yeh we love him, he like father

Thank you very much!

Salut, stii cumva un shop in RO care fac interventii pe MB? Am un laptop cred ca are un condensator defect (se aprind ledurile si nu i-am facut nimic, a murit deodata) si nu gasesc unde sa il repar. Depanero m-a dat cu flit sa cumpar MB noua.

Didn't do much "protecting" if it destroyed the PCB track so destructively!

If he plugs in the same universal charger again, then the new properly calibrated fuse will protect the board.

Da da!

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my teacher once told me,if your a pro mathematician,you dont need a neat handwriting

NorthridgeFix does neat repairs when he is recording. You don't know how neat his repairs are in general. You don't actually need a neat repair, but a good one.

Give Sorin a wire and give Northridge Fx all the tools he needs. Wire will win!

He also charge what they fix in this show for just repair attempt, real fix are triple what shop Sorin work in charge. Also, he make his video as PR, to get more jobs inside his shop and sell more tools and consumables from his webshop. Which is perfectly fine by me but that make me think about all his videos as commercial, Sorin on other hand just show you how to fix things by yourself. Two different styles, two different people.

and Northridge do alot of components changing not deep diagnosis and repair as master sorin

I agree a fuse should have been used, however a 0ohm resistor isn't a fuse either.. don't conflate the two.

@@incandescentwithrage if I'm not wrong Sorin used solderwire as "fuse". In case of overcurrent it will just meltdown and break just as fuse. Not fast like one but zero ohm resistors also take some time to burnout.

@@incandescentwithrage yes not technically a fuse but often used as a quasi fuse certainly better protection than a random gauge wire., I mean sometimes, it is hard to fuse if faults like over-current/short-circuit occur because of high large fusing currents of PCB traces. Such occurrences might result in more severe accidents. When there is overcurrent, the 0-ohm resistor is fused; thus, it disconnects the circuit preventing significant accidents.

0Ohm resistor is not a fuse per se, but it does have more resistivity than a wire. Spec sheets I've seen on 0Ohm SMD resistors have a typical max current of 1-2A. As this is a retail repair job & clearly the PCB lands have been burned away, one needs to consider realistic repair costs & a 1-2A fuse wire would be a far cheaper electrical substitute & far more acceptable repair cost for such a low value retail repair item, plus the end customer wouldn't have to wait so long. Had it been a high value item under repair, it might warrant a different approach plus the only one who'll care about a "proper job" is a tech. Whereas this might not wash in a high value item repair shop using high reliability soldering techniques, what Sorin does is repair cheap items

@@waynetaylor2784 I suspect the manufacturer had placed a 0ohm link in the position of the damage on this board. The extremely slow blow characteristic of SMD carbon resistors (with an extreme amount of heat generated) is likely why there was so much damage to the board. Copper wire will not be that much different due to the high melting point (solder will melt first - but that doesn't mean the wire will move out of position and break the circuit). It's down to Sorin to make the decision for the business, but if it were me..I'd have repaired with an SMD fuse (or fuse wire as has been suggested) so the board would remain fixable, should the customer do this again during the warranty period.

It happens also to me , if you don't touch anything else except the bios battery , just plugg the charger in to laptop and pres and hold power button some 10-20 sec , should get lights

Check so the power button is connected and if the new bios battery is ok

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Most high reliability, idealistic repair techs would spot the heavy burn marks & write off the laptop, costing the customer even more $$$$ because now they have to source a new laptop. If Sorin using his "dodgy" methods can get the laptop running, it simply buys time for the customer so they're not forced to buy a new laptop immediately. Furthermore, spending extra job time grinding out PCB layers may be counterproductive & damage deeper signal & power rail layers hidden deep in the substrate creating an even worse problem. The laptop doesn't cost much & your repair approach means the customer when you give them an expensive repair bill will say "keep the laptop" ie your repair shop lost money!. I've worked for high reliability industrial repair shops repairing high value items ie more "fat" to be able to do things like what you mention. I've also done some work in retail repair & not only do you have to be like 10x faster, you'll skip a lot of the "nice to haves" because most customers won't even appreciate the repair, unless they're a tech & its an entirely different ballgame. Mock Sorin's repair all you shall but as economic conditions only further worsen globally, other cheaper techs/repair shops will get repair jobs & you'll be bypassed & lose money!. Personally, I find his repairs interesting & nothing wrong with learning a new repair approach, especially if it can help with techs 2 mortal enemies ie time & the accountant (repair costs)

I hear what you say about making money, if I gave the laptop back to the customer like that I wouldn't be able to sleep at night. Nothing wrong Taking 10 minutes longer or having a little pride in your work while maintaining professionalism. Imagine being the next ET to work on that laptop, you'd open it up and see the previous repairs, and automatically give it a no fix.

​@@discipleofgod5948 your extra 10mins of time simply won't be acknowledged by a customer & furthermore, an even cheaper retail repair shop management will likely let you go from their team because you're costing them way too much money as 10mins on 10 jobs is seen as 100 wasted minutes & lost revenue. I have worked in both industrial electronics where my company management insisted we do quality work, had sent us continually do to training on SMDs & high reliability soldering courses & we did simply because industrial electronics products from the US typically cost a lot of money & customers favour reliability & IP6x dust ingress protection over unit/repair cost but I've also worked for retail cut throat shops like Sorin does & they're an entirely different mentality as even spending an extra 10mins on a job to them is seen as wasteful & I feel this situation will only worsen as the global economy falls further due to out of control government spending & continual sovereign debt borrowings which people seem to have nil issues with. Although many financial stable customers who appreciate quality will see your point, sadly, many low budget customers who will complain if you charged them $1 more for a repair (or will try crunch you down even $1 less) will unfortunately notice the difference & will likely raise objections in paying the repair bill putting ones position at a tech under threat for non economic viability. Sorin is playing a tough game doing what he does as I feel he's versed enough in quality repair practices but this isn't the repair environment he works in. I wished I had a dollar for every tech who was let go from roles because cut throat money hungry management crunched their techs for even spending 10mins which is why I don't work in retail customer shop facing IT anymore as its crap!

​@@discipleofgod5948 Even an increasing number of IT MSPs these days are starting to crunch down on techs for spending even an extra 10mins on jobs. I wished I had a dollar for every bodge job I had discovered by MSP IT techs who failed to do the work on customer servers & workstations which they had happily invoiced for ie discovering skipped OS for years & not following vendor app patch recommendations, neglecting router, switch & driver updates leaving systems vulnerable, leaving simple passwords on admin/root level service accounts (all undocumented!), not maintaining proper offsite backups & when I had worked many times in MSP overseer roles for clients, omg how MSPs all got upset with me when I had discovered all their cons & the myriad of bs excuses they claimed in response!