How To TRY and FIX a Graphics Card (COMPLETE Start to Finish)
Recently been given two GPUs (a GTX 970 and a HD7770) and I thought with the GPU crisis going on, I would take you guys through all the steps I do in order to try get a graphics card working, in one simple how to tutorial guide.
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0:00 Let's fix your graphics card'
1:36 First important step, get a good test bed setup.
2:09 Initial Tests of the HD7770 and GTX 970
4:35 Pulling apart your GPU and checking for physical damage.
7:24 Cleaning your Graphics card the quick, safe and easy way (how to be a bogan).
11:07 Cleaning out the rear input and output ports.
11:54 Cleaning the PCIE Finger with a rubber.
12:37 GPU went up in SMOKE! and Final Method (heatgun)
14:58 Other things to try, Afterburner (lower clocks on GPU core and memory),
17:45 Question of the Day, Broken Z390 memory slots? How to fix?
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Some of you guys are ninjas with the soldering iron and volt meter, if you are local and want these cards for free then hit me up.
@typicalpctech6674
3 жыл бұрын
I'm not local, but I'd be interested in that price, I'd even pay the parcel fee. Label them as Keychain Commodities (broken electronics) lol. Covid Bling! lol But seriously I'm interested if you haven't already sorted it out! I understand the realm of possibilities on making it here...
@myne00
3 жыл бұрын
I emailed you about that a few weeks ago ;)
@tyroniebalonie
3 жыл бұрын
Do you offer any type of service for graphics cards? I have a gtx 1080 that is giving me problems at the moment and I am pretty sure it is the issue but I don't have another pc to test it on. It was bought in jan 2018 and was mined on for about 5months before I bought it (have receipt so this is for sure). I have been running it undervolted/overclocked myself since owning it and it seems to run in benchmarks fine but has been blue screening me with games playing. I think the gpu is dying but I am not sure. I tried downclocking it and upping the voltage, even downclocking memory but still got blue screens. They where WHEA errors which indicate hardware issues. Can you help?
@thomassmith4999
3 жыл бұрын
The MSI should be easy to fix for someone ok with electronics, would like to see a follow up on the story on that one
@typicalpctech6674
3 жыл бұрын
Maybe a collaboration with another Channel? Eli Tech, Adamant IT, Louis Rossman, My Mate VINCE, Lapfix, TronicsFix just to name a few I could think of. Or you know you could just send it to AvE and say hey, we hear you can unbox this hardware and "crack" it. He's got it covered either way! lol Sadly I feel this would be the 100% destruction path. Collaboration is Collaboration however lol... I would be interested in seeing someone local to you doing something with it on KZread if it goes local. Those videos are really good. Gives a 2nd opinion on what someone else seen. And offers a method for you to learn as well as many others at the same time.
that was some hot HDMI action!
@typicalpctech6674
3 жыл бұрын
Gotta treat em like your new Girlfriend... Knock all the rust off em! lol If there's rust, run you must!!! NOOOO MY ANDROID GF lol ~Runs away~ I imagine someone won't laugh. That sucks lol!
Awww, my old 7770, that was a really good card for me
@typicalpctech6674
3 жыл бұрын
I bought a 7770 for my son's PC. When he broke out of Consoles. $50 long ago on one of those sites you meet the people. It's been that long I forgot what site specifically! :D I want to say Offer Up, but I can't be 100% sure. Probably the one that merged with Offer Up, or... Yeah. Good little card!
@johnq7579
3 жыл бұрын
@@typicalpctech6674 i miss that time when all I need to play skyrim was an old dell opliplex with core 2 duo and 7770, everything on low but that was ok 4 me
@typicalpctech6674
3 жыл бұрын
@@johnq7579 I miss putting in a floppy disk to play DOOM lol Now it's an all day affair to download the pixels, and less 50GB... from my SSD lol... However, 50GB vs 1.44MB is a better result. Just seems crazy how small games had to be. Now they more code in them than the US Constitution + Your Bible of choice + Your OS Manual of Choice + + + + + lol...
@johnq7579
3 жыл бұрын
@@typicalpctech6674 so true, but, there is a hope, for me it's Terraria xD My favorite sandbox
Nothing better than a good ol' gravis card video
@thomassmith4999
3 жыл бұрын
Gets me every time being a sound card connoisseur :)
That oldschool C&C sound! GOT ME COMING BACK FOR MOREEE!
