Alex I admire the amount of humor you’re still having while basically drowning in broken asus boards. I wonder when asus will approach you with a job offer :)
I loved this video because it shows that even the best board repairman I know can't fix every board, although I have seen him easily fix hundreds with little effort because he has such great skills at finding the problem quickly using his master diagnostic skill, then soldiering on the part or two is easy work. You can't win them all (but I bet if he wanted to spend more time he probably could fix them all). Great work Hussein!
about the last one: sometimes when a high side mosfet shorts out it sends a spike through the gate, damaging the controller IC, you may use an oscilloscope to check for a healthy pulse train before soldering the mosfet
CPU or PCH dies and shorts out, meaning more current has to go through the mosfet causing it to overheat and fail. Most good PWM controllers should have overcurrent protection but it'll still happen sometimes. TBH in this case it's more likely that the PWM IC is bad and killing the mosfet, but after frying 2-3 different mosfets, the CPU is likely dead now too if it wasn't from the beginning
Short circuit in CPU or PCH? Most big VLSI parts essentially measure at 0 Ohm resistance, with normal voltmeter, because of the many transistors/PN junctions in there. So you can't tell with normal voltmeter. But they will short the mosfet to GND, if toasted, which kills the mosfet as well.
Simple answer is overheating, and that comes from the faulty CPU or PCH not regulating the current or voltage properly sent to the MOSFET => more Watt. Excessive Watt turns into heat which breaks down the p-n, or n-p barriers causing a short circuit between 2-3 terminals depending on how lucky you are.
Is all about clamp current, which could break the transistor shorting it. The built in diode could break too if clamp voltaje is reach. Both parameters could be sign of a high power cosumption peak and/or a Bad MOSFET manufacturing. It is not a only thing problem, could be a combination of some of these situations.
Great video where you show no fixes and the trouble of working on stuff that has been messed with before!! I hate having to work on someone else's mess.....
What's the deal with that component at 20:32 that looks like its hot a big hole in it! Left hand one of the three that you flash over quickly in the video. 470 something or other on them. Caps?
man this is just scary seeing such failure rate from this brand. like i mentioned in the last vid.. its just blown my mind (just like these components)
Just jumped back to the first vid on the channel where your ESD mat looked like a virgin :) You are a living proof that honest and hard work is still beneficial in this crazy world we live in. Great progress. Keep it up!
Asus quality has gone downhill. I ordered my 2 kids new 4k monitors for university 3 years ago. These ASUS panels were advertised as IPS panels and when we received them they were clearly VA panels. Both returned. I went through reflowing the gpu twice on a HP laptop about 8 years ago and then gave up when it the solder balls failed again. So for me, no HP, no ASUS. I'm trying my luck with Dell brand now, but it is too soon to tell if their equipment lasts or not. These companies should be ashamed of themselves for building such junk.
In my past comments, I've talked about the longevity of my Dell XPS laptop. In it's still great working condition, I've only had one problem. The charger end first would only work intermittently. Then it quit working all together. My inexperience on this was to first assume that the charging port on the computer had somehow messed up so I ordered one and installed it. The great thing is that the charging port (the same type here in your video) had one screw holding it in place and it plugged into the mother board. It was NOT soldered on. This tells me that Dell was already on the customer's side in making it easy for a part that is known to wear out, easy to replace. Of course I ended up buying a new charger and that fixed everything. Assuming Dell does not go cheap in the future on how they build their computers, I'm a Dell customer for LIFE!!
Hey folks, I also got an ASUS gaming laptop, but it´s a TUF Gaming model one (less capabilities in general compared to ROG ones). My recommendation is that you limit the maximum frequency on the core processors, this way it won´t generate as much heat and consequently it won´t vary as much in temperature, which is what causes problems in the end (due to expansion and contraction). Then, delegate all graphic tasks to the dedicated graphics card, and let the integrated one do as less as possible, this way you´ll have less heat in general. If we use them the way they come from the plant, they´ll keep breaking on us.
