Vega 64 broken no video out repair / diagnostic process graphic / video Radeon AMD card fix

[@exlibrisas]

Is able to fix one of the most intricate peaces of tech out there. Still uses a phone with cracked screen. Thumbs up.

[@danielsatko-]

maybe no cracked screen. maybe its cracked screen protector

[@muhammadrizkiramadhan8557]

Maybe it's his wallpaper

[@nfreddyyy]

I was going to post the exact same thing haha

[@JavoCover]

It is a very beaten up screen protector, but why he has not changed it? 😂

[@pascals5408]

The only intricate thing here is the chip itself the rest is just a fancy powersupply

[@Shabowski]

the warranty sticker at the end xD like a pro

[@ChazVR]

Indeed

[@no_dissasemble]

Think you for taking the time to make these videos. My Vega 64 died the other day and without your video I would have bean completely lost with fixing it. You essentially saved me $300+.

[@democratssuckcritic1030]

did u fix it ? i have a readon 7 power come on device amanger does not see it what could it be ?

[@M45963]

We miss a lot this kind of videos, I learned so much with Eli ..

[@Swc_Leader]

I wish their was a way for him to come back

[@joer8854]

You should start a patreon with a list of equipment you wish to buy like a FLIR camera and a microscope so your viewers can help you get you some better equipment.

[@primus711]

um he dont need us supporting his business he can get those cheap as fuck now both things for 200 or less just depends on specs

[@ayuchanayuko]

@@primus711 people might still want to donate as thanks -- e.g. not only repair tools, but also video equipment as simple as a tripod or video-friendly LED light setups

[@GglSux]

@@primus711 No offence, but are You "saying" this because You know this somehow...if so You should preferably say that. Because as Your comment "reads" now it just looks like the average "troll comment. You know where a "troll" treats his personal opinion as if it was a fact, and then uses it to criticise someone, someone who in this case just want's to help.. Which makes You look pretty bad i.m.o. Best regards.

[@primus711]

@@GglSux might look that way to your dumbass but you are just that someone who is speaking out there ass like a dumbass imo your comment was a waste of your own worthless time lets see if you continue with your nonsense

[@PS3RatBag98]

@@primus711 Someone take a shit in your Cornflakes?

[@d.c.7301]

You are really talented at what you do. Ever thought about doing tutorials to show what you look for when trouble shooting and repairing graphics cards.

[@allmight5008]

Nope

[@Augnos]

Absolutely incredible troubleshooting and replacement!! What a legend, wow!

[@allmight5008]

Other youtubers just reapplied thermal paste to fix faulty graphic card, you deserved more subscriber

[@Tofuey]

I mean those would be 2 entirely different problems

[@UptownNYC]

AMD should hire this man.

[@vel1m1r]

100% agree!

[@ognjenjakovljevic494]

its better to sell a new gpu than to repair old one

[@UptownNYC]

Ognjen Jakovljevic He obviously has talent they can use him in any areas including building them not just repairing.

[@dragonboyjazz]

why would they hire him? i mean its a valiant effort and he is quite the wise man, but he is just an electronics repair man, i dont see any reason for them to want to employ someone with the same or lesser skillset than the current staff at amd

[@primus711]

why? i been repairing this shit for decades that doesnt help amd none actually pisses them off they want you to buy another card when you RMA a card you think you get a brand new back or the same you sent? lol all refurbished or a return of some kind anyways this was a simple repair the hardest repairs and time consuming is reworking the GPU or doing even harder in repairing pads/traces even into layers of the PCB ^the repairs i do and will cost you too due to skill level and time needed just fyi there are people who repair the gpu die on the package itself very expensive repair to have done lot of work taking underfill out and reballing those solder balls are like thick as your hair the balls under the whole chip you can see are much much bigger and some need microscopes to do those also if you were impressed with the CO2 trick dont be that has been done forever on electronics as in many many decades nothing new any repair guy who knows what he is doing has cans just to do that now really what all thse fuckers need is better heatsink designs i have a few they should hire me haha seriously im qualified been a competition overclocker for decades made many phasechange units heatsinks designs etc etc i actually was the 1 who cam up with the x360 cardboard mod to make it cool right not that dumb x claamp 12v fan mods people did and after you do my fix no matter what version you had fan never went 12v silent as can be 1st 360 i fix back then i figured that dumb design out was so stupid simple too just FYI blower style gpu heatsinks like r9 290x oem is the best for cooling air in and out and not blowing hot ram/gpu air onto the PCB and other components vrm etc etc only down side is the fan noise

