just ask if you can just solder ram to the gpu and will it automatically take it or you need more work to do?

[@AnnaVannieuwenhuyse]

Assuming you can solder the chips and assuming the graphics chip supports your desired configuration, you'll still need to modify the firmware (vbios) on the card.

[@batvenio3533]

Respect 👍

[@mcblocked2]

You should frame that cap on the wall as the first shorted cap repair 😁

[@fichambawelby2632]

Next time use low melt solder (with bismuth), and will be easier to remove the caps legs.

[@Andrew-ky8oc8cq4n]

Wick. People don't use solder suckers any more?

[@jessen00001]

Nice one 🎉

[@SupraSav]

Asking this because you complained about dirty board atthe start; is ultrasonic cleaner not safe to use on boards or just too time consuming?

[@AnnaVannieuwenhuyse]

For large grime and initial cleaning, an ultrasonic cleaner is just not the right tool

[@teddp]

Lucky card-owner to fall into your capable hands 😉

[@zub_official]

i also have a detached smd electrolytic capacitor 270uf 16v can i replace it with the same voltage and capacitance but with a different size and manufacturer

[@AnnaVannieuwenhuyse]

Should be fine. Check polarity.

[@Jumbro6]

I wonder if you have enough spare parts to start mixing and matching gpus together. Franken GPU

[@Rmm1722]

Wow GPUs on 🔥🚒

[@Alex-ii5pm]

I wonder if the user was using one of those newegg bundled gigabyte PSU 🤔

[@Jeb223]

It was a seasonic 700w, but the power cable I think may have been from a monitor or something. The wire gauge was pretty small. I must have accidentally switched it during a move.

[@RichardPhillips1066]

How likely is it that psu doesn't have OCP , it sounds like a fundamental feature to me , i usually see a fuse when i open a psu up

[@SianaGearz]

It's very common for lower-tier-brand PSUs to have OCP/OPP that doesn't actually work, because the trigger current is set way too high. This was for example the case in that explodey Gigabyte PSU, you remember, GN covered it. Of course the reason it exploded there wasn't that, but that didn't help. Anyway i suggest you look at Hardware Busters. Of course even a mistuned OCP/OPP circuit will trigger on a really strong short circuit event, and usually before the wires melt as well, but the hazard are near-short events where there's just enough accumulated resistance along the circuit to not trigger it, but already enough to melt the wire harness. Such a bad cap would be exactly this kind of near-short condition. The primary fuse doesn't help, because it's there to protect the supply cable and the primary side of the PSU against catching fire, but it must also allow for the very high initial current of charging the hold-up capacitor(s), the really big ones. So it's rated way higher than the operating current. Then you have the issues with fuse sizing - at rated current, a fuse only survives for typically 4 hours, burns out, so you have to overrate them by a lot if they aren't user serviceable, plus for a given output current, the input current is twice as high in 110V countries than in 230V ones. You're likely to see a 10A fuse there. You need precision trimmed active current sensing circuits on the secondary to have good OCP. PC fire is also a common issue when you have a PSU with a single 12V rail in higher power tiers, potentially more powerful than you really need. Because each individual cable might be rated for maybe 40A without catching fire but your PSU is let's say 60 or 80A capable. A solution to that is a PSU with virtual 12V rails, where each rail has a separate OCP. At 550W, you might not need virtual rails at all, at around 700W i think 2 rails are a good idea, above you should demand 4 rails. Building with these PSUs is a little tricker, you have to consider where you plug things in, since if you have too much stuff hanging off one rail the PSU will go into protective shutdown in regular use, but that's an entirely safe failure mode. But people are by and large incapable of reading manuals and following instructions, you see the issue? Back in the day, Corsair's marketing went big on their single-rail high power PSUs, and they don't get any brownie points from me for that, for deleting a safety feature and making people think it's better like that.

[@MatthewSuffidy]

There are some 'slow glow' situations where things just get hotter until they start fires. In terms of a core or cpu, I always thought they would halt on corruption, or blow the main fuse. So the problem is almost maybe in the other components?

