Fixing a Viewer's BROKEN Gaming PC?

Fixing a Viewer's BROKEN Gaming PC? - Fix or Flop S5:E11

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Welcome to Fix or Flop! We're up to Season 5, Episode 11. This viewer's gaming PC is broken! Can it be fixed? By the way, if you live in the Orlando, FL area and have an issue with your PC, apply to have it (possibly) fixed for free today! gregsalazar.com/fix-or-flop
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@Edgemaster72 Ай бұрын

Forgetting to turn on power strips, not plugging in HDMI, hitting head on the garage door. Gotta love Greg's committment to showing that he's just a regular person like anyone else.

@gorzius Ай бұрын

Honestly, at this point I'm starting to think they're doing it on purpose for some extra entertainment. xd

@jrose-xp6tf Ай бұрын

As a tech myself for over 30 yrs. I can say that protocol is the most valuable tool in the chest, otherwise we're just guessing out of order. Great work, I expect nothing less here.

@shadowarez1337 Ай бұрын

Have no idea how many places use a script and the guys follow it like it's a bible line for line so annoying 🤦‍♂️

@Seventeen76 Ай бұрын

That Alienware PC looks like Darth Vader's tombstone

@bion4tural Ай бұрын

And him hitting his head onto the garage door seems like an homage to Starwars trooper hitting his head :)

@cars291 24 күн бұрын

Heh thats a fun way to see it but flattering in a way

@MarcoGPUtuber Ай бұрын

Greg is not just fixing hardware. He's also sending me my fix for his fixing content.

@HazewinDog Ай бұрын

I'm sorry but do you not have something better to say? You just comment word plays on every TYC and Salazar video, and unfortunately KZfaq doesn't allow us to block you... By now this has gone way past being borderline spam, and is just undoubtedly spam. Of course I can't expect you to listen to me, but since there is no way for me to hide your comments, I would certainly appreciate if if you stopped doing this...

@hman6159 Ай бұрын

@@HazewinDogor you could just scroll past his comments lol

@morelandtech637 Ай бұрын

@@HazewinDogby any chance your real name is Karen?

@HazewinDog Ай бұрын

@@hman6159 I know, and trust me I am not happy to post such a comment. Ignoring is what I've done for the past years. However, the reason I finally decided to speak up is because it has frankly become too obnoxious for me to ignore. Not only has this continued for years now, but it's become more frequent the past months. Seemingly on every video from Bryan (Tech YES City) and Greg now.

@milescedras1971 Ай бұрын

Bro take it easy. @@HazewinDog

@jeffreyparker9396 Ай бұрын

It was clearly a short from the beginning and power supplies will typically require the power to be disconnected to reset the short protection so, yes, even fixing the short won't typically power on within first disconnecting the power. This goes for all power supplies with the proper protections.

@oldtimergaming9514 Ай бұрын

I actually had software for a fan controller cause my system to crash hard randomly. Idle or gaming didn't matter, just shut off (had to turn off power supply for 5 sec to get it to startup). Guess it was messing with the interrupts on my motherboard. Had to send those back. Took me a couple days to figure out cause that was a new one on me.

@harugrin Ай бұрын

Hi Greg, nice video as usual. About the failures turning the system on: if a component - in this case the gpu - has a short, when you start the system with it plugged in, it may trigger psu protections, specially SCP but also OTP, OCC and OVP, that's why you have to remove the component, turn the psu off / on and try again to reset the triggered protection. Peace and long life! 🖖

@WhiteG60 Ай бұрын

My guess? The video card was shorting 12v->Gnd and putting the power supply into protection mode. When you pulled it out without cycling the power supply's switch, it stayed in protection mode. Once you cut power and flipped it back on, it reset itself and powered right up.

@nitt3rz Ай бұрын

Troubleshooting complex multi-layer electronics can be REALLY difficult & confusing. I really like how you keep all the awkward trial & error tries in to show everyone that fixing is all about, 'does this work?' a thousand times until it's the last most weirdest thing you would never think of.

