*Warning* this video is NOT a JOKE
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Nvidia 4090 Founders edition BRAND NEW and already dead.
What killed it, you wont believe until you see this amazing discovery and repair.
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He had to literally debug it! Awesome!
lol good one 🤣
That was insane.
@@northwestrepair Man I have very basic soldering skills and I have very little idea of what's happening in your videos, but holy crap do I enjoy them.
I think people working on Mark IIs would get a kick out of you debugging a modern day compute unit just as they did back in the day. I love your videos, please keep them up!
Flythere's edition 😂
That's actually where the term comes from in software.
You reballed a 4090? dude you are the goat.
Re-balling a 4090 is not easy task. He had a lot of good advice, but even the best could struggle.
He’s a baller
@@Bossmodegoat lets see you re ball a 5090 bro!!! :P
My 4090 is just safe sitting on some store's shelf I cannot reach. It's reassuring.
That is insane. You would think their 'clean' rooms at their OEM would be clean.
You expect a perfect world I presume.
@@davidlong1786i completely agree
It's impossible that at one point during assembly and packaging there won't be something
Bugs find a way to get into everything. No matter how clean you try to keep it.
I'm quite sure this bug crawled in long after the card was manufactured.
He said at the beginning that it was a resale place it was purchased at maybe it happened there
This guy is the master genius of video card repairs.
It is seriously one hell of a skill to understand the hardware to that extent, let alone having the skills and tools to repair it.
Seriously he need to make his own video card company and name to itself
some of the most impressive shit i've ever seen period the amount of skill this guy displays is crazy
same thoguhts, that's some dedication and skill, i wont even have the patience
You can tell he didn't get that way without tons of practice and repetition, too - what I always find pretty interesting about watching guys do stuff like this is that I can tell how seasoned they are just by watching their handiwork / fingerwork - right down to how they apply solvents or pastes or the like. You can usually tell when someone not only has a firm grasp of something in their head, but also in motion - committed to muscle memory I suppose you could say. It definitely shows.
I guarantee, even if I hid uncertainty, just about anyone would be able to tell if I were to make such a video - even if the info in it were 100% correct, you'd be able to tell almost instantly if I stepped in front of the camera to do the exact same procedures... that I was a rank amateur. This guy's videos actually do sort of inspire me to take this up as a hobby, using one of my old cards from builds long past.
@@VeggyZsame bro I really wish I could redo what this guy does this is pure artwork at its finest
The fact that there was an actual dead bug blocking the pins is insane! Good work!
It was probably shorting them. Fried bug = mostly carbon = somewhat conductive.
de-bug
there was another component that had to be replaced. The bug could have just been a red herring planted by an industrial espionage network
I still can’t get over how tiny the PCB actually is.
Yup the technology is impressive really once you strip away the giant cooler needed for it.
oh yeaaaa 🙆♂️
yeah, its so small. all these new cards getting bigger over the years felt like "newer tech, higher power, better, faster!" but it wasnt related to the new tech at all just the heat it produces xD
surprising
ikr!! all the gaming/productivity power in such a small card blows my mind.
I keep thinking the same thing every time I watch these videos of current gen GPUs getting taken apart. These cards aren't much bigger than what we used to have, say, 20 years ago. 2023's gigantic coolers vs tiny, passive heatsinks and/or itsy-bitsy fans aside: I guess the manufacturing process is so much more advanced these days (5 nm currently IIRC?), so they don't need to use a massive PCB. I wonder how large the card would need to be if that 4090 still used the 130 nm process that the Radeon 9800 used that he repaired a few videos ago. 130 / 5 = 26, so... 26 times as large? But that's probably not how that works... :D If it is: That would probably mean a graphics card at least the size of the old Defender arcade board I used to have hanging on the office-wall. And that thing was the size of a small- to medium-size poster. :D
That reminds me of the story of Grace Hopper who was a pioneer in computer programming. She is often credited for coining the term "bug" to describe a flaw in computer hardware or software. While working with a team at Harvard in 1947, Hopper and her team were confused about consistent errors on a computing machine they had designed. After looking at the hardware, they discovered a moth had gotten inside and disrupted some electronic circuits. After this incident, the term "bug" was used to describe unexpected errors. This repair was a similar "bug".
brilliant! I hope that's true.
