Make good ie "ghetto" fixes are my favorite to watch. Kinda like the difference between a proper car mechanic who can remove and fix a broken part compared to a lowly fitter who can only replace a broken part with a new part. Another great video thanks.
Cheers! Yea often it just makes more sense to replace parts than do bodge repairs - but occasionally for some places it's not going to matter, and it's good to get in practise for those times when replacement parts aren't an option. Plus, if you're going to try and do a repair on the cheap because it's a minor fault, a bodge repair is a lot less of a time waster than two bench sessions and ordering parts (paper work, etc) for something so trivial.
I agree with just mke it work, but if I had the thing open annyways, I would have spent an extra minute to blow out the dust in the fan... Great work aas always.
Done watching, thank you very much for the informative repair video. I have learned significantly more troubleshooting & repair lessons in this tutorial video and to your other repair videos as well compared to my ENTIRE 4 YEARS OF COLLEGE due to the rotten & outdated standards of education here in the Philippines. I hope you will soon have a mini-series for Schematic & Boardview-free Voltage/Power Rail Tracing[12V/18-20V Main Voltage Rail, 5V, 3.3V, CPU/GPU Core Voltage Rail, DRAM Voltage Rail, IGPU Voltage Rail, System Agent/Northbridge Voltage Rail, PCH Voltage Rail, BIOS Voltage Rail, Battery Power Rail], Proper method of testing/checking of potentially faulty MOSFETs & ICs/Controller Chips, CPU/GPU/PCH Reballing and BIOS Bin File Editing.
Pro Tip: For that type of wiring it's much easier and quicker to use bare wires. Take a single strand of wire from a multi-strand wire cable or use different wire that has easily removable plastic insulation.
You're not wrong about the cheap pre-owned laptops. Two caveats I'd like to add though: First, a lot of modern laptops don't have an optical drive anymore and there may be people to whom this is important. You can just get an external USB one but that's another purchase and another device to be "flappin' around in the breeze". It's not my view but I have seen people complain about it. Second (and perhaps more important): Support for Win10 ends in 2025. A lot of the used laptops you can get right now (especially the really affordable ones) do not meet the official system requirements for Win11. Yes, you can install it anyway, at least for now. But there's no guarantee that it'll stay like that or that MS isn't going to trip you up with an update somewhere down the road. Someone buying a cheap used laptop now might encounter issues in less than 2 years. Maybe they'd have to fiddle around in the registry to ignore the system requirements (at their own risk) or maybe they'd have to switch to Linux or something. Making an older laptop good now until the market for used ones has a better offering of fully Win11 compliant models might just be a valid strategy, even if it costs a little bit of money. Just thinking out loud here...
It's almost absurd how cheap SSD's have become! I remember buying an XPS laptop back in 2012 with a 512GB mSATA SSD in it, it was a very expensive option. Now a component like that would be £30-40 and only that much because they don't really make them any more. For hard disk replacement 2.5" drives they are dirt cheap, I'm sure most of us have a couple knocking about in drawers even. Good fix! I'm a fan of "make good" especially since it's just a power switch, whatever makes it work.
I would’ve run the wires between each set of pads then solder the switch to the middle of the wires. Nice video, another laptop saved from going to the landfill
Doing it that way the switch would not sit flat on the board and fixing it down would be difficult . Glue the switch as Graham did and then run the wires between the pads would work and be more secure
@@UserUser-ww2nj The switch “legs” would sit under the wires so it would sit flat. Also I think the ground plane could have been scratched and exposed to solder that side of the switch straight to it. Nothing wrong with the way Graham did it, just different options
The Laptops from businesses usually have a locked BIOS and no charger. There are ways around that (write a new BIOS using a programmer) but it does necessitate opening the Laptop and buying a charger. While you are inside you can do a deep clean, put new cooling paste on the CPU and such. But the cost will become such that you can't make any money. Do you think building up a stock of them to spread out the cost would help?
