when he said “ I don’t know how to, but I just like taking things apart.” Man I felt that so much.

for some reason I find it comforting that youre not an "expert". Its nice to watch you work it out and solve things on your own.

Can we all just take a min and just admire how nice vince really is

I feel like you are just like me when I watch your videos. Not afraid to break a few eggs to try and make an omelette. That's a fun way to learn and your humble attitude makes it a joy to watch. Keep it up!

I remember having the shaky hands when I started repairing electronics! It was very exciting lol

That was a rollercoaster of emotions from start to finish. I feel like we’ve all grown.

dude your troubleshooting methods are so correct and your hypothesis about 3rd party docks is dead on. you should go to school and get proper education. you'd be an excellent tech. you actually managed to reach to a proper technical conclusion better than my coworker.

Your method of diagnosis seems so realistic, using the good board to see why it's good vs the bad one.

As a previous Nintendo customer service employee, every Nintendo system/product comes with a 1 year warranty that starts the day you buy it so if the system hasn't been damage to unrepaired like broken in two (housing cracks, like small dents or screen scratchers, or like faulty charging issues are fine but make sure you haven't tried to open and fix the system yourself because that goes against the warranty) or as long as it's not water damage then you would get a free repair under the warranty. So, whoever sold this could've gotten a free repair if they would of just called Nintendo instead of selling it on Ebay lol. Just some friendly advice before anyone tries to do the repair themselves if they stumble upon this video.

Whoever sold that to you saying that it just "doesn't charge" sounds like a real piece of switch

Great video! Good diagnostic process.

I like these videos because this is exactly how i would go about doing repairs. I can follow what you are doing and im not overwhelmed with the speed some people go through these repair with.

Loving this series. Great to watch you (and us the viewers as well!) learning skills along the way, and I’m especially grateful that you show the failures as well as the successes.

It's so nice to see you experimenting with things, like opening up device and fixing and learning new things.. So satisfying! I think you could change the chip(s) with soldering iron and with steady hands and being careful. But if you don't wan't to do that try to find repair shop that can do that for you. Like shop where you bring those chips and the Switch and tell em' to replace these with new ones (what you've bought from). Also if that does not interest then just take all parts you can get and start selling them, you could ask good price of them

Just found these type of videos and thought, wow, there must be soooo many troubleshooting hobbiests out there! Thanks for this!

Good video man, I used to do this for a living and pcb rework is no easy task! I was trained in surface mount repair, through hole and pad and track diagnostics. Hot air removal of IC's was always tricky, always pressure to not damage the board. The difference was, I did this in the late 90s and the components were larger and easier to deal with. The sheer intricacies of modern boards scare the shit out me!

When i saw the title of the video i was like there we go!!

The chip you've removed that shirted is the one that gets damaged by using a USB charger which does not have the 56k Ohm resister or dodgey dock. The thing most people, especially called the v5 firmware system killer. Spawn wave did a chip replacement a little bit back.

Really like your videos! No big words, no complex schematics, etc. Just pure simple tinkering!

Ive never actually watched a video that was more than 30-45 minutes unless it was an actual show. this was actually really fun to watch.

Hi My Mate VINCE if you are dealing with a bricked Nintendo switch you need a rcm jig to get into recovery mode so you can try resetting it to factory settings

To be honest even if it didn’t work you would still have a spare dock joy con grip and 2 joy cons and if you bought them new it would be more than you payed anyway.

I'm happy that my mate Isn't Vince. Never seen so many "effort 10/10" videos with trying to fix faulty consoles/other stuff and actually fails at it :) :)

Your channel is what I want to do and what I plan to do once I gain a solid amount of money :). Truly, It is almost impossible to find people that do things the way you like to do it which I like as well. Thanks for the cool videos!

Great effort there mate! Nice screen too, so you can buy a one with a damaged screen now and replace it!

Really nice to see your progress here, and thankfully you could recover some of the investment in that you have a working dock, joycons, and like you said other components like the screen. Nice video!

No worries, despite what you paid, the experience and knowledge is invaluable in this game. Good work, thank for sharing the challenge!

The moment you realized that the chip being fired would cause every resistor and component to short to ground was just beautiful. As far as the "lost components" they are resistors and have no polarity. However they may be different values.... also some of the solid black ones may be diodes. And they indeed have polarity. if you can find an image of the newer board and get a reading off them then you can re solder them on. Either way beautiful.

I would NEVER do that to my perfectly working switch! And I'm borderline crazy ..U got some ballz mate

You're almost there!! You can find schematics and some macro pictures online and I'm pretty sure you could repair it. Please don't give up!

Was cheering when the screen first came on haha, oh well. Enjoyed the vid, like your positive attitude in adversity. Subscribed.