Her name was Grass Hopper
And of course the name of one of Nvidias GPU architectures.
disrupted not some electronic circuits, but punch cards, used at that moment. So the bug was physical xD
OMG same 😂 from 1947 to present and still
I like how he puts written instructions on screen, as if we are going to be soldering a 4090 at home.
...and I'll be glad he did the day I end up having to do so... which is a day I hope never comes.
I'm glad he does, I do this kind of repair I'm just not working on GPUs. If you know basic electronics and have done pcb work like this you can do it too.
I literally have a faulty Quadro that I plan to attempt to fix, those message on the vid are golden to those of us attempting this kind of stuff.
I can simply rebuy a used quadro for £20-£30 but now where's the fun in that?
Is it that strange? People like Louis Rossmann have been showing how to repair electronics of equal value for a decade and he's responsible for starting many Macbook repair careers.
Step 1: spend 1 4090s worth in tools to reball GPU cores.
Step 2: open repair shop in Southern California
Step 3: ??? Profit
You are the cleanest repairer i’ve ever seen. Kudos!
Ferocious,
Is that a joke ? Where are you from ? Virgin islands ?
At 76 years this is one repair I won't be attempting. Thank you most interesting.
Don't feel bad, at age 38 I probably won't be either.... unless I start Dr. Frankensteining with one of my old dead (or non-dead but dated) cards...
I'm pretty sure I would end up causing more issues than it began with. I Honestly walk away from most of this man's videos thinking of getting into repair...
Why not?
Thank you for the knowledgeable information. I appreciate it
The editing is top notch
You should have sent a bug report to Nvidia hotline 😂
lol "I found a bug in your graphics card😂😂😂"
NVIDIA: That was a user bug.
Nah, don't bug them
BTW, I love the helpful notes at the top-right! Editing is top-tier!
Seeing all the extreme precise work you do.. is always amazing... damn, the patience and the precision
stupid people do wires in it, his hand too !
damn, the patience and the precision, he does not care.......
Some parts of this sort of work is easier than it looks, some of it harder, the reballing and chip placement is physics doing a lot of the work for you. I think one of the neatest things is when a chip has a slight 'tick' as it centers on the solder pads perfectly on it's own though.
That’s a weird fault. The bug couldn’t possibly have crawled under the core after it was soldered so it must have gotten trapped under the core during the original reflow soldering step at factory.
If this were the case though I’d have expected the card to fail the end of line function test at factory because it would have immediately shorted something or even prevented some of the solder balls from soldering correctly.
That defect should have been detected before the card ever shipped to retail
Sounds to me like this might've been staged then. To get clicks and such. I would also think that soldering at those temps would melt a bug entirely but it looked almost fully intact.
That's assuming they test more then it powers up.
@@larkan511i highly doubt they would risk the hit to credibility
@@larkan511the effort of reballing isn't worth it for this many views?
it could absolutely have crawled under the core after it was soldered. There is quite a gap. Everyone that ever had a GPU in their hands and cleaned it with fluids/alcohol would know.
commenting to bump the algo as I really have nothing to say because if you watched the videos, they are outstanding! Thanks for your efforts to film, explain and edit those videos!
Your repairs are pure magic!
So glad I clicked this. Honestly at each step I was like “ok guess it’s dead” and then you just went deeper…. Amazing
The "lift the core" music in these videos is like boss music in games. As soon as it starts playing you know things about about to get serious.
you mean the stranger things music?
The track is called stranger think by c418
I find these videos so fascinating. Thanks for publishing them. Nice to see that GPU's can be salvaged.
