One of the best things about this playlist isn't just that the systems get working again, it's how Greg talks his way through the process to the camera to educate people on how to diagnose things.
Yeah its very helpful and educational the way he walks through the troubleshooting process. When I was building my current rig I had a somewhat similar issue to one I saw in a Greg vid which led me to an easy fix.
That's the first time I've seen a missing component on a DIMM, but it's why I love this series: another visual experience I get to learn from and add to my pool of knowledge.
I am from South Africa and been watching this channel for 3-4 years. I love these fix or flop series. I always find it interesting when something breaks or does not work.
I'd be careful. The fact that it is missing AND causing a failure likely means it is not a buffer cap. And that is exactly where we leave the realm of simple. even if you know the capactiy from testing it's counterpart on the other DIMM, there are other especially high frequency related properties playing a role now. i.e. ESR...
That component might be rattling around in the case. It's not likely to cause a problem, but still worth checking for it. Small chance it could cause a short somewhere.
@@amurtigress_mobile365 Bypass caps on memory are especially crucial, there's about a 99% chance the stick will fail with it out of circuit. A missing bypass cap won't necessarily affect discrete logic especially with others nearby, but memory is not at all noise tolerant. I think there's a good chance the stick could be saved with a suitable replacement.
Might be worth testing soldering on a replacement capacitor for general amusement value to see if that was why it failed but never use it in a production system.
Shout out to you, Greg. I recently got into building pcs and built me and my sons each a pc. I found your channel a couple weeks ago and binge watched the whole fix or flop series. I messed around and did an auto overclock in Ryzen Master on my 7800x3d the other day and it wouldn’t boot. But, instead of freaking out, I knew it only needed a cmos clear because of watching so many of your videos. I found the clear cmos pins, and after a couple attempts, I got it to clear and my pc booted right up! I absolutely love this series! Thanks so much!
This guy should have way more subs man, this content is good and real to life what I experience building myself daily! Good stuff glad I found this guy!
i tried to treat myself to 3600 MT/s corsair rgb vengeance ddr4 for christmas - and the lights were only stable thing. i had same symptoms as with the faulty dimm in video - it wouldnt post, mostly with leds running between cpu and dram then settle on dram. i did get it to post after cmos clear and it seemed to run at rated speed. i started to open something and windows 11 then bluescreened. i ran windows memory diagnostic and it screamed hardware errors immediately. so i had to return them. unsure if they were really bad or just my 12400 hates 3600 ram, i went for replacements 3200 and they work fine. corsair quality control... unfortunately, the current ddr4 runs 3200 but at 1.35v same voltage as the 3600 was supposed to run at. so i cant try a manual overclock. the odd thing is, i had slow crucial ram which is cl22 and runs at 3200 regardless of xmp, at 1.2v but i have no hope with such high CAS already it would be gaining anything but heat if i upped volts and overclocked freq. i may try buy 3600 again from corsair because of icue. i looked at patriot ram but it cost more and i wasnt sure i could control the rgb. point is, i had the super rare thing happen on a brand new dimm. i didnt check for missing components though.
It's a balance for sure! Don't wanna repeat something _SO_ much that I fatigue recurring viewers, but also don't wanna miss anything important in each video for new viewers, either 😅
Just built a pc for my daughter for Christmas. No display and 5 beeps. I tried everything I learned from your videos and ended up finding out one of my ram sticks were bad. Very relieved, could of been worse. Appreciate your content very much
I would really like to see some soldering work, the man is totally capable. I think a mother board repair could even be possible with the help from videos by the mainboard medic on youtube, he might even help for some exposure. The process of figuring out what size and value the capacitor is would be a big learning experience for the audience as well
Great video, please continue posting as I have watched all your videos multiple times and I love it when new content posts. I have learned a great deal from your videos. Merry Christmas.
Greg in his Christmas sweater, and it''s 70 F in Orlando Florida. lol. Wait I'm 3 minutes in and that is like a Noctua fan on a Thermaltake CPU heatsink and just zip tied on there, yikes. This should be good!! Let's go.
FWIW Greg, I had some really unusual behavior on my new Ryzen 9900X build that was similar to this system. After some trouble and a bit of jazz hands in the BIOS making the memory happy with EXPO enabled, I had a perfectly working system with 2 sticks of G.Skill running at 6000 MT/s. Three days later I attempted to wake the computer from sleep and it powered on with no display out and full speed on the GPU fans. I had spare parts to troubleshoot with and had the same issue. One of my brand new dimms which was working perfectly days before would now cause a no POST in any slot, while the other was fine in every slot. I always was under the impression that if memory isn't DOA, it probably won't ever fail for the life of the system. In this case, one of my dimms was just functional enough to work for a few days before failing for reasons unrelated to any of the hardware it's connected to. My replacement Corsair dimms running the same EXPO speed have been flawless for weeks now.
