"If aint fix dont broke it" - greg 2024

@tspawn35

29 күн бұрын

I have to tell myself all the time don''t touch something that's already working.

@rowdydog

29 күн бұрын

words to live by

@Scivics

29 күн бұрын

Yup thats what he said good job

@midnight_yota

25 күн бұрын

That really should be everyone's life Moto. The amount of times Ive actually caused problems thinking I knew an easy way to improve something.

Cyberpower should be ashamed of themselves for selling a Gen 1 Ryzen system with a single stick of RAM - that's probably a 20% performance hit. But nooooooo, they had to spend the extra $3 a dual-channel kit of the same capacity would cost on . . . an LED strip.

@j.p.h.8126

29 күн бұрын

Yeah another stick of RAM would be recomended for that rig.

@brockysthoughts1662

29 күн бұрын

@@j.p.h.8126 yeah at least 2 8 gig sticks would have been nice

@mohammedis1am

29 күн бұрын

I have a CyberPower PC and it's been amazing, their customers service was awesome when I needed help. But this was my personal experience, others may have a different view on this.

@coreykirkpatrick4392

29 күн бұрын

To be fair this is a 7 year old base model

@brockysthoughts1662

29 күн бұрын

@@coreykirkpatrick4392 its still running windows 10 so any help is a plus

-User has computer issue -Asks for help -Gives computer to someone they know can help -Does not give them password to get into computer -Does not respond to any messages requesting said password Ah yes, the beautiful world of IT

@Smakheed

27 күн бұрын

-Computer sits on "in shelf" until user answers -Computer then joins back of repair queue

@SukiSuki-cr6hv

27 күн бұрын

haha lol, i know how it feel

@nicholastrawinski

27 күн бұрын

"you're the computer guy, dont you know the password?" - someone probably

@Trainbuff26

27 күн бұрын

In all seriousness, if bitlocker isn't enabled on that drive, there are programs you can boot from a USB drive that will create new admin accounts on Windows that you can log into if you're locked out of it.

@DixonErHands

26 күн бұрын

There's one full proof way around that password. I've had to use it numerous times because of exactly your comment. Idk if it works with W11 but it does with w7-10

My mind: whoa that thermal paste is pink. Video: yes that thermal paste is pink.

@johnt.848

29 күн бұрын

and spread as thick as peanut butter.

@Tabbalco

21 күн бұрын

@@johnt.848 you can't argue with the results. He did show great temps while running AIDA64 for a long time.

Say Greg I went over to my uncle Ripps house the other day, and he was all happy that he had fixed his computer, he really doesn't have that much computer knowledge and I asked him how did you figure it out he said oh this little old Mexican kid on youtube taught me how to do it and I was like what are you talking abou?t He showed me the video and it was you, lol. You have a new fan he's almost sixty years old And he has been watching your videos for the past couple weeks now that you've taught him something. Goes to show that you know you reach out to people of all ages and all demographics. Keeping on keeping on bud, have a good one.

@PC4USE1

29 күн бұрын

Just a guess on my part but I think Greg is Cuban-American-someone correct me if i'm wrong.

@GregSalazar

29 күн бұрын

LOOOL. I do have Mexican relatives. Our paternal family is from Spain :-)

@DutyGeezer

29 күн бұрын

I had a vga debug lite issue suddenly. System wouldn’t boot. and after swapping GPUs and minimizing the system with no luck, I remembered the Greg vids where he clears CMOS. Yes! Danged if that didn’t do it!

@johnt.848

29 күн бұрын

You say almost 60 as if that is old and old people are stupid.

@SukiSuki-cr6hv

27 күн бұрын

yes, i make money because of Greg lol, i am not went to IT school or something. but i learned from Greg, Jayz, and several other youtubers. now i have a passive income as coulege student by building and upgrading computer, sometimes laptop also

This is my first time watching through one of these Greg, I’ve seen them but not watched. I like the format you have here, I think it’s well done 👍

@GregSalazar

29 күн бұрын

Thanks, man! Hope all is well. Glad to see ya pumping out content again!

even older, ancient systems running ddr3 ram see MASSIVE performance improvements..simply by switching to an ssd.

