Man!!! That soldering bypass was so hard to pull off! I was getting anxiety just by watching you have a go at it. You got my total respect for pulling that one off! Love your channel and your fixes man!
when he found the chip, I paused the video and looked up the chip. from the results, this chip flying off when doing HDMI replacements is very common! then I went down the rabbit hole more and found it is not for sale anywhere and the only way to get one is from a donor board. went back to the video and was super glad there is a way to bypass it. I know the PlayStation really does not like filters not being used and this could have ended poorly if it was Sony
Thick pcb you should use your solder wick to remove the mount points first rather than try to heat the board all the way through all at once. Makes it a lot easier when you go topside
This works and I almost cried after seeing my home screen show up.. Because I had one of those "Hiroshima" repairs on mine.. All 19 PADS. 3 trace wires all the way up to the encoder chip, a new encoder, and I went through 3 HDMI ports and this bypass before it fired up! Great great video!!
Great Job Steve! Good save with that chip! I did a video of one of these a few weeks back, and they do require a fair amount of heat to remove the port. I would recommend using LOW MELT solder, it makes the job a little easier!
@@StezStixFix You still did a great job Steve and you got it working! They are still a real pain to do even with low melt. I don't really fancy doing another one any time soon!
I saw that chip hit the deck when you pulled the port off, was hoping it was one of the caps that's only there for protection and not strictly necessary like I've seen on other vids. Righteous hack in the end though, gratz.
I've gotten back into redoing my guitar electronics after seeing your videos, and that is challenging enough for me. The precision required for what you're doing is absolutely crazy.
Low melt solder is your friend. And clean your soldering iron tip, please. What you lacked in reballing, you definitely surpassed in bodge wiring! Nice work!
your sense of humour is so bloody brilliant! Absolutely love your videos. You pretend like you don't really know what you're doing, but in reality you are a repair ninja.
Another fantastic video! And I appreciate all the elements, especially the masking. When you realize just how tiny of a workspace you're really working with, it makes the repair that much more impressive.
Hello Steve, discovered your channel few months back and I'm having an absolute blast, thank you. Have you considered making tutorial videos about the tools you use and how to use them? I think it'll benefit some of us knowing how to use a multimeter for example; or when and how to use a solder flux. Thx!
Thanks Vince, felt good to get this one going. I hope it's a lasting fix, but time will tell. I'm keeping this for myself anyway, so I'm happy with how it turned out! If those chips become available to buy at some point, I will definitely get one👍
@@StezStixFix Yes, I'm sure it will be fine. Maybe just ground yourself before changing out the HDMI cable if you been doing the running man on thick piled carpet (don't deny it). Phil (TheCod3r) will no doubt be able to sort you out with one of those ESD chips in the future if needed 👌👍👍👍
@@itsconsolefix Nice one Phil. I was going to suggest that too as I know you do lots of console repairs. I know you used to be into coding so you might like my latest video, where I had to reverse engineer some software and write a keygen to access a service menu in an inverter, as technical support were not being very helpful! I also found some Easter eggs in the program.
One of my favourite videos in a while. I love when they go a bit longer. I feel like we are all here for the nitty gritty like the soldering mask. Great stuff.
best reaction to a fix ever, thats exactly what I do when something works when I had no confidence it would and am absurdly happy, just makes faces and noises of fantasticness. Well done on the repair, thats so much harder than it looks.
So true story. Once you did the chip bypass and turned it back on, when you put the screen on it, i lost network connection, so on my screen I had the little circle thing and I thought it was on your screen so I was excited for you... then i realized that it was my network and had to wait to see that you had indeed fixed it. But talk about PERFECT timing.
This must be one of my favourites. Good recovery on the fix. I hear that component is needed for 4k though, so maybe if you can get a replacement there will be a follow up video??