Please do a video on how to find and substitute (if necessary) mosfets. Most of the numbers on these devices do not cross-reference to anything that can be ordered.
Amazing video. You did a good job. I love such long videos late at night. It is amazing to watch you work after my own work. Great. Thank you for that long video, made my day. Greets
Thank you for all the videos. Very instructional. Do remember to remind viewers that adequate ventilation is needed for leaded solder. Many will just use it without the ventilation.
After having watched this channel for a while I will *never* buy a laptop ever again. I had one in the late 90's and it had a lot of issues and it taught me a valuable lesson, avoid and stick to desktops. It's a bit sad to see they're having so many issues even to this day. I just can't see a reason to have a laptop unless you're travelling a lot but if you're at home using a laptop that makes no sense to me.
That redesigned power socket ....maybe ASUS was fixing a design flaw that was causing the premature failure of the old power socket because of the way it was designed!! One is an old design and the other is a new design. This is not to say it is the old design that definitely failed but it does mean that you may be able to see an improvement of one power socket over the other. I have noticed that the ill fitting replacement is a better design: the connector points are spread farther away from the socket; means the socket is more rigid.
Why many peoples buy ASUS. Must be lousy product? Wow at least you doing your best job for customer.. Sorry to customers owner have this problem. Thank for sharing video.. I never get bored watch all your video.. you are awesome teaching etc.. Alex the Greatest. :)
I was a bench tech and a very large PC shop for a number of years and we saw ripped out charging ports ALL THE TIME. People will grab their laptop to take it somewhere and forget it was plugged in. This would rip apart the charging port. We used another local shop to solder on a new port and those guys made a fortune doing this repair.
I have had that look that he had at the very end of the video plenty of times when I was working in IT. Sometimes you just have days nothing goes right at all.
I've watch so many of these videos and my take away is that I'll never buy an Asus laptop. They are on the cheaper side of gaming systems for a reason I guess, but I would never buy a laptop for gaming anyway. Most gaming laptops can't take the heat of a GPU and will crap out sooner then later
After seeing all these videos, i probably won't bu asus again either, but I still use a 10 year old asus laptop on occasion to renders or to test some ML training when my main rig is busy. I've had this thing chug on things for weeks on end and never had a problem. I never used it for gaming, and only run linux on it, but i definitely abuse the cpu and gpu. They must have done downhill, or have drastically different quality control between product lines.
I bought a rog g14 zephyrus and it refused to use the rtx 3060 onboard. I tried everything possible(multiple windows 10 and 11 installs and software configurations) including calling support. They don't even have a MUX switch to force igpu to the off state. 2 days wasted on figuring out a new laptop. it would lock the clocks for the gpu at 210mhz lol.
I have an ASUS G75VW (motherboard rev 2.4) and it has some really crappily designed connectors (J5602 & J5603) that are poorly attached to the motherboard, coming away very easily causing major damage, and another that is incredibly difficult to connect (J5102). I am in the middle of making a motherboard swap. One of the fan plugs (male) disintegrated, so I need to buy a new fan also.
its funny, i had an ROG laptop years ago and ended up throwing it away because of power issues i never figured out. probably was a simple repair like these but just mentioning that they still had issues way back when, +10-15 years ago. go figure. so which laptops are the best for gaming then?
After hearing the person's description I almost feel bad. That shop killed that computer. This is why you should just leave well enough alone. All for 5 fps at best...
In the automotive industry we have an hourly labor fee schedule... $100 Standard. $150 If you watch. $ 200 If you help. $ 400 If you worked on it first.
I think there are so many Asus laptops coming in because there are so many out there. Alex might have even said that once. Just imagine if say Asus has a 0.2% failure rate on their laptops and something like MSI has the same faliure rate, ASUS might have sold 80 million devices and MSI say 10 million. That means that 160k ASUS laptops are gonna end up in repair shops while only 20k MSI laptops end up in repair shops. ASUS is just a very popular brand. I do have an ASUS gaming laptop and it's held up well for 2 years now
My Vivobook pro 17 died after 2 and a half years of ownership and I didn't do anything to it, just stopped working so I'm guessing ASUS is just as bad as ROG. I can't believe what they charge for ROG laptops.