[@nfreddyyy]

Eli is like a magician. Magically finds the problem and fixes in minutes. Amazing!!

[@PaulHigginbothamSr]

Good job Eli, even 4 years ago you did great.

[@daniellindesay8594]

Although I don't have to do any repairs on my system, i love watching these videos. Really interesting. Keep it up!

[@FunDumb]

From some who knows little to nothing about this I'm impressed and slightly depressed with myself.

[@forwardchien5914]

Nice job! The QFN pins are too tiny to measure. I like your DC power supply. An easy way to find out the short cap!

[@jerryg4534]

My Rx Vega starts up but displays no video/signal.....i tried everything....then i stumbled upon your video. Gives me some hope.

[@Amaterasu_thegoatthated7t]

Absolut pleasure to see your videos ! If you can do tutorials and explain a little bit more the components on the board it'll be amazing ! thanks for uploading this ;)

[@PanzerFSKN]

I agree

[@zyclonic5287]

Come on its realy easy and simple

[@teun7923]

O, show us then lol @@zyclonic5287

[@zyclonic5287]

@@teun7923 o dont mean how to repair bit how it works

[@teun7923]

@@zyclonic5287 yea basic components and stuff like that aint all that hard.

[@TheShortsOverdose]

this man is a genius, i wish i would understand electronics like him

[@yinitialize4930]

There are tons of ppl better than him in china. They are everywhere.

[@moochnhowzn]

I really enjoyed watching your videos and have to say that you are a master at fixing graphics cards. Wish I had your knowledge and talent. Cheers

[@kimporchea6773]

I just love watching people fixing pc hardware xD if u can tell more details abt each components with WHY! that's amazing bro. Thumb up from me.

[@hostnamedan]

This was brilliant, first time i've seen card diagnosis like this and loved it. Keep at it, i'd eventually like to tinker with my maybe some cheap broken ones on ebay to see if i can diagnose some

[@dylanking6552]

Have to say I found you a week or so ago, now my favorite channel by far keep up the great work

[@josepedrocarmo9708]

Very neat trick with the freeze spray to help locate the faulty part!

[@Ilegator]

You keep blowing my mind in every of these repairs. Thank you so much, you're an inspiration. These last months I found one of my passions: fixing electronics. I hope one day I can fix GPUs and other stuff the way you do.

[@Alexander_l322]

One guy is disliking the Vega 64 lol. You fixing people's gpu all day and I love it, you teach me so much and are slowly giving me confidence in a little gpu repair myself,ill let you know how I get on when I actually do it. Wow the freezing to find a short is amazing! Hey I notice your phone looks more smashed every time:( I can fix that for you :)

[@Unknownguyist]

I just found your channel, and i am super impressed. Dude currently you have 15k subs, but your content is a lot better then most. Keep up whit the good work. Never stop ! As others suggested, try to start a patreon, just because that maybe people can give you some support as a saying thx to you efforts ! You deserve it !

[@rockedout]

Thank you for the video. Hope you had a good Christmas and wish all the best next year as well. Love your stuff. I let a full 1 minute ad play before I start watching. That's how good this channel is.

[@RikRikRikRikRikRik]

Where did you learn to diagnose gpus? like you use manuals or board layouts?