Meeh, you get a duff one every now and then, but you just send it back as faulty. Same with chargers, if they say it comes with a charger, I expect a working charger. If they say it doesn't come with a charger, I expect it to be cheaper.
If you do the SSD in this could you show the windows install and take the personal section off the old OS and put it into the new install? You did it before but I can't find the video
Or enter the 48 character the key in manually. With Bitlocker you can configure it so that the key does not have to be entered during every login but rather associate it with the Windows login password. Howver if the security keys are wiped out of the UEFI that recovery key has to be manually re entered.
No, since they've basically replaced the laptop, this was just a 'make it work' repair. I think it would be worth doing, because a spare laptop that's uselessly slow isn't really any good, but the vibe I got from the customer was cold, so I steered back toward 'make good'.
@@Adamant_IT Yes, replacing the HDD for SSD is always worth it. For those older laptops i just have a stack of refurbished SSD's ready. Even doing a basic Windows install or cleanup takes way too much time now with a HDD.
When I'm fixing my own stuff, I always look through my parts to see if there is something I can "make do" to fix it. But I'm a cheap old codger who hates to spend money on things.
Too often you do customers a favor with a low-cost repair such as that, and they snivel "It's not like the original." I would get an OK to install anything but an exact replacement for the factory switch no matter how silly that would be.
Definitely. I wouldn't do a bodge repair on a 'good' laptop unless I was out of options, but mid-late lifecycle devices that are a bit banged up already, no one will notice. That being said though, the bodge repair needs to be solid, if I don't believe the repair will (reasonably) last the laptop's life time, it's no good.
Diagonals are longer! However, it was also pointed out to me that I could also have scraped the ground plane and soldered down to that, which would mean I'd only need one jumper wire, and no glue required.
I work with what comes in for repair - and sadly laptops are vastly more common. I do keep an eye out for towers, but it's not often there's one in that has good video potential.
Hi sir I am reaching out to you in a hope you can help I dismantled my pc to give it a clean unfortunately i dropped the motherboard and a capacitor fell of now it doesn’t work I saved up for months to buy it now I can’t use it and I am very upset if I send it to you could you please help me
My hand is ok 😅I bashed it on the metal end-plate of the front desk while hurrying for the phone. It was savage and I barely survived.
Would have been a terrible way to go.... glad you pulled through pal.🤣
Tis but a scratch
Make good ie "ghetto" fixes are my favorite to watch. Kinda like the difference between a proper car mechanic who can remove and fix a broken part compared to a lowly fitter who can only replace a broken part with a new part. Another great video thanks.
Cheers! Yea often it just makes more sense to replace parts than do bodge repairs - but occasionally for some places it's not going to matter, and it's good to get in practise for those times when replacement parts aren't an option.
Plus, if you're going to try and do a repair on the cheap because it's a minor fault, a bodge repair is a lot less of a time waster than two bench sessions and ordering parts (paper work, etc) for something so trivial.
I agree with just mke it work, but if I had the thing open annyways, I would have spent an extra minute to blow out the dust in the fan...
Great work aas always.
Done watching, thank you very much for the informative repair video. I have learned significantly more troubleshooting & repair lessons in this tutorial video and to your other repair videos as well compared to my ENTIRE 4 YEARS OF COLLEGE due to the rotten & outdated standards of education here in the Philippines. I hope you will soon have a mini-series for Schematic & Boardview-free Voltage/Power Rail Tracing[12V/18-20V Main Voltage Rail, 5V, 3.3V, CPU/GPU Core Voltage Rail, DRAM Voltage Rail, IGPU Voltage Rail, System Agent/Northbridge Voltage Rail, PCH Voltage Rail, BIOS Voltage Rail, Battery Power Rail], Proper method of testing/checking of potentially faulty MOSFETs & ICs/Controller Chips, CPU/GPU/PCH Reballing and BIOS Bin File Editing.
It's always nice to see the customers story. Nice to get a better idea of how a repair shop runs. More of that please. Great vid as always. Thank you.