@myonlylov Ай бұрын

I will never stop watching the fixing videos. thanks

@catvoice5336 Ай бұрын

You’re wrong Greg. I have a complete hardware garden growing in my backyard 😂

@catvoice5336 Ай бұрын

I have robust hardware trees and beautiful memory bushes, ram flowers and and led trees and i have one gig cpu tree😂

@JasonChen927 Ай бұрын

0:15 Actually I don't think a lot of people have this issue (for PC)... But still very helpful for all electrical devices.

@Dr.Gonzz0 Ай бұрын

love the videos man. good to see ppl helping others in one shape or form

@adamgrant1787 Ай бұрын

The bloopers have to be the best part of this video who agrees? LOL

@M_Pingouin Ай бұрын

Great one! Fix or Flop is getting better and better. Love the serie!

@KillerDragonone Ай бұрын

Nice to see the board is still working after the GPU arcing by the PCI-E slot 12:00, would be nice to see you taking it apart to see what is going on there.

@oldtimergaming9514 Ай бұрын

How the hell did you even see that? I had to rewind playback three times before I saw it.

@Devastator0 Ай бұрын

@@oldtimergaming9514 same, I don't know how they saw that. Greg really needs to see this.

@-Noble Ай бұрын

hmmm i hope it doesn't kill the new gpu in that rig in the future

@vExtracTz Ай бұрын

I don't think that was any arcing, if you're talking between the PCI-E slot and the board, looks like its a change in lighting when he moves his hand, you can tell as there is a light source before hand then after the "Arcing" you see just black when his hand is over it.

@KillerDragonone Ай бұрын

@@vExtracTz you could be right, i say the best way to find out is to still take it apart and see for sure.

@pie_stains Ай бұрын

Thanks for the laughs this episode. Such an entertaining series.

@sitordan Ай бұрын

Another great video. I never get tired of watching these.

@itsKtoday Ай бұрын

Good job Greg! I've been down that rabbit hole too many times lol. Glad the pc is up and running!

@gamingallday954 Ай бұрын

Hey Greg, love the videos, please continue this series i have learned a lot from this.

@scubasw Ай бұрын

Always entertaining and informative. Keep it up!

@ozbassman11 Ай бұрын

Great job Greg, another informative video!

@rickmiller4202 Ай бұрын

Another good one, always good info. I see an ForF vid popup, immediate click. Greg's crack to the cranium by a RISING door, was priceless.

@zafert85 Ай бұрын

18:51 wow look at you, you finally acquired a proper taste in German Engineering. Finally a BMW

@samuelrave Ай бұрын

And again another great video! Almost therapeutic to watch :)

@siddhantmanudhane3004 Ай бұрын

These videos are very Informative Keep up with these informative videos Thanks Greg

@GregSalazar Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@permsn Ай бұрын

Love your work Greg and friends 😊

@kingzilant Ай бұрын

I'm a huge fan, this series has helped me so much, not just learning to troubleshoot but even thru depression and life issues, so thank you. On a positive note tho, thanks to these vids, I recently built a new PC and no picture, all new parts. Knew after a RAM swap that it was a new GPU issue... after using it on a working test bench. Microcenter tested it, broken hdmi port, they swapped it and PC works all good now, thank you x3000. ❤

@zellar1 Ай бұрын

Crazy! I'm watching a MAJOR Golf tourney and this video popped up so now I'm watching 2 screens! Love these Greg video's YEAH Golf and Greg

@highsensefn1449 6 күн бұрын

your content just keep getting better and better mr greg

@MitchHaman Ай бұрын

Excellent video. Thank you for sharing...

@blademasterzero5295 Ай бұрын

Kept me company during the tornados touching down in my area! Good repair!

@johnstancliff7328 Ай бұрын

LOL! Love the video Greg.... I've been down this road several times!

@knuckleheadcomputers Ай бұрын

Great video as always

@Keullo-eFIN Ай бұрын

Well, at least he got a small upgrade and a working PC. Good episode as always, Greg!