Be advised that on x670e ASUS motherboards the most recent bios updates have been bricking the boards with error code 00 and bios flashback to an older version of bios does nothing, and if the board has a 2nd bios it also does not work. This has happened to at least 4 boards, one i saw personally. For future Fix or flop peps lol
Been watching this series since inception, it's super entertaining and informative. However, I never would in a hundred years thought I would have to search up a form and possibly use your services. My PC was like, "Oh, this show is cool! I wanna be on it" and just completely fail on me XD. Oh well, off to the application...
i recently bought a used 7900XT and when i got it home and installed it i had no display out at all. started freaking out loosing my mind i thought i had got ripped off (even though i had talked to the dude for days and had countless videos / pics sent to verify its legit) and was soooo bummed aht. long story short it was because of lack of power. i had a 750w psu coming from the 7800XT and apparently the 7900XT needs an 850w psu. got a new PSU and problem solved. THEN when i got display out it was BSOD over and over. another long story short...it just needed the drivers updated and it was 100% fine. i know someone here will get a good laugh out of my dumbass. thanks for all these videos greg ive learned sooo much in the short amount of time ive been really into building and tinkering with PC's.
No offence but if you are upgrading a GPU the power supply is the first thing you should check. You could have fried your rig. Never ever upgrade your GPU if your current power supply "should be OK" because it's close enough.
thanks to your playlist i've been able to assist some coworkers with their PC issues. i just recently got one with a power supply and possible MB issue. it was an amazon PC (STGAubron) with a cheap 500w PSU (known to have issues from reviews). coworker got dazzled by the marketed RGB. i think the PSU bricked the MB, luckily i had a spare AM4 platform from my last upgrade to replace the intel 1155 platform he had. i didnt try to clear CMOS bc no power was getting to any fans or components, but i will just to make sure. he had taken it to a shop and then had someone else look at it so i'm the 3rd person to get hands on it so i figured since its already broken it cant get worse and he's okay with it. BTW you are right about it being easier to diagnose when you have replacement parts to rule out issues. but since i dont have intel parts, he's getting AMD and i've been transparent with the PC status and given regular updates. i was told i gave him more info on his rig than the PC shop he took it to within the 2 days i've had it than they did in a month. Keep up the content
subbed - how has it taken so long for me to find this channel? Already season 6 and I've not come across it before. Time to load up the playlist and get comfortable.
Ive got four Dimm's of that exact ram in my system and was bitting my nails wanting to know what size and speed of ram it was, worried I have ram thats prone to a failure... thankfully for me it was more than likely user error ill be careful with my ram knowing theres a resistor so close to the edge.. the poor guy probably removed the ram to get better access to the CPU and then upon attempting to re-install the ram. Slid the ram stick into the gap between the two dimm slots. And pop whent that component... dang.
I'm loving this series. I used what I learned from you to figure out why my pc stopped working after putting it in a new case. Turns out I had a sata power cable from a different power supply plugged into a fan hub. Luckily I didn't fry anything 😬
i love watching these videos, such useful info everytime i watch, im nowhere near your level of experience but if you continue to make these one day.... hopefully i will be
Failed ram really is rare these days. I've been fiddling with machines for a couple of decades and only come across one faulty dimm, and that was an unknown failure as unlike this one there wasn't any damage/missing components and the issue didn't happen every time you booted or even tested the ram. Despite how reliable some technology has got its a reminder that any piece of electronics can fail, not just the new tech that hasn't had time to mature/work out issues, everything has a failure rate after all. Also be very, very careful handling any tech - I dropped a circuit board for one project (not computer related) and damaged it beyond repair meaning I just had to get a replacement.
100 bucks says they pushed against the ram when they were reinstalling the cooler after repasting. Seen it more times than I can remember. They start messing with zip ties etc and their hands are too big to get in there and rather than remove the ram and get it out of the way they just squeeze in there any way they can. So 2 issues there. The improperly mounted cooler led to heat issues, so they took the cooler off to repaste, somewhere along the way they jammed their hand or something in between the cooler and the ram and snapped off the capacitor which then lead to the second issue of the ram not working and the machine not booting. It's also possible they did take the ram out to deal with the cooler then tried to put one in the wrong way and forced it. I recall a Gear Up episode from the summer when one of the ppl did exactly that when installing their new ram and it did the exact same thing (snapped off a capacitor). So remember folks, picture out doesn't always mean a GPU or CPU issue. Check the ram carefully first for broken/missing components (also never hurts to make sure it's in all the way, I've found a few that seem to be in till you give them a little extra push and then they go in that last tiny bit). Motherboards can be fussy, some will still post even with bad ram but a lot of them will just stop dead in their tracks, so it'll check the cpu, then move to the ram and if there's an issue it'll just stop instead of continuing on to the GPU etc.
