Great video Alex! My older brother used to say ,experience is the best teacher! This is a prime example, you used your experience working on these boards, not wasting time and moving on another job. This how you make money and keep the work rolling in ! You should write a book but when would you have time? I believe every video you do ,a page of that book is written !
Love you man.I don’t miss your video, it’s very addictive to me. Electronics is my hobby since childhood. All the best wishes for you, from Bangladesh.
they either never opened up the laptop or they see the 'damage' (corrosion) and think that its not fixable or takes too much effort to fix. i say bad judgement on their part if this is the case. could also be they simply dont posses the skill level to fix it.. even though its labeled a repair shop. in that case, its great judgement to say no and lie to costumer. although if they lie to keep their shop rating high its bad imo, just tell the costumer that they cant fix it or whatever and sent the costumer to a shop or person who can fix it. That means they have connections to even better skilled repair shop(s).
Hey, just wanted to say, he didn't fail he did the right thing. If you see liquid damage, and you're not a board repair person. Don't even bother removing the traces, if you're not able to fix it properly let the traces be so a more qualified person takes care of it, the issue with corrosion is that it can go under the chip. If you remove the traces that will just make the thing hard for the board repair person. It's already complicated enough without the schematics , don't remove the only clue to where the damage may be.
A lot of repair shops don't bother dealing with liquid damaged units, even if you replaced this mainboard with a new one the laptop might still be wonky. At least where I live, repair shops have to guarantee the function of the unit for 90 days after a repair, which creates problems when dealing with units damaged by liquid.
@@pubbiehive 6 months in France for the warranty. Also, a shop that only changes the board is not a repair shop but a servicing shop. What i meant when i said that is that the work on a customer appliance shouldn't be done at the detriment of the ability of said customer to have it serviced and repaired elsewhere. Cleaning the board means you lower the chances that the customer has it's appliance repaired.If you're not able to repair it properly then don't even try or at last if you do take photos of where you clean and give it to the customer so the next shop has the same starting point. Some "repair" shops butcher the board and leave the client whiteout options when they fail... In our case for liquid damage we repair the board with the corrosion on it,remplace everything that has been touched and ultrasonic and bake it after so no humidity is left... And it works quite well. Of course, we don't repair what's too heavily damaged unless it's for data.
I saved two motherboards last week just by cleaning them. A third wasn't so lucky... milk in the socket, killed the board and the CPU. At least I was able to bring the GPU back.
The brown stuff is poop, even caps have to go you know. As for the repair, I would use a heatgun/hot air station on that part of the board to reflow and get rid of any corrosion under the components.
Oh my goodness, I am having this exact problem right now. I sent it into ASUS's RMA system, and literally ALL they did was tell me I was out of luck, Claiming it was a customer induced damage. Now I'm sitting here with a $1000 paperweight. A paperweight that I can't afford to get repaired or replaced.
well, maybe the other shop saw the corrosion and didn't want to mess with it. Leaving it as is makes work for next guy easier. I'd prefer that than ultrasonically cleaned board with no memo, that it went swimming in a pond
Exactly what I thought. If they are honest and say not something we can fix as chips may damaged etc, then leave it so next shop can see the areas easily
If the other shop charged the customer for a "repair attempt" for doing "nothing" I would have a issue with your comment, however, Alex didn't give any details in that regard, so I'll hold my tongue until part 2.
When dealing with liquid damage items I over-quote because I honestly don't want to deal with them unless data recovery is involved. The people in my area are super cheap and they think liquid damage is repairable, so I don't want to bother with them. The shop did right they probably didn't want to bother with it.
That's one of the customer's worry about repair places that charge diagnostic fee, bench fee, or repair attempt fee. Some repair store, they don't bother diagnosing or even trying to work on the customer's computer and still charging diagnostic / repair attempt fee. We always send photos to the customer of their device that we work on and tell them why we can't fix their device. To show the customer that we really worked or tried to fix their device but no luck. That's why we are confident to charge diagnostic / repair attempt fee.
What completely blows my mind is that you can't get schematics and replacement parts easily .. still. The OEM doesn't want to repair these things half the time because of liquid damage so I don't understand it. It makes no sense.
It's better like that , if the other shop did try to repair then possibly the laptop will be dead . I receive a lot of devices that come from other repair shops they kill the device and send it to you we don't do miracles we repair something repairable .