@DanielCardei Ай бұрын

Awesome fix Greg!

@lkira4911 Ай бұрын

Great video Greg.

@MrRayr1953 Ай бұрын

Great job Greg.

@THEMANCAVE2023 Ай бұрын

great video Greg

@qqqvid Ай бұрын

This shows just how hard it can be to fix a computer if it has multiple issues. Great fix Greg : ) x

@crshovveride Ай бұрын

The stormtrooper head bonk was hilarious.

@stompmaster Ай бұрын

That helmet hair protected your skull... LOL! 😝

@melsandi1737 19 күн бұрын

I have leran something today unconventional thanks for that keep it coming

@kanightkanievil Ай бұрын

You should save the goof ups for a bloopers reel. LOL!

@Miniputt_999 Ай бұрын

That was an interesting problem to be solved, and nice to see that you do that little extra to clean out dust. Also, thats a very nice hardware setup. 2700x + 1660super is good for high 1080p. Looking forward to the next video.

@toufusoup Ай бұрын

>20 minutes Thank goodness, a lengthy one! Excited for the watch.

@Compscott8 Ай бұрын

New drinking game. Every time Greg says "Jank" take a shot.

@oldtimergaming9514 Ай бұрын

Poor garage door bouncing off of Greg's hair! 😂

@space4ace582 Ай бұрын

The Kramer hair prevented damage to both, cranium and garage door... Kidding! Love Greg's videos.

@andrewbrown5191 Ай бұрын

Good one Greg.

@Andrew-ky8oc8cq4n Ай бұрын

It would be interesting to send that card to Northwestrepair to see what broke, if it's fixable one of these times.

@dariogarciacapel7524 Ай бұрын

That M2 😍😍😍😍😍 congrats on the car Greg!

@JaZterification Ай бұрын

This series helped me so many times I stopped counting 😅

@1fires1 Ай бұрын

i LOL @ the head bump sorry Greg 😁

@Lichti82 29 күн бұрын

The moment when Greg hit his head at garage door: in style we die

@bulldogboy100 Ай бұрын

That's why I don't let any of my teachers have drinks on their desks

@mr_nacho_taco8942 11 күн бұрын

Im so glad I watch your videos. I just bought a 4060 (i think?) gpu and when I saw the brand "zotac gaming" i wasnt familiar with it but bought it anyway (3 days ago). So far it works great and now that I see you installing one I can rest assured that you feel confident enough to use it aswell. PS: I almost requested your help diagnosing this PC as I dont live too far from Orlando, but luckily I watch enough of your videos and was able to sort it out myself and fixed it! Thanks Greg! Youre the best!

@TheIceblade711 28 күн бұрын

Awesome Greg I think its more the tab shorted out the video card. Check its board Iam pretty sure you will find a burnt out chip. Keep the videos coming always enjoy them.

@agustianzafreddy3217 Ай бұрын

16:31 The Greatest PC Technician That Ever Live !! 😁😁

@psychorabbitt Ай бұрын

16:11 It was at this point that I thought, "Is that monitor even turned on? Because there's not even like... a glow from the backlight."

@SuperDave78 Ай бұрын

How on earth does a pc get water damaged? Unless it's on the floor when a flood hits, I can't imagine how water could ever come in contact with one. After spending almost £2000 on mine, I get paranoid enough about it getting dusty inside!

@cooleyzz Ай бұрын

Accidents happen sadly

@Pasi123 Ай бұрын

Leaky roof or a broken water pipe somewhere above the PC, or accidentally spilling water on top of the tower if it's on the floor next to your desk. And of course if you have a water cooler then that could leak too, though the PC in the video was air cooled.

@sajjadhosseini1987 Ай бұрын

I witness that everyday at work! The best one was a dell workstation spilled with a full cup of Latte ! They use them as their Beverage table!