Hey Alex good day, one question if you don't mind, have you ever attempted to transfer a cpu or pch from a doner board over to the board with bad chips?
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Alex I admire the amount of humor you’re still having while basically drowning in broken asus boards. I wonder when asus will approach you with a job offer :)
Theyll never hire him as his repairs stop ppl from buying new asus laptops
We all have at leats dozen of Asus laptop board for parts, it's a real issue. Idk failrates related to sales volumes but yeah it's a lot.
"Here we have an Asus laptop that came in for no power."
Maaan, how many times we heard that sentence in the beginning of a video? 😊
If someone made a compilation of him saying that it'd be 15 minutes long. lol
A shorted Asus laptop, you don't say...
😁😁😁 🤐🤐
Oh man , even if you watched his all videos you can't remember how many times he said that 🤣
everytime man, everytime
I really like these unsuccessful repairs, I like to see that of course they happen and how you deal with them, thank you 🙂👍
I loved this video because it shows that even the best board repairman I know can't fix every board, although I have seen him easily fix hundreds with little effort because he has such great skills at finding the problem quickly using his master diagnostic skill, then soldiering on the part or two is easy work. You can't win them all (but I bet if he wanted to spend more time he probably could fix them all). Great work Hussein!
about the last one: sometimes when a high side mosfet shorts out it sends a spike through the gate, damaging the controller IC, you may use an oscilloscope to check for a healthy pulse train before soldering the mosfet
11:07 "Just like Mortal Kombat they did a fatality on it"
Gotta love these videos and your humor 😂 and knowledge ofc
yup, rofl!
i died of laughing when he said that 🤣🤣🤣
FATALITY
I still remember playing that game with the "secret blood code" as a kid. 😆
@20:32 I don't think there should be a hole in that component
Check the impedance at the gate of the mofets all should be the same... otherwise a possible driver issue on that last one instead of cpu or pch.
Legit question: how would a CPU or a PCH problem short a mosfet?
CPU or PCH dies and shorts out, meaning more current has to go through the mosfet causing it to overheat and fail. Most good PWM controllers should have overcurrent protection but it'll still happen sometimes. TBH in this case it's more likely that the PWM IC is bad and killing the mosfet, but after frying 2-3 different mosfets, the CPU is likely dead now too if it wasn't from the beginning
Short circuit in CPU or PCH?
Most big VLSI parts essentially measure at 0 Ohm resistance, with normal voltmeter, because of the many transistors/PN junctions in there.
So you can't tell with normal voltmeter.
But they will short the mosfet to GND, if toasted, which kills the mosfet as well.
Simple answer is overheating, and that comes from the faulty CPU or PCH not regulating the current or voltage properly sent to the MOSFET => more Watt. Excessive Watt turns into heat which breaks down the p-n, or n-p barriers causing a short circuit between 2-3 terminals depending on how lucky you are.
Id like to know as well but my guess is its sending too much current to the mosfet cause of an inrernal failure od itself.
Is all about clamp current, which could break the transistor shorting it.
The built in diode could break too if clamp voltaje is reach.
Both parameters could be sign of a high power cosumption peak and/or a Bad MOSFET manufacturing.
It is not a only thing problem, could be a combination of some of these situations.
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I believe the mosfet is shorting because of the coil located above it.
Great video where you show no fixes and the trouble of working on stuff that has been messed with before!!
I hate having to work on someone else's mess.....
What's the deal with that component at 20:32 that looks like its hot a big hole in it! Left hand one of the three that you flash over quickly in the video. 470 something or other on them. Caps?