Found a new channel! :D Great video and really fun to watch. You are much like myself. I have often bought a few things before just to try fix them. You learn a lot and very rewarding process when it works. Much what I can see when watching here!

Wasn't there a firmware update, to fix some consoles where if you let the battery completely die, It wouldn't charge again? I think Nintendo said that they would fix those for free, even if they were out of warranty.

Well this video has almost a million views now so it probably ended up paying itself

Awesome video! I hope to see you grow and get way better with this over the years.

I learned you got a new sub from me, loved this video. I plan on watching your other ones so that I may try to fix some boards int he future on my own

Don't know if you will see this message but I think it would be a cool idea for you to open a P.O. Box maybe for people to donate their broken items for you to fix. Just a thought I had you don't have to listen to me :)

Can you try to fix a faulty sub box

I find this video quite interesting I just like the process of you figuring out what's wrong and how to maybe fix it !

Hello, I just started following you a few days ago. I am so intrigued by your "wanting to fix" all these things. I enjoy seeing if you can figure it out. I also wonder if your fans help in the process. I look forward to watching more. Thank you

i wouldnt give up on that board Vince those components can be replaced with a bit of practice it would depend on how much a replacement chip is tho. Great video all the same.

Well at least you have a New battery and two joycons working :D

I don't know why I watch your videos - but I find them very soothing.

I'm very good at soldering and using heat guns, I applauded 👏👏you for trying good work, now I know exactly what chip to go for if I ever come across a bricked switch

Good job in diagnosis and trying to find the faulty component....but as you said you'll take a dremel-tool to get the IC loose...i heavily cringed XD XD

Great video, as always. Sucks that it was bricked and that the seller may have been withholding some information. However, as you said, you can use it for spares. I loved the end of the video with the chip. Really felt like you were on to something. Hope you like your new heat gun and soldering iron. I'm sure you'll make your money back long term and, in the end, this was all experience.

Love your videos, you pave the way so we don't have to kill our own equipment and I for one appreciate it

Thanks to this video I was encouraged to buy broken things in ebay, I bought a plate from a acer aspire 5750g for 26$, and it had broken the solderings of the graphics chip (the motherboard was crooked), I straightened it, I reflowed it and it came back to life :) I will also encourage you to buy a broken switch, I hope it works well xDD.

'I'm going to go around with...maybe a dremel.' me: 'PLEASE! NO! NOT WITH THE DREMEL! '

Uhf a Tip from a Hoby user ! Never use your hot rework station on things that are still in the console I destoryed an LCD with that on a 3ds board

Man I could listen to you try to fix stuff for hours.

It is so cool seeing the inside of a console

That chip is definitely been fried probably due to failed hacking. The ground continuity on all of those components linked to that chip is a dead give away that that chip is fried and there is a ground short inside it, but it could be one of those capacitors that has fried and is shorted to ground. You can never know which cap is fried until you desolder them and test them individually. and just so you know. If one cap is faulty and shorted to ground, it will show a short circuit on all the capacitors.

For a $60 dock, $80 joycons, a $30 ac adapter, and a $10 grip, you're actually up about $30, not including the value you'll get from the internals of the system itself.

Over covid I did my first refurbish project on a messed up gameboy color. I’ve basically fix everything I’ve touched ever since. I’ve fixed multiple hand held game consoles. I just recently rebuild a Nintendo switch and a Nintendo switch lite. Full shell swap and LCD replacement.

Amazing how far you have come in 5 years mate. This would have been easy for you now …. Hope you still have it to fix 😊

yay, NSwitch FIX video, exactly what I hoped for (the most, actually)

Since the seller said it was working perfectly except for the charging, you might be able to make a claim on it.

so close.. fixed or not. great content. loved the video 🤘

You introduced me into the gpd win 2 now i love this vid

Im a novice at rework stations too, but what I do to keep nearby surface mounted components from coming off is kapton tape. I just lay kapton tape on the bits I want to keep around the area Im working so they dont get as hot.

What is that little laptop you have? I’ve been looking it for ages, Loved the video. :)

this was a very informative video. im now confident that if i didd decide to buy one of these second hand that i could probably fix it if its not working properly :)

nice attempt, and its nice to see you go till the end and not give up, try looking at head shields for the parts you don't want to heat up. Subscribed ;)

There is nothing sexier than a man fixing things. Also, I like your taste in watches. Metal bands last forever.

Probably a bricked switch trying the latest hacking method for it

Good diagnosis. It took a while to get there so well done.

I have to commend you for tenacity. Well done. The only comment would be to stop wiping the circuit boards with paper towel. 30 years in the industry says ESD loves wrinkly paper. Let the alcohol air dry.

hey at least you got another set of joy cons and another dock. Those are pretty expensive on their own.

