As a Japanese I'd say he would be "Naruto Engineer". I find it always awesome that Tony takes a lot of effort, patience and makes it out✨ instead of giving it up as "not fixable". Someone may misunderstand: He's not meaning AMD card is too bad to use. It's just more complicated and paintaking to diagnose an error and fix it, which is why the title says i dont like "fixing" AMD cards.
@@Kosphy There is one kid that licks AMD boots. Then there is the OP... Displaying a strong cognitive bias. Overlooking the repair is need, then overlooking all the missing data points the competition provides. A bias so strong only a direct statement against the manufacture would be considered.... because all the other evidence does not exist.
I respect showing both the soldering failures and even things that may seem silly like forgetting to solder the dongle back in. Incredibly informative and great walk through!
GPU = Initialism (abbreviation) of "graphics processing unit". Plural: Two GPUs (which will be written out: ""graphics processing units") Easy, or?:) For reference see Wiktionary.
Very informative video. While it's more complicated to diagnose, I don't think it matters much for the end user. Also 52°C and 70°C hotspot? Those are pretty good temps right there.
The thing why that controller fail a lot is because it's designed to be used with ir/infineon drmos/sps and not sic649 or sic632 so they can comunicate better. Also in general for me repairing AMD cards are easier than nvidia simply because most nvidia cards i saw are dead cores instead of AMD most of them are just dying transistor or shorted drmos.
It's also the same on nvidia cards btw, MPS controller are designed to be together with MPS SPS/drmos so when they fail their protection can kick in properly
@@accurian148I have seen more MP86990 DrMos (coupled with an MPS2888A) burn a hole through a card (mostly zotac cards) than other brands of Mosfets/controllers, causing several layers to short together and making the repair almost impossible. (Good luck reconfiguring an MPS controller to run with 1 missing phase).
@@gpudoctor doesn't shock me at all tbh, Zotac use cheap components and design their cards with the same philosophy unfortunately. It wouldn't be so bad but they also overclock the cards aggressively making them ticking time bombs, especially for the higher end cards.
Год назад+14
uurgghh these AMD card are the bane of my existence, RX 5000 series upward are a joke to fix, even with the programmer it's still a pain
39:17 Your first flash with the original chip failed as well, but you didn't catch it. I suspect something in the software or hardware of your flashing setup, not the target chips themselves.
A lot of 6000 series cards made during the pandemic, mainly the original 6700/6800/6900 variants, suffered a lot from subpar quality components being used because less people were working In the factories, and there was much less oversight to ensure quality control. I've seen many of these cards fail due to many issues including bad silicon, faulty bios chips, and just subpar quality builds Even with brands like Sapphire, PowerColor, XFX, and ASRock which supply the majority of AMD's GPUs due to these companies being strictly AMD only. I would actually suggest to anyone owning any card from the 6000 series to look for the 6x50 variant of any card because the build quality will be much better.
@@gabrielgabriel9779 if AsRock isn't quality i dont know what is. Especially when it comes to boards they use high quality components where it matters as caps and mosfets while keeping a reasonable price for the customer.
@@gabrielgabriel9779 I got a ASRock Challenger Pro D RX 6600 XT when it came out and it is one of the best ones around. Used it for gaming and mining. VRAM temps never came above 70C and gpu usually stayed around 50/55C fans hardly running. ASRock ever since they entered the gpu market have produced good solid cards. The RX 6600 XT now runs in my sons rig without any issues. Times have changed Asus has gone down and ASRock is now with the premium brands.
Doubling fases is common practice, I'm not a board tech, but I immediatly spotted the fact they called it 5+1 and there's actually 14, mosfets, inductors and caps. However, like you say, the 2 SOC phases arent in the 5+1 equation. The +1 part is the memory VRM, which exists out of 2 mosfets as well. And the remaining 5 VRM phases are doubled and divided over 10 mosfets.
Excellent video thank you for the content, I actually learned a lot from this. You don't see many people crack out the oscilloscope these days. True master repair. What I take mostly from watching your videos is that no way on earth is north bridge repair a guy to send graphics cards to for repair I've yet to see him pull out a schematic and show true knowledge about them. 🤣 Still he has skills though.