That's probably a flux/water/saliva
I was searching for another one who found that too 😄😄
20:32 is that blowing diode ???? maybe that what keep mosfet blowing
sometimes the annoying feeling when you think it should work but it doesn't even you already switched this and that
Ok, not "Flawless Victory". Alex is as chilled as Sub Zero. People who take things to the other shops need to be told by Scorpion "Get Over Here!" lol
Always a pleasure to see you at work.
As Always you do a very good job.
man this is just scary seeing such failure rate from this brand. like i mentioned in the last vid.. its just blown my mind (just like these components)
What's the deal with that component at 20:32 that looks like its hot a big hole in it!
ALEX by the last one you need to change driver of the mosfet too. It is driver that blows the mosfet .
@@mirayanomi yes i know it is low and high side in one packet but not the driver.
Just jumped back to the first vid on the channel where your ESD mat looked like a virgin :) You are a living proof that honest and hard work is still beneficial in this crazy world we live in. Great progress. Keep it up!
I recently bought the same multimeter probes! It's so good to use, and very convenient 👌👌
@@fredflintstone8048 yes
Asus quality has gone downhill. I ordered my 2 kids new 4k monitors for university 3 years ago. These ASUS panels were advertised as IPS panels and when we received them they were clearly VA panels. Both returned. I went through reflowing the gpu twice on a HP laptop about 8 years ago and then gave up when it the solder balls failed again. So for me, no HP, no ASUS. I'm trying my luck with Dell brand now, but it is too soon to tell if their equipment lasts or not. These companies should be ashamed of themselves for building such junk.
In my past comments, I've talked about the longevity of my Dell XPS laptop.
In it's still great working condition, I've only had one problem.
The charger end first would only work intermittently. Then it quit working all together.
My inexperience on this was to first assume that the charging port on the computer had somehow messed up so I ordered one and installed it.
The great thing is that the charging port (the same type here in your video) had one screw holding it in place and it plugged into the mother board. It was NOT soldered on.
This tells me that Dell was already on the customer's side in making it easy for a part that is known to wear out, easy to replace.
Of course I ended up buying a new charger and that fixed everything.
Assuming Dell does not go cheap in the future on how they build their computers, I'm a Dell customer for LIFE!!
Loved this one in particular - interesting situations ! Thanks, Alex !
Always fun and informative to watch.
This episode of NorthridgeFix wasn't brought to you by ASUS.
Loved the mortal combat reference too!☺️
was there a hole in a component at 20:32
Keif bashar al asad hay lahd alan?
I hope you add "cleaning" along with fixing, it is also makes video more satisfying to see. Thanks
Hey folks, I also got an ASUS gaming laptop, but it´s a TUF Gaming model one (less capabilities in general compared to ROG ones). My recommendation is that you limit the maximum frequency on the core processors, this way it won´t generate as much heat and consequently it won´t vary as much in temperature, which is what causes problems in the end (due to expansion and contraction). Then, delegate all graphic tasks to the dedicated graphics card, and let the integrated one do as less as possible, this way you´ll have less heat in general. If we use them the way they come from the plant, they´ll keep breaking on us.
i saw the one component damaged on the mother board .. please check video at 20:33 .u can see the damaged component .
That's probably a flux/water/saliva
No fix are also where we can learn a lot. TY for video
You could say that the owners of these laptops had:
fatalities.
the control ic of this circuit may have a problem so you can try to change the control and pad mosfet and test the board again
Please do a video on how to find and substitute (if necessary) mosfets. Most of the numbers on these devices do not cross-reference to anything that can be ordered.
Amazing video. You did a good job. I love such long videos late at night. It is amazing to watch you work after my own work. Great. Thank you for that long video, made my day. Greets
Thank you for all the videos. Very instructional. Do remember to remind viewers that adequate ventilation is needed for leaded solder. Many will just use it without the ventilation.
After having watched this channel for a while I will *never* buy a laptop ever again. I had one in the late 90's and it had a lot of issues and it taught me a valuable lesson, avoid and stick to desktops. It's a bit sad to see they're having so many issues even to this day. I just can't see a reason to have a laptop unless you're travelling a lot but if you're at home using a laptop that makes no sense to me.