Hi Steve.. avid semi-amateur repairist here.. came by your channel flicking through repair videos and watched this one.. first one I've seen from you and.. its different.. but a good different haha I really liked it so I've subscribed :)
Great repair Steve! This reminds me of when I used to do a lot of surface mount mods and rework on prototype phones. You spend literally hours working under the microscope then when you look at it with your eyes, it's so tiny, you think, how the heck did I just do that?!!... Those ESD devices are there to protect the device so it will be a tad more vulnerable now 😉
I don't know how or why but I cant stop watching your videos. I have no real interest in electronics but I cant stop, You seem to be my favourite RUclipsr....
Might need some merch with that shocked it's alive expression. Maybe a mug with " it's alive shocked face" on one side and "stupid game face" on the other
These videos are fantastic, yeah the others may be able to solder better, and pretend to know they know what they are doing, but you're a much better presenter and entertainer. Keep up the great work.
I rarely understand the use of that huge hot air thingie, and this one is no exception... It melts everything in a large area. Can't you just use solder wick and the Moo-machine? :D
Sadly not on stuff like this, it wouldn't be able to remove the solder. I had the hot air on 500 degrees, and it was still only just enough to get the port off. With an iron or desoldering gun, it would've gone nowhere!
Nice rebound bypassing the chip you destroyed! I'm sure it had a purpose, but we will never know. Thanks again for sharing your experience! Rock on, my friend!
@@ians.4431 I am not a fan of those chips that float on solder balls. I am not even sure if I would have tried to fix it. Stezstix did a fine job getting it working. As far as 4K is concerned, I had 4 monitors die on me at a young age that were 4K. I went back to a normal 1080p monitor now and I have no issues. Thanks for the response @Ian S. !!!
Great job sir. It still boggles me that watching this I can't grasp the sense of the small scale of the componente until a giant finger comes onscreen.
So glad I found this channel. It's important to show what can go wrong as well as right. You are doing something definitely right with your approach. Keep it up!!!
Hey Steve, I've been watching your stuff for quite a while and you really inspired me to start this stuff myself. Thanks to your videos i managed to fix a friend's speaker, that had broke off pads on the charging port. Keep going with your amazing work!
Great humour. You make it look effortless. Speaking of bypassing stuff. Brother going in for a heart bypass next month. Would you like to give it a go. 😳😳😳💔
Hey Steve! I love your content, you should totally try to fix faulty/broken Guitar Hero/Rock Band guitars or drum sets, there’s a LOT of them that get tossed into the trash or sold for a few bucks
I wonder what percentage of your viewers would self identify as blokes? This is very relatable, albeit miles beyond my own abilities. Where do you get the kit? The knowledge? The Chutzpah? The arrogance? The Confidence? The Humility? I really enjoyed this. One other question - what's that chip for - if you can bypass it, what have you lost/won? This question is going to pursue me until bedtime, in about half an hour.... TL;DR If you can't trust Microsoft?
Great video, I believe it's a solder mask you need. These are used for repairing main boards in mobile phones and are usually on a sheet on which you would typically use a solder paste to create the solder balls with the correct spacing.
Shiver me timbers that was entertaining, great to see a real world repair and not a perfect HDMI port replacement. Hats off for giving the bypass a try and balls or no balls I that that was a solid result.
Discovered you this week. Been watching before bed and feel inspired. Going to buy a kit for this kind of stuff and then fix broken stuff in the future. Fuck planned obsoletion. Any advice on a cheap kit to get started? Probs get a soldering iron and one of your connections testing things. The beeper. And then start going from there.
pre tin the coated wire on the first end makes life easier ... it also helps to scrape off some coating with a scalpel ... less stress on the solder points
Try warming the stickers up a little with your hot air. Less damage to the stickers. When the USB & HDMI ports start getting lose on my son's xbox it's usually the metal part of the connector spreading apart like yours. If you deal with it early enough you can clamp the metal parts back together and solder it together for extra strength. It makes the ports feel new again.
I'll give you another option for your Rap, if Emilio Herrada is too hard to fit in your song, you can call me Dr Funkenstein hehehe. Nice work Steve! as always!
Stupid rubber strap thing
Yeah I don't like rubbers either
@@samholdsworth420 Why?