When flashing at 39:18 it said “Device 1 User section programming failed” followed by many more errors. Also isn’t it unwise to dump and then reuse a potentially corrupted firmware? Of course I have no idea how easy or difficult it is to get a fresh firmware copy. Especially as a lot of the time the manufacturers seem to prefer making shit way more difficult than it needs to be. I think u mentioned that the controller chip could be bad at the top of the video. Which is why I’m asking about the reuse of the same controller firmware. I really enjoy watching you work as you take care to make it as easy as possible to follow along. Which is appreciated 🙏 Cheers ✌️🖖 *an added comment here after I listened to what you said a few seconds after flashing the firmware. I hadn’t gotten that far as I stopped the video when I thought I saw that it said failed. So I backed up and the commented before you more or less confirmed what I wondered about reusing the firmware 🥴. Anyhoo
sometime clearing and writing same program can solve problem. You dont have a nand memory type in these devices but nor like memory. nor memory dont have conotroler to utilise memory banks so if data banks are corrutped or are unable to be cleared it lead to errors. Thats why clearing and refreshing banks can resolve problem but you are right that it is a common sense to put verified good program inside.
I don't know if it is just reflections but the cap to the left of phase 3 you identified looks to be bulged. It just looks a little different than the other caps, might be it is not sitting fully flat compared to the rest so reflecting the light differently. Maybe it does look a little domed at 34:29 when the light moves across it.
@@Ren-kei It's like "Sacon FZ cap fiasco" of the GeForce 7-series days all over again! (and for ATI at that time, even when AMD bought them already in 2006, I guess Radeon X1000 series? Or very-early Radeon HD series? Such as Radeon HD 2000 series?)
TLDR/TLDW: He's not as experienced troubleshooting the specific AMD controller (he mentions this himself @56:53) and he also mentions he's not a specialist with AMD controllers of this specific type. That's why he doesn't like fixing AMD cards as it can be complicated for him.
According to him, he still thinks that AMD cards (at least from more recent generations) are inherently more difficult to diagnose and repair. It's arguably not a major issue for the consumer, it basically just means that repairs outside of warranty coverage can be more expensive and time consuming. Still, I would like to see AMD make improvements in this area. Electronics should be designed to be reasonably easy to diagnose and repair, whenever possible. From the consumer's perspective, most cards will never have a major failure even if you use them heavily for five years in a row. If the cards are used properly, and if they're decently well made, the first components which are likely to stop working are the fans, and those SHOULD be fairly easy to replace. Some brands make it a lot easier than others, but you can always resort to just zip-tying some case fans to the card's heat-sync, as long as there is enough space in your case, and this can work very well as long as they are powerful enough.
@syncmonism that is his opinion, and it's definitely a valid one, but another person who's worked with more AMD cards can say the same thing with NV cards if they don't work with it as much they do. Each shop and person has specialization, and one can say one is easier based on their experience.
7:55 What I heard was, "This is basically a multiface controller. It controls all of your faces.". And it was so hilarious because from time to time you crack some hilarious jokes like that. Man, the video title was so ominous but I didn't want to spoil the ending. So glad you were able to fix it in the end.
Nice video! It kept me glued to the screen until the end which I didn't realize was 5:45 am now where I am. 😲 Very much worth it as I learned a lot about how much of a pain in the @ss repairing modern AMD GPUs are! 👍👍 Happy 4th everyone! Be safe out there!
With all due respect for your enormous knowledge of the subject, I find your videos great to dream away deep in the night, as I was allowed to do earlier when painting Bob Ros. I thank you very much.
I think you are by far the best at soldering of anyone on the net. Alex says better than factory. Not sure about that, but he is excellent at correcting other sliders mistakes. This morning he looked at a connector and the whoever had placed a large blob of solder on all the connections but since this was a Nintendo Switch he might not charge over the moon charges. Kris Fix in Churmany solders chips back with non leaded. I feel the reason for a lot of failures is no lead, but a lot of his pads have the pad pulled off, thus not the solder but board failure due to flexing.
This is the issue with some manufacturers. Even with the equipment I work on, sometimes the schematics are ruined or not present and you cant find any online. Now you just gotta be a technician and troubleshoot, if this shit were easy all the time anybody could do this kind of work. Either small or large, sometimes youre gonna have to dig and get a result either way.