THIS CANT BE HAPPENING. THIS morning my rx580 broke and i have been in tears because all my saves went to It. I LOVE you Bryan, greetings from your loyal sub of Spain:)
@mat5267
3 жыл бұрын
Dude. I feel ya, my RX480 just bit the dust yesterday. My heart sank.
@loko1505
3 жыл бұрын
@@mat5267 i don't know Who you are, but Believe me that i wanna Hug you right now. No homo xd
@sunnohh
3 жыл бұрын
So you fixed it mate?
@loko1505
3 жыл бұрын
@@sunnohh no xd
@mikeschmidt91
3 жыл бұрын
@@mat5267 Mine too... few weeks ago 😭 also a RX480, 8GB OC Sapphire Nitro+ 😢
If you cannot use a multimeter i think better to avoid these types of repairing attempts, because without it you cannot determine the shorted part and you just do more damage on the card :)
@northwestrepair
2 жыл бұрын
His logic is:if heat doesn't help, nothing will. This is 1% part true, you need heat to solder. The rest 99% is what it is, entertainment.
NEVER EVER test a faulty GPU before checking if the power pins are in short. This is the fast way of losing the motherboard and even the CPU
@ismailmuratovic4464
Жыл бұрын
How do i know if the pins are in short
Respect for this level of honestly, never doubted you for a second tho.
I actually respect this video more for posting it despite not being successful. I've seen these methods work and in less severe cases the cards could have came back to life.
I had a weird smelling card on power up. It was one of the VRAM chips that was actually crushed (a gt 740 sc 4gb gddr5). I replaced it with a VRAM chip from a dead rx 550. Works fine now.
@Lucaspc99
3 жыл бұрын
Consider yourself a lucky guy, because you got the exactly same memory chip on both cards, otherwise it wouldn't work.
@Voidsworn
3 жыл бұрын
@@Lucaspc99 they aren't the same memory chip. One is a larger capacity (the rx 550 is a 1gb chip). The gt 740 only recognizes up to the 4gb max.
@Lucaspc99
3 жыл бұрын
@@Voidsworn Well, it shouldn't work then, but like I said, you are a man of luck!
@Voidsworn
3 жыл бұрын
@@Lucaspc99 It was more an educated guess. I repair laptop and chromebook motherboards for a living. Plenty of times I have had to remove the BGA SSD chip and replace it with a different one, often a different brand and/or capacity and it usually works provided I don't screw up. I figured as long as the BGA pattern and ball size is the same and the VRAM chip type is the same, I should be able to replace a bad VRAM. Plus, if you think about it, a graphics card manufacturer is not always going to be able to source a particular VRAM, so it makes sense for their boards to work with multiple manufacturers' VRAM.
@wowitsshit9734
3 жыл бұрын
maybe the weird smell was when u shot some coom on it from heavy useage of the jerk off station and it managed to get in past the cases top fans.
I think connecting a card without checking for shorts on 12v in the first place is dangerous for you and your equipment. As well as heatgun on caps. These can literally blow
for me this is it Tech Yes City at its max. i mean , i do like all your content because you are seem like a fair and just guy with everything you do, but when it comes to cleaning, and repairing , and all that jazz , since Japan the Tech Yes Man in the Tech Yes City is the way to go. Tks for all your work. cheers from Portugal
Your honesty and integrity is one of the reasons I subscribe to you mate.
For Nvidia cards there is Mods/Mats tools that can be used to test the VRAM (and detect which chip is broken) and to test the card overall.
@spla5h627
3 жыл бұрын
How this soft is called?
@riklaunim
3 жыл бұрын
@@spla5h627 Nvidia Modular diagnostic software (MODS). It's not officially released, just leaked from Nvidia. I have more info on it at rk.edu.pl/en/nvidia-modular-diagnostic-software-mods/
@15.06 Hi Brian - The mosfet 2nd from top looks bad/burnt/cooked causing a short that's what smoked ( left of the SFC Inductor ) In- try taking a heatgun and tweezer and taking just that smd off the board. It will run 5 phase power but the card will still work.
@gorjy9610
3 жыл бұрын
it's not always a case, he can try that but it's more exception than rule that only mosfet is damaged.
Thanks. I watched this yesterday due to having not one, not two but THREE bad GPU's. I stupidly (or not, as I will have a backup now) ordered a second hand one because the first two I had didn't work, they would go for a time then shut down the entire machine. With your tutelage, I was able to get one of them up and running again, (going on hour number 28 of continuous use) and I couldn't be happier! Thanks again. All I did was disassemble the GPU, removed the dust that had gathered on it, wiped it down pretty well, and reinserted it into the MoBoard. Fired right up!