10:56 That's called a capacitor. It says "C50" right next to it, meaning capacitor number 50. If you can get the schematics, you can check what cap 50 does. Soldering a new capacitor on there is an easy fix. Would make a nice followup video!
it's really sucks when a user switch something or in this case he was repasting the CPU and knock off something like this in his computer bring back some bad memories lol great fix as always Greg
I had a problem with my PC restarting under load when i was playing heavier games, it wasn't the temps but just a PSU failing to deliver stable power under load because it only happened during gaming, stress testing didn't produce the restart, my guess for that was because stress testing doesn't cause spikes but is consistent. In any case, i was glad it was a PSU and not something else because it did give me a push on the back to upgrade to a good quality unit
does a screwdriver with a painted end close the contacts exactly well? memory after disassembly often stops working, and almost always helps to simply wipe its contacts with an eraser
I had a DIMM die on me, didn't notice it at first, thought it was just random blue screens, but once I got freezes in Linux, I checked the kit in MemTest86, and got failures. RMA with Corsair was painless.
I'm sorry, but I don't think Greg should fix systems like these. This system bricked because of utter lack of care. Someone who breaks off pieces of dimms and installs a CPU cooler like that doesn't deserve to get his stuff fixed for free in my opinion. Anyone with even a little bit of care would fix at least the cooler before giving a PC to Greg. The dimm breakage could've been an accident, but the lack of effort for the rest is inexcusable if you ask me.
This series has helped me with so many things just because of all the different issues you can run into. I had a friend who’s computer kept blue screening after being on for sometime. I did some digging and found a program that would check the ram. Turns out both rams were dead! Nothing but red. After replacing no more blue screen! This series made me try the easy stuff first! 😂 😊
Fortunately I think you can probably shoot Corsair an RMA request and get that kit replaced. I had a great experience with them recently and a 32gb ddr4 kit that had a dead stick.
i think it's fixable , you can get that same fuse that've been ripped off , and with some FLUX , you could put/iron it in place , and recover the DEAD DIMM
It can also indicate a failing power supply. My computer would crash, games would crash, and some would even refuse to start. Replacing the power supply resolved the issues.
best about this 6:16 ... i have had the same issue twice (diddent re paste, installed a new cpu) after the first dim died, after buying new ram they died again. later found out that a small part of metal had fallen in to one of the dim slots, causing a short that killed any dim in that dim slot.. got it out, but i dont know how it got in there or why it happen after i installed a new cpu. ( could be because i was moving the pc and then also made the metal move so it shorted but either way it was a small metal part that caused killed 2 dims😅(when i say small part of metal i mean reallyyyy small. like so small that the ram could still install nomaly)
I also had a coincidence of Corsair memory after upgrading my memory 64GB. Very strange, but I should've checked to see if a small component might have gotten damaged before it started corrupting Windows installations.
There is one connection between an overheating cpu and Dead Ram or vrm. Stock coolers can kill ram and vrm. The fan is constantly blowing hot air on them. - Was he using a stock cooler before? I live in very hot weather, i repaired, and so many pcs had the same issue i mentioned.
Stock coolers should _never_ kill RAM. Warm air alone is not enough to brick a DIMM so long as that air is eventually venting to atmosphere. They're designed to run hot.
@GregSalazar in regular use case it never kills, but it's happening. A lot of people are buying the strongest cpus possible with the worst motherboards, rams, coolers.
Most (all?) motherboards should have internal speaker pins that Greg could attach a tiny speaker to. It used to be typically included on motherboards and gave that distinctive loud BEEP when POSTing. When a motherboard fails to post, they'll send out different sets of beeps to indicate the issue. For example, it might beep 3 times quickly to indicate a DRAM issue. Nowadays speakers are rarely included, but you can still get them for super cheap on Amazon or whatnot.
Interesting I had just tested two older MOBO's I have and both would not boot with what appears to be identical RAM, the RAM was 4 sticks of only 2gb for 8gb total, the difference being that two sticks were indicated as 4GX and two as 4G only, when they were not put in the corresponding slots i.e. 4GX in Blue Slot and 4G in Black slots etc. it would not post, so if your have what appears to be matching RAM check they are slotted together in the corresponding slots.
Just went through troubleshooting my brother-in-law's newly built PC that was not getting an output from his GPU. We were able to get an output from the CPU graphics so we thought it was the GPU. Turns out it was a faulty power supply (Micro Center diagnostic to the rescue). Greg's comment about no signal from the GPU might not indicate a GPU problem seemed like a personalized message to me.