Yes I had a similar problem with the stupid rubber strap too!
@@dvsr5296 because I'm allergic to them. Dermatitis 😭
@@samholdsworth420 That's not the real reason you don't like them. Lambskin exists.
This fix had it all, mystery, drama and a happy ending!!! Good man Steve!!!
😁 thanks Greg!
spoilers
I hope they'll make a sequel with a new bad guy and a new plot :D
Yes special massage for my eyeballs.
Even had a rubber strap-on.
I like your videos because you break stuff almost as often as you fix it. Keep the good work.
It's just because he's bad at what he's doing
@@H.EL-Othemany I've looked everywhere, but can't find your RUclips channel with 100K+ subscribers, mate.
Man!!! That soldering bypass was so hard to pull off! I was getting anxiety just by watching you have a go at it. You got my total respect for pulling that one off! Love your channel and your fixes man!
when he found the chip, I paused the video and looked up the chip. from the results, this chip flying off when doing HDMI replacements is very common!
then I went down the rabbit hole more and found it is not for sale anywhere and the only way to get one is from a donor board.
went back to the video and was super glad there is a way to bypass it. I know the PlayStation really does not like filters not being used and this could have ended poorly if it was Sony
Thick pcb you should use your solder wick to remove the mount points first rather than try to heat the board all the way through all at once. Makes it a lot easier when you go topside
Or use the desolder gun...
@@oldguy9051 AKA "The Cow"
low melt would have helped too
Yeah but he was trying to do a quick fix. Ended up making it worse. No shortcuts next time steve.
@@sirrichel9155 True
You sir have the appropriate amount of balls! 👍 Sketcheriffic, and awesome fix.
Thanks Chris! 👍
but allways the incorrect amount of thermal paste
Same ESD as the ONE X's I believe but if you bypass you will only get 1080p. Love the videos my man! Keep it up.
This works and I almost cried after seeing my home screen show up.. Because I had one of those "Hiroshima" repairs on mine.. All 19 PADS. 3 trace wires all the way up to the encoder chip, a new encoder, and I went through 3 HDMI ports and this bypass before it fired up! Great great video!!
for someone DIY ing it you do a really good job
Great Job Steve! Good save with that chip! I did a video of one of these a few weeks back, and they do require a fair amount of heat to remove the port. I would recommend using LOW MELT solder, it makes the job a little easier!
Yeah, definitely wish I had some low-melt for this job. Will be using it next time for sure! 👍
@@StezStixFix You still did a great job Steve and you got it working! They are still a real pain to do even with low melt. I don't really fancy doing another one any time soon!
@@StezStixFix You can buy 70 C melting temperature solder
I saw that chip hit the deck when you pulled the port off, was hoping it was one of the caps that's only there for protection and not strictly necessary like I've seen on other vids.
Righteous hack in the end though, gratz.
At 6: 41when the nozzle touches the board , probably knocked it off
I've gotten back into redoing my guitar electronics after seeing your videos, and that is challenging enough for me. The precision required for what you're doing is absolutely crazy.
Low melt solder is your friend. And clean your soldering iron tip, please. What you lacked in reballing, you definitely surpassed in bodge wiring! Nice work!
6:40 You can see that IC go tata and landing on the mat. it was as you rested the board against the hot-air gun, Steve, OOPS!
Tuned in for solder masking, was not disappointed. Congrats on hitting 90k, well deserved!
Sick flip on that chip Steve :) also thanks for "boring" us with the solder mask
your sense of humour is so bloody brilliant!
Absolutely love your videos. You pretend like you don't really know what you're doing, but in reality you are a repair ninja.
Another fantastic video! And I appreciate all the elements, especially the masking. When you realize just how tiny of a workspace you're really working with, it makes the repair that much more impressive.
Low melt solder makes it way much easier, great video Steve!
What an intense roller-coaster of emotions this was. My anxiety was through the roof. Only thing calming was seeing DAVE.
Hello Steve, discovered your channel few months back and I'm having an absolute blast, thank you.