You need to befriend some Ozzie tech repair channel, so you can have your micro soldering done for a price of few beers. 8)
The oven method only works for so long. The heating and cooling cycles will eventually break the BGA connection again. One way to keep the card alive for longer is to literally just leave your pc on so it never goes all the way back down to room temp, OR ideally if it's profitable, crypto mine right after gaming, to keep the card hot all the time so it can't cool and shrink/ possibly snap the weak resoldier of the BGA. I have an old 7970 that broke after a week of normal gaming and shutting the pc off. Rebaked it, now I let the PC idle when I'm not gaming and its been going strong for 3 months. Might cost me $5 a month on my power bill buy it sure beats having to buy another gpu in this market.
@dallesamllhals9161
3 жыл бұрын
Yeees? It's always been "the last trick" havn't it?
Hey Bryan just wanted to let you know that your videos have been super helpful. They got me into computer repair and building as a side job. LOVE the C&C music. Keep uo the fantastic videos.
I have managed to bring a few cards 'back to life' by cleaning out the contacts for the slot as well as the ports. For heating, I have always covered the area being worked on with liberal amounts of flux to ensure that the solder joints don't get even weaker from the reflow. Low success rate though, like you have experienced.
Mr. Tech Yes Man, thank you for delivering these Command & Conquer tunes! Oh, the memories!
I would have tried cleaning up the rust inside the HDMI port. The rust tells me that the card was exposed to a very humid environment or maybe even had something spilled/sprayed near the port.
If you use a thermal camera, or just put your finger on the board, you might be able to see or feel components that are shorting out (they become hot very quick). Components on old dead cards can be re-used, if you want to try micro-soldering.
@gorjy9610
3 жыл бұрын
no decent PSU will ever let you run shorted card long enough to feel any heat and that's now a way you looking for shorts on graphic card. It can be used in many other things, yes (still not inside the computer though but with PSU build for that) but with GPU you want to avoid that. In some combination of faults you can fry a GPU, memory or something else.
@sixcoregamer9221
3 жыл бұрын
@@gorjy9610 A shorted component need not be burning hot to detect it. It just needs to be abnormally warmer than it should be. If the psu shuts off in 1 second, then everything on the board should be cold except the shorted component. A thermal camera makes it easy to see any components that are abnormally warm. By the way, a short is not 0 resistance. A short means abnormally low resistance. There is still some electrical resistance in a short.
@gorjy9610
3 жыл бұрын
@@sixcoregamer9221 you obviously don't have idea about electronics and even less about repairing graphics cards. Watching few repair videos on youtube don't make you expert. There is no way that any component heat enough in 0.xx seconds before PSU shut itself down, graphics cards have large (LARGE) planes of copper to spread heat (and support high currents of usually over 100A) and even with thermal camera you can't catch something like that. And yes, resistance don't need to be zero in shorted semiconductor but that will not help you too much with graphic card repair. Most of the times that will be worst case scenario as PSU will not react fast enough, component will get extremely hot and damage PCB.
@sixcoregamer9221
3 жыл бұрын
@@gorjy9610 According to you, gpu fires can never happen because the PSU will always shutoff before the component becomes dangerously hot. kzread.info/dash/bejne/iYCpr8Zmn9anktY.html
@gorjy9610
3 жыл бұрын
@@sixcoregamer9221 I see we don't understand one another - you talking about things you watch on youtube, I talk about actually fixing things. You now, in real life. For living. Not specialized in graphic cards but lately (for reasons we know all too well) many GPUs pass my hands. And point of that video is what? That some idiot plug shorted card in PC without testing card before? You are aware that not all PSUs are born equal? Do you suggest that's as way to diagnose short on GPU? Just stop embarrassing yourself.
Great video. I have a few suggestions. We can do the hdmi port and rubber on the contacts BEFORE opening them. If it works we avoid the need to open it up. Now I will move to my Radeon 5600 and tell you where I get.
17:14 I got the same GTX 1050 TI and save it by cleaning with brake cleaner and sprey for electronic, change thermal paste. And worked!
12:42 we have a new Pope
@dallesamllhals9161
3 жыл бұрын
Naah, that was black smoke :-P
This video is 2 thumbs up. I use to trouble shoot computer/parts and I win fix a few, lose a few. It's good to show everyone going the limit isn't a bad thing. You may save a computer part and give it years of longevity. But to do nothing speaks for itself.