@@AshnSilvercorp I agree with you, a lot bigger systems and chillers Ive worked on utilize some form of DDCs. For some boards you wouldn't really know everything you're looking at unless you have past experience to guide you, even then you don't have specifics. Thankfully (in my case) with refrigeration equipment manufacturers & controls, people will usually patch us through to their engineers to talk specifics. For these companies, I doubt there's actual 3rd party "tech support" in most cases.. Id bother em anyway.
@northwestrepair it happened to me in several faulty dr mos, but these were graphic cards with shorted 12v aux rail. Maybe in cards that crash and good IOR chip is not the same. Try it.
So the GFX phases are arranged like this: 10 (=10) 5 (+5=10) 9 + 1 (=10) 4 + 6 (=10) 3 + 7 (=10) 8 + 2 (=10) with the bottom 4 rows doing a clockwise sweep like a lower-case omega starting in the top-right: ω EDIT: And then I reached 32:00 in the video and understood the problem.
I have similar problem with my PowerColor R9 285. The difference is my green screen crash comes intermittently. I think I'm going to check if my card use this chip and check the solder joint. Thank you for this informational and educational video.
The chip programming also gave the same error messages on the original chip, so it didn't actually get programmed I assume. I wonder if it was actually faulty or just corrupted firmware all along... I'm also kinda nervous about the integrity of the settings readout if there was a flaky I2C connection to the chip. Or does it do some kind of error checks on the communication?
The 4 channel version of you scope (SDS 1204X-E) has a WebServer that shows a web interface of the scope. It would be simpler than having a camera to capture the waveform.
Next time try to solder a jumperwire (maybe they connects to a few resistors) to the controller pwm pins and monitor them at crash. The falty one will make a bad pulse, others will cut out at the same time. But sometimes the internal timer is bad and you can't check it. But yeah time consuming and not quite worth it.
As usual very educative vid. Would you please consider to make one specific video about testing AMD's memory. I think there is many confused tecs on this subject myself included. What software best use? What are the speciffic settings? Where to look for it? Nvidia with MODS/MATS is simple but AMD is a trully headache.
Very interesting to watch. I started watching your videos and I kinda want to try and fix some graphic cards myself and see where it takes me. Thank you very much for your videos. At the end you said that it the controllers are expensive. I was wondering how much?
Just curious about whether or not you ddu your graphics drivers off your computer so you dont keep loading driver ontop of drivers . That will corrupt the drivers your using for the particular card making it lock up or black screen or just reboots your computer? Thank you for your show. You do great work!
This, to my experience seems like something made up by people with broken or failing graphics cards or hardware in general. Most of the time the hardware is the issue, not the software (drivers).
Again, lack of proper schematics with board view doesn't prevent repairs but makes it a lot harder. Every manufacturer that wants to keep schematics and board views secret is simply actively hostile against Right to Repair. Both schematics and board views can be easily (that is low skill but very time consuming) reverse engineered.
Fantastic video 🎉, I lways thought that PWM chip running 5+1 meaning 10 gpu cores and 2 SOC , “system on chip “or misc “Miscellaneous” as NVIDIA likes to call and 2 memory running by a separate chip , and the phase consistent of 2 drmos always on top of each others as a pair and when one fail 2nd one almost always fail , I don’t know iam only a doctor loving tech videos , thanks for explaining ❤
I was having black screen on my computer while I was using it regurarly or playing games. It was not happening so often. Sometimes it ran 6 hours without any issue but in the mornings it didn't turn on. When I brought it to one of the pc repair shop in my city, my PC was giving bluscreenen during the furmark test this time. We swapped my Graphic card to another PC, and it was fine. Then used new rams, new power supply with different graphic cards on my own pc again it gave the same error. We ended up the problem occurred because of windows 11. Same components were not giving an error during furmark test on win 10 but right after the test it was giving it on win 11. It was such a dumb mf annoying problem.
Very educational! Good job! But what if you disable the phase from controller (the one that was faulty) and the check with the oscilloscope to see which one is it?! Then swap dr-moses, then replace controller. Wouldn’t be easier?