[@AnnaVannieuwenhuyse]

It can only halt itself if it isn't shorted. A severe short circuit will cut power to the rest of the chip.

[@Moloch_Baal]

Anyone knows how to make that colorful menu on tiny linux?

[@ImasterIIchiefI]

if the circuit is not protected and there are no fuses in place, then circuit will determine a fuse for you. my teachers said something like this

[@northwestrepair]

Yep

[@LetsPlayKeldeo]

I sure hope it can because I need the money

[@Quarker]

Hello, i have some dumb questions. What do you mean when you say "we have pax (is that the right word?)" And how did you know that capacitor was redundant? Thanks, enjoy the videos on your channel!

[@Arokhantos]

Easy repair considering it almost burned house down lol

[@LagiohX3]

oh, I had that but as a 3080ti, I sold it for cash, hope the buyer is allright

[@Foxx_69]

Lol i love it when you inject alex into your vids

[@ConceptART-Dagas]

It took 5 minutes cos your a goat lol. SHould actually be 15% price increase due to the lightning fast diagnostics, like post office express deliveries 🤭

[@northwestrepair]

🐐

[@SidneyCritic]

That's something you don't see everyday - lol -.

[@richardj163]

Getting paid for what you know over getting paid for what you do :)

[@michalmichalsk]

What happend to first upload, which was taken down? Same tittle but quatro rtx 5000? Mistake?

[@Dr_stef]

He posted that it was a wrong upload

[@quppyqup]

what was the game you played at the end?

[@northwestrepair]

battle field or call of duty something like that

[@blakegriplingph]

Battletoads

[@NitrousXProductions]

Moral of the story don't cheap out on your power supply without over voltage protection 😅

[@Junior_POA]

Card shaved succesfully. Only now i see the "by Joe Biden V1.0" 🤣🤣🤣

[@hgaming3171]

im entertain when i see northridge in your video 😂

[@sonerseckiner7206]

You killed my "First"

[@ar11999]

Time for an good insurance

[@James-lz6eh]

The do die especially with age, probably why you haven't seen any. Typically they open, not short.

[@samm928]

This is so funny .. call of duty of call 911 to hose down the house .. what is that 8x12 .. 100 Watson to burn down the village ?

[@ranjitmandal1612]

Amazing 😮

[@formbi]

better than factory

[@MDXZFR]

Should say better than factory after soldering complete

[@SArthur221]

hi tony. this here is your well undeserved hate comment for the day. hope you enjoy it and see you in the next video

[@northwestrepair]

Thanks 👍

[@PeppercornVR]

been hearing about those IEC cables melting down a lot lately, I even have had acquaintances have their cables melt. The cable should be decent enough to pop even a hefty breaker during a short, I suspect some cables are a lot cheaper than they should be these days. I wonder if the power supply experienced SCR lockup while the cable burned out and that dumped 90v into the card and shorted the cap

[@u9Nails]

I burned one up on a bench test power supply recently. Methinks some cheaper-by-the-dozen manufacturer made them too cheap. Fused power socket saved the tester, but the power strip and IEC cable will never be seen again.

[@SianaGearz]

What about PC mainboard etc, you can't just attach more than 25V even for a few milliseconds without receiving firework greetings from various numerous components. GPU as well, it wouldn't just be one shorted cap.

[@PeppercornVR]

@@SianaGearz In these sorts of failures it does take out several components but never all of them. Oddly enough the mainboard usually lives but we never recommend reusing any components from a suspected event like this even if they seem to work fine

[@SianaGearz]

@@PeppercornVR I think a single shorted cap and nothing else being wrong is a strong indication that this is all that was wrong, a single cap that left the factory with a hidden defect; where it had to cycle for a while until the insulation broke. Sometimes a small metal particle becomes lodged in the insulator and eventually as the cap breathes, the oxide layers grow and shrink, it may have broke through.

[@PeppercornVR]

@@SianaGearz I was really thinking about the board and cpu that failed after the cable burned through. I suspect the cable failed first and the lockup killed the parts. It's probably equally plausible that a failed component and no ocp took out an already damaged cord

[@gladiatorz3d507]

where is " Hello internet " :(