I also made my experiences with the Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4. I had them in my Rig and one DIMM died, after a short time. After I replaced it with the same model (same speed and timeings), it worked fine for a while. After I build my costum Loop another DIMM died. I just took them out of the system while I was building the loop, but after I took them back they didn´t worked anymore. My younger brother had also the Corsair DIMMs in his build and after we changed his Cooler to an AIO, one of the DIMMs also died. We didn´t even touched them while changing the cooler. So my conclusion was, that Corsair DIMMs doens´t like changing or reseating coolers. Sound weird, I know, but I never had RAM dieing so quiekly just by takeing them out and in again. Never had experienced something else with other brands. Dont get me wrong, I don´t hate Corsair, I even have Corsair DIMMs in my System now, but no RGB stuff for me now.
This computer is a good example why heavy CPU coolers need one of these cheap but superb Amazon aluminium GPU support struts too - not only the graphics card. This CPU cooler is hanging like the head of a cat who hasn´t eaten or slept for more than half an hour! I wonder why the socket or other parts of the mainboard are not broken yet.
I've had a server where a dimm would not work unless it was in a particular slot every other dimm would work funny enough that dimm is still working to this day in it's happy place.
I had a defective RAM before as well and it was cause my PC to BSOD. Good thing I scanned it with windows memory diagnostic tool and actually told me that the RAM is defective
Ive had my fair share of DDR4 DIMMS and or RAM slot problems, I dont know why but I had a total of 4- 8gb sticks die on me coming from different kits. Either that or it doesnt boot at XMP profiles and dual channel. Real weird quirks.
I just randomly got a dimm to died recently (pc auto shut off and didn’t boot until the dimm was removed it lit up and all that) it was a gskill tridentz rgb ddr4 module
One of the best things about this playlist isn't just that the systems get working again, it's how Greg talks his way through the process to the camera to educate people on how to diagnose things.
Yeah its very helpful and educational the way he walks through the troubleshooting process. When I was building my current rig I had a somewhat similar issue to one I saw in a Greg vid which led me to an easy fix.
It's the reason I keep watching it. I always learn something from these videos.
That's the first time I've seen a missing component on a DIMM, but it's why I love this series: another visual experience I get to learn from and add to my pool of knowledge.
I couldn't agree more. I love the depth he goes into on these videos. It's essentially like gaining real world experience through it!
Yeah, same here.
Yeah, same here.
I am from South Africa and been watching this channel for 3-4 years. I love these fix or flop series. I always find it interesting when something breaks or does not work.
Time to get out the old soldering iron and put a new capacitor on that dimm
I'd be careful. The fact that it is missing AND causing a failure likely means it is not a buffer cap. And that is exactly where we leave the realm of simple. even if you know the capactiy from testing it's counterpart on the other DIMM, there are other especially high frequency related properties playing a role now. i.e. ESR...
That component might be rattling around in the case. It's not likely to cause a problem, but still worth checking for it. Small chance it could cause a short somewhere.
@@amurtigress_mobile365 Bypass caps on memory are especially crucial, there's about a 99% chance the stick will fail with it out of circuit. A missing bypass cap won't necessarily affect discrete logic especially with others nearby, but memory is not at all noise tolerant. I think there's a good chance the stick could be saved with a suitable replacement.
Might be worth testing soldering on a replacement capacitor for general amusement value to see if that was why it failed but never use it in a production system.
Shout out to you, Greg. I recently got into building pcs and built me and my sons each a pc. I found your channel a couple weeks ago and binge watched the whole fix or flop series. I messed around and did an auto overclock in Ryzen Master on my 7800x3d the other day and it wouldn’t boot. But, instead of freaking out, I knew it only needed a cmos clear because of watching so many of your videos. I found the clear cmos pins, and after a couple attempts, I got it to clear and my pc booted right up! I absolutely love this series! Thanks so much!
This guy should have way more subs man, this content is good and real to life what I experience building myself daily! Good stuff glad I found this guy!
Very much appreciated!
Having a defective DRAM dimm is so rare in most cases it doesn't even cross your mind.
Really? In my experience if there's something wrong with a PC, ram is often the culprit.
@olebrumme6356 this is true. whenever i clean for measure i always clean the contacts with erasers.
@olebrumme6356. I agree, Ram or the ram slot somehow.
@@robertt9342 it's always something with the ram!
i tried to treat myself to 3600 MT/s corsair rgb vengeance ddr4 for christmas - and the lights were only stable thing. i had same symptoms as with the faulty dimm in video - it wouldnt post, mostly with leds running between cpu and dram then settle on dram. i did get it to post after cmos clear and it seemed to run at rated speed. i started to open something and windows 11 then bluescreened. i ran windows memory diagnostic and it screamed hardware errors immediately. so i had to return them. unsure if they were really bad or just my 12400 hates 3600 ram, i went for replacements 3200 and they work fine. corsair quality control... unfortunately, the current ddr4 runs 3200 but at 1.35v same voltage as the 3600 was supposed to run at. so i cant try a manual overclock. the odd thing is, i had slow crucial ram which is cl22 and runs at 3200 regardless of xmp, at 1.2v but i have no hope with such high CAS already it would be gaining anything but heat if i upped volts and overclocked freq. i may try buy 3600 again from corsair because of icue. i looked at patriot ram but it cost more and i wasnt sure i could control the rgb.
point is, i had the super rare thing happen on a brand new dimm. i didnt check for missing components though.