Have you considered making tutorial videos about the tools you use and how to use them? I think it'll benefit some of us knowing how to use a multimeter for example; or when and how to use a solder flux. Thx!
Nicely done Steve 👍😎
Thanks Vince, felt good to get this one going. I hope it's a lasting fix, but time will tell. I'm keeping this for myself anyway, so I'm happy with how it turned out! If those chips become available to buy at some point, I will definitely get one👍
@@StezStixFix Yes, I'm sure it will be fine. Maybe just ground yourself before changing out the HDMI cable if you been doing the running man on thick piled carpet (don't deny it). Phil (TheCod3r) will no doubt be able to sort you out with one of those ESD chips in the future if needed 👌👍👍👍
@@Mymatevince I can indeed lol. I'll dm him and hook him up with one ;)
@@itsconsolefix Well done Phil👌👍👍👍👍
@@itsconsolefix Nice one Phil. I was going to suggest that too as I know you do lots of console repairs. I know you used to be into coding so you might like my latest video, where I had to reverse engineer some software and write a keygen to access a service menu in an inverter, as technical support were not being very helpful! I also found some Easter eggs in the program.
One of my favourite videos in a while. I love when they go a bit longer. I feel like we are all here for the nitty gritty like the soldering mask. Great stuff.
you make electronic repair fun and hilarious, and your content is really helpful as well. you gained a new a loyal subscriber! Hello from Austin Tx!
best reaction to a fix ever, thats exactly what I do when something works when I had no confidence it would and am absurdly happy, just makes faces and noises of fantasticness. Well done on the repair, thats so much harder than it looks.
So true story. Once you did the chip bypass and turned it back on, when you put the screen on it, i lost network connection, so on my screen I had the little circle thing and I thought it was on your screen so I was excited for you... then i realized that it was my network and had to wait to see that you had indeed fixed it. But talk about PERFECT timing.
This must be one of my favourites. Good recovery on the fix. I hear that component is needed for 4k though, so maybe if you can get a replacement there will be a follow up video??
Hi Steve.. avid semi-amateur repairist here.. came by your channel flicking through repair videos and watched this one.. first one I've seen from you and.. its different.. but a good different haha I really liked it so I've subscribed :)
Great repair Steve! This reminds me of when I used to do a lot of surface mount mods and rework on prototype phones. You spend literally hours working under the microscope then when you look at it with your eyes, it's so tiny, you think, how the heck did I just do that?!!... Those ESD devices are there to protect the device so it will be a tad more vulnerable now 😉
Vulnerable to what?
@@mandokir ESD, static electricity
I don't know how or why but I cant stop watching your videos. I have no real interest in electronics but I cant stop, You seem to be my favourite RUclipsr....
low melt solder is your friend Steve. just mix the current solder with low melt and Viola easy peasy lemon squeezy
Yeah, in hindsight I wish I had some. Definitely will next time! 👍
Thank you Steve for the awesome vide. Say hi to Dave from me. Did he enjoy the short vacation.
😁 thanks Frederick! Dave says Hi. And yes, I think he enjoyed being in a box in the shed for a week. Nice change of scenery for him! 🤣
Fantastic as always and the look on your face when the bypass worked was priceless. Keep up the awesome videos.
Might need some merch with that shocked it's alive expression. Maybe a mug with " it's alive shocked face" on one side and "stupid game face" on the other
Low melt solder is the way to remove connecters and avoid any mess.
I have to admit i laughed so hard when you realized the chip had fallen off. Incredible recovery!
You make my day , i thought it was me trying to fix something easy and making it worst by mistake and it becomes horribly hard and longer 😅
These videos are fantastic, yeah the others may be able to solder better, and pretend to know they know what they are doing, but you're a much better presenter and entertainer. Keep up the great work.
6:36 (ish) Is that when you yeet the chip off the board? - something flies off as you pull the hot air gun away..
