3:15 you should stop spending so much money for nonsence like food.. MORE GPUS!!!

Fitter. Happier. More productive good little GPU

Mad buildzoid is best buildzoid

At a nominal 1v gpu core voltage, and only pulling 100 amps (pretty low really, can get several hundred running through gpu)- means total resistance from negative to positive rail is .01 ohms. This is solder joints on board and on die as well as silicon resistance. Yes your cpu or gpu is really really very close to a dead short when normally running. This is why a real "short" on either is pretty much not repairable, it quickly burns up traces on and inside pcb.

Hey, bz can you help repair my antistatic wrist Band? It has a short to Ground. I tested it with the beep Funktion of my dads Multimeter

Buildzoid: Talking alot Me:Looking at Stickers and realise that the camera is wrong lol

An enforced lesson in the Billy basics of resistance measurement, your pain was obvious BZ. Keep up with great channel you are one of the few that shares good gen.

So I should definitely use continuity mode. Understood! 👍 😜

This was a great video . You should do a small series in individual parts you check to trouble shoot cards. Then when someone ask question just refer them to that series. You get the views and don't have to deal with onslaught of repair questions. There aren't many English graphics card troubleshooting videos available. Thanks for the content!

Hey, Buildzoid. How can I repair my vintage Vincent Black Shadow? I can't find any resistance anywhere.

Thank you very much, you reassured me. I have a computer that fell on the ground while it was working, and when I turned it off after it fell, it did not turn on after that. When I checked it, everything was normal, but the vga circuit I suspected that it had shorts, but after I made sure I found it a small resistance in vga and not outright shorts

Thanks buildzoid I learned this while putting together racing drones. It would beep all the time. So I would unsolder everything and rebuild it and it would still beep. I just said F it and plugged it in and it worked and Didn't know why.

Fluke does have more than one model of multimeter, they are a very reliable maker of multimeters, been using them for many years.

Do you have that list of core resistance/variance online anywhere?

Flipping the camera really disorientated me!

Hi, I have the same meter and normally null the probes out when making low resistance measurements but it's still not as good as 4 point method

C660 cap (from looks and C-designation (printed on the pcb) I heavily _assume_ its a cap) came off the board (backside) of my 980ti (EVGA SC+ ACX2 - ref design PCB) when replacing the backplate and block. It _seems_ to work, but I've been unable to find information and don't wanna push it until I've talked to someone's whom know what its for. Its situated right "above" the PCIE 16x socket locking tab, a cluster of caps and a few other tiny SMDs, right next to an IC marked "3A 2H 34B". Any ideas what this cap is for? Am I safe to overclock the snot out of it without? I haven't had major success resoldering it to the board, the pad on one of the sides came off with the cap.

Nice man another cool video from you

Of course Buildzoid stretches out a 3 minute angry video to 15 minutes. It's an interesting talent!

What PSU do you use? Is it true that PSU 12v voltage ripple matters much for overclocking?

do you happen to know off hand what voltage a 1070 is expecting to see across the shunt resistors at light load

This shit is hilarious, and definitely understand the frustration

Absolutely love the gum on your keyboard! Lol

I was working on resurrecting a 10 year old Core 2 Duo system with a 9600GT in it. GPU was getting super hot, even though I was only looking at the BIOS. The PCB was heating up. Clearly a short somewhere. I had some spare time so I brought out a multimeter, and found what looked like a suspicious capacitor; there was 0Ohm resistance to ground on both sides. So I found the rail the short was on! I don't have the right tools to fix it, and I was planning to run this system headless once it was all set up anyway, so the GPU went to be recycled.

We tested out our nice 5.5 digit bench meters in my EE class. Honestly, the accuracy of 2-wire resistance measurement is a joke below 100 ohms. I doubt there are many hand-held meters that do 4-wire measurement.

Another short 15min video :P

those that are black dots? how are they measured, is it the same? I have problems with recognition of vram on my graphic board, it is the first time that I face these things

Buildzoid, have you ever tampered with bypassing power limits on an mxm video card?

this is a big educational for me. thanks

Buildzoid going full Rossmann 😁

The title shocked me.. I do it all the time. Why did I find this monents before going off to bed? Now I have to stay up until 4am watching this and related videos.