So tldr if the controller is complaining, just axe it out of the board and get a new one, better go for that than deal with the headache you had diagnosing the phases
7:07 Expensive? Well its then most likely just because its branded. The same USB to I2C, as it is written on it, can be bought for a buck or two on Amazon fex.
i got an rx 6600 non-xt. gotta say this: do NOT install the newer drivers than the ones that came with the card, GREEN SCREEN OF DEATH will kill your braincells.
Hello🤝 it was good, you have a lot of knowledge about graphics cards, especially AMD. I have Rx580 Armor 8GB OC and I don't know what it's about. I tested the memory with your Tserver and it's ok, but the problem is that it crashes during games, but furmark and heven run normally. In your opinion, can I try a new bios?
Is there a way that you can configure the phase controller to lock the phases and not move them around? I think they would have a diagnostic mode that locks them in?
As a Japanese I'd say he would be "Naruto Engineer". I find it always awesome that Tony takes a lot of effort, patience and makes it out✨ instead of giving it up as "not fixable".
Someone may misunderstand: He's not meaning AMD card is too bad to use. It's just more complicated and paintaking to diagnose an error and fix it, which is why the title says i dont like "fixing" AMD cards.
AMD sucks.
@@Look_What_You_Didno.
@@Look_What_You_Did Brand loyalty is the highest form of ignorance
@@Kosphy There is one kid that licks AMD boots. Then there is the OP... Displaying a strong cognitive bias. Overlooking the repair is need, then overlooking all the missing data points the competition provides. A bias so strong only a direct statement against the manufacture would be considered.... because all the other evidence does not exist.
@@Kosphy i mean it def is since there are plenty of reasons that amd does not suck
I respect showing both the soldering failures and even things that may seem silly like forgetting to solder the dongle back in. Incredibly informative and great walk through!
DRIVECLUB never dies 😎
I'm not fixing gpu-s or electronics but I find it interesting and entertaining. Thank you for sharing your skills and good luck!
GPU = Initialism (abbreviation) of "graphics processing unit".
Plural: Two GPUs (which will be written out: ""graphics processing units")
Easy, or?:) For reference see Wiktionary.
You know how complicate this job is. Now image who are those people who invented this and made it possible.
Very informative video. While it's more complicated to diagnose, I don't think it matters much for the end user. Also 52°C and 70°C hotspot? Those are pretty good temps right there.
The thing why that controller fail a lot is because it's designed to be used with ir/infineon drmos/sps and not sic649 or sic632 so they can comunicate better. Also in general for me repairing AMD cards are easier than nvidia simply because most nvidia cards i saw are dead cores instead of AMD most of them are just dying transistor or shorted drmos.
It's also the same on nvidia cards btw, MPS controller are designed to be together with MPS SPS/drmos so when they fail their protection can kick in properly
This is really interesting information. You should make a video discussing this topic.
thats why nvidia cards last longer and not die until they have a heart attack
@@accurian148I have seen more MP86990 DrMos (coupled with an MPS2888A) burn a hole through a card (mostly zotac cards) than other brands of Mosfets/controllers, causing several layers to short together and making the repair almost impossible. (Good luck reconfiguring an MPS controller to run with 1 missing phase).
@@gpudoctor doesn't shock me at all tbh, Zotac use cheap components and design their cards with the same philosophy unfortunately. It wouldn't be so bad but they also overclock the cards aggressively making them ticking time bombs, especially for the higher end cards.
uurgghh these AMD card are the bane of my existence, RX 5000 series upward are a joke to fix, even with the programmer it's still a pain
Wow that was a nightmare... But you figured it out! You videos are very educational and entertaining, thank you!
There is a little devil inside those phase doublers wich sifhts the phases around every time when the repair man is trying to find the right one :)
39:17 Your first flash with the original chip failed as well, but you didn't catch it. I suspect something in the software or hardware of your flashing setup, not the target chips themselves.
A lot of 6000 series cards made during the pandemic, mainly the original 6700/6800/6900 variants, suffered a lot from subpar quality components being used because less people were working In the factories, and there was much less oversight to ensure quality control. I've seen many of these cards fail due to many issues including bad silicon, faulty bios chips, and just subpar quality builds Even with brands like Sapphire, PowerColor, XFX, and ASRock which supply the majority of AMD's GPUs due to these companies being strictly AMD only. I would actually suggest to anyone owning any card from the 6000 series to look for the 6x50 variant of any card because the build quality will be much better.