[@albertwesker4266]

probably both and in addition many hours of electronic forums

[@primus711]

lol there are none for this its just simple knowing the problem and tracing back where experience comes in and researching and if still stuck or hit a wall you then decide if its even worth your time if running business now just for learning and or hobby different thing i did this for years then reselling got burnt out on them and consoles now im older i just like doing retro repairs and designing new stuff for them anyways reason why most cards fuck up is due to people trusting the oem fan profiles that run components too hot for sake of sound its simple the hotter your shit runs the less life it will have anyone running temps 80c and up are seriously killing the life of there card by years the GPU might run fine at 90c for x amount of time but that doesnt include everything else eg VRMS etc lol last gpu i repaired in a long time was my voodoo 3000 recently heat from many years use as i just bought it few months ago from ebay had warped the board till it popped the BGA pads and few balls had to reball it and was lucky the 4 pads were for AGP sideband signals and it was a PCI card i use it in my Amiga anyways thats 1 reason why you see the use a high temp epoxy either around the whole chip or in spots and it doesnt work yet they still do it eg 1080ti/2080

[@jm036]

@@primus711 "i did this for years then reselling got burnt out on them and consoles" lol ok kid

[@jarnom85]

I learned by going to school that teaches electronics. You need first basic knowledge, then you can apply that basic knowledge to diagnosing things, buy cheap broken electronics and try diagnose and repair them.

[@rushzim]

Get datasheet for every component in the boards and reverse the engineer, you will be like him.

[@amtpdb1]

I like your videos. I only wish you showed more of how you are diagnosing with close ups showing where and how you are doing this. It would have more meaning to those of us that are trying to learn! Just telling us that you are going to test the mosfets for proper operation does not tell some of us were to test and why.... how,where, why in close ups. You would not have to do this all the time, but it would be nice if you could do one very detailed work up on a mother board and maybe a video card that we could go back to, to see what you are talking about when you mention it in other videos. Thanks for the videos

[@iQ_Minerz]

why would you say put dislikes, your videos are amazing

[@D3PeXoR]

With every video you proof that you are amazing at this what you doing. Keep doing it!

[@musictrapboost2707]

you are briliant man... must join AMD devloper team keep it up

[@decizeczcx]

Dude these videos is pure content and i love it, you just earned yourself a new sub!

[@tcassiot]

A hint: Don't start any music on the video when you are talking. Thanks for the video.

[@Nevakonaza.]

What a really awesome repair,The attention to detail on finding the fault! :)

[@teragonify]

Genuine skill here, well done my man, keep up the goods

[@aleksandrtuliakov2571]

Ничего себе, рекомендации от ютьюба) Посмотрел с удовольствием)

[@albertsiogo2739]

If I was you I would close this channel. How much you earn on KZbin? A dollar, two dollars a day? But you give info on hundreds dollars and that will hit your business after all. But if money that's something not you concerned and thats what it looks like, then keep enjoining it and thanx for your hard work!

[@WhatTheFrogDoing]

The majority of people would prefer to pay a professional to do this kind of work rather than do it themselves, and all Eli is doing here is proving to people how good he is at his job.

[@UrokLizard]

@@WhatTheFrogDoing I don't even know any other professionals in my area. I got 2 dead cards out of warranty that need repair. Would love to pay someone to fix it but I don't know anyone.

[@chrisparussin5359]

@@UrokLizard send me a picture of the GPU PCB at [e-mail] , i can help you

[@brianoneill3916]

I felt at the end like I feel when watching a wildlife documentary and the animal that was in trouble survives! Hurrah!

[@hfric1]

First vid ive seen on gpu repair!kudos dude rad job

[@arthurkairo]

AMD creates the problem, and guys like this fix it, great video man well done!!!

[@DruuzilTechGames]

Love that fan shroud design (despite it probably being loud as hell, and poor cooling).