@rrwholloway

28 күн бұрын

Resurected an old sony all in one with an ssd, ram upgrade ans wifi upgrade. Can attest to this.

Best PC series on YT, thank you Greg!

@GregSalazar

29 күн бұрын

Thank you for watching!

Holy hell that HDD was full. Probably didn't help with programs crashing and being weird. Windows does *not* like a full drive.

@olandersnake

29 күн бұрын

With that little of space left causes problems because Windows wants to have some space set aside as virtual RAM. This is more evident with the single stick of (I think) 8GB or 16GB. Which is honestly just not enough to play a lot of newer games. 32GB is always my recommended size.

@Farhan-ec7dx

28 күн бұрын

@@olandersnake can u name me 1 of those game that recommend 32gb ram. just built my 1st pc and interested in those kind of games. i usually just play fps games

@frommatorav1

28 күн бұрын

@@Farhan-ec7dx Did you not put in 32GB? It's around $100 or less total for 32GB. $55-$115 for DDR4 and DDR5 Even if the game doesn't need all 32GB, if your ram usage is near 16GB or slightly over, when that's your total system ram, you'll get stuttering and computer will be less responsive

@olandersnake

28 күн бұрын

@Farhan-ec7dx it's not games that recommend it. It's the usage of having the games that use 8-10GB, and then Windows itself, your graphics card software, your peripherals controller software, motherboard software, steam/epic games/blizzard software, Discord, and quite a few of the competitive games have launcher software as well. So many gaming computers that I service will have 5-8GB used just turning them on and logging into Windows. Then you boot up a game, and POW you are using up your RAM. Then you get to enjoy random stuttering due to you C: being told to be used as virtual RAM, which even the fastest SSDs are not quick enough to be RAM. Might as well "download more ram." You can probably get by with 16GB, but to have some decent coverage, 32GB is the best option.

ooooo man , just got home from work, open a cold one, and see this video, perfect friday

@GregSalazar

29 күн бұрын

Hope you enjoy!

I whole heartedly agree with Greg, I've built every computer I've ever owned, and the single biggest "quality of life" upgrade was the SSD. Every time you install Windows, install programs/games, move large files, open programs/games, back-up files, etc.,etc. the speed boost not to mention the superior boot times, it's lovely and will absolutely make an old computer "feel" new better than any other upgrade. It pays for itself constantly!

It's not time to sleep. It's time to watch Greg.

You've taught Raymond...WELL.

Absolutely agree! With an SSD, even 15 year old PCs are still very usable for everyday usage

Nice work always fun to watch. You're inspiring me to start a west coast edition of this...

Always learning everyday! Thank you so much!

@GregSalazar

29 күн бұрын

Thank YOU!

@donavanfiford3149

29 күн бұрын

@@GregSalazar Enjoy watching your videos all the way from South Africa

Thank you for teaching us Greg

@GregSalazar

29 күн бұрын

Thanks for learning with me! 😁

That case looks like a Phanteks P400S. It can be made not to be a ''hotbox''. They sell mesh front panels to that case. 🙂

Love this series, as well as your Discord server! Learned lots from here as well as your server.

@GregSalazar

29 күн бұрын

I very much appreciate that!

I get the average person not being aware and booting off a HDD, but it's crazy to see people with gaming PC's still running HDD's as a boot drive.

@zellar1

29 күн бұрын

Fancy meeting you here Mr "GameBench" LOL

@milescarter7803

29 күн бұрын

To be fair Windows installs the boot loader on the spinning hard drive or your SATA SSD or your bulk storage NVMe /to this day/. Even if you install it to the correct NVMe. I literally unplug everything except the drive I'm installing Windows on before I load the Windows install media.