6 seasons in and I can't get enough of you explaining about clearing the CMOS chip! Friendly information to new viewers, whichever episode they watch.
It's a balance for sure! Don't wanna repeat something _SO_ much that I fatigue recurring viewers, but also don't wanna miss anything important in each video for new viewers, either 😅
Excellent work troubleshooting and explaining, Greg!
Merry Christmas!
Appreciate the kind words! Merry Christmas to you as well!
This is going to be a good one. Keep up the good work Greg
Just built a pc for my daughter for Christmas. No display and 5 beeps. I tried everything I learned from your videos and ended up finding out one of my ram sticks were bad. Very relieved, could of been worse. Appreciate your content very much
I would really like to see some soldering work, the man is totally capable. I think a mother board repair could even be possible with the help from videos by the mainboard medic on youtube, he might even help for some exposure. The process of figuring out what size and value the capacitor is would be a big learning experience for the audience as well
Great video, please continue posting as I have watched all your videos multiple times and I love it when new content posts. I have learned a great deal from your videos. Merry Christmas.
Greg in his Christmas sweater, and it''s 70 F in Orlando Florida. lol. Wait I'm 3 minutes in and that is like a Noctua fan on a Thermaltake CPU heatsink and just zip tied on there, yikes. This should be good!! Let's go.
Bruh it'll be 45 F tonight, what are you talking about lol
@@GregSalazar I would take that. Its currently 19 degrees out and will be 9 degrees :P
At first I thought his sweater said I
@@GregSalazar 45F is nothing lmao, sometimes i wont even grab a sweater. Love being a midwesterner lol
I'm at the other end of FL and it was 29f last night lol.
Great Detective work, Greg. 🎄 Merry Christmas 🎄
Of course you have to release this at 1am, guess I’m not going to bed quite yet.
Have a good Christmas everyone!
The video will still be here in the morning for ya :-)
@@GregSalazarits too good to leave until the morning :)
FWIW Greg, I had some really unusual behavior on my new Ryzen 9900X build that was similar to this system. After some trouble and a bit of jazz hands in the BIOS making the memory happy with EXPO enabled, I had a perfectly working system with 2 sticks of G.Skill running at 6000 MT/s. Three days later I attempted to wake the computer from sleep and it powered on with no display out and full speed on the GPU fans.
I had spare parts to troubleshoot with and had the same issue. One of my brand new dimms which was working perfectly days before would now cause a no POST in any slot, while the other was fine in every slot. I always was under the impression that if memory isn't DOA, it probably won't ever fail for the life of the system. In this case, one of my dimms was just functional enough to work for a few days before failing for reasons unrelated to any of the hardware it's connected to. My replacement Corsair dimms running the same EXPO speed have been flawless for weeks now.
You’re awesome, Greg! So is the fix or flop series!
This is very helpful tbh! This will be my guide, if something happens to my Gaming PC (I hope that's not going to happen to my PC). Thank you, Greg!
Be advised that on x670e ASUS motherboards the most recent bios updates have been bricking the boards with error code 00 and bios flashback to an older version of bios does nothing, and if the board has a 2nd bios it also does not work. This has happened to at least 4 boards, one i saw personally. For future Fix or flop peps lol
I hadn't seen anything about this...When did it start happening?
@@brucepreston3927 last week is when i noticed it. this week ive seen a few posts about it already as well
Love this series, end up learning so much regarding troubleshooting.
You might want to make sure the missing SMD isn't rattling around the case so it doesn't eventually short out something.
Been watching this series since inception, it's super entertaining and informative. However, I never would in a hundred years thought I would have to search up a form and possibly use your services. My PC was like, "Oh, this show is cool! I wanna be on it" and just completely fail on me XD. Oh well, off to the application...
Thanks for another video and Merry Christmas to you and your family, Happy new Year as well.