[@Tokuhashy]

Dude ure the Albert Einstein of GPUs

[@amtpdb1]

Eli: Some of us cannot afford to purchase several hundred dollar graphic cards and that is why we try to repair or fix the cheap cards we have. Could you show working on some of the cheap cards out there which is more likely what we are trying to repair? I hope you will consider showing repairs on 1 gig or less cards. Even some of the parts on the more costly cards cannot be identified on the cheaper boards as there are cheaper parts on these lower cost boards! Even though this is a old video, I hope you will read this and consider helping those of us buying cheaper cards to try to learn how to do these repairs before we spend money on the more costly boards you are repairing here. Please consider the cheaper repairs. Thanks for the videos.

[@islam7337]

kepp the hard work man I really like your work and your contribution to the community , and how you fix those component , thank you you're really inspiring.

[@Ragefire79]

To test the 2D Mode, start Heroes of Might and Magic III :-D Good Job!

[@j-5474-k9z]

this is better than cable tv... might be the future of tv programming? def binge-worthy

[@darekponorad6280]

Best looking Graphics Card ever made.

[@levnzt6949]

Like the idea, especially since there aren't many of these vids. Some suggestions though: Yes we want to understand what you're doing, so commenting your actions is necessary. That means you don't have to sound extra bored, thinking this or that is nothing worth mentioning. On the opposite, if your intonation changes, the interest in what you say will rise proportionally. The exaggerated bored intonation is really a mood killer, sadly. Where is your passion? We know it's there, show it.

[@MargaritaFranky]

Nice repair Eli. I didn't know the air can method. I wish you an happy new year.

[@raycrossley5398]

I live In Queensland Australia I have been fixing my own graphic cards up for while now I use to just replace them off of eBay for around about $200, but then when the miners started buying up massive amount of Graphic cards They started to become very expensive Tough there now a bit cheaper but last year graphic cards went from a few hundred up in to the thousands. It wasn't worth replacing them. But You tube has an amazing amount of information on DIY how to fix a graphic card Most of the time I found I would just get them fix, using a heat gun, but this would not work on ever one. Most of the ones this would not fix were cause by dead motifs But a M-meter across the 6-8 pin power supply told me I had blown a couple of motifs. measure the motifs from there gate I soon found it. You know I hardly ever found I had blown the GPU mostly it was the motifs. I take the card down to jar car they find the motifs I needed and from then it was an easy fix.

[@chireaionut8473]

dude.... do more gpu repair videos!

[@EDDIER610]

Helpme tengo una gigabyte Vega 64 gaming oc y me pasa lo mismo, que debo hacer?

[@joseantoniodeltoropadilla7781]

@@EDDIER610 Yo también tengo una igual, y me ocurre lo mismo, ¿Lograste solucionar?

[@TheSilviu8x]

Like how it's not giving a dime for the broken glass on the cell phone. Watching from my broken glass phone.

[@ovaerd]

I love this channel, you're great!

[@danield6182]

Hello Eli, I have exactly the same model of this card, on time 13:21 from your video lesson, I realized that we have 3 NCP5230 controllers, I have a question about the first one up there, which is closest to the BIOS switch , i found a short on PIN15 VCC, only on this pin, the other 2 NCP 5230 controllers are OK the measurements without any short, is the fault is only in this NCP5230 or the short comes from the 12V VCC line on pin 15? Thank you Eli.

[@atlonrg]

truly friend you and only you, you are the best, you do know, I love your videos.

[@sanders1188]

Happy Holidays, what a good job, thank you for sharing your experience and your knowledge.

[@ЕвгенийЕрлашеев-п9т]

18:09 "Zdravstvyite" -hahahah i i am from Russian Federation - it's was so funny!!! Thank you from Russia!!!

[@chadwickhurlburt6529]

OMG, you are brilliant. I love this stuff. Found your channel by chance, subscribed immediately.