@zellar1

29 күн бұрын

@@milescarter7803 I do that now. One time during a fresh install of windows I had 5 hard drives plugged in and it spread the install over 5 drives. A real mess! So now I unplug any drives that are not for the OS

@T.Lspitz

29 күн бұрын

​@zellar1 damn seriously? How is that possible? I've installed a fresh version of Windows in a newly built(yet slightly older from 2018-2019) PC with 2 nvme SSD's and a sata 2.5in SSD installed, as well as other pc builds, and never had any issues like that except for sometimes having to unplug any sata drives before hand.

@zellar1

29 күн бұрын

@@T.Lspitz Not really sure what the heck happened but it was weird. Took me a while to delete all the OS stuff off each drive

3:07 I wasn’t ready for this part 😂😂😂

This is a great series. Hope you keep it going for a long time.

@GregSalazar

29 күн бұрын

That's the plan! Thanks for the support!

Always learn a new thing from a fix and flop video keep it up love it mam❤

I remember when SSDs first became a thing, and they were pretty expensive at the time. Regardless, I purchased a 128GB Intel SSD and swapped out the platter drive in the MSI netbook I had at the time. The difference in boot and app loading was stunning.

really liked that greg just did the minimum upgrade as this is fix or flop, not fix or pimp

What a way to start a Friday. A good ol' cup of coffee and some Greg :)

such an easy fix! good video!

visuals are very crispy this time!

Just wanted to give a shout out, I love these videos. I fix PCs on the side myself and love learning about new problems. Keep up the good fight!

My PC is probably 8 years old now, and last year I decided to make a few upgrades to extend it's life. The cooler was done out of necessity as the CPU was really maxing out temp wise when it was under heavy load. Once that was done I decided it was time to bite the bullet and replace my HDD. My MB does not have any M.2 slots so the only option is a 2.4" SSD. I bought a Crucial one as I have always had good experiences with their products (my PC ram is Crucial and my M.2 expansion in my PS5 is as well). It comes with software to clone my HDD onto the SSD (well it came with a link to download it). The process was incredibly easy with only one piece of software needing a licence update (Photoshop). The speed difference between my HDD and the SSD is crazy. The boot up process was getting longer and longer with the HDD. Even when you got into Windows, it still took forever before you can open things like internet browsers. Now everything is almost instantaneous. I kept the 1TB HDD in the system to keep all my music on it, and as I bought a 1TB SSD, everything else can be kept on that. I still have around 500gb free on both drives. I was an SSD sceptic, but no longer.

@ElysaraCh

29 күн бұрын

there is no bigger single upgrade you can possibly make to the overall function of a PC than upgrading an HDD to an SSD.

@caphowdy666

29 күн бұрын

@@ElysaraCh fully agree.

@BrandensOutdoorChannel

29 күн бұрын

You should have gone with a pci-express m.2 nvme card

@caphowdy666

29 күн бұрын

@@BrandensOutdoorChannel Except I don't have any spare slots. It is a micro ATX board so only has two slots, both of which I am using. Plenty of spare SATA ports tho.

@outlet6989

28 күн бұрын

Have you ever tried booting Windows from a floppy disk? While Windows boots, I used to say I'll have dinner and maybe wash my car, and maybe...

Great video!! I really enjoy watching your content 😊😊

@GregSalazar

29 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@DanRandom

29 күн бұрын

@@GregSalazar you’re welcome Greg, been a longtime viewer and supporter of your content. I’ll admit I’ve not watched for a little while (life reasons) and was wondering if you’d moved to your new home? Keep up the great content, it’s really inspiring and enjoyable and I’m really happy for your success. 😊

The best PC series on KZread. Goes good with coffee. 👍 That cooler, what the heck! Better look at the pins. hahaha

When SSD's were still relatively new tech, they were quite expensive; I can see why someone back then might've wanted to run a hard drive. But the prices of SSD's have come down so dramatically over the years that there's simply no need to use them anymore

@sp00n

29 күн бұрын

When Ryzen came out, they were already cheap enough, at least to use them as a boot drive.

i have a b350m bazooka in my first ryzen build. good job msi for still supporting it with the newest 5000 series chips like the 5800x3d and giving it resize bar. awesome to see!