Maybe put a bit of solder between the defective parts on the defective dimm to match the working one. I'd like to see a vid on that
Another nice job! Love these videos. 🙂
7:11 The flexing of the motherboard tray is crazy.
i recently bought a used 7900XT and when i got it home and installed it i had no display out at all. started freaking out loosing my mind i thought i had got ripped off (even though i had talked to the dude for days and had countless videos / pics sent to verify its legit) and was soooo bummed aht. long story short it was because of lack of power. i had a 750w psu coming from the 7800XT and apparently the 7900XT needs an 850w psu. got a new PSU and problem solved. THEN when i got display out it was BSOD over and over. another long story short...it just needed the drivers updated and it was 100% fine. i know someone here will get a good laugh out of my dumbass. thanks for all these videos greg ive learned sooo much in the short amount of time ive been really into building and tinkering with PC's.
No offence but if you are upgrading a GPU the power supply is the first thing you should check. You could have fried your rig. Never ever upgrade your GPU if your current power supply "should be OK" because it's close enough.
thanks to your playlist i've been able to assist some coworkers with their PC issues.
i just recently got one with a power supply and possible MB issue. it was an amazon PC (STGAubron) with a cheap 500w PSU (known to have issues from reviews). coworker got dazzled by the marketed RGB. i think the PSU bricked the MB, luckily i had a spare AM4 platform from my last upgrade to replace the intel 1155 platform he had. i didnt try to clear CMOS bc no power was getting to any fans or components, but i will just to make sure. he had taken it to a shop and then had someone else look at it so i'm the 3rd person to get hands on it so i figured since its already broken it cant get worse and he's okay with it.
BTW you are right about it being easier to diagnose when you have replacement parts to rule out issues. but since i dont have intel parts, he's getting AMD and i've been transparent with the PC status and given regular updates. i was told i gave him more info on his rig than the PC shop he took it to within the 2 days i've had it than they did in a month.
Keep up the content
I would really like to see you fixing the RAM.
Like get a USB C solder iron (where the heating is in the tip) for like 50 buks and give it a try!
Lol I have a few soldering irons already. I just didn't have that particular capacitor on hand or I might've given it a try.
subbed - how has it taken so long for me to find this channel? Already season 6 and I've not come across it before. Time to load up the playlist and get comfortable.
Ive got four Dimm's of that exact ram in my system and was bitting my nails wanting to know what size and speed of ram it was, worried I have ram thats prone to a failure... thankfully for me it was more than likely user error ill be careful with my ram knowing theres a resistor so close to the edge.. the poor guy probably removed the ram to get better access to the CPU and then upon attempting to re-install the ram. Slid the ram stick into the gap between the two dimm slots. And pop whent that component... dang.
My favorite testing keyboard. The K400 is such a nice, easy, lightweight and versatile way to run a rig that isn't permanent.
3AM here in Norway.. Something to watch with breakfast later :)
Happy Holidays Greg.
Happy Holidays!
I'm loving this series. I used what I learned from you to figure out why my pc stopped working after putting it in a new case. Turns out I had a sata power cable from a different power supply plugged into a fan hub. Luckily I didn't fry anything 😬
i love watching these videos, such useful info everytime i watch, im nowhere near your level of experience but if you continue to make these one day.... hopefully i will be
As I watch these videos im just glad Greg did not have to go that far down the rabbit hole. Great job Greg another pc lives again! ❤
I love watching you troubleshooting problem pc's .
A nice little simple fix for the holidays, how cozy!
Good catch on the broken DIMM! I would have never looked there? Now I know. Great video again
My ADD wish you swapped the Noctua fan with the exhaust fan and replace the zip ties. But great overall fix Greg!
You’re like the Sherlock Holmes of PC diagnosis and repair :) Great job!
Failed ram really is rare these days. I've been fiddling with machines for a couple of decades and only come across one faulty dimm, and that was an unknown failure as unlike this one there wasn't any damage/missing components and the issue didn't happen every time you booted or even tested the ram. Despite how reliable some technology has got its a reminder that any piece of electronics can fail, not just the new tech that hasn't had time to mature/work out issues, everything has a failure rate after all. Also be very, very careful handling any tech - I dropped a circuit board for one project (not computer related) and damaged it beyond repair meaning I just had to get a replacement.
Finally an episode that leaves us with no lingering questions!
No lingering questions? You have lingering questions after _every_ Fix or Flop episode...?
Thank you, Greg !
I would love to try to fix that DIMM. Great video! Loved it!
100 bucks says they pushed against the ram when they were reinstalling the cooler after repasting. Seen it more times than I can remember. They start messing with zip ties etc and their hands are too big to get in there and rather than remove the ram and get it out of the way they just squeeze in there any way they can. So 2 issues there. The improperly mounted cooler led to heat issues, so they took the cooler off to repaste, somewhere along the way they jammed their hand or something in between the cooler and the ram and snapped off the capacitor which then lead to the second issue of the ram not working and the machine not booting.
It's also possible they did take the ram out to deal with the cooler then tried to put one in the wrong way and forced it. I recall a Gear Up episode from the summer when one of the ppl did exactly that when installing their new ram and it did the exact same thing (snapped off a capacitor).