Hearing some of your thinking behind repair VS replace, the general economics of repairs and other shop talk is really awesome!
Another "nostalgic" advanture! Thanks for the experience! Full respect, very good job ✌👏
I think mounting the switch diagonally would have allowed you just to bridge to the pads. Good repair , saving Ewaste too.
Hi Graham. Hope you are OK, seeing the state of your left hand ⛑. I was wondering why there were no live stream on Saturday ? Take care.
I wonder what the other guy looks like.😆
Great video as always, many thanks.
Pro Tip: For that type of wiring it's much easier and quicker to use bare wires. Take a single strand of wire from a multi-strand wire cable or use different wire that has easily removable plastic insulation.
Great video, thanks for sharing 🙂
great bit of improv there
The "kapton tape" gave me a good laugh
The kapton’s kaptoff
Nice fix 👍👍
Your left hand looks rough. Did you punch a pipe end? Great advice on cheep laptop upgrades via components or refurbished units.
Everytime i watch the whole damn video.
keep up the good work man
Having trouble getting the rt809f to install on my computer. Keeps coming up with an error.
that fan looks corrupted. I would guess the output grill is probably clogged too.
You're not wrong about the cheap pre-owned laptops. Two caveats I'd like to add though: First, a lot of modern laptops don't have an optical drive anymore and there may be people to whom this is important. You can just get an external USB one but that's another purchase and another device to be "flappin' around in the breeze". It's not my view but I have seen people complain about it. Second (and perhaps more important): Support for Win10 ends in 2025. A lot of the used laptops you can get right now (especially the really affordable ones) do not meet the official system requirements for Win11. Yes, you can install it anyway, at least for now. But there's no guarantee that it'll stay like that or that MS isn't going to trip you up with an update somewhere down the road. Someone buying a cheap used laptop now might encounter issues in less than 2 years. Maybe they'd have to fiddle around in the registry to ignore the system requirements (at their own risk) or maybe they'd have to switch to Linux or something. Making an older laptop good now until the market for used ones has a better offering of fully Win11 compliant models might just be a valid strategy, even if it costs a little bit of money. Just thinking out loud here...
Good job Graham , ghetto repair fitting for said ghetto computer...
Please 🙏if you could explain how the EC / SIO works or what that type of failure it will look like in a PC if the SIO chip fails 🙏🙏
It's almost absurd how cheap SSD's have become! I remember buying an XPS laptop back in 2012 with a 512GB mSATA SSD in it, it was a very expensive option. Now a component like that would be £30-40 and only that much because they don't really make them any more. For hard disk replacement 2.5" drives they are dirt cheap, I'm sure most of us have a couple knocking about in drawers even.
Good fix! I'm a fan of "make good" especially since it's just a power switch, whatever makes it work.
This was good, but I would have applied it to the back of the button then stuck the button down. Less overflow.
I would’ve run the wires between each set of pads then solder the switch to the middle of the wires. Nice video, another laptop saved from going to the landfill
Doing it that way the switch would not sit flat on the board and fixing it down would be difficult .
Glue the switch as Graham did and then run the wires between the pads would work and be more secure
@@UserUser-ww2nj The switch “legs” would sit under the wires so it would sit flat. Also I think the ground plane could have been scratched and exposed to solder that side of the switch straight to it. Nothing wrong with the way Graham did it, just different options
hi i need to know how much mostly is gonna cost for that repair? thanks mate..
As Win 11 comes on line workplaces are just scrapping PCs & laptops .
When Micro Soft drops Windows 10 we'll be swimming in unsupported hardware !
Looks like a diagonal mount would have been solderable? Still, liked the repair.
I completely agree. No glue or wires needed from the looks.
I did assume that it wouldn't reach because the diagonal is too long, but maybe with a big solder blob 🤔
i’m surprised you did that considering
Good job
The most expeditious way to handle this would have been to *solder the button diagonally.*
I have some of that yellow selotape too!!