Storage upgrade was absolutely the right choice, there.And for anyone else who is booting off of a mechanical hard drive, even if you can't afford an M.2 even a Sata ssd will be a huge improvement

Always enjoy the fix or flop series(your other ones as well). Kind of like PC Sherlock Holmes novelettes.

Great job

fav part so far is when raymond tells you to check the CPU. Made me chuckle lol. Coudlnt even wait to finish the vid to comment. finishing now

I have been following your channel for the a few years now up here in Canada, wondering if your still using a Mac to edit your videos? Just curious.

I LOVE this videos😍😍😍😍

Nice fix! Yeah, it was likely just the CPU fan clip being off that was the issue with this one. I totally agree about not using a HDD for a boot drive as well. When I'm building a PC I never use HDDs anymore. Either a small boot NVMe and a SATA SSD for storage or a large NVMe.

URRRGGGG! Do you put a lot of peanut butter on your toast or bread?? That CPU is generously covered now!!! Great video Greg! Thank YOU!

I noticed the logo on the front panel also still had the protective plastic on it. 😂 The single channel RAM also asked for an upgrade but that's an easy one the owner can do themselves.

Nice repair.

Should’ve upgraded that RAM config, Greg! 😉 The storage upgrade will be a massive difference for the customer, though.

One of the main problems with speed seems to be the HDD being so full. The OS will be searching like hell for its component parts to start up. I use a simple principle of never letting my HDDs getting over half full and removing old junk files, then optimising.

What a fantastic video to wake up to. Time for the daily dose of fixing computers.

@GregSalazar

29 күн бұрын

Thanks for the support!

Not much free space on the HDD, but probably a HDD failure incoming if it was flaky booting from the HDD. Did you use CrystalDisk to look at HDD history and info?

@GregSalazar

29 күн бұрын

It wasn't flaky booting. It was just slow to boot - which is a common HDD thing :-)

Fans not spinning is called “silent mode” when the gpu starts to warm up it will turn fans on the slowly increase under temp sense and chip load indicators

one possibility of spinning rust drives is it slows down as the disk motor dies and you actually end up having timed out iops that leaves the system hanging and retrying then using more cpu cycles generating more heat.

Feels like flop because I believe they gave it to you just to get upgrade..

Great video sir as usual, I would agree with the other people commenting, you should let the owner know having only one stick of ram is a travesty.

I'd love to see the return of PCDC :)

That was fast! And I definitely don't mean the original Windows boot up from that HDD.

Good Job Greg : ) x

I like this one, nice and easy. They all dont need to be multiday fixes!

Wouldn't have surprised me if it wasn't the plastic motherboard mounts that had broken. Seen that happen on some motherboards because they were just made too short and that caused more pressure than necessary being applied by the fan which weakened the tabs over time. Some AM3 boards were really good at that especially.

When friends ask me what to watch to learn more about building or troubleshooting PCs, it's always the same answer: Greg's Fix or Flop. I frigging love this series. Keep it alive, Greg. You're doing awesome!

@GregSalazar

29 күн бұрын

Thanks, as always, my dude!

thanks greg!

His face when he turned to look at Raymond😂

idk why this series is so satisfying to watch, but i really wish they were a bit more regularly uploaded. but oh well beggers can't be choosers

Ouch, holding the M.2 by the gold contacts!?! Lot of finger oils get in there and not good for contacts.

I'll have to watch this later after my test prep. Thanks Greg! I love Fridays.

@GregSalazar

29 күн бұрын

Best of luck on that upcoming test!

@NukaOrQuantum...

28 күн бұрын

@@GregSalazar Thanks man

Hy Greg I just want to say thank u your videos helped me solve a gpu problems that have been bugging me for a year now I don't have to buy a new gpu

I specifically have an m.2 for windows, and whatever actually must use that, and a 4tb wd black SE HDD for "most' games/storage. It works out brilliantly.