[@ohmygodooo]

Really like your post videos and looking forward to watching more of your videos. You are doing really excellent work on short point searching and also your repairing thoughts And more can you make a video to show how many voltage test points on an AMD or Nvidia video cards?

[@nukedathlonman]

Hmm....Well, I'm going to give my card (Vega 56) a good look over...Hopefully it's something akin to this. I've own it since new, the card has never given me a problem, then suddenly my computer shut down a few days ago and the video card hasn't worked since. The computer is back up and running, but on a crummy GT 1030. Thanks for the video.

[@P43YM]

Обожаю дизайн этой карты. По-моему выглядит она гораздо лучше референсов от нвидиа.

[@destructivebit3178]

Awesome channel, subscribed and keep making more videos like this please!

[@KarimDK81]

Warranty sticker like a champ!! Love it you are top

[@CONNNE]

46 Shops that saw you save warranty sticker disliked video

[@shahariarnakib6517]

why u have only 20 videos or graphics card repair ?? we the big fan of u , want more graphics card repair videos.

[@Bot.number.69420]

Funny thing, I have a Asus Strix Vega 64 and I put a waterblock on it. Asus really spewed lots of thermal paste on it and I decided to leave it on resistors. After block was on, no signal. q-code b2 (no gpu detected) sometimes. Then washed away thermal paste with alcohol and distilled water. Now it works better and more stable than stock (used grizzly hydronaut paste). :D

[@jakegarrett8109]

It shouldn't be conductive. (I put thermal paste on the resistors and fill the entire area under the cooler for extreme sub-zero overclocking to prevent moisture and ice from forming). I don't know of a single company that uses conductive paste and every card I've taken apart has about 8x more paste than needed for air cooling, its always on the resistors, its not a problem. Sounds like you simply had a bad mount. Also that's an HBM card with interposers, and those are particularly hazardous and easy to damage. I would guess bad block mount the first time.

[@Bot.number.69420]

@@jakegarrett8109 I now reinstalled waterblocks, this vega really wants no mount pressure. Might been just that.

[@astanfartin1647]

amazing good taste in music as well... too my ears

[@umadbroyolo8413]

Surely if the card doesn't work and you're SAVING the warranty sticker... That means the card is still in warranty and can be replaced? :P Also have you thought about maybe getting a PCI-E riser so that you can lay the card flat for doing measurements when plugged in? You should use alcohol to find components that are getting hot, far cheaper! Great video :)

[@elonwong]

I'm impress with your skills, a video about fixing your phone's screen?

[@TheOnlyHMR]

Elon Wong screen protector. Nothing to be fixed here. Idiot.

[@elitech3339]

TheOnlyHMR that’s screen, not protector

[@elonwong]

@@TheOnlyHMR well that's not polite

[@edu.33]

@@TheOnlyHMR wow man you really need to reform yourself

[@GglSux]

@@elonwong Let me commend You for Your measured response to "TheOnlyHMR" childish response, Y.T. would be a whole lot better if this behaviour was more prevalent, so thank You. Best regards.

[@80sBaby925]

How can I contact you bro?

[@ekcivicuk]

On the About tab on his channel

[@elcabezon2222]

This video is absolutely awesome!!!!. is the first time that i watch a video of this kind. Is like watching a doctor doing a surgery haha

[@AshBash]

First video ive watched of yours, great work man.

[@BazIrvine]

Keep it up kiddo, this is pretty unique content. You should try to align yourself more with the big channels. Send some links to them for your fixes etc but most importantly keep up the number of videos. Work hard, you'll be successful I'm sure. Thanks, take care.

[@shadowarez1337]

Amazing as always great video can't wait for my Titan X to get to you.

[@kanguruster]

"I put the warranty sticker back; just like nothing happened."

[@michaeldunn5788]

I finally subscribe because of is video. I should have paid attention in I think it was shop class where we learned about electronics in High School.

[@mykernanpt]

you can also use alcohol when finding a short btw nice job bro

[@edgarslacis7842]

How?