PowerColor and AsRock aren't much quality. They aren't bad but they aren't quality either
@@gabrielgabriel9779 PowerColor is actually one of the two top brands, especially the Red Devil series is on par with Sapphire's Toxic/Nitro+.
@@gabrielgabriel9779 asrock is the best of the companies for quality, I use asrock boards and gpus exclusively better performance and longevity.
@@gabrielgabriel9779 if AsRock isn't quality i dont know what is. Especially when it comes to boards they use high quality components where it matters as caps and mosfets while keeping a reasonable price for the customer.
@@gabrielgabriel9779 I got a ASRock Challenger Pro D RX 6600 XT when it came out and it is one of the best ones around. Used it for gaming and mining. VRAM temps never came above 70C and gpu usually stayed around 50/55C fans hardly running.
ASRock ever since they entered the gpu market have produced good solid cards.
The RX 6600 XT now runs in my sons rig without any issues. Times have changed Asus has gone down and ASRock is now with the premium brands.
Doubling fases is common practice, I'm not a board tech, but I immediatly spotted the fact they called it 5+1 and there's actually 14, mosfets, inductors and caps. However, like you say, the 2 SOC phases arent in the 5+1 equation. The +1 part is the memory VRM, which exists out of 2 mosfets as well. And the remaining 5 VRM phases are doubled and divided over 10 mosfets.
I don't think so, the plus meaning independent voltage regulator is loop 2 that is soc not mvdd that controller by other pwm maybe ncp81172n
I have a RX6700XT at least I know now where to send it ;-) Great video like that you have the time and patients to go over every thing
Excellent video thank you for the content, I actually learned a lot from this. You don't see many people crack out the oscilloscope these days. True master repair.
What I take mostly from watching your videos is that no way on earth is north bridge repair a guy to send graphics cards to for repair I've yet to see him pull out a schematic and show true knowledge about them. 🤣
Still he has skills though.
When flashing at 39:18 it said “Device 1 User section programming failed” followed by many more errors.
Also isn’t it unwise to dump and then reuse a potentially corrupted firmware? Of course I have no idea how easy or difficult it is to get a fresh firmware copy. Especially as a lot of the time the manufacturers seem to prefer making shit way more difficult than it needs to be.
I think u mentioned that the controller chip could be bad at the top of the video. Which is why I’m asking about the reuse of the same controller firmware.
I really enjoy watching you work as you take care to make it as easy as possible to follow along. Which is appreciated 🙏
Cheers ✌️🖖
*an added comment here after I listened to what you said a few seconds after flashing the firmware. I hadn’t gotten that far as I stopped the video when I thought I saw that it said failed. So I backed up and the commented before you more or less confirmed what I wondered about reusing the firmware 🥴. Anyhoo
sometime clearing and writing same program can solve problem. You dont have a nand memory type in these devices but nor like memory. nor memory dont have conotroler to utilise memory banks so if data banks are corrutped or are unable to be cleared it lead to errors. Thats why clearing and refreshing banks can resolve problem but you are right that it is a common sense to put verified good program inside.
I don't know if it is just reflections but the cap to the left of phase 3 you identified looks to be bulged.
It just looks a little different than the other caps, might be it is not sitting fully flat compared to the rest so reflecting the light differently.
Maybe it does look a little domed at 34:29 when the light moves across it.
I noticed the same watching the video and was wondering whether I'm wrong on that... 😊
you're right, it's bulged
@@Ren-kei It's like "Sacon FZ cap fiasco" of the GeForce 7-series days all over again! (and for ATI at that time, even when AMD bought them already in 2006, I guess Radeon X1000 series? Or very-early Radeon HD series? Such as Radeon HD 2000 series?)
1. Your knowledge is fantastic. 2. You are also fantastic educator! now i understand why amd cards are......to fix! Regards
your vids are so calming, yet educating and somehow entertaining.
Watching you fixing AMD cards is far more entertaining and educating than the nVidia ones.