That redesigned power socket ....maybe ASUS was fixing a design flaw that was
causing the premature failure of the old power socket because of the way it was
designed!! One is an old design and the other is a new design. This is not to say
it is the old design that definitely failed but it does mean that you may be able to
see an improvement of one power socket over the other. I have noticed that the
ill fitting replacement is a better design: the connector points are spread farther
away from the socket; means the socket is more rigid.
You’re an artist, 13/10 great content!
Thank you for creating tNice tutorials playlist in soft soft, just starting out in soft production and there is so much to learn
the good news is you can extract the charging connector from the 3rd one to the 1st Asus laptop if the customer give it for donor board
We all have days like these, but hopefully not too often. It's a brave man that offers no fix no fee.
@5:25 for me thats a lot of donor board😅,may I suggest a video to show how many donor boards you get😆and which brand of laptop😅
Your quotes are legendary Alex “like mortal combat they did a fatality on it “ lmfao.
Why many peoples buy ASUS. Must be lousy product? Wow at least you doing your best job for customer.. Sorry to customers owner have this problem. Thank for sharing video.. I never get bored watch all your video.. you are awesome teaching etc.. Alex the Greatest. :)
I was a bench tech and a very large PC shop for a number of years and we saw ripped out charging ports ALL THE TIME. People will grab their laptop to take it somewhere and forget it was plugged in. This would rip apart the charging port. We used another local shop to solder on a new port and those guys made a fortune doing this repair.
Alex keep upload video !!! Love you and lurning from you !!
Yesterday you posted a quick short video. Today it's a longer one. So I think we're even 😊.
I have had that look that he had at the very end of the video plenty of times when I was working in IT. Sometimes you just have days nothing goes right at all.
What 20:32 hole about ?
Yesterday, I almost soldered an IC back onto the donor it came from...... 😕
Damn that low melt solder ain’t no joke. That port practically jumped off the board lol.
The Halloween font, love the seasonal changes.
God bless you👍🏾. You already try everything
I've watch so many of these videos and my take away is that I'll never buy an Asus laptop. They are on the cheaper side of gaming systems for a reason I guess, but I would never buy a laptop for gaming anyway. Most gaming laptops can't take the heat of a GPU and will crap out sooner then later
it is not the brand but discrete graphics on a laptop. Nvidia used to have a massive problem with this maybe around ten years ago.
Never had a problem with gaming laptops besides screen hinges always dying. Never a GPU, though.
After seeing all these videos, i probably won't bu asus again either, but I still use a 10 year old asus laptop on occasion to renders or to test some ML training when my main rig is busy. I've had this thing chug on things for weeks on end and never had a problem. I never used it for gaming, and only run linux on it, but i definitely abuse the cpu and gpu. They must have done downhill, or have drastically different quality control between product lines.
Hey there is a very small ic a little above the battery connector that burned up, does anybody know what it's manufacturernumber is (GL704G(W) Laptop)
There should be a playlist specifically for the Asus laptop repair and then we should spam send it to Asus until they respond.
I bought a rog g14 zephyrus and it refused to use the rtx 3060 onboard. I tried everything possible(multiple windows 10 and 11 installs and software configurations) including calling support. They don't even have a MUX switch to force igpu to the off state. 2 days wasted on figuring out a new laptop. it would lock the clocks for the gpu at 210mhz lol.
I have a question abt the 105 smd capacitor I had one short out on my motherboard where do I get one and what are the specs of them?
Golden thumbs up for the mortal Kombat fatality reference, almost spat out my drink 😂
really good to see the fails.... wasnt expecting that but it is what it is.
Good job mate 👍
Gotta watch out for those sneaky resisters lol
How do you clean your solder iron tip? I'm having difficulties with mine.
can't blame you, I've made that same connector mistake too
What about mosfet gate of 3rd laptop? It could be the driver
Cppdo you not replace cpu and gpu parts?