Yep! Almost certainly, that's the little blighter making a run for it! Well spotted sir👍
I rarely understand the use of that huge hot air thingie, and this one is no exception... It melts everything in a large area. Can't you just use solder wick and the Moo-machine? :D
Sadly not on stuff like this, it wouldn't be able to remove the solder. I had the hot air on 500 degrees, and it was still only just enough to get the port off. With an iron or desoldering gun, it would've gone nowhere!
Nice rebound bypassing the chip you destroyed! I'm sure it had a purpose, but we will never know. Thanks again for sharing your experience! Rock on, my friend!
If I'm correct that chip is what allows 4k without it it won't display in 4k and the only way to replace it is to take one off a donor board
@@ians.4431 I am not a fan of those chips that float on solder balls. I am not even sure if I would have tried to fix it. Stezstix did a fine job getting it working. As far as 4K is concerned, I had 4 monitors die on me at a young age that were 4K. I went back to a normal 1080p monitor now and I have no issues. Thanks for the response @Ian S. !!!
What an emotional rollercoaster, good fix! Forgetting the Gimp strap is standard practice.
Great job sir. It still boggles me that watching this I can't grasp the sense of the small scale of the componente until a giant finger comes onscreen.
As soon as that chip dropped..... I swore for you. But daaaaamn man you pulled it back. Fantastic video mate 👍👍👍
So glad I found this channel. It's important to show what can go wrong as well as right. You are doing something definitely right with your approach. Keep it up!!!
That Home Alone face was satisfying as hell. Stellar job, mate!
i was about to pull the trigger on that listing aswell, at least i getto see what happened to it in the end
Hey Steve, I've been watching your stuff for quite a while and you really inspired me to start this stuff myself. Thanks to your videos i managed to fix a friend's speaker, that had broke off pads on the charging port. Keep going with your amazing work!
Love the Van Gough painting impression when it worked
Dave need a promotion! Your fix instantly worked with him ❤
I've no idea how you managed to pull off this one, but great job and great video!
Thanks Adam! Yeah, I genuinely didn't think that bypass would work! 👍
That was legendary. I knew that chip was cooked, but that hail mary bypass! That just feels so good.
Thanks Noc! Yeah, it felt really good ! Can't believe it actually worked! 👍
You scared me, thought you weren't gonna sing for us
Amazing video
Glad Dave has been found without a ransom
Keep up the amazing work Steve
Great humour. You make it look effortless. Speaking of bypassing stuff. Brother going in for a heart bypass next month. Would you like to give it a go. 😳😳😳💔
Thanks Wardy! Hope your brother's op goes well, I'm sure he'll be in better hands than with old Captain Bodge here!
That went from "he's got this" to "oh God" to "pray for this man" to "someone prayed for this man" in a very short period of time. Well done!
Well done snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. Brilliant video. Welcome back Dave!!
Hey Steve! I love your content, you should totally try to fix faulty/broken Guitar Hero/Rock Band guitars or drum sets, there’s a LOT of them that get tossed into the trash or sold for a few bucks
I wonder what percentage of your viewers would self identify as blokes? This is very relatable, albeit miles beyond my own abilities.
Where do you get the kit?
The knowledge?
The Chutzpah?
The arrogance?
The Confidence?
The Humility?
I really enjoyed this. One other question - what's that chip for - if you can bypass it, what have you lost/won?
This question is going to pursue me until bedtime, in about half an hour....
TL;DR If you can't trust Microsoft?
Think you need to invest in some low melt solder.
I thought I saw something fall off when you was applying heat.
Thanks for sharing 👍🇬🇧
Good to see you brought a Xbox series X and managed to fix it well done Steve 👍
Thanks Chris! 👍
Nice random Offspring cover at the end.
Great video, I believe it's a solder mask you need. These are used for repairing main boards in mobile phones and are usually on a sheet on which you would typically use a solder paste to create the solder balls with the correct spacing.
You can see the little chip fly off 6:36 right as you pull the HDMI port off. and it's that little blurry gray blob in the background I believe.
"Want to skip" - What an insult! NEVER! Song is great!