I have a GTX 770 with white lines (artifacts), a gtx 460 that have blue screen during windows startup (even worse, killed in the repair shop due to an atempt of reballing without my consent -.-) and a R9 270 that lose video signal every time that I play a game, F, glad that I upgraded to a 1660 Ti back in 2019, I need a card for my htpc, maybe will get a cheap GTX 1060 3GB
lots of C&C music on this one 😄
Was that the intro from the game Final Fight? Sweet game and one of my favorites! TechYEEES! Thank you for taking us along for the ride. We are grateful to learn your ways jedi.
I noticed that 970 had no thermal pads. That can't be right, can it?
I have a GTX 980 (Asus Strix) that I flashed it's firmware. I was using it in an SLI configuration as the primary card my monitor was plugged into. I flashed the firmware on both cards (they are identical cards but this card was 1 year newer). After flashing both cards successfully (having to uninstall the other card to do so), I started playing a game (which didn't support SLI) the PC crashed about 2 minutes into playing, and I could smell smoke coming from my PC. Some how a component on the GPU fried it self.. perhaps a VRM/MOSFET/Choke burned it self. The card no longer gives a signal, but the PC still boots with this card installed when installed by it self. It's been a few years since this happened and the card no longer smells of burnt electronics. I was thinking about using this GPU as the 2nd video card in my SLI configuration but I can no longer do that since building a new PC last year. I'd prefer to get this card working again and use it in another PC. Any idea what I might be able to do?
Brian: "A bogan is a bogan" Me: "Yes, very bogan"
does the video have effects from around 3:20? when the music kicked in, i think i saw some artifacting in my screen and got nervous. nice content btw. thank you
Do NOT heat up electrolytic capacitors! They fail ... sometimes even explode!
Someone was given a GTX 950, my friend brought it to me a year ago. Only thing we knew about the card was the machine died to Cockroach hell... So it sat double bagged in a Ziplock bag for a year. I recently pulled it out, and realized the issue was apparently the Bug bomb residue. Apparently they set the bomb off inside the PC lol... Extreme I guess, or maybe it was very close to the PC. I took the card outside, tore it down, cleaned it. Was happy not to see any bugs, just a sticky residue on the board. Cleaned it with the Tech Yes City Method, and bam, that thing fired right up and pasted 4 hours of stress testing it. 1 hour for each test, let it idle between tests. So your videos get results for us, I thank you! :D I have a painters brush, I spray the no name WD-40 on it, soaking it pretty good and paint it on. For those that think using it is a bad thing, it's not. And the brush thing, I don't know, psychological barrier to get me to do it I suppose lol. It seemed cleaner... lol Currently going through the rest of my old cards since if they work, they might bring the most value in now... And I try to sell for reasonable prices. Sold 2 GTX 770's for $75 each. I even paid the shipping. I could have got $100+ maybe, but I didn't want to be the guy that sold them, and raked in the cash, only to hear... Hey it died after 2 hours! lol Fair prices brings Fair customers! I'd still give a refund if they died, but so far so lucky!!! :D
Love your candor regarding soldering. Same here. Love your channel. Thank you!!
Who knows if the caps went bad on them, i recapped my old FX5200 and its now working a treat, even with new cards, sometimes its worth a shot because bad caps usually leave the system hung up and not post or the fans 100%, though these cards look like they had a hard life and the power delivery failed them, not worth changing them out unless you can flip it in working condition, i do like the rubber trick on the PCI-e connector, will try that in the future
@dallesamllhals9161
3 жыл бұрын
The rubber/eraser trick's been around since ISA = It does work :-)
@razorsz195
3 жыл бұрын
@@dallesamllhals9161 I've never ran into any corroded connectors luckily :p only ports and dull solder point that cleaned up, i have a feeling his 970 is being stopped by that HDMI port, ive run into fauly connectors that stop anything from posting since theres a short, reordering or replacing the connector has helped in my experience.
I had the exact same 970 model for over 6 years... Always served me well, never had any problems with it! Almost makes me regret that I sold it.
"Bogan" is my favourite Aussie word. Shoutout to Fat Pizza! Also the soundtrack to the video is fantastic! Especially the outro song, of which, I'd love to know the name...
Ah, Nice concept for a video. One of the hesitations I've always had about used GPU's/paranoias that my current ones will croak one day/get lines etc is I've never had to fix cards at all. I'm almost wondering if laptop gpu's or integrated graphics or used safety gpu might be a good investment. Great that you cover cleaning the gpus also, pretty much wiped and transplanted it, last upgrade. Asked my bud if we should take it apart and change the thermal paste (did the upgrade before Shadowlands prepatch around the time it was on ptr) and they were like nah just move it. I remember wiping the dust off the lower caddy after 2-3 hours of use later. That was a bit gross. I'm not really afraid of taking apart to clean, more of putting the GPU back together afterwards.
Love your honesty
Thanks for the great video ,can you tell me who made the music for the video, it reminded me on age of Unreal Tournament 99 and fast tracker songs
Hi Brian. A few days ago, I recently discovered 1 last last resort that worked for me 😁 That is pushing up the other end of the video card (the opposite end of the video ports) while it is inserted in the pcie slot making the pcb a little bit slant for about half or more than half an inch. Using a cheap gpu anti sag will work too, you just need to adjust it a little bit higher so that it will push the gpu's pcb. 2 out of 2 of my defective gpu's are now working. The 1st one is Palit Jetstream Gtx 960 2gb which has garbage display. The 2nd one is the Sapphire Radeon HD 5670 which makes my entire pc not posting or will not reach bios while inserted in the pcie slot. I did this out of desperation because as you've said, repair is expensive and glad that the method worked. My theory is that overtime, the gpu's pcb will start to show a lot of wear and tear specially the traces and solder points due to gpu sagging, coz we all know that the points for gpu support is just the pcie and the gpu back io shield. Sorry for the long paragraph, I'm just so happy that I fixed my 2 cards with this method 😁👌🏻
@Layarion
2 жыл бұрын
are you sure it's not your mobo PCEi slot that's not broken there? how about you borrow a friends known working GPU, and try it in your mobo without trying this trick. see if the issue still happens.
@jezreeldelrosario5385
2 жыл бұрын
@@Layarion hey I appreciate your advice mate. I get what your trying to say, however I flip pc's too for a living. So basically I have tons of pc parts to test too. What I'm trying to say is, overtime the substrate, pcb, solders and traces will have a tendency to lose some contacts. When I bent the gpu pcb, those contacts started to join again and it started to work again like new. Even got to overclock the card with zero problems at all.
Hey Brian, I recently bought a used Palit GTX 750 Ti. I'm unable to get this thing working properly. I do get a signal, but only at a very low resolution. Windows 10 device manager always shows a "Code 43". Adding Nvidia drivers manually doesn't work neither. I tried it on two different boards (MSI & HP) and it's always the same... Do you have any idea how to fix this problem? Thank you for your great content and many greetings from Germany.
@mikeschmidt91
3 жыл бұрын
Ist Code43 nicht ein Problem mit zu wenigen PCIe lanes? Grüße 😉🇩🇪
@LiveYour90
3 жыл бұрын
@@mikeschmidt91 Hey Mike, was genau meinst du mit zu wenig PCIe Lanes?
@mikeschmidt91
3 жыл бұрын
Ich hatte schon das Problem, dass „zu viele“ Geräte angeblich angeschlossen waren und die CPU nicht mehr ausreichend PCIe Verbindungen bereit gestellt hat. Da wurde dann auch der Fehler ausgeworfen, dass meine GraKa defekt sei. War halt nur nicht so 😉 hab dann im BIOS Geräte abgeschaltet, dann war der Fehler weg. Hast du schon mal im Gerätemanager die GraKa deaktiviert bzw. darüber die Treiber gelöscht? Ich würde DDU und einen älteren Treiber (eventuell weißt du, wann die GraKa noch lief) herunter laden und dann nochmals manuell der Treiber installieren.
@LiveYour90
3 жыл бұрын
@@mikeschmidt91 Ok, das ist interessant. Im Gerätemanager habe ich alles Mögliche durchprobiert, auch Nvidia Treiber von 2015 - ohne Erfolg. DDU habe ich bisher nicht genutzt, weil das Board, für welches ich die GraKa nutzen möchte, keine eigenen Onboard-Grafikausgänge hat (ist ein älteres Board mit einem 1155 Sockel und einem i7-2600). Mit DDU hab ich da Schiss, dass der auch die Windows-10-Nvidia-Treiber runterzieht und ich die Karte dann gar nicht mehr nutzen könnte. Ist mies, wenn man nicht auf die Onboard-Grafik ausweichen kann. Ich werde auf jeden Fall noch einmal ins Bios gehen und gucken, was ich da abschalten kann. Ist nur komisch, dass ich auf beiden Boards diesen Code 43 Fehler hatte. Mit einer anderen Grafikkarte (hab noch eine GT 1030) hier, läuft alles ohne Probleme. Nur mit der GTX 750 Ti halt nicht...
DONT DO THIS! But sometimes it works, on any pcb, not just graphic cards. One thing that often will stop electronics working is a dry joint (poor manufacture but the fault develops over time). Here is an easy kill or cure fix (so last ditch but sometimes works). Now before you do this google dry joints so you know what you are looking for, then have a close look, sometimes if you are lucky you will spot a suspect bad solder joint that is big enough to literally just re solder (google that as well tip at the end) I have fixed a surprising number of things by just re-soldering a few suspect joints. But assuming the suspect joint is not big enough to see and its one of those microscopic joints there is still a way. literally I was shown this by a PC engineer about 40 years ago when people sill did board level repairs. Get a blowlamp, light it let it warm up and stabilise, adjust the flame intense but small. Then literally move it over the underside of the board "reasonably" quickly. If done right the heat will re-solder all the joints before anything gets hot enough to be killed. Obviously some practice on and old dead PCB's is useful first. While I have lost count of the electrical appliances I have fixed by simple looking for and re-soldering visible suspect joints (if they are big do them all), EVEN AFTER EXPERTS SAID THEY WERE UNFIXABLE. But I have resorted to this "Kill or Cure" approach about a dozen times over the years (before throwing the thing in the rubbish), AND FOUR TIMES IT WORKED. So worth a shot if all else fails. Soldering TIP, I now have several good soldering irons, but someone bought me a cheap battery soldering iron, I thought is was a gimmick or toy.... but tried it, ITS BRILLIANT for this type of work. It cannot do huge joints but for small soldered PCB joints is fast easy and doesn't overheat components. But google how to solder and practice on something you are not really trying to fix first. THATS ALL FOLKS.... REMEMBER THIS REALLY IS LAST RESORT, I accept no liability for any damage you do to your kit, hands, or house, use this info responsibly and at your own risk.
I've flashed the bios on a 780 ti that had some solid artifacts with a different revision (same revision made no difference). Brought the card back to life.
Interesting idea with the heat gun. Simple but makes sense. Going to try that here and cross my fingers. Card is working, but the PCIE power plug on the card has some charring.
BRYAN, please please please get an ultrasonic cleaner. I can’t tell you just how many electronics I have repaired with one , wave oscillating is a bonus, use some diluted PCs cleaner. It heats up. Then alcohol bath followed by a data vac or air compressor, also getting a and rework station for micro soldering and or just fixing old solder joints just apply a thin laying of flux around the infected areas to get the solder reflowing.
so far iv revived 1 video card today with a lil toaster oven. took a 29 270 from artifacting at boot and crashing at windows load to no artifact and back to booting. now were doin a hd4890 to see if it cures that things artifacting and issues.
This was a super helpful and Honest video, thank you for that. I am much more clued up now; was just about to buy a non-working card but after watching your video I'm given that a second thought. Cheers mate all the way from South Africa! keep making good content.
Well this couldn't have come out at a more perfect time, my rx vega 64 died a couple of weeks ago
@erminbajric4633
3 жыл бұрын
He did it all wrong don't follow him.
@longhairddingus6970
3 жыл бұрын
@@erminbajric4633 I just watched the video, I agree on that, I'm still gonna try heat gunning my card as I already see it as dead and a loss, as the gpu core sometimes just comes desoldered from the board over time
@Quicksilver-7791
3 жыл бұрын
@@erminbajric4633 I mean, unless you have a microsoldering kit, you can't really do more then that
@erminbajric4633
3 жыл бұрын
@@Quicksilver-7791 That gtx 970 has a short circuit, cleaning and random heating won't fix it. If he removed dead component maybe it would get to life again. But that only applies for this case. Graphic cards are dying in multiple ways.
@Quicksilver-7791
3 жыл бұрын
@@erminbajric4633 I know, I'm just saying that we can't do anything else aside from 'cleaning and random heating' without investing in a microsoldering kit.
electronics cleaner is also around walmart may have it at times kind of runs 2 bucks more maybe
Top props for putting the word TRY in the title. Click bait title authors wouldn't do this.
You still pressed on even when smoke came out of that GTX 970. That can really still be saved? Because it happened to a GTX 950 that was given to me, and I just gave up when I saw the sparks fly.
@dallesamllhals9161
3 жыл бұрын
Yup! Pretty much 'end of the line' when smoke happens, here too :-)
mmm, really early video, usually they come around midnight of the west coast of USA, I like it, no that sleepy, the video was great, keep up the good work
Hey Bryan have you ever tried an infra red IC heater? Also you don't need to refit the coolers just to post test, as you just waste thermal paste.
I have a 7770 as a backup card. Recently chucked out a 7950, I tried many times to clean and reassemble, but no luck :( Died watching the intro of Project Cars 2.
Loving the C&C Music bits...... And now I need to play some C&C Red Alert Remastered.
Im still in the hunt for multiple purpose spray here in the US. I've tried so many still now much luck
@stevenwilliams6638
3 жыл бұрын
@@Sneakyboson really sick of hearing this. No offense to you, but it's not the same. It leaves a sticky residue
@stevenwilliams6638
3 жыл бұрын
@@Sneakyboson I'm sorry for my last comment. I came of like a d**k. Ive just been looking for awhile now, for a US alternative. I have heard that CRC power lube, in the red can is close.
Dunno but definitely the weirdest one is that my old gpu had a problem that it didn't work after installing drivers but it worked in recovery mode
Brian’s got the red alert songs in the past two videos. 👍🏻
where can i find a capacitor for an rx580, i cant find the exact one i see but i see similar ones with same ratings, is it safe? i heard i need to change the row of capacitors to match since there is a huge row of them the same. one was broken off physically. its an easy fix but wondering if i can salvage one off a diff card that has similar ratings also.
@Heyme232
3 жыл бұрын
You don't need to replace entire row, and if you, say have a 100uF 16V capacitor it's OK to replace that with 100uF 50V, but NOT ok to use a 10V cap, for example.
Ah yes, time to look at "broken" 3080s
@vgamesx1
3 жыл бұрын
You might get lucky and find one for $500 but even dead ones sell at $800 or more, insanity.
cost of the toolslike multimiter, solderin iron, lab power supply is around 50 usd.... as soon as you have the boards you can learn how to resurrect it ....
Don't mind me. I'm just gonna watch this again so I can hear the Command and Conquer soundtrack.
I have a HD 7970 with intermittent failure - sometimes it runs fine, sometimes it fails abysmally. When it does run, I tend to just leave it one for fear that a restart attempt will result in failure. It generally fails as a frozen screen, or it will POST but have no visuals. When it is used, it disables my onboard graphics, so I can't go in and use that to try and fix things. Does this sound like a VRAM/heat gun scenario?
Mine hd7750 had similar non posting issue so i pluged my monitor into integrated graphics and flashed a bios with lower ram speed/clock, since then it works perfectly. Hope this helps.
i think the capacitor is bulged, u can try to replace a bulged capacitor, but its difficult process, capacitors function is to temporarily hold electric charge n release its when power is needed, thats y the gpu cant start at early
I had that exact same 970 a few years back. Eventually failed and I was able to bake it a few times and revive it, but eventually couldn’t be brought back
Coolest diagnosis trick I have seen is to remove the cooling fan board, plug the bare card into the motherboard, take a q-tip with denatured or rubbing alcohol on it, get the top surface of each memory chip slightly wet. Next power up the CPU and look at the wet chips. If one dries quickly 2-3 seconds then you know its failed and overheating. Obviously don't keep the system powered up for long or you burn the main GPU out.
11:48 .... oh, yeah, that Tech Yes Lovin'
You really gave those cards some tech yes loving
My GPU just died on me during a semiconductor shortage, thanks 1060.
I have a new EVGA 2080 Super stopped working fans run has 2 power connectors shows red light? I paid cash was new in box sealed. They claim not retail and I didn't buy from store so no warranty? Only used 14hrs.
Yeah u right we need to test all input slots specially for old GPUs ,my GTX 580 was giving no display from HDMI I thought that it was dead but surprisingly the DVi Still working .Conclusion: sometimes in old GPUs HDMI might break real fast . And thanks to you I saved it.