Great Job, so many repairs these days they don't even check, looking for the final video!...those pins on the left and top side of that chip did not look good.
corrosion on metal contacts i remove with a acid like vinegar, is it an option here too? put some vinegar on the cotton swab, let it dissolve and clean with alcohol after?
Interesting thought. I clean boards damaged by leaking batteries with lemon juice, then rinse with alcohol, cross my fingers and examine the carnage. I might try the vinegar on a junk board.
@@hightttech lemon works as well I think, I use vinegar or concentrated vinegar, for all kind of batterie damage. And I found out it will work as rust disolver too. Put the old screws in while the repair job.
I take you removed the address from the end of the video because your business is receiving more boards than you can work with daily, but please put the music back, that kinda became a signature of your channel.
TBF. Sometimes it's better to receive an untouched device. Personally I don't like much to work on boards with missing components or replaced with something that the previous guy thought might work. Or burnt, etc.
That other shop basiclly stole a no fix payment from their customer. 👉👉TIP: As customers getting a very fast return no fix or quick no fix turn arounds from another shop. Always ask QUESTIONS and have them show you why (👉IF👈) in person. 😒😒Don't get ripped off by taking there word.
Well, if I was to try to fix it, I might try to clean up green junk and see if that helps. If not, I would have returned a no fix board and you would receive a board without any clues, what happened to it. Just that damaged capacitor might be your only clue.
What would happen, if I sprayed the motherboard with a thin layer of clear paint? Would it be water resistant?? Why did these boards even leave the factory without any liquid protection??
@@st_us true but did you watch this channel, literally every laptop he fixes is an Asus. He can forget about Asus sponsorship 😅 But then again, we are talking about a company that soldered capacitors 180° flipped in their recent motherboards. Guess how that went
Tf do u think? U think everyone use Razer?Acer?Dell? Most of the users use Asus laptops including the game. Like mine, our repairer in my country fix an acer laptop n almost everyday.
He didn't put on too much liquid metal. It still leaked to the motherboard. I applied liquid metal to the CPU and GPU more than this friend. Additionally, I applied sponge around the CPU and GPU. That's why liquid metal doesn't flow to my motherboard.
One of my memorable jobs I ever had was where I was required to attempt repairing electronics, yet also did IT & electrical work as part of it. Only 2 of those skills I ever got a college degree for. Anything out of my league I'd always ID the fault and know the economics to the customer of repairing such a device. My electrical theory always keeps bringing me back to electronics!
Omg the same thing has happened , someone poured coffee on mg laptop and it damaged motherboard that’s what the people said about my asus laptop and the price would be same as buying a new laptop pls tell me how should I fix it im a student pls 🥲🥲
I opened my laptops back cover for cleaning.after that i tried to turn on its not working..and i plugged in its not charging too... What did i do wrong please help me fix it hurry...i work on laptop..i can't afford to buy another ...My lap is Asus tuf a15
99% of all the repairs I see are human error, liquid damage is human error, corrosion resulting is ignorance of the primary issue which was liquid damage, it is up to the customer to relay all the information possible but most of the time you get indifference.
@@akshaygaming1869 You can think what you want, I watches lots of video's from Alex and I really like what he's doing. Sometimes I comment mostly I just view them.
maybe the technician does not want to waste his time trying to fix it because the customer does not want to pay for the diagnosis, sometimes the diagnosis takes a lot of time.
Not every shop charged "no repair" fee. The probability of the successful repair of damage due to liquid is very low, so perhaps the other shop made them a favor and saved customer a no fix fee.
If they charged the customer and did nothing yeah that's totally unethical but not surprising. I can understand not wanting to take the job but to steal money from someone is shady.
liquid damage will just be a time bomb waiting to happen if this was in my shop i dont even bother i just take pictures and reasemble as is and gudluck on other shop, because this will turn to be a rabbit hole taking into consideration if its badly corroded like that one on the video specially on the ic and traces like its been corroded for very long time ill avvoid it, sometimes cleaning will worsen the problem and the customer will get mad you made it worst and all of that karren and kevin stuff😵, and also if its a laptop keyboard problem will arise in a matter of time, and will snowball to headache and more headaches😇,
I am only 43 seconds in and This is a piss off. I have run in to this a few times. I mean it is one thing if another shop was unable to fix something, I mean as much as I would love to have 100% track record - it is not realistic. But to not even attempt a dissassembly / diagnosis / cleaning is just scandalous. If there is one thing that bugs me more than manufacturers making "unrepairable" devices. It is repair shops that are over their head or just 100% money driven. Just like mechanics, it gives the industry a bad look.
you are the best board repair tech ive ever seen without even using schematics
Looking forward to part II. Thanks for the video Alex. Have a peaceful weekend.