Can't believe I can watch a 57 mins video of a fantastic repair job on a GPU.
TLDR/TLDW: He's not as experienced troubleshooting the specific AMD controller (he mentions this himself @56:53) and he also mentions he's not a specialist with AMD controllers of this specific type. That's why he doesn't like fixing AMD cards as it can be complicated for him.
According to him, he still thinks that AMD cards (at least from more recent generations) are inherently more difficult to diagnose and repair. It's arguably not a major issue for the consumer, it basically just means that repairs outside of warranty coverage can be more expensive and time consuming. Still, I would like to see AMD make improvements in this area. Electronics should be designed to be reasonably easy to diagnose and repair, whenever possible.
From the consumer's perspective, most cards will never have a major failure even if you use them heavily for five years in a row. If the cards are used properly, and if they're decently well made, the first components which are likely to stop working are the fans, and those SHOULD be fairly easy to replace. Some brands make it a lot easier than others, but you can always resort to just zip-tying some case fans to the card's heat-sync, as long as there is enough space in your case, and this can work very well as long as they are powerful enough.
@syncmonism that is his opinion, and it's definitely a valid one, but another person who's worked with more AMD cards can say the same thing with NV cards if they don't work with it as much they do. Each shop and person has specialization, and one can say one is easier based on their experience.
7:55
What I heard was, "This is basically a multiface controller. It controls all of your faces.". And it was so hilarious because from time to time you crack some hilarious jokes like that.
Man, the video title was so ominous but I didn't want to spoil the ending. So glad you were able to fix it in the end.
😂
damn, that was tuf. Thanks a lot for sharing this work. Have some rest man i was getting tired just by watching you working on it, so what about you.
Nice video! It kept me glued to the screen until the end which I didn't realize was 5:45 am now where I am. 😲
Very much worth it as I learned a lot about how much of a pain in the @ss repairing modern AMD GPUs are! 👍👍
Happy 4th everyone! Be safe out there!
bro just use datasheet of IR35217 to find phase 3
you lose hour for thing can do in 2 min
Really great video, thank you. I especially like that you share all the issues and traps that most people would surely also encounter, great work!
With all due respect for your enormous knowledge of the subject, I find your videos great to dream away deep in the night, as I was allowed to do earlier when painting Bob Ros. I thank you very much.
With CS degree and a bit of electronics knowledge it was really entertaining to follow! Thanks for the amazing content! You are a humble Jedi!
I think you are by far the best at soldering of anyone on the net. Alex says better than factory. Not sure about that, but he is excellent at correcting other sliders mistakes. This morning he looked at a connector and the whoever had placed a large blob of solder on all the connections but since this was a Nintendo Switch he might not charge over the moon charges. Kris Fix in Churmany solders chips back with non leaded. I feel the reason for a lot of failures is no lead, but a lot of his pads have the pad pulled off, thus not the solder but board failure due to flexing.
Dang it's sad to know that stuff like this could potentially be cut in half the time just by having a board view...
Schematics or die.
This is the issue with some manufacturers. Even with the equipment I work on, sometimes the schematics are ruined or not present and you cant find any online. Now you just gotta be a technician and troubleshoot, if this shit were easy all the time anybody could do this kind of work. Either small or large, sometimes youre gonna have to dig and get a result either way.
@@Syphonfllter that would be so, but that works if you're experimenting. If it was a job, it's gotta be schematics and board view or die.
@@AshnSilvercorp I agree with you, a lot bigger systems and chillers Ive worked on utilize some form of DDCs. For some boards you wouldn't really know everything you're looking at unless you have past experience to guide you, even then you don't have specifics. Thankfully (in my case) with refrigeration equipment manufacturers & controls, people will usually patch us through to their engineers to talk specifics. For these companies, I doubt there's actual 3rd party "tech support" in most cases.. Id bother em anyway.
Awesome, you did great job, fixing this GPU.
Thanks!
amazing repair, I think you can diagnose faulty dr mos by measuring the V in pin and check if it has lower resistance than the others
Interesting.
You're saying it's internal resistance on vin will lower it it's faulty ?
@northwestrepair it happened to me in several faulty dr mos, but these were graphic cards with shorted 12v aux rail. Maybe in cards that crash and good IOR chip is not the same. Try it.