Can I get your opinion please? I was gaming last night and then my PC shut down with no warning. I thought it was the CPU temp protection so I let it cool off a bit and tried to boot. The PC wont turn on. The PSU makes a clicking noise like a relay and then nothing happens. I took the GPU out and turned the PC on and it booted without the GPU in so I ruled out the PSU. I have a Gigabyte 980 Ti. I think the GPU is actually shorted and it triggers the overcurrent protection on the PSU. I took it apart but couldnt see any blown caps or burn marks. Any idea what to test on the GPU to find if it has a short or not?

Qhick question about shorts on smd caps, if i put my meter in continuity mode and put a meter probe on each side of the cap and it beebs that indicates a short am i right. But does it mean there is a short when its in situe on the board. Or can some other componants on the board make some caps apear shorted.?? Or does it mean defo short, ive caps around my ram chips and they apear shorted. Two fets i found bad a got rid of the sgorts on the exr 12v but shorts still exist around the ram chips. Any ideas

Hello, I need your help, I am fixing a gtx 1060 and I see that the motfes get 12 volts but none of them work, looking at the up9511p controller there is no current to the vcc, do you know why it can be? Thank you so much

I have several gpuz that I can't get to post,in general what would usually or most frequently be the thing that fails the most? Like what would be the first thing you would check?ty good video btw...

How do we know What readings should we be expecting?

my gpu its a rtx 2070 gigabyte 3x fans and the power lights blink indicating an anormal power something, what should i check pls i need help edit: my psu is perfectly fine and gives enough power to the gpu, just one day ive changed the thermal paste and idk what happened

“Except it fucking works!” Gotta love BZ

When i testedr my rx 580 i found a lot of capacitors in short to ground and i am still not sure that my multimeter measured good (used in continued mode ) ...but where is the problem with no display , she worked and next day stopped :|

Sir, i have asus gtx 1070 dual oc 8gb graphics card, this card has booting and a few mintues wroking after suddenly cut off the gpu...how to fix it...

I am having the exact same fact with capacitors and Vrm and then when I made other mesurements I realized there's something wrong with my comclusions OMG.

I need help find an short to ground on video graphic card.

"Oh no, what ever will we do? ...except it fucking works." 420/69 roasted the casual plebs.

WHOA WHOA SLOW DOWN!!! *this isn't a gamers Nexus motherboard video*

I knew about it but didn't know the impedance was this low

Multimeters read resistance in continuity mode also, correct term would be to search for a 40000 count or higher multimeter, don’t really spec digits in electronic test equipment

Thanks for clarification, but what would it actually mean if i measure the vcore inductors (LR22) on both sides to ground at 0.5Ohms and the card doesn´t display and the fan spins full blast (RTX A2000). Doesn´t that mean there should be a short in the 3 vcore vrm setup? Is it possible the processor is fried even if the other vrms show higher resistance (50-80Ohms)?

hello excellent video, I have a problem with a nitro sapphire rx 580 8gb, I have 4 of them that only recognize me 4gb of 8 can you help me with this problem

got gtx 970 msi. evertyhing seems normal on visual inspection, resistance seems normal ( from my point of view and im new ( noob ), voltages i didnt messure but core is cold when i turn gpu without heatsink and ofc thers no picture. only fans spin Any suggestion

Do you know how much voltage your meter applies to measure resistance at various resolutions? Quick maths says it's probably not more than a couple hundred mV at this resolution, but I'd still be too scared to touch a graphics card with anything other than voltage mode :

I like angry BuildZoid !!!!!!

Love your videos

This became for me obvious when i instead of just listening started to pay attention to the display of my fluke. Especially when i noticed different resistance readings for different gpus(and other circuits with soldered cpus/gpus) while continuity is always beeps. It can be much more intuitive if only continuity can change it's tone in respect to resistance.

We need a room tour

sir i have a gpu its broken alot of capacitors lost from back nd also cant turn on can u help me a little bit

Hello, I have a GPU that doesn't work. It is a 1070 ti. I was teaching a zoom class and I spilled coffee on the top of my pc and it leaked onto the back side of my 1070. My power supply tripped and then nothing...I couldn't get the computer to cut back on...I removed the gpu and the computer turned one...I've since installed a new gpu and everything works fine. When I install the 1070, the computer won't cut on. Power supply trips. Is the card done? Is there Anything I can do ? Thanks

hello , i have an RTX 2070 Armor 8G that will not take the driver from nvidia.....default driver works fine but once i update the system will not boot.....ive tried a few different windows version and also a few Linux versions and i get the same result oince i update....

Yes that caught me out too...

i only really use continuity mode to see if things are connected, isnt that pretty much all its for?

You only use continuity mode to see if a trace is broken right? If theres no short then the circuit is broken… right?