=OO 4:34 omg your music! C&C forever! peace through power! =D
Recently got a 1060 6gb Asus Blower style with a desktop I bought really cheap.(they didn't know what was wrong, but apparently bit was just the gpu being wonky, as the rest works without it) Card works fine with Microsoft Basic Display driver, but soon as you install the proper drivers, the screen gets black and white lines then blue artifacting and other weird things. Been trying to find compatible bios' for the 1060 to see if it's just a faulty bios but have had little luck
My friend has the same GTX 970 from MSI and caught fire twice! He is not bothered to open it up and check whats wrong tho and bought a GTX 1650 super ASUS Tuf instead.
What you have done with the multipurpose spray and a tuff brush is bad! you could remove small electrinc parts from the PCB! The correct method: You can clean it with your ultrasonic cleaner, and for those who do not have this cleaner, a simple soap and hot water shower, a very gentle one, no brushing what so ever just foam made from soap, hot water slow stream in the shower. and a full 72 hours dry process, is the safest way to go.
What's the multi-purpose spray equivalent here in the U.S.? Is it WD-40? CLP gun grease? Aunt Jemima?
i do recommend one thing, instead of the wd-40, give them a phat was in the sink, like scrub proper, using hand or any soap. then heatgun them. What ive found is that it removes junk from underneath the gpu die itself and also helps make sure the gpu is cooked properly because no water can be present.
Can it be fixed? YES man 💪
@tanmaypanadi1414
3 жыл бұрын
Yes he can
you can still use most parts the caps and resistörs at least. mos-fetz ? what about reballing? ?
Thanks your video helped alot
I've got a Gigabyte X58 board that seems to be having an issue with RAM...It has six slots, but will only run the 2 slots on the far left properly, so single-channel RAM only. If I put one stick in each channel, I can see in Windows "12.00GB (4.00GB Usable)." It won't boot at all if I only put RAM in one of the faulty channels. Guessing it's mobo or CPU and all the CPU's I have that I could swap into it are already up for auction so I don't want to mess with them. I did win the board at an auction, and I got it for like half price, so I'm not totally burned if I have to sell it with single-channel RAM, it's just disappointing when I see something like CSGO that would probably be averaging about twice the FPS if I could get those other channels working. P.S. - I have already gone into msconfig and made sure the Advanced boot setting was right, as well as tested all the slots. I cleaned the board thoroughly before ever even booting it. And they are all clicked in properly. So as far as I can see, that's where the help on Google ends.
I would suggest you buy for usa sonic cleaner, and make a video
can a hair blow use for heating it up? i only have that and my graphics card are still showing video the only problem is they are lossing communication with the drv something file that cause the cards with lines
I just bought a 57€ gtx 980ti armor 2x that didn't worked after a occt test, now i wait to recive it and test it :)
If you have a thermal camera you may be able to see 'hotter' or cooler than normal components..
My Gigabyte Vega 56 boots up and works fine when I watch youtube or benchmark it but as soon as I try to run a game or mine crypto it creates weird code/artifacts all over the entire screen and then it freezes and shuts off
First I thank you for all yours videos they are great :). And second I have I question ...I bought "Palit gtx 1080 gamerock edition" and works smoothly until I'm not trying to oc, what can I do to fix? thanks
Hey how many times would you jerk the hdmi port before it comes right?
@dallesamllhals9161
3 жыл бұрын
if you go blind - it was to much :-(
Mine just died recently, i can't afford a new one and i need it for work, help 🥺🥺
Maybe I must start a business that can repair any broken graphics card
BTW you only fail, when you do not try. Slamming tracks my dude. Great video Brian. Love the content Thank you for the daily dose of YES We need this!
@markdoescomputerstuff8354
3 жыл бұрын
I'm into punk rock usually but i was loving the tunes on this vid!
@BeB02090
3 жыл бұрын
@@markdoescomputerstuff8354 Seriously! Brain knows his audio. 🙂
When I upgraded to an X570 / R5 3600 last july one of my crossfired r9 280X's started acting wonky. PC wont boot if it's the primary and if it's the 2nd card either not recognized or shows as PCIE 1.0/2.0. Upon inspection there's a bit of evidence on the back PCB of heat around a single solder joint and the solder is broken/cracked. I always planned on trying to resolder that connection and current GPU situation is forcing me to get that extra 70% scaling I was used to in my older crossfire friendly games, so I'm going to get a small solder iron. It might only take 5 seconds.
Have you ever moved a Dell Optiplex 9020 Small Form Factor motherboard to another case like you did with that Lenovo in one of your recent videos?
DADMAN TO THE RESCUE!!!