So the GFX phases are arranged like this:
10 (=10)
5 (+5=10)
9 + 1 (=10)
4 + 6 (=10)
3 + 7 (=10)
8 + 2 (=10)
with the bottom 4 rows doing a clockwise sweep like a lower-case omega starting in the top-right: ω
EDIT: And then I reached 32:00 in the video and understood the problem.
What a cluster F. Not you the AMD. So the controller itself. My goodness mon, you are persistent. Good job.
I have the same issue with my rx 460 too bad I throw it to the bin. I learned a lot of your videos thanks!
The fact that this video gradually built into this intense and fire environment got me, I'm high on weed and this shit is lit 🔥
Great video, lots of valuable knowledge. Thank You!
U are very talented and good at what u do, keep up the good work Tony !
From Vietnam with big love..
I'm very glad that you want to fix and on your channel.Thanks so much
watching this now because my RX6700XT is giving the same symptoms. i'm fucked.
I have had a RTX 3080 since November 2020 and it's still running strong.
I have similar problem with my PowerColor R9 285. The difference is my green screen crash comes intermittently. I think I'm going to check if my card use this chip and check the solder joint. Thank you for this informational and educational video.
After reading the title: "ok, let's see why NWR, should be a fun..."
Looks at video runtime: "50+ minutes?! Oh boy, so that's why"
The chip programming also gave the same error messages on the original chip, so it didn't actually get programmed I assume. I wonder if it was actually faulty or just corrupted firmware all along... I'm also kinda nervous about the integrity of the settings readout if there was a flaky I2C connection to the chip. Or does it do some kind of error checks on the communication?
😎Thanks for your hard work Tony you're the best!🤓
My pleasure!
The 4 channel version of you scope (SDS 1204X-E) has a WebServer that shows a web interface of the scope. It would be simpler than having a camera to capture the waveform.
let's hack the scope
Next time try to solder a jumperwire (maybe they connects to a few resistors) to the controller pwm pins and monitor them at crash. The falty one will make a bad pulse, others will cut out at the same time. But sometimes the internal timer is bad and you can't check it. But yeah time consuming and not quite worth it.
3d printer going crazy in the background lol
Amazing work.
Thanks a lot!
This is hella of a cooler, one of the best with the STRIX.
As usual very educative vid. Would you please consider to make one specific video about testing AMD's memory. I think there is many confused tecs on this subject myself included. What software best use? What are the speciffic settings? Where to look for it? Nvidia with MODS/MATS is simple but AMD is a trully headache.
As an Amd fan well like them both team red and green awesome vid keep up the great work !
Very interesting to watch. I started watching your videos and I kinda want to try and fix some graphic cards myself and see where it takes me. Thank you very much for your videos. At the end you said that it the controllers are expensive. I was wondering how much?
Good luck!
Thank you so much for this long videos! I love it ❤ learning so much about graphics cards 😊👍
Just curious about whether or not you ddu your graphics drivers off your computer so you dont keep loading driver ontop of drivers . That will corrupt the drivers your using for the particular card making it lock up or black screen or just reboots your computer? Thank you for your show. You do great work!
This, to my experience seems like something made up by people with broken or failing graphics cards or hardware in general. Most of the time the hardware is the issue, not the software (drivers).
"AMD, quality so good even your technician will have to look it up to see what kinda card it is"... Several times...
It was the board fail not amd I'm afraid
I feel your frustration. But extremely interesting repair. Thank you!
23:00 was the left hand side, second from top. then a later it was the first from top. I said to my self, now I gotta watch all of it.
Quite a journey, such a patience marathon.
So funny when he said gonna conclude this repair and let the owner know then it crashed 😂😂
it is much easier to mark on the light capacitors than on the dark and thermal pad residue chips.