Great video Alex! My older brother used to say ,experience is the best teacher! This is a prime example, you used your experience working on these boards, not wasting time and moving on another job. This how you make money and keep the work rolling in ! You should write a book but when would you have time? I believe every video you do ,a page of that book is written !
just shows how lazy some computer shops have become... profit before people..
Love you man.I don’t miss your video, it’s very addictive to me. Electronics is my hobby since childhood. All the best wishes for you, from Bangladesh.
Am not a technician myself but i managed to repair liquid damage 3ds by just cleaning the board.
Useful to see hear your thought process on this Alex. So frustrating that ‘repair shops’ should lie to customers. Good on ya
they either never opened up the laptop or they see the 'damage' (corrosion) and think that its not fixable or takes too much effort to fix. i say bad judgement on their part if this is the case. could also be they simply dont posses the skill level to fix it.. even though its labeled a repair shop. in that case, its great judgement to say no and lie to costumer.
although if they lie to keep their shop rating high its bad imo, just tell the costumer that they cant fix it or whatever and sent the costumer to a shop or person who can fix it.
That means they have connections to even better skilled repair shop(s).
My suspicion is that they saw the corrosion and immediately deemed to be "no fix".
@@hightttech I hope they tell the customer that they don't fix liquid damage and they don't charge diagnostic / repair attempt fee.
"Why are you going so fast, we are only looking for liquid damage" proceeds to miss liquid damage at 4:21 in the video lmao Alex your great 👍
Hey, just wanted to say, he didn't fail he did the right thing.
If you see liquid damage, and you're not a board repair person. Don't even bother removing the traces, if you're not able to fix it properly let the traces be so a more qualified person takes care of it, the issue with corrosion is that it can go under the chip.
If you remove the traces that will just make the thing hard for the board repair person.
It's already complicated enough without the schematics , don't remove the only clue to where the damage may be.
A lot of repair shops don't bother dealing with liquid damaged units, even if you replaced this mainboard with a new one the laptop might still be wonky. At least where I live, repair shops have to guarantee the function of the unit for 90 days after a repair, which creates problems when dealing with units damaged by liquid.
@@pubbiehive 6 months in France for the warranty.
Also, a shop that only changes the board is not a repair shop but a servicing shop.
What i meant when i said that is that the work on a customer appliance shouldn't be done at the detriment of the ability of said customer to have it serviced and repaired elsewhere.
Cleaning the board means you lower the chances that the customer has it's appliance repaired.If you're not able to repair it properly then don't even try or at last if you do take photos of where you clean and give it to the customer so the next shop has the same starting point.
Some "repair" shops butcher the board and leave the client whiteout options when they fail...
In our case for liquid damage we repair the board with the corrosion on it,remplace everything that has been touched and ultrasonic and bake it after so no humidity is left... And it works quite well.
Of course, we don't repair what's too heavily damaged unless it's for data.
I saved two motherboards last week just by cleaning them. A third wasn't so lucky... milk in the socket, killed the board and the CPU. At least I was able to bring the GPU back.
The brown stuff is poop, even caps have to go you know.
As for the repair, I would use a heatgun/hot air station on that part of the board to reflow and get rid of any corrosion under the components.
After cleaning the corrosion, it`s back again after few months ? ore with a good cleanning the problem gone. Thanks, and as usual very nice video
Oh my goodness, I am having this exact problem right now. I sent it into ASUS's RMA system, and literally ALL they did was tell me I was out of luck, Claiming it was a customer induced damage. Now I'm sitting here with a $1000 paperweight. A paperweight that I can't afford to get repaired or replaced.
What are your thoughts on cleaning boards with tap water+soap or lacquer thinners?
Good job brorher please what you use for clean water damage
Not even inject power to confirm if it was the chip?
well, maybe the other shop saw the corrosion and didn't want to mess with it. Leaving it as is makes work for next guy easier. I'd prefer that than ultrasonically cleaned board with no memo, that it went swimming in a pond
Exactly what I thought. If they are honest and say not something we can fix as chips may damaged etc, then leave it so next shop can see the areas easily
Agreed.
hm, well leaving corrosion also means it slowly makes it worse over time.. but i hear your point.. leave a note with info and clean is best IMO
If the other shop charged the customer for a "repair attempt" for doing "nothing" I would have a issue with your comment, however, Alex didn't give any details in that regard, so I'll hold my tongue until part 2.