So remember folks, picture out doesn't always mean a GPU or CPU issue. Check the ram carefully first for broken/missing components (also never hurts to make sure it's in all the way, I've found a few that seem to be in till you give them a little extra push and then they go in that last tiny bit). Motherboards can be fussy, some will still post even with bad ram but a lot of them will just stop dead in their tracks, so it'll check the cpu, then move to the ram and if there's an issue it'll just stop instead of continuing on to the GPU etc.
10:56 That's called a capacitor.
It says "C50" right next to it, meaning capacitor number 50.
If you can get the schematics, you can check what cap 50 does.
Soldering a new capacitor on there is an easy fix.
Would make a nice followup video!
Oof, a fix without Greg losing sleep over - what a time to be alive!
it's really sucks when a user switch something or in this case he was repasting the CPU and knock off something like this in his computer bring back some bad memories lol great fix as always Greg
Another great episode. Thank you.
Appreciate that! Glad you enjoyed it.
That's some quality detective work!
Greg, I like your new hair cut.
I appreciate it!
I had a problem with my PC restarting under load when i was playing heavier games, it wasn't the temps but just a PSU failing to deliver stable power under load because it only happened during gaming, stress testing didn't produce the restart, my guess for that was because stress testing doesn't cause spikes but is consistent. In any case, i was glad it was a PSU and not something else because it did give me a push on the back to upgrade to a good quality unit
does a screwdriver with a painted end close the contacts exactly well?
memory after disassembly often stops working, and almost always helps to simply wipe its contacts with an eraser
I had a DIMM die on me, didn't notice it at first, thought it was just random blue screens, but once I got freezes in Linux, I checked the kit in MemTest86, and got failures. RMA with Corsair was painless.
I'm sorry, but I don't think Greg should fix systems like these.
This system bricked because of utter lack of care. Someone who breaks off pieces of dimms and installs a CPU cooler like that doesn't deserve to get his stuff fixed for free in my opinion.
Anyone with even a little bit of care would fix at least the cooler before giving a PC to Greg. The dimm breakage could've been an accident, but the lack of effort for the rest is inexcusable if you ask me.
This series has helped me with so many things just because of all the different issues you can run into. I had a friend who’s computer kept blue screening after being on for sometime. I did some digging and found a program that would check the ram. Turns out both rams were dead! Nothing but red. After replacing no more blue screen! This series made me try the easy stuff first! 😂 😊
i like that quote from a technical folks POV
"ask me how i know"
Fortunately I think you can probably shoot Corsair an RMA request and get that kit replaced. I had a great experience with them recently and a 32gb ddr4 kit that had a dead stick.
I have seen some really bad GPU sag, but that's by far the worst CPU cooler sag I have ever seen.
There are a lot more smd components missing. Look above that missing capacitor. I guess he knocked them off with a screwdriver lol.
This was a great video glad that it wasn't anything major :)
good stuff Greg and big thumbs up 👍😃👍
i think it's fixable , you can get that same fuse that've been ripped off , and with some FLUX , you could put/iron it in place , and recover the DEAD DIMM
It can also indicate a failing power supply. My computer would crash, games would crash, and some would even refuse to start. Replacing the power supply resolved the issues.
That dimm is pretty fixable if one was able to find out what resistance that little missing resistor has
I'm still wondering how much force is needed to get those small components off a PCB. Apparently not much.
newbies in PC building should subscribe to this channel
Some people really don't have to touch a PC at the inside!
Are you going to try to replace the resistor on the DIMM and see if you can get it working again?
best about this 6:16 ... i have had the same issue twice (diddent re paste, installed a new cpu) after the first dim died, after buying new ram they died again. later found out that a small part of metal had fallen in to one of the dim slots, causing a short that killed any dim in that dim slot.. got it out, but i dont know how it got in there or why it happen after i installed a new cpu. ( could be because i was moving the pc and then also made the metal move so it shorted but either way it was a small metal part that caused killed 2 dims😅(when i say small part of metal i mean reallyyyy small. like so small that the ram could still install nomaly)
I also had a coincidence of Corsair memory after upgrading my memory 64GB. Very strange, but I should've checked to see if a small component might have gotten damaged before it started corrupting Windows installations.
There is one connection between an overheating cpu and Dead Ram or vrm.
Stock coolers can kill ram and vrm. The fan is constantly blowing hot air on them.
- Was he using a stock cooler before?
I live in very hot weather, i repaired, and so many pcs had the same issue i mentioned.
Stock coolers should _never_ kill RAM. Warm air alone is not enough to brick a DIMM so long as that air is eventually venting to atmosphere. They're designed to run hot.
@GregSalazar in regular use case it never kills, but it's happening.
A lot of people are buying the strongest cpus possible with the worst motherboards, rams, coolers.