Love watching your repair videos it's honestly a work of art.
This is the best video I’ve ever seen.
Wow
Thanks for recording all the deep diving you went through it was amazing.
I was awe struck , I had no idea these things were even possible.
❤️:)🔥
This man is amazing!!! I believe he deserves a sub from everyone who watches.
Done, 👍😛
subbed too :)
i just liked 👍😁
Same.
Yeah, his channel is pretty amazing - I'd even call it inspiring...
I can guarantee, it inspires anyone who has ever had a dead GPU from the factory that they couldn't return or replace, at least. I've had several over the years. I still have a GTX 1090 (or something) sitting in my closet never used because by the time I was able to test, I could no longer return it under warranty... I've often thought about sacrificing it to experience actually taking them apart and troubleshooting, checking for shorts, etc - to see if maybe I can find the problem myself, in my free time.
This channel makes me think about that old card every time I stumble into it.
incredible work bro
You could say this was a...
...buggy card.
(Sorry.)
@@_-Montana-_ It's like they suddenly decided to outsource production somewhere they don't have great quality control and building standards. I don't know if that's actually the case, but it'd make sense.
Well, that is where the term "computer bug" comes from: an actual bug. Wasn't it a moth or something on a board way back when that was causing problems.
@@kevinbarnard3502 You're thinking of when Grace Hopper found a moth squashed in a relay... however, her note was about it being the first case of an actual bug being found, indicating that "bug" was already jargon by that point.
I just want to smack you so badly right now. Is this normal? ...I am not a violent man!
@@kevinbarnard3502 The word bug was already used in technical contexts by Thomas Edison and others 150 years ago and comes from a Middle English word. The situation with Grace Hopper got famous because it was a literal bug causing a bug, but the term is much older.
This repair is on a different level. I am also in computer repair for over 35 years and I have yet dare to do a repair like what you did. You are a true professional.
Awesome work man!
That poor bug got fried when the card was powered up for the first time 😂.
Absolutely mental. Amazing work.
AHA!
the elusive "computer bug"
Just found your channel and am amazed how easy you make these repairs look! Thank for sharing. Subscribed!
It isn't a joke, it's a Halloween scare on Friday the 13th!
Wish there were more repair people like you around the world, most would've just said they couldn't find the problem.
The Borgey
Wish ????
need HOPE too ?
Why not repair it ?
Why you don't cry PRAY her ?
@@lucasrem The fk you talking about?
Absolutely love these repair videos especially when dealing with the chip. Awesome!
I had a bug fly in to an empty RAM slot on my mobo- it shorted the MOBO out. Luckily letting the mobo sit overnight and the capacitors discharging fixed the issue (after removing bug and cleaning RAM slot)
Bugs kill computers too.
I'm guessing this repair was not cheap. You put a lot of work into this. Thanks for the video!
I had a laptop that would not turn on with batter or charger, no lights would turn on
opened the back panel and for some reason my eyes caught the sight of a black dot on a tiny capacitor
it was a tiny ant with one hind leg and a front leg shorting the cap, dusted away and laptop worked!
Solid work boss! Love your process and showing all the steps. Impressive hopefully I wont have to hit you up when I try to boot my new build soon, I did not test my 4090 out of the box and water blocked it already "Living dangerously"
If he got that card for free or cheap cause it was DOA, that guy got himself a nice bargain getting it repaired!
Wattching you clean it was amazing, verey good job getting it working again! Magician
Once my PC keeps OCP shutdowns and BSODing, drives me crazy
turns out there was a dead bug on the backside of my 1080ti
cleaned everything up and it's all good
You are doing very important work and you are much appreciated. Truely incredible your contribution to humanity. Thank you
Humanity cannot continue digging these things out of the sand. We need to fix what we have that’s broken and repurpose. there are enough parts on this planet for everyone to have an upgrade for years and years and years.
First a BIOS bug that fried CPUs, now this. Nvidia really need to improve their debugging.