Again, lack of proper schematics with board view doesn't prevent repairs but makes it a lot harder. Every manufacturer that wants to keep schematics and board views secret is simply actively hostile against Right to Repair. Both schematics and board views can be easily (that is low skill but very time consuming) reverse engineered.
these 1h videos are nice
Fantastic video 🎉, I lways thought that PWM chip running 5+1 meaning 10 gpu cores and 2 SOC , “system on chip “or misc “Miscellaneous” as NVIDIA likes to call and 2 memory running by a separate chip , and the phase consistent of 2 drmos always on top of each others as a pair and when one fail 2nd one almost always fail , I don’t know iam only a doctor loving tech videos , thanks for explaining ❤
you sir, are a freaking genius. Apply for a job at NASA ASAP ;-)
Lol
23:24 No it was right, however when you looked the next time it had changed to the one on the top instead. xD
I was having black screen on my computer while I was using it regurarly or playing games. It was not happening so often. Sometimes it ran 6 hours without any issue but in the mornings it didn't turn on. When I brought it to one of the pc repair shop in my city, my PC was giving bluscreenen during the furmark test this time. We swapped my Graphic card to another PC, and it was fine. Then used new rams, new power supply with different graphic cards on my own pc again it gave the same error. We ended up the problem occurred because of windows 11. Same components were not giving an error during furmark test on win 10 but right after the test it was giving it on win 11. It was such a dumb mf annoying problem.
Extremly awesome video
Thank you very much!
Love them qfn/dfn packages :)
Hello🤝 I greatly appreciate your patience and knowledge WOW👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏. P.S. What is this program for checking memory chips? Regards👋👋👋👋👋👋
"The furry donut" has to be a euphemism.
Keep up the good work!👍
maybe you can share what tools and equipment you using for such tremendous fixing skills
Very educational! Good job! But what if you disable the phase from controller (the one that was faulty) and the check with the oscilloscope to see which one is it?! Then swap dr-moses, then replace controller. Wouldn’t be easier?
or you can desolder the coil and try again the card, it can run without 1 phase
anyone else annoyed he spelt colour/color wrong? also the windows 10 diagnose feature is actually really useful!
He is a very great knowledge...
I don't even work with electronics I am an Aviation powerplant technian with an engineering degree But I find your videos very entertaining
isn't that just the mechanic ?
happen to know if there's there a version of MODS that supports 8xxx/9xxx series cards? (think 2006/7/8)
3:29
I used to think it's an irish of an eye.
But since i cannot un-hear things, it's a "hairy donut" now.
Oh well
what a fancy looking card!
So tldr if the controller is complaining, just axe it out of the board and get a new one, better go for that than deal with the headache you had diagnosing the phases
Love this channel❤❤
Astounding work
7:07 Expensive? Well its then most likely just because its branded. The same USB to I2C, as it is written on it, can be bought for a buck or two on Amazon fex.
educational thanks for sharing
Is using doublers a cost saving measure? What would be better off?
It would be better to have second controller.
STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM! YOU SHOULD HAVE PAID THE FINE HRYRUYYU YRA
Who Else started thinking they had a Loose USB somewhere when it was detected lol
How much was the controller? And how much do you charge for simular AMD card repair?
impressive repair.. i also hate AMD card... really complex
Respect 👍
i got an rx 6600 non-xt. gotta say this: do NOT install the newer drivers than the ones that came with the card, GREEN SCREEN OF DEATH will kill your braincells.
I didn't get any drivers with mine, have the same card. Installed the latest ones and it works fine so idk, you sure it's drivers ?
Hello🤝 it was good, you have a lot of knowledge about graphics cards, especially AMD. I have Rx580 Armor 8GB OC and I don't know what it's about. I tested the memory with your Tserver and it's ok, but the problem is that it crashes during games, but furmark and heven run normally. In your opinion, can I try a new bios?
Actually, you didn't flash the firmware before swapping the controller. It shows the same programming failures, but you didn't see them 😅
I can feel the pain, I would have thrown the card against the wall haha
Very interesting watch. I have the exact same card.
Dear AMD owners,
Stop changing the paste and the pads unless it is absolutely necessary. You keep bricking your cards.
Sincerely,
Common Sense
Is there a way that you can configure the phase controller to lock the phases and not move them around? I think they would have a diagnostic mode that locks them in?
I think i am hearing a 3d printer working in the background in 43:29.
The first firmware flash failed also... you missed the errors.
I'm just curious... he just replaced the paste and pads ,and .. how the hell he screwed the vrm controller? Static can corrupt firmware chip?