I would replace that component to see if thats all it is. That would be an easy one if you have a good one to measure from.
Hey Greg, there is a PCIE to Debug Code LED adapter you can use on any x4 slot for debugging/
Most (all?) motherboards should have internal speaker pins that Greg could attach a tiny speaker to. It used to be typically included on motherboards and gave that distinctive loud BEEP when POSTing. When a motherboard fails to post, they'll send out different sets of beeps to indicate the issue. For example, it might beep 3 times quickly to indicate a DRAM issue. Nowadays speakers are rarely included, but you can still get them for super cheap on Amazon or whatnot.
@@csinclair Thats not what I suggested. That sound thing doesnt make it easy. A debug code to pcie does. But he already knows about it I emailed him.
Corsair makes pretty high quality stuff, I had a feeling that the module was probably "massaged" a bit by the owner lol
Did you update the BIOS after clearing CMOS?
Interesting I had just tested two older MOBO's I have and both would not boot with what appears to be identical RAM, the RAM was 4 sticks of only 2gb for 8gb total, the difference being that two sticks were indicated as 4GX and two as 4G only, when they were not put in the corresponding slots i.e. 4GX in Blue Slot and 4G in Black slots etc. it would not post, so if your have what appears to be matching RAM check they are slotted together in the corresponding slots.
Just went through troubleshooting my brother-in-law's newly built PC that was not getting an output from his GPU. We were able to get an output from the CPU graphics so we thought it was the GPU. Turns out it was a faulty power supply (Micro Center diagnostic to the rescue). Greg's comment about no signal from the GPU might not indicate a GPU problem seemed like a personalized message to me.
it was hes in ur walls 😂
ouch cap be gone. looks like some pins are open circuit now. BUT it stands to reason that replacing that component will fix the dimm
I also made my experiences with the Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4.
I had them in my Rig and one DIMM died, after a short time. After I replaced it with the same model (same speed and timeings), it worked fine for a while. After I build my costum Loop another DIMM died. I just took them out of the system while I was building the loop, but after I took them back they didn´t worked anymore.
My younger brother had also the Corsair DIMMs in his build and after we changed his Cooler to an AIO, one of the DIMMs also died. We didn´t even touched them while changing the cooler. So my conclusion was, that Corsair DIMMs doens´t like changing or reseating coolers. Sound weird, I know, but I never had RAM dieing so quiekly just by takeing them out and in again. Never had experienced something else with other brands.
Dont get me wrong, I don´t hate Corsair, I even have Corsair DIMMs in my System now, but no RGB stuff for me now.
This computer is a good example why heavy CPU coolers need one of these cheap but superb Amazon aluminium GPU support struts too - not only the graphics card. This CPU cooler is hanging like the head of a cat who hasn´t eaten or slept for more than half an hour! I wonder why the socket or other parts of the mainboard are not broken yet.
11:24 just wanna ask if are those even repairable? like solder a new one?
Yeah thats pretty easy job if you have the part on hand. Like 5 min work.
RAM. Wow😮. The question now is. Can you repair that ram by soldering an equivalent missing component.
Very likely :-)
I've had a server where a dimm would not work unless it was in a particular slot every other dimm would work funny enough that dimm is still working to this day in it's happy place.
The rear fan on the CPU cooler bothers me more than it should. Okay did not notice the zipties either.
WHY is the entire motherboard tray moving?!
Best tech series since Call For Help on ZDTV (Tech Tv) with Leo LaPorte
I had a defective RAM before as well and it was cause my PC to BSOD. Good thing I scanned it with windows memory diagnostic tool and actually told me that the RAM is defective
My PC is never bricked because I watch Greg Salazar.
0:10 The cooler looks slanted
It does, that's because the fans are both slanted though. I thought the same thing.
Damaged ram, that's uncommon. With that much sagging with the cpu cooler I was betting on bad cpu mounting pressure, but that a really good one.
Ive had my fair share of DDR4 DIMMS and or RAM slot problems, I dont know why but I had a total of 4- 8gb sticks die on me coming from different kits. Either that or it doesnt boot at XMP profiles and dual channel. Real weird quirks.
Good catch on the missing SMD.
0:45 Seeing the CPU Cooler on an angle annoys me, and Greg hasn't even started talking about it!
I just randomly got a dimm to died recently (pc auto shut off and didn’t boot until the dimm was removed it lit up and all that) it was a gskill tridentz rgb ddr4 module
Would be nice to solder on a new capacitor and see if that would fix that DIMM
I had a Dimm kind of fail in my Main PC this summer. It still boots but everything over 2666 Mhz crashes (XMP is 3600)
Imagine getting spoilert from the Comment-Section before you actually saw the Video 😐Im gonna watch it anyways. 😂