They make these in cheap low quality Chinese factories for pennies and charge 1000 dollars what do you expect
@@dranzerjetli5126 - /Whoosh
Great work on the audio and editing this fix, always fascinating to watch.
Can we get this video to NVidia's QC? xD
you have my blessing
@@northwestrepair I'd bet $ this one never left the factory to be sold at retail, but was sorted out for recycle or repair. Instead of being dismantled/recycled/repaired, it ended up in the grey market instead. It's not likely a QA issue, but a problem with the factory reject 'chain'. And yes, I bet Nvidia would be very interested to see this. Not because of the literal bug, they'll likely consider that somewhat amusing, but for how that card ended up anywhere for sale.
Just came across this channel and I’m fascinated. Amazing videos. When he was doing repairs on the chip I played at 25% speed. Highly recommended.
This happened to me when I was a kid, our printer started printing badly, streaking ink everywhere and being oddly inconsistent. Normal diagnostics failed. When I took apart the printer, a big housefly had somehow fallen into the paper feeder and got stuck in the nozzles and died.
That is not at all the same.
💀💀
Wow!
Really impressive job!
Thank you for the video!
Disgusting! Though I'm seriously wondering, how the bug went under there lol
never expected someone with a krnl profile to be here
you're not supposed to eat gpu you know
@@mr.2minutes161 however, Time magazine does say I should eat bugs. So does Bill Gates. Coincidence?
I find these videos so relaxing, even though I don't really understand. Thanks also for the subtitles. Beats doomscrolling. My new favourite thing to watch.
I love the comments like choose your mode of death. Thank you. I can watch this more than once.
always amazing watching your videos, looks so easy for you.
I've watched a LOT of repair videos and this might be the most impressive one yet. Great work!
Fun fact: The first bug in a computer was actually a moth that wandered into a computer and caused constant errors. Since the machine didn't stop and wasn't equipped with any of the fail safes we're used to today, technicians had to figure out the problem all by themselves. This was back in the 40s. Nothing was modular back then. When something broke, you had to take everything apart and rewire the entire machine. Computer technicians were more like car mechanics.
Both my brother in laws were time served car mechanics, when all else failed out came the real tool kit a big hammer and a wrecking bar.
Remember-the active elements of the computer were vacuum tubes with high voltages.
The version of the story I heard was that it was slot-card computer, and the bug made a 0 become a 1 or vice-versa.
@@benoitbvg2888 I think it's the absolute nightmare of any programmer when debugging an error doesn't cause a crash! It's kinda like navigating a huge maze and after you reach the end, you discover you're not at the exit and you probably took a wrong turn somewhere.
there weren't computers in the forties. more like steroided out calculators
Great video, I had not idea this type of repair was possible.
Can't wait another RTX 4090 saga in this channel :D
OMG, that's just amazing job. You are the Pro!
Awesome work. Any chance to know how much a repair like this would cost?
Half the original gpu price
@@rennanmarques2886don't lie. Lol
Amazing work as always! Love your background music!
So the bug was shorting the GPU which then shorted the other chip? I know you don't know but that's a crazy diagnosis and hero level repair. If your client bought this card DOA he probably made out like a bandit. I hope you charged him commensurately.
Everybody gets charged the same, no matter the card.
@@dusteyezz784 Makes sense, since any card could come up aces or jokers.
Maybe the bug connected the chip to power which resulted in the chips (and the bugs) death...
why would you charge more for something thats been gotten cheapm regardless of what they paid you as a bussiness charges a fee for your work, not based of what they paid coz they save dmoeny meaning you can make more 🤦
You bet the soldering process fried it sooner @@tomkroebel ;)
As always, very thorough and detailed with cautionary captions to inform viewers..
What can I say, Mr northwestrepair ?
If you show your videos to the engineering students, they would be 100x more motivated to do their studies.