Kate Temkin was able to fix that issue only with software and she even posted about it on twitter. You could probably find it

Any time you're dealing with a port (HGMI/USB/charger), the very first thing you look at is the port's solder connections to the board. If any of the pins moves when pressed (lightly), it needs to be re-soldered. That's the most common issue with ports. *edit* I'm so glad you didn't try to de-solder a chip with a dremel tool lol! You need to shield around the chip you intend to de-solder you so don't accidentally remove tiny capacitors and resistors surrounding it. There's lots of channels dedicated to component level repairs. Louis Rossmann is a good one. He does only Apple products on his channel, but it's the exact same process, and he shows you all of the tricks he's learned over the years.

I love your switch fixing videos

I have the exact same problem when it's stuck at the logo and make the noise when i power off. Mine charges fine. If you know any fix, please tell me. Thanks.

I think that's a Bricked Switch, probably got hacked and had its system corrupted in the process and there have been some serious issues going on with the Homebrew scene lately in the past 2 weeks. Some homebrew was intentionally made to brick consoles to who ever try used and sell it has theirs, it without paying for it etc. It would get bricked so hard it would be beyond repair, unless you back it up before it happens.

Thank you. Even though you 'failed' - it was informative!

I don’t know why but I find these vids amusing

What is that device you use to show the ebay listing?

Awesome video but 160 pounds!!!!!! For a broken one😡 thats expensive

I'm sure someone already told you, but you're supposed to shield the neighboring components with kapton tape or use a chip-size specific metal shield that keeps the hot air from spilling all over the board.

Great video! I enjoyed it very much. Thank you. 😁

You could buy a Switch with a broken screen and make it all work or make your money back parting it all out.

You should try Rcm Mode. The faulty motherboard could be the new generation of switches witch dont support loading payloads through RCM Mode and that could explain why the boards are different.

Really enjoy your videos .. I don’t know if you take recommendations from subs just wondering how about a broken smart TV ??..... keep up the good work I am really enjoying your videos

If you’re the one who helped make the switch I haven’t switch and I think it’s a really cool device you did a really good job on it

1:50 OH MY GOD YOU HAVE GPD WIN!

4:08 check your views mate I think you'll change your mind

i love the Christmas in July music XD

About the bit at the beginning, not knowing what you'll get and taking a chance, it reminds me of unidentified items back in Diablo 2. Once you identified it, unless you got really lucky, it was worth significantly less. These repairs seem like that, where you're better off just selling it as an unknown rather than taking the chance yourself, because everyone else is overly eager to get lucky to the point the price is past what things should average out to. It's like, it's supposed to be that there would be a profit, or at least breaking even, in buying a bunch and selling them for what they're worth, but in reality it's like stock and speculation and just highly overvalued.

150 for that was a bit much. I have seen a used one for 180 before

Never reuse thermal paste. Never! Reusing paste may allow airbubbles to get stuck between the two surfaces and will result in bad heat transfer You should clean both surfaces with isopropyl alcohol and use a coffee filter as a lint free cloth then apply a similar amount as before of fresh thermal paste with good heat conducting abilities

Saw several videos about this problem. And I am happy i did so before i bought anything charging related from another brand. The switch might die if you use non Nintendo equipment to charge it in any way.

Love the step by step. this helps those less intuitive to these processes.

your brittish accent was so lit

Yes!!!! Another fixit vid!!! 👍

You should bring out a book showcasing some of your best quotes such as "maybe the house was dusty?" and "its not worth dying for a dreamcast" 😂

Extremely good effort and troubleshooting for someone that doesn't know too much about PCB reworking/Soldering! You did find the problem and located the faulty IC but slightly brutal with the rework station at the very end. I don't even own a switch but your efforts where constructed and worth it.

You learned and I learned better debugging skills from watching you learn! Do you know what a resistor is, what a capacitor is, what a diode is and finally, what an inductor is? If not, learn the most basic definitions and continue to try and fix electronics. Once you know what those components do, you can think of ways to ID them, that'll help you find out what they should be doing in the circuit.

What is the name of the device you used to display the eBay listing?

I was wondering where you got that blue mat at to organize your screws. Love your videos and have learned so much from them!

If you didn't lift any pads (doesn't look like it) you can still repair that. Get some good flux, a working replacement chip, and measure the values of the resistors and caps on your working switch. If you kept the parts you removed it's even easier, because you don't have to chase replacements (they are cheaper than hell tho, smd caps and resistors are really cheap). Do put some kapton tape on the other components nearby if you try to do it, that keeps them from being removed by heat. Someone suggested it already but you could look up louis rossmann channel for examples of how to put the working chip back on. Good luck if you do try to do it!