When dealing with liquid damage items I over-quote because I honestly don't want to deal with them unless data recovery is involved. The people in my area are super cheap and they think liquid damage is repairable, so I don't want to bother with them. The shop did right they probably didn't want to bother with it.
Just say no instead of misleading the customer.
That's one of the customer's worry about repair places that charge diagnostic fee, bench fee, or repair attempt fee. Some repair store, they don't bother diagnosing or even trying to work on the customer's computer and still charging diagnostic / repair attempt fee. We always send photos to the customer of their device that we work on and tell them why we can't fix their device. To show the customer that we really worked or tried to fix their device but no luck. That's why we are confident to charge diagnostic / repair attempt fee.
May God bless you for creating this video's for other people to learn Tu brother Alex
least I try to reflow the chip and give a try before tossing it off the table. Sometime you may get lucky if solder metal has some corrosion. YMMV🙏
or, the other shop knew this is beyond their skills and
told the customer they can not do it.
What completely blows my mind is that you can't get schematics and replacement parts easily .. still. The OEM doesn't want to repair these things half the time because of liquid damage so I don't understand it. It makes no sense.
did not even turn if on after cleaning
4:21 wasn’t there liquid damage there too? Not trying to insult your knowledge
It's better like that , if the other shop did try to repair then possibly the laptop will be dead . I receive a lot of devices that come from other repair shops they kill the device and send it to you we don't do miracles we repair something repairable .
Great Job, so many repairs these days they don't even check, looking for the final video!...those pins on the left and top side of that chip did not look good.
I wonder if they charged the customer a No fix ... Do you disclose what you find to your customers?
corrosion on metal contacts i remove with a acid like vinegar, is it an option here too? put some vinegar on the cotton swab, let it dissolve and clean with alcohol after?
Interesting thought. I clean boards damaged by leaking batteries with lemon juice, then rinse with alcohol, cross my fingers and examine the carnage. I might try the vinegar on a junk board.
@@hightttech lemon works as well I think, I use vinegar or concentrated vinegar, for all kind of batterie damage. And I found out it will work as rust disolver too. Put the old screws in while the repair job.
What I needed to hear...
Atleast i try..Thanks Sir
I take you removed the address from the end of the video because your business is receiving more boards than you can work with daily, but please put the music back, that kinda became a signature of your channel.
Why u don't tested??
Once again amazing job from Alex 👍🏻
TBF. Sometimes it's better to receive an untouched device. Personally I don't like much to work on boards with missing components or replaced with something that the previous guy thought might work. Or burnt, etc.
That other shop basiclly stole a no fix payment from their customer. 👉👉TIP: As customers getting a very fast return no fix or quick no fix turn arounds from another shop. Always ask QUESTIONS and have them show you why (👉IF👈) in person. 😒😒Don't get ripped off by taking there word.
Laptop comes in with liquid damage fixes it with liquid
Well, if I was to try to fix it, I might try to clean up green junk and see if that helps. If not, I would have returned a no fix board and you would receive a board without any clues, what happened to it. Just that damaged capacitor might be your only clue.
What was the liquid you used to clean the corrosion with?
What would happen, if I sprayed the motherboard with a thin layer of clear paint? Would it be water resistant?? Why did these boards even leave the factory without any liquid protection??
Why not test it?????
Why not try voltage injection?
Guys charged a repair attempt fee for not even attempting.
whats your thoughts some youtube creators using water to clean the board....
I hope the other "repair shop" didnt charge the customer for that "repair".
Here we have an Asus laptop 🤦♂️😅
Asus laptop repair? Impossible 😱
Almost 5 Million Shipment for 2022.. just for asus laptop
@@st_us true but did you watch this channel, literally every laptop he fixes is an Asus. He can forget about Asus sponsorship 😅
But then again, we are talking about a company that soldered capacitors 180° flipped in their recent motherboards. Guess how that went
Tf do u think? U think everyone use Razer?Acer?Dell? Most of the users use Asus laptops including the game. Like mine, our repairer in my country fix an acer laptop n almost everyday.
Is it possible they disassembled it, saw all of the corrosion and knew it wasn't going to be an easy fix for them so they said, forget it?
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The thing is they dont want to try because it is better for them to sell something new
Alex gibt nicht auf ! 😎👍💝
Ultra sonic cleaners were made for boards like this.