Steve,you looked like the painting named ' The Scream ' when you turned on the Xbox and it WORKED !😂
Shiver me timbers that was entertaining, great to see a real world repair and not a perfect HDMI port replacement.
Hats off for giving the bypass a try and balls or no balls I that that was a solid result.
This bro did the greatest come back of all time , this fix represents me twice a day everyday haha
Good job
Great fix. Although (and you had the same sentiment hearing your outro), who in their right mind would play Crazy Taxi without The Offspring?
Totally agree! I actually went to my Dreamcast to play it because it upset me so much not having Offspring and Bad Religion! 😁
Low melt solder is always worth a try.
6:39 That's when the chip fell off. I think you were holding the board up with the hot air gun, must've been right on it!
I came here to post this!
Discovered you this week. Been watching before bed and feel inspired. Going to buy a kit for this kind of stuff and then fix broken stuff in the future. Fuck planned obsoletion. Any advice on a cheap kit to get started? Probs get a soldering iron and one of your connections testing things. The beeper. And then start going from there.
Awesome video mate. The look on your face when it worked... Priceless. Love the content. Thanks for sharing 😁
My misses had the same problem, she forgot the strap on too.great vid buddy
Love ya work Steve.... Keep on Soldering on brother.....whats the backing track you are using for the over dub....sounds very Soulish mate...cheers
pre tin the coated wire on the first end makes life easier ... it also helps to scrape off some coating with a scalpel ... less stress on the solder points
I face palmed so bad on this one. Great video. Remindes me of the padre game yesterday in the second inning. Then comming back in the end to win.
Come on Stez the power of Dave fixed this. Hope he has enjoyed his holiday
I think you're right! 😁
I'm tempted to try this, but knowing my luck I would end up getting one off Ebay that was full of lard or locusts.
i actually cheered when that came on!!, fantastic recovery! ow and that rap was on point!
Well done you, I am so pleased that you got it working.
See it was just an extra part, manufacturers are always adding random chips for kicks. 😂
Fun video! Glad you sorted it out!
Nice work. I was always a Playstation guy myself. Ever since that Red Ring of Death debacle, I've stuck with Sony and all my consoles still work.
Epic recovery and patience, Nice Win. Thanks for sharing 👍
Try warming the stickers up a little with your hot air. Less damage to the stickers. When the USB & HDMI ports start getting lose on my son's xbox it's usually the metal part of the connector spreading apart like yours. If you deal with it early enough you can clamp the metal parts back together and solder it together for extra strength. It makes the ports feel new again.
I just love the reaction when it actually turned on.
0:35 good impression of The Zodiac from WCW!
Your patreon rap got picked up by my headset and someone said it sounds like Snoop Doggy Dog. And your 360 game is a dreamcast game!
Congrats to the newest fix! What an amazing trip we could watch here!
Nice one Steve didnt think you were going to fettle this one for a while
I'll give you another option for your Rap, if Emilio Herrada is too hard to fit in your song, you can call me Dr Funkenstein hehehe.
Nice work Steve! as always!
Thanks Emilio! I like Dr Funkenstein! Rolls off the tongue much better 😁
I don't know why I like being included in a rap on a hardware repair video, but it always makes me feel happy every week.
Great job. Love your videos. I guess putting it fully back together solved the issue of no beep when turning it on.
Awesome fix... tricky but very successful 👏👏👏
I love your expression when you fix things. It's awesome
Great video! What does the (now removed) chip do normally?EDIT I scrolled below and found the response.
"Want to skip? Go to 4:10 now!"
Why would anyone want to skip your amazing disassembly montage song?!
Like MacGyver of electronics. "We have to replace the chip" - "I don't have any, gimme some copper wires, I rebuild it"
Well done Steve!
can you tell me where you got the monitor from please
I enjoyed that thanks. Any idea why there is a workaround fror that chip ? or was it just they had the same issue as you and accidentally removed it ?
Crazy difficult work 😮 You so much deserve more than one ‚like‘ for this! ❤
6:30 , it was like watching the piece of foam insulation falling off the liquid fuel tank of the space shuttle.