15 min video ? what did Steve do to you! He will pay for this!

soooo, i have this problem with my tube amplifier for my guitar, buildzoid pls halp

Just like my good old Avo8, you just need to see if the needle moves, who cares about the reading, if it aint supposed to move and it does, then there's a problem or visa versa... took me years to stop getting pissed at my first DVM because I had to actually look at it when doing this sort of fault tracing. I could see the avo on the edge of my vision, which could pickup the needle twitch... ahh the 1980's were fun :-)

Sounded like Louis Rossman for a moment there

It took me a while to find out what the title means lolol. I was so confused at first... Why would it be wrong to measure continuity between 12v and gnd for short circuit? Then I realised what you meant...

Im somewhat guilty of this, though my multimeter is so terrible it cant seem to measure any resistance below like 1k ohms...

I use linear power supplie AT 0.8volt to see if shorted or not

how i tarace broken part nd find out

The only way for you to reduce your inbox is to make a series of computer parts diagnostic videos for dummies. Just keep the rtx off as usual .

And here I were thinking that you were going to talk about how the test voltage for continuity mode of the meter can damage components like the GPU. Since continuity mode and resistance mode on a meter usually operates differently. The resistance mode usually outputs a small current (usually 1 mA) and measures how many volts it needs to push that current, and from that it can work out the resistance, this usually being fairly small voltages. While continuity mode usually forces out more current (sometimes up towards 10-20 mA, this is so you can test LEDs in the field), and more voltage and can risk damaging low voltage chips. (A lot of meters happily output a few volts as to be able to test LEDs. Though the GPU and its less then half an ohm would require amps for it to reach damaging voltages, so that isn't really something a multimeter will be able to provide.) Though, continuity mode on most meters start beeping around 30-200 ohms in my experience. So most modern chips and power delivery systems will look like a dead short as far as the meter is concerned. So yes, using continuity mode is not anything but annoying.

continuity mode or diode mode ?

But if the memory VRM output measures 0.9 ohms on a 980ti I'm guessing there's a short somewhere!

Why is the video image mirrored? Wow! My comment went back in time; and BZ was able to read it - Einstein was wrong!!!

Diode mode to the rescue 😅

great vid . i know you said dont ask and you dont wanna help probably , but if you have experience with definate shorts maybe you can help me with a little direction . shorted from metal dowl supporting pcie extension . cheap foam under the board and my own stupidity . replaced one cap that was visibly damaged still not recognized as connected . i feel like its more than likely easy fix but i dont want to just replace every cap if maybe the chip got fried from this type of short . . pleassee pleasse have mercy and help .

Asking a technical question can be difficult if you have no idea what you asking lol

Make guides and link those and refer to those if people ask.

Me: Hmm, this circuit is broken. Says OL in the screen Me, fishing the PCB back out of the bin, "Should have plugged in both test leads...."

yes there a short but its fucking works hahahahahaha that is on another level funny

Buildzoid here and zeday we...

Fuck i spend a day looking for short component

Temperature also affects resistance. That board you can't get to POST? Low resistance measured compared with brand new board... IC must be faulty ! No, it's been running several minutes and is hot. The one you got from the warehouse is freezing cold and hasn't been on.

Get a hammer and chisel and sort out those caps.

If only I had seen this 16min earlier. Now it will have to wait an hour. Edit: I'm one of the ten percent that actually measure stuff before asking you. Yay!

Never get useful information lol true story! Oh, and the customer never has any clue how physical damage may have occurred. It "just stopped working". Im faily new in gpu repair but leveling up relatively quickly. Thanks to the few real-talk videos like yours. Cheers!

I'm not sure you can educate the crazies.

Where's he from (accent)? Canada, England, Edinburgh (scotland) ???

Introverts are awesome

"Except it fucking works" should replace "It just works" ;)

So, It simply all means I just killed even more my already dead R9 380.. Great! :D

Not getting the information you need from a client? That's my entire career working in IT/Engineering ;)

Why dont you keep the resistance of the probes in mind and just subtract from what your measuring and boom problem solved

The video stopped, and I still here waiting for the remaining 15 minutes video

I thought 9ohms continuity mode was a short😅😅😅😂😂😂

Oh snappp so it breaks the gpu if u check.. Oof

Hey BulidZoid, I sending you a e-mail about an short circuit on the VRM output

this dude sounds like kermit the frog XD

only 1/7th of his viewership saw this. ima guess he still gets emails

DIDABALE

Why does this dude sound like kermit the frog ffs 🤣