Prebuilt wit 1 single RAM stick on a first gen Ryzen.. And a HDD , this SSD was a necessary update. 🙂

That HDD was full (8:28) It shows 35GB free. I am wondering if Windows was tasked with something, a compressed archive or something that exceeded that, would it go in to frenzy mode.

Greg, you were SPOT ON on this one! When you stated it only had a Hard Disk drive, my jaw pretty much dropped to the floor! I can't believe in this day and age, anybody would just use a regular HD for their OS other than just for storage of games, audio files, etc...! Other than the loose air cooler, good job!

@sp00n

29 күн бұрын

Somebody who doesn't have the knowledge to properly mount the CPU cooler also won't know that an SSD is so much faster than a HDD. I'd actually blame Cyberpower for cheaping out on this.

@outlet6989

28 күн бұрын

What about that sagging GPU?

I can attest to how huge a difference moving from an HDD to an SSD can make. I have ad admittedly very old system (we're talking 2008 Dell hardware) that I was using as a domain controller (please don't hate on me). I only needed it for the DC role, so it didn't need to really do a lot. I didn't really care if it was dog slow, as my domain is only a few computers thick. The story is that old computer was running a moderately newer HDD. I purchased a brand-new custom-built server as a Hyper-V server and was doing to decommission that old relic I was using, but I decided, for grins and giggles, to put in an SSD to see what that would do. Darn it if that didn't put some zip into that old machine! I am running Windows Server 2022 on that thing, and it is cranking along like it's still in its prime. It's running as a backup DC and DNS server on my network. I'm probably going to fully decommission it soon, but I cannot tell you the remarkable difference moving from a platter-based hard drive to a solid-state drive made in that li'l machine's performance.

I like watching filler episodes. This is definitely one of it. I'd love to put your quote on a shirt btw!

@GregSalazar

29 күн бұрын

Wouldn't call this a filler. It's another viewer's rig. Another issue. Another resolution. They can't all be crazy difficult. It's the nature of accepting random, free gigs for folks in the area.

I do love those sk hynix nvme used one on my desktop and steam deck and now have one on my laptop. Not sire but they are cheaper and works well

Yea, depends on the person. Someone may create more issues along the way while checking bent pins.

Kirito wallpaper ❤❤❤😊😊😊

Definitely a weird one, I don't know how those clips got bent that much unless it was being removed frequently...At least you didn't have to pull your hair out trying to diagnose it! lol

One big issue I see from before you added the M.2 is that their drive was too full. That said adding an M.2 is indeed a great upgrade. I recommend to the owner to but still another M.2 (say 2TB) so they can load their games on it as well. I just got a 4TB M.2 and what a great investment.

I was thinking of moving from HDD to a SSD. I put my newly installed games on a m.2.. but I was wanting to move other files to an SSD.. is it hard to do ?

Attention Greg: Raymond is a keeper!

Haha pointing out too there was only about 4% HDD space left, hence terrible OS boot time initially 😁 Did them a solid putting the NVME in 👊👍

Yes i agree with Raymond....check pins and socket while the cooler was off. Another RAM stick then all is good in the world

@GregSalazar

29 күн бұрын

The rig POSTed just fine before that hahah. So it wasn't really needed.

So I hate the clip mechanism for AMD coolers. It's probably not going anywhere but it's such a pain to install that I'm not surprised that one of the retention arms bent.

I see Cyberpowerpc is a fan of using a single stick of ram. Same thing I discovered with my brother's prebuild from them. I did at least get him upgraded and suddenly his games gamed again.

All hail glorious hard drive boot time xD

the hdd is in the red its way to full, probably never defragged, as slow as hdd's are compared to SSD and nvme, a heavily fragmented drive will slow it down even more.

i seen that the old hard drive is almost full that could cause some slow down as well specially if it has not be defragged

Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme has been my go to paste for a while.