@pavlin7327 Ай бұрын

Kids 😀

@peterlennon1139 Ай бұрын

Very surprised knowing your normal diligence that you dived into that non-methodical rabbit hole. But at least you recognised your mistake, acknowledged it and went back around. Nice to see some honesty on a video ❤👍

@philschling Ай бұрын

13:10 I've been using my extra long BeQuiet Screwdriver as a back scratcher for years. It really is awesome.

@GregSlimSkinnyParkerMinnesota Ай бұрын

You're a Beamer Boy too! Awesome. It seems that the owner may have been reckless with getting water in an air cooled setup. Nice to see this person doesn't need to reinvest in a new rig and may have learned a valuable lesseon.

@johnvandeven2188 Ай бұрын

It would be interesting to see if there is sediment inside the graphics card which has shorted the board. May as well have a look as this might give you a replacement gpu for an other Fix or Flop episode. I am sure that other viewers like myself find the series interesting and entertaining.

@larkreid7960 Ай бұрын

I'm glad that I am not the only person who makes bunches of silly little mistakes when troubleshooting computers. I guess we just get stuck in our heads so much while troubleshooting that we forget to do little things.

@Airwave92 Ай бұрын

That Bmw m2 peaking out the garage thooo.....Fire

@umairchang Ай бұрын

I faced the exact same issue. Gpu short prevented the system from powering on. it also needs a bios reset after removing the short. That's why it worked after removing and reinstalling cmos battery.

@arjayabad1337 Ай бұрын

I think the head bump will now help Greg remember that he disconnects cables that should be connected. lol

@frenindeed8713 Ай бұрын

@GregSalazar, great video! Do you always suggest updating your BIOS when a new version arrives? Keep making great videos!

@smashed_penguin Ай бұрын

Yes, but not immediately unless you are having any problems with anything, in case there are any bugs with the newest BIOS. I'd typically wait a week or two just to give any major or minor bugs a chance to be caught and addressed.

@BWGPEI Ай бұрын

Greg - now you know why I have boot devices handy for troubleshooting; I especially like having a Ventoy key with several test and OS options to try. I trust the original MS Windows boot drives not at all.

@jd31068 Ай бұрын

LOL the Windows Update was great timing.

@johngangemi1361 Ай бұрын

A couple of short circuits will kill a system. Nice video Greg! Raymond's slow clap 😂😂😂😂😂😂.

@Shot_Kawla Ай бұрын

"Our CPU be cookin'" 🤣🤣

@baoquoc3710 Ай бұрын

The moment that he has a G87 M2...it's glorious, though the headbanging he suffered is still funny😂

@Cloudykins08 Ай бұрын

This was a good video. Have you considered disassembling the faulty GPU and giving it a look over to see if maybe some residual water is still there? Couldn't hurt to check it out and attempt to repair it.

@danielnavarro9224 Ай бұрын

OMG that was an amazing BLOOPER, but yea it sucks when a GPU breaks

@louisglen1653 Ай бұрын

I am surprise that you didn't turn down your right sleeve on your shirt because I think you mentioned before that you have OCD.🤣 I don't think I have OCD but I sure can be fussy as though I do at times! Thanks for another great video!

@sammashu Ай бұрын

i knew something bad would happen with that slow motion walk from the garage door i was just waiting for it

@fuzzylumpkins6034 Ай бұрын

Here in Scotland, we grow motherboards in the garden and pick GPUs from the trees. The field of homegrown tech is nourished by the free roaming Haggis. On a serious note, chasing a fault is an awful situation. My personal worst was chasing an issue in a customers rig and at the end of the day it was a short in a fan that had a pinched cable. When the buyer built his system his wire management was stuffing all the cables in the back like a bird's nest. The tiny exposed wire was tripping the system and VERY fortunately did not damage any components. It did cost him a hefty chasers fee of £90 plus a new fan.

@Hitman_72 Ай бұрын

Love your videos from India❤️

@Beezzzzy_ Ай бұрын

I see a fix or flop. I click, I watch, I like, I comment, algorithm boost to always keep these around

@ArcturusCOG Ай бұрын

5:19 look at the left side by the pcie slot and just chips in general, you can see where water may have landed in multiple spots. Although they are so perfectly on the chips that it looks purposeful.