[@Fifury161]

Good job, great commentary and a result!

[@jtid5670]

I always enjoyed watching your video, thank you bro for sharing your work ans knowledge to us, really appreciate

[@pedramros8650]

Thank you Eli top work!! Mine got polarised because of wrong PCI connector (used the 8 pin of the CPU...). Would you know what to look for? Is there chance? I suspect the PCI driver just under the Generator driver you repaired.

[@Ang3lf1]

nice repair brother... awesome WORK mi god......

[@nagasci]

I love your video!! Very interesting format

[@sukmablack]

nice video, i wish i had skills and equipment like you. btw, i do have a sapphire radeon HD 7950 that kill all the system (no power, no etc, just dead) whenever i put it on a pci slot. system is back to normal when i dont plug those HD 9750 btw.

[@faefasefable]

please come back lol amazing content!!!

[@zeljkostanisavljevic4665]

Is cap short, did you tested on ohmmeter. Good video and diagnostic. Thank you and keep a good work! Hello from Serbia.

[@verhor3592]

that is genius put on back stikee warranty 😁

[@nguyentienphat8888]

Haha "Just like nothing happen" I like these video pls make more and ill follow you on YT I love technic I like your style of work GJob

[@RushinIt]

Love your videos! You certainly know far more than I do! Any chance you could point an aspiring EE in the right direction on a card that gets the correct voltages everywhere but doesn't boot? Getting 12V, 900mV at all VRMs, 800mV PCIe, 1.8V on generator, 900mV / 1.2V on HBM, 5V rails are good... But she still won't boot :( Not sure where to go from there.

[@minus3dbintheteens60]

Well done, congratulations! It doesn't look like you reply, but I would love to understand your method, the freeze spray is very clever! So you noticed the low resistance near that controller, you unsoldered it, then you were using the probe and the spray. Did you have the card 8 pin connector hooked to your power supply? And then you applied a voltage to the output pin of the controller to find the short, the heat buildup shows the short? I think that is right, but I would like to understand what you had the probe hooked up to, and if you had power to the card or not, as I can't see

[@danlaurentiu558]

Very good job right there man. 3DapoBa, i know u're russian : ) Thing is, i like such a card, it looks very "clear" in comparison to RX 580 but still, i don't know why they are so long ....Anyways, just because it goes broken, it does not mean that cannot be repaired ! ok, but i do not thing a $700 video card or even more has to need a repair operation :( Even a GTX 1070 or similar card is very expensive to require a repair of any kind !

[@Modrih]

THE BEST CHANNEL!

[@brianvo42]

Hi Eli, would you be able to repair my vega 64 liquid cooled card? It shows bars and visual issues even on bios. Looks like this card exactly but the liquid cool model. I also live in the bay area as well!

[@florenlebaron524]

You are so skilled. I don't know how to contact you about my gaming motherboard. I don't do gaming but it's a good one.

[@geoffreyvanhorn445]

Do you repair cards submitted by fans? I repair some also, but your technical skill is very far above mine! You can do whatever you want with the card after the repair, send it back, keep it, sell it. I don't care. It is a GTX 970 and I'd love to see if it can be revived. I have a picture of the failure point. Unsure how it happened though.

[@Alexiel-f6o]

mh i forgot how lovely looking the pcb of a vega64 looked

[@omarladjal2867]

such an underated chanel

[@PetarFantastic]

Your videos are great!! Thank you!!

[@SynicMaster]

You are the man!!! I love you videos

[@paublusamericanus292]

just wondering why the freezer spray never showed up till you touched it. didn't you have power on the whole circuit already? or was that your power prob you touched the cap with? then I would understand it. Just seems odd, to use freezer spray, without putting a low voltage load on the circuit, so as to see it without having to touch the very spot. good work eli!!

[@jovieasyrof2017]

Wowww man, You are very TALENTED I'm subscribing!!!