Awe-some.
wow, i really enjoyed this video , lots of information as you go along fixing it, great quality over all amazing video and well videos!
Damn can't ever imagine spending mega $ on a product with no warranty or proof or workingness.
Pretty certain the buyer didn't pay anything close to full price. Hopefully they got it, knowing it doesn't work, for little cash.
It's conceivable they got it for a really steep discount, then took it to this repair shop and paid like $100-$200 to get a functioning 4090. They still could have saved a ton of money versus buying a new one.
@@squirrelsinjacket1804 that's my assumption... because a known non working card is only worthy of a paperweight.
I keep forgetting to subscribe! Subscribed! This video was awesome! Great discovery and repair!
I expected no less from "the best technisian that has ever lived"
wrong channel man
@@jeronimomurruni u wish
what is this comment refering to?
Great seeing a professional work. Adjusting individual solder balls with tweezers. Amazing. Pruno
Considering the origin of a bug when referred to a computer meant a literal bug, we’ve certainly come full circle in 2023
Nice observation !
Yep, that computer ran on vacuum tubes, and the bug was a moth.
It isn't. The word bug was already used in technical contexts by Thomas Edison and others 150 years ago.
Your skills and experience as demonstratred in your videos is superb!
Hero of late stage capitalism.
Lol
Very nice, beautifully done.
Fun fact: you recreated the actual origin of the word "bug", since the actual word came to life because a literal bug was inside one of the very first computers, causing it a malfunction.
This "bug" was causing this 4090 to malfunction.
Not true. The term bug was used before the bug found in that computer, as in the famous photograph it says "First actual case of a bug being found" It's a myth that that was the first use, as it was even stated that it was not.
What a nice work. And the music fits perfectly
Love watching the fast forward vid of you cleaning the solder on CPU chip while blazing a nice kush ;) keep up the hard work.
That was impressive. I'm curious about the repair charge. I will remember this video. If I ever need a video card repaired, I will send it to you.
Wow, here I thought these were very complex or almost impossible to physically repair, and im glad you proved me wrong. This was masterful work sir you are a godsend. Keep up the amazing work. I'll keep watching your content, and you have yourself a new subscriber.
Pretty satisfying to watch! Good job man keep it up.
you are the man. never seen that before. great tech work.
I have a 6 year old Geforce Titan X and a brand new Geforce RTX 4090 and if either one go belly up, I'm contacting you! Awesome videos!
God this kind of work looks satisfying. Props man, I wish I could find something like this that really makes my brain work everyday.
hahaha, that bug took it personal - Bug free now...Amazing skills man.
Incredible video! Lifted the core right on the beat :D
Great video.. ! nice to see how it all goes together.
My guy you are a god 4 repairing this. Awesome video
My man you are a handy genious! Good work all the props for the video and the process of fixing the card!
Thanks.
@@northwestrepairwhat is the synthwave track in the middle of the video when you find the bug
awesome channel ✌️✌️✌️ you are truly skilled
Honestly, your videos make me feel inspired to do what you're doing more every time I watch one. Even as just a hobby - I mean... the problem being an ACTUAL bug? that's so silly it has to be true, haha...
Bro I didnt even think someone could fix a gpu. You are really good at this
Love your videos, man!
Thanks 👍
impressive! saving this so I know who to contact when I have a problem!
Crazy, awesome as always with the repair
great that you show the on screen text indicating what is happening in the process
You are TRULY talented!!
Amazing job, enjoyed every step 10/10
bro amazing to watch keep it up man love this content.
Wow, this is so cool to watch. Thank you for sharing :)
Incredable fix, thanks for showing this work.
You sir are a wizard beyond measure. I can't even comprehend your knowledge.
A Zalman CPU cooler! I had that cooler!! My God... I haven't seen than in eons and yours STILL functions. Truly, hardware is not made like it use to be.
you are amazing sir, im not any kind of hardware engineer nor I'm having any issue in my cards but its always good to learn something new information, love ur videos