Good God man!...what happened to your left hand?
Hello, is there an injury on the left hand or did I miss something?
The Laptops from businesses usually have a locked BIOS and no charger. There are ways around that (write a new BIOS using a programmer) but it does necessitate opening the Laptop and buying a charger. While you are inside you can do a deep clean, put new cooling paste on the CPU and such. But the cost will become such that you can't make any money. Do you think building up a stock of them to spread out the cost would help?
Meeh, you get a duff one every now and then, but you just send it back as faulty. Same with chargers, if they say it comes with a charger, I expect a working charger. If they say it doesn't come with a charger, I expect it to be cheaper.
I found out about super glue and the fumes in the eyes , hurts like hell
😀Hi 👋 sir my laptop motherboard inductor is shoing 0 to ground for cpu know i should inject the voltage or not 🤔🤔
CPU vcore (the inductors going to the CPU) will always show low resistance because the CPU itself is low resistance, so _no_ do not inject on vcore.
I enjoyed that video 👍
If you do the SSD in this could you show the windows install and take the personal section off the old OS and put it into the new install? You did it before but I can't find the video
ruclips.net/video/XlX48bQnd1g/видео.html may be the one...
Honest Abe fixes 😂
Would it have fit diagonally?!
I'd tell customer that it is working and they should get their data off of it and seek a better replacement.
I never used bit locker anyways but now see you need a flash drive to unlock it
Or enter the 48 character the key in manually. With Bitlocker you can configure it so that the key does not have to be entered during every login but rather associate it with the Windows login password. Howver if the security keys are wiped out of the UEFI that recovery key has to be manually re entered.
Did you up sell an ssd?
No, since they've basically replaced the laptop, this was just a 'make it work' repair. I think it would be worth doing, because a spare laptop that's uselessly slow isn't really any good, but the vibe I got from the customer was cold, so I steered back toward 'make good'.
@@Adamant_IT Yes, replacing the HDD for SSD is always worth it.
For those older laptops i just have a stack of refurbished SSD's ready.
Even doing a basic Windows install or cleanup takes way too much time now with a HDD.
What you saying at the start "hello dwerbs"?
Interwebs. Was originally supposed to be a self-aware joke that every youtuber has an opening catch phrase, and then it ended up sticking.
When I'm fixing my own stuff, I always look through my parts to see if there is something I can "make do" to fix it. But I'm a cheap old codger who hates to spend money on things.
Too often you do customers a favor with a low-cost repair such as that, and they snivel "It's not like the original." I would get an OK to install anything but an exact replacement for the factory switch no matter how silly that would be.
Definitely. I wouldn't do a bodge repair on a 'good' laptop unless I was out of options, but mid-late lifecycle devices that are a bit banged up already, no one will notice. That being said though, the bodge repair needs to be solid, if I don't believe the repair will (reasonably) last the laptop's life time, it's no good.
Cleaning would be good
based on the coldness of the customer just as well he didn't...
i'm looking and looking ... just turn it at 45 :D
Diagonals are longer! However, it was also pointed out to me that I could also have scraped the ground plane and soldered down to that, which would mean I'd only need one jumper wire, and no glue required.
@@Adamant_IT i realy like when i see fix rather then replacment. Nice work
I think a mouse button it was perfect
Yeah, your kapton is crap. I got it too... :(
I love your video's but can you do more towers I hate laptops thanks just saying
I work with what comes in for repair - and sadly laptops are vastly more common. I do keep an eye out for towers, but it's not often there's one in that has good video potential.
Hi sir I am reaching out to you in a hope you can help I dismantled my pc to give it a clean unfortunately i dropped the motherboard and a capacitor fell of now it doesn’t work I saved up for months to buy it now I can’t use it and I am very upset if I send it to you could you please help me
Drop me an email at info@adamantit.co.uk with some pictures, sounds like it may be an easy fix for me if it's just a few parts knocked off
Email sent thank you
First to comment. It's been a while😅