I have an ASUS G75VW (motherboard rev 2.4) and it has some really crappily designed connectors (J5602 & J5603) that are poorly attached to the motherboard, coming away very easily causing major damage, and another that is incredibly difficult to connect (J5102). I am in the middle of making a motherboard swap. One of the fan plugs (male) disintegrated, so I need to buy a new fan also.
Yesterday I just done a same thing on HP laptop, it's more easier to replace - because HP using socket model instead soldered on the board 😬
Alex so.. one laptop was Hiroshima, meaning it was hell of a mess right>> I love your videos man
"That resistor want to escape to the ninth dimension"
Me >>> 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I loved the video. That last Asus laptop was very different from what usually happens eh
Moral of the story. ASUS - a necessary evil.
Sometimes you have to pay extra for mother boards, but if they’re having hand to hand combat at the plant; I don’t know..😅
its funny, i had an ROG laptop years ago and ended up throwing it away because of power issues i never figured out. probably was a simple repair like these but just mentioning that they still had issues way back when, +10-15 years ago. go figure. so which laptops are the best for gaming then?
None. They all fail. Get a Custom built desktop. Buying a laptop for gaming is pure stupid.
Is it me or a coincidence that my Asus P5G41 MLX just died after 10 years today. Few hours ago.nothing no fans spinning. Occured suddenly.
I'm starting my flea market booth tomorrow. Wish me luck.
I'm Mortal Kombat fan and player. Thanks for the great FATALITY Alex
After hearing the person's description I almost feel bad. That shop killed that computer. This is why you should just leave well enough alone. All for 5 fps at best...
I ask for more and thank you Alex.
I feel pity for someone who takes it to a shop that destroys it, but not when they try it themselves. User-fixable electronics went out with tubes.
11:08 Your soul is mine, customer!! 💀☠😵☠
In the automotive industry we have an hourly labor fee schedule...
$100 Standard.
$150 If you watch.
$ 200 If you help.
$ 400 If you worked on it first.
ahahah "they did a mortal kombat, they finished it", hahahaha
Thanks for your video Alex. Why are ASUS laptops so good at breaking?
"Signs of flux" - you can't hide them, you can't deny them :)
Any fuse?
The second one looked like a minefield 💀💀💀
Now you can take the connector off of the 3rd board and fix the 1st.
which manufacturer laptops get sent the least often to you so i know to buy them next
I'm confuse on how these things happen. I have a laptop 2 of them and the still run good 10 years after.
Thank you Alex.
Definitely not buying an Asus gaming laptop after watching your videos. You should thank Asus for feeding you so many customers 😆
I think there are so many Asus laptops coming in because there are so many out there. Alex might have even said that once. Just imagine if say Asus has a 0.2% failure rate on their laptops and something like MSI has the same faliure rate, ASUS might have sold 80 million devices and MSI say 10 million. That means that 160k ASUS laptops are gonna end up in repair shops while only 20k MSI laptops end up in repair shops. ASUS is just a very popular brand. I do have an ASUS gaming laptop and it's held up well for 2 years now
Good choice
I feel Very bad for those laptop owners 🙄 , anyway great attempt 👍
The mortal komat thing had me cracking up 😂
When he started to read and it said "I tried,| I lost it. LMAO!!!
Most of the Asus laptop that you repair ROG. Do you get equal amount of Zenbook and Vivobook as well? Are these Asus problem or ROG problem?
My Vivobook pro 17 died after 2 and a half years of ownership and I didn't do anything to it, just stopped working so I'm guessing ASUS is just as bad as ROG.
I can't believe what they charge for ROG laptops.
So what brand of laptop do you see the least of?
Why choose laptop? PC is the best for gaming and general stuff. I hardly see any motherboard repair video. Graphic card repair video yes and fixable.
Hey Alex good day, one question if you don't mind, have you ever attempted to transfer a cpu or pch from a doner board over to the board with bad chips?