@user-ko9qy5st9i Ай бұрын

The short powering on and nearly instant powering off of the system is (usually) the short circuit/overcurrent protection of the PSU tripping, which takes either a full restart of the PSU (e.g. switching the switch on it off and on again) or waiting until it resets (If it has tripped, it takes some time to recover, so you can't instantly turn on the system after tripping it) in order to power on again.

@keithfailmezger1596 Ай бұрын

how is your new house coming along? would like to see video update .,thank you for all your hard work and content

@cloudborne1 Ай бұрын

Having an extra set of hardware is such a godsend in troubleshooting

@ZERONEVERSEVEN Ай бұрын

good fix, glad it wasn't catastrophic due to big water damage

@benroberts2222 Ай бұрын

An important note on testing with this board: I own this same motherboard and the lower PCIe slot is an x4 sharing lanes with the M.2 NVME slot. The viewer has a SSD in that M.2 which is supposed to disable the PCIe slot, so connecting the video card to that slot while the SSD was installed shouldn't have been expected to give reliable results. In this case it probably worked out because power is delivered to the slot even if the PCIe lanes aren't up. But if it had worked it wouldn't necessarily mean the upper slot was defective; it still could have been the card.

@wayner2ll704 Ай бұрын

Nice head bunt into the garage door!

@arbi1202 Ай бұрын

that windows updates remindes me of the scene of netfilx series sapce force by john malkovich cursing microsoft update while lunching roket into space

@Chi-yj2es Ай бұрын

Checking power supply first??? We like that 😂

@andrewc3193 Ай бұрын

Found this frustrating. I won’t comment further but good work I guess. Got it up and running and that’s the end result you want.

@nickvirgili2969 Ай бұрын

Gotta verify bro, thats just due diligence.👍

@outlet6989 Ай бұрын

Hi Greg, My steps would be to test the wiring using an LED power tester. Place a remote on-off power cable on the MB power pins. It has a remote micro switch and is much safer than using a screwdriver; you only need to connect it once. Whenever the CMOS shows a message that my PC's time is wrong and needs to be corrected, I always change out the CMOS battery and place it in a new one. I always tape a new battery inside my case. I realize my comment was unrelated to this fix, but it's nice to know for a PC problem.

@mattwillis4562 29 күн бұрын

Hey Greg, been catching your videos for about 6 months now and really enjoying the content and really appreciate the $0 cost to the community. I've gotten into doing a lot of new builds for friends and family lately, to the point of needing a much more mobile peripheral setup. I've not run across any time where you've talked a good deal about the tablet you use as a monitor, but I'm thinking that is the perfect thing I need for my situation. Could you be so kind as to post the info on it? Possibly a good link (Amazon, New Egg, etc) where I may pick one up on my own? Thank you for all the fun content!!!

@zMeul Ай бұрын

highly likely the video card has a dead short on the 12V and the PSU goes into protection and that's why it works after you disconnect the 8pin power and reset the power supply but will not work when only disconnecting 8pin but not resetting the PSU

@starpartyguy5605 Ай бұрын

I worked for Millersville University for 32 years (retired). One of the satellite network rooms had the seals break on a window near the network gear. Now, if you want to talk about water damage… Kudos to the network guys. They had replacement gear in place and running in 2 hours.

@EinSwitzer Ай бұрын

even though appearance might make you believe its dry , it is not , thats why i use a preheater for soldering to keep the computer parts hot and for a span of time ,,, then its dry . the pcb can soak up moisture like wood in a skateboard

@nowloadingvids1972 Ай бұрын

Even an expert like him would forget to plug in a HDMI cable is hilarious. 😂

@jrl8282 Ай бұрын

I had the same problem with my system. After I disassembled and gave a alcohol bath to the graphics board,re paisted and reassembled I had the same problem. I switched from the HDMI to the display port and got the post for whatever reason lol