He didn't put on too much liquid metal. It still leaked to the motherboard. I applied liquid metal to the CPU and GPU more than this friend. Additionally, I applied sponge around the CPU and GPU. That's why liquid metal doesn't flow to my motherboard.
One of my memorable jobs I ever had was where I was required to attempt repairing electronics, yet also did IT & electrical work as part of it. Only 2 of those skills I ever got a college degree for. Anything out of my league I'd always ID the fault and know the economics to the customer of repairing such a device. My electrical theory always keeps bringing me back to electronics!
you are miracle believe me .. amazing
Maybe they saw this hiroshima and said: "nope, that's too much work, not worth working on".
I have laptops that need to be fixed. How can I reach you
The sad thing the Customer was Charged for this. I think they need to do a Charge Back if paid by Credit Card.......
Can I mail my Asus yo you? It has the same water damage and has been drying up for months. And parts of it may of broken or been tinkered with
bonjour de France merci pour la vidéo
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Omg the same thing has happened , someone poured coffee on mg laptop and it damaged motherboard that’s what the people said about my asus laptop and the price would be same as buying a new laptop pls tell me how should I fix it im a student pls 🥲🥲
I opened my laptops back cover for cleaning.after that i tried to turn on its not working..and i plugged in its not charging too...
What did i do wrong please help me fix it hurry...i work on laptop..i can't afford to buy another ...My lap is Asus tuf a15
Thermal cam. ?😊
alex - i MISS YOUR ENDING MUSIC!!!!
The brown stuff is probably bits of biscuit that he was dunking in his drink which he then spilt on his laptop 😆😆
what exactly is used to remove corrosion?
isopropyl alcohol
how much do you charge to fix laptops
99% of all the repairs I see are human error, liquid damage is human error, corrosion resulting is ignorance of the primary issue which was liquid damage, it is up to the customer to relay all the information possible but most of the time you get indifference.
Why not try the board after the cleaning ? Maybe the corrosion was the only problem ?
I tried it of course, if it worked, I would have mentioned it in the video.
I think you are here to just comment without watching the full video sir
@@akshaygaming1869 You can think what you want, I watches lots of video's from Alex and I really like what he's doing. Sometimes I comment mostly I just view them.
maybe the technician does not want to waste his time trying to fix it because the customer does not want to pay for the diagnosis, sometimes the diagnosis takes a lot of time.
love these videos
That's an interesting scam. Bring a computer into a shop, do nothing, then charge them for a no fix. What can you do.
Feels like the previous repair shop just rip the client of repair attempt fee 😩
Not every shop charged "no repair" fee. The probability of the successful repair of damage due to liquid is very low, so perhaps the other shop made them a favor and saved customer a no fix fee.
Liquid damage game over
We do not need to move like a turtle😂😂😂
If they charged the customer and did nothing yeah that's totally unethical but not surprising. I can understand not wanting to take the job but to steal money from someone is shady.
Liquid damage and leaking batteries extremely annoying repair. Very destructive, especially under chips. I never get my hopes up.
What is liquid name
liquid damage will just be a time bomb waiting to happen if this was in my shop i dont even bother i just take pictures and reasemble as is and gudluck on other shop, because this will turn to be a rabbit hole
taking into consideration if its badly corroded like that one on the video specially on the ic and traces like its been corroded for very long time ill avvoid it, sometimes cleaning will worsen the problem and the customer will get mad you made it worst and all of that karren and kevin stuff😵,
and also if its a laptop keyboard problem will arise in a matter of time,
and will snowball to headache and more headaches😇,
Nice job❤️❤️❤️
"Excellent."
Ask the customer, corrosion is not bad. It was working before. 🤣
Can I mail my Asus yo you? It has the same problems
I am only 43 seconds in and This is a piss off. I have run in to this a few times. I mean it is one thing if another shop was unable to fix something, I mean as much as I would love to have 100% track record - it is not realistic. But to not even attempt a dissassembly / diagnosis / cleaning is just scandalous. If there is one thing that bugs me more than manufacturers making "unrepairable" devices. It is repair shops that are over their head or just 100% money driven. Just like mechanics, it gives the industry a bad look.
Awesome ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
Came in for repair.
Must've been sent from iFixandrepair
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if he tries to turn it on after cleaning i think it will turn on
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new video yes
Maybe they open it, but they see something that they don't want to deal with, like finding where to buy those IC. I would say they just lazy.🤣
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ASUS every whare😁
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