Cyberturd pre-builts, lol

You know what’s crazy based on actual analysis data based on what computer and performance levels they are experienced to , most people never got passed cell phone or old Mac or dell pc

Not sure if anyone mentioned it here but MSI cards usually tend to run no fans while idle in Windows in silent mode. Had the same with a 2070 Msi Armor card!

@Dan-Simms

28 күн бұрын

All cards for probably over a decade now dont start running fans until the card hits something like 60c by default.

This video is a testament to how much social skill is required by computer technicians to get to the bottom of customer's complaints haha

remember when i first went from a HDD to an SSD, MAJOR game changer. don't necessarily need a m.2 since you prob wont notice much of a difference between that and an SSD. so if ya wanna save TONS, just get a HUGE SSD instead of spending twice as much on a m.2

I shortly saw the HDD Hardrive and it look like it was a straight red line which means it needs to be clean and free space, this is why it was so long to load windows.

the load times on the disc drive i belive it was due to how full it was. i had one disc drive full and it took like 15-20 min to boot up

Hey Greg you fixed my computer along time ago and I just never got Windows installed after you fixed it so how would I do this if it's never had it installed before?

@GregSalazar

29 күн бұрын

We have step-by-step Windows install guides on the channel if you wanted to follow along :-)

My brother was running his pc os through a hard drive and I can concur that after upgrading his storage to a m.2 from a hard disk drive his pc ran so much faster it was night and day difference.

My rig was already having a m.2 SSD on pci-e gen 3 but it was a 500Gb one already maxed out and the other storage that i was having was a 2Tb hdd that have some folder and game in it. I was having a storage issue on my ssd so i decided to upgrade and buy this time a 2Tb m.2 gen4, i flashed my 500Gb one on the new 2Tb one and i didn't format my 500Gb until my pc decided to boot on the correct drive so now i have plenty of storage left and an empty 500Gb m.2 for futur game

Hey Greg, From the UK here, I get an occasional problem with my PC, my GFX card (Radeon RX 590) turns off randomly under use (hard to duplicate because there's no guarantee when it will happen). when it happens I have to go Device Manager, Enable -> Disable -> Enable to get it to turn back on. I have checked all connections multiple times, checked for software updates, checked everything is securely mounted etc. I've also taken the issue to computer shop's etc asking for advice but they haven't any idea what the issue is... Sorry I cant be more descriptive but do you have any ideas what may be happening here? I've been watching for a while thinking if only this was available where I live xD Some specs: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor 3.60 GHz Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4 3200mhz 32GB (2x16GB) 1TB Samsung 860 EVO SSD ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING Motherboard Radeon RX590 8GB OCZ ZS Series 550W

Yo I got a question I recently change my motherboard and case and I turn my pc on and get this message (Copyright (C) American Megatrends, Inc. BIOS Date: 10/20/2022 20:15:19 Ver: 1ANQH230 New CPU installed, fM/PSP NV corrupted or fTPM/PSP NV structure changed. Press Y to reset fTPM, the system will not boot without a recovery key if you have BitLocker or encryption enabled, press N to keep previous fM record and continue system boot, fm will NOT enable in new CPU, you can swap back to the old CPU to recover TPM related Keys and data.) But when I go on my keyboard and press y it doesn’t register or something if there anything that anybody know what I can do lemme know I even connected it to Bluetooth through my phone and all the keys work and I even tried fn+spacebar and fn+tab and nothing still work so if anyone know what I can do lemme know down ⬇️

The old HDD being so close to full could also cause issues galore.

The first gen Ryzen CPU's weren't all that stable, AFAIK. A possible bios update should be checked for, in case wanting a future more stable CPU upgrade by the customer.

I think the main problem was the CPU cooler not being secured but the other was the amount of disk space left on the HDD. Only 34.8GB on a 1TB drive. I would bet if 100GB were deleted, it would boot significantly faster, although still slow. Even after Windows finally loads, it will make it run slower with that small a reserve space. If it were SATA or nvme, it might react even worse.