Ok everyone, you know what to do. Every time you send package to NWR you include a piece of broken dark tempered glass. Seriously though it is most likely glass from owners PC case windows. Remember you receive a lot of damaged equipment most likely from falls etc…

the damage to the board was caused when something either went through the glass side panel and hit the motherboard or it was damaged in transit / shipping as a completed unit thus breaking the side panel. That would explain the damage to the memory and the top PCI-E slot as the GPU would have been whacked. it also explains why you are finding shards of that glass in the shrouds!

Also, I just wanted to add. I really, really appreciated you slowing down and explaining the soldering process this time rather than fast forwarding through it. Loved hearing you explain the process and why you were doing what you did. I would love to hear you explain like this when you do another re-ball. It would be awesome to hear how that works. Thanks! Awesome video! Cheers!

As for the tempered glass. I myself just experienced this when purchasing a used motherboard. When the board arrived I found shards off glass in the anti static bag and when I started disassembling the board to clean and inspect I found quite a bit more. 99% sure the previous owner was careless and broke one of their tempered glass panel while the components where still in the case. Still finding bits of that glass in my office to this day. What a pain.

Memory slots. UDIMM is general memory and RDIMM is normally for ECC memory. Most consumer based motherboards use UDIMM. The top PCI Express slots looks damaged (Top part looks bowed out), due to a heavy graphics card not being properly supported. Even the metal reinforced slots still need a graphics card to be supported. Fantastic workmanship. As for flux, there is an Aussie called Dave(?), who runs a electronics repair channel. I seem to remember, he did a video on different fluxes. Maybe you could find some information there?

This video is like watching Darth Vader repair the deathstars main board. Never had to replace one of those slots before and I'm thinking it don't look all that much fun to do.

Broken tempered glass = those are parts pulls from 'prebuilds' that were scrapped out, probably damaged in transit and parted out.

Never seen a professionnal like you! Really fantastic job!

I feel so humble when watching your video

Strange thing .. the glass. I dunno how people do this stuff to these expensive boards. Cool Watching you fix em

Cool to see you work on more then just GPUs

As ever, another excellent and extremely clean job done. Congrats! I'm sure it will work.

RDIMM stands for server's registered(buffered) memory. UDIMM stands for normal unbuffered memory.

I was waiting for desktop motherboard repair from TONI similar to the Graphic card repair method yourself

Now I'm really curious if this board works. I hope we get an update from the owner.

Nice to see someone doing it properly with the solder and most importantly the flux. I agree with you on lead vs unleaded solder. Also, I get browned off with the many, but not all, KZfaq cowboys and their dry u-bend type soldering irons all black and burned. Never tinning or reflowing on an old solder joint "whats that! Naaa, just hit it with the iron and puuuullll or lever it off" attitude, as solder is just as handy on removing parts and cleaning the pads as fixing them in place.

Excellent delicate work!

I've had the same problem with being able to confirm functionality, So I broke into my piggy bank and picked up a few Celeron CPU's for the LGA 1151 / 1200 / 1700, you can snag them like $30-40 now and then from Amazon or something like that. Unfortunately there is not any budget CPU's for AM5, cheapest is $180. I really enjoyed watching this repair and would love to see more of these kinds of videos as you seem to be great at repairing motherboards as well. Possibly a CPU socket replacement, many people damage the Socket pins and would easily pay $100 for a re-ball replacement of their socket, or any problem for that matter. Cheers Tony!

I have this exact board and I am learning some important info about it thank you for this info now I know to be more careful with it

26:20 UDIMM = Unbuffered Dual Inline Memory Module, it is used on consumer products RDIMM = Registered Dual Inline Memory Module, it is used on servers.

nice Work sir as always👌

2:53 I remember some of those vids where you found glass. Looks like Brown Beer Bottle Glass.

Thank you Teacher

Oh Man, Nice job...I'm confident it will be OK....

Sorin: dis is creeezy!!!

Man I really wish you included the video of you removing the cover near the I/O shield as I have a MEG Ace Z790 MB and I'm dreading the day I have to change the MB battery because they tuck it under that cover and I'm really hoping when that day comes I do not have to take out my entire MB from my case just to change it. Love watching you work!👍

Your beloved Work on an Mainboard that you so much love! 😂

The glass shards theory: Customers have had PC with glass side panel that broke (most likely during impact) that likely resulted in you being involved in repair.

Glass explains what is going on with board. It was part of computer with case with tempered glass that was damaged during the shipment. SO board or sometimes GPU suffers damage and you find pieces of tempered glass stuck in area of board that was not easy to clean for regular user.These DDR5 slots were obviously damage with force the same as main GPU socket. It's metal shim, and retention clip that is broken (missing) can be explained by damage during the shipment.

I really like the quality of these mobos. Got b550 so far not complaining, really solid, could mount massive cpu cooler no problem.

STIRRI V3-TF has a sweet smell and works pretty good but MECHANIC high activity 223 works great and has pretty much the same smell and color to what you have in that syringe

The offset slot on DDR5 is different between UDIMM and RDIMM. This was one of a couple of changes with the newer standard. This keeps you from putting RDIMMs in a UDIMM slot and vice versa. With DDR4 and earlier, they were the same which would cause issues as they are not interchangeable. That board uses UDIMMs as most desktop computers do. The exceptions are the threadripper and xeon workstation boards. Those as well as most server hardware use RDIMMS

nice job.

Amazing

Yeah I 100% agree with @edwardhewer8530 . A lot of people get pre-builts and they get broken and/or destroyed in shipment, as most times when they're sent, they come fully assembled. The RAM is one of the things that tend to break the most along with the liquid AIO coolers as well as the GPU's. That tends happens when the glass breaks. Though sometimes it happens without the glass breaking as well. Cheers!

This is the only ASMR I am ok with.

When a delivery van gets broken into, or the people loading it are careless, they break tinted windows, that shatter all over the parcels inside the van. Usually the glass doesn't get cleaned out meticulous enough so it will "emerge" inside parcels that get transported in the van weeks after.

Thanks big bus

2:57 I think you should start to collect them 😂😂😂😂😂

I was hoping for you using a pick , and pushing on each solder connection saying solid on each one LOL🤠😎🧔‍♂

RDIMM are for Registered(Buffered) DIMMS - those are typically installed on servers (sometimes also on Workstations) and the registers(buffers) reduce the load on Data/Address pins so more (than 4) DIMMs can be accessed by those busses. UDIMMs are Unbuffered DIMMS - those are the typical dimms used on "inexpensive" PCs (do "inexpensive" still exist) ? Regarding the PCI-E last 2 connections, I wonder if the ground anchor nearby also gave way a bit allowing the slot to move slightly and the traces to be ripped, I would touch it with a bit of lead solder, just to be sure.

I'm giving this a shot I have a hot air station and a cell phone screen heater for delaminating screens & an old lga 1366 board that needs two ram slots replaced or its stuck at 16gb. having 24 for my NVR would be nice. Thanks! I get my Amtech flux from Lois rossmans shop, Idk how he always has it lol

14:45 so shiny! 🤗

I got 2 of this boards. The plastic dimm slot is weak. I shattered one slot during installation. It is still functional with some superglue.

you'll have to give us an update on if the fix worked

Man I used to LOVE the smell of the 215... It was kinda like a spicy or Cinnamon smell. I miss getting amtech flux, It's just such a hassle to buy small amounts of it, I have just settled for cheaper stuff.

Nice job out there, but you could have used kapton tape to cover the neighboring sockets

What temperature where you using on the hotair to solder the sockets?

I think it is important to keep the glass and see if the pieces fit together. They might be clues!

Have you ever put a wattmeter on your preheater/top heater setup and noted what the absolute peak draw was? I'm building the equivalent of an IR6500 with a slightly smaller preheater wattage, but my whole apartment pretty much uses one 15A breaker that constantly trips and I'm hoping I can keep the peak it reaches for current draw around 8-9 amps but I kinda doubt it. If not I have to run a heavy extension cord up from the basement just to run it whenever I need it, which I would like to avoid. There's an outlet down there for the bilge pump that has its own breaker.

Did you make the pre-heater?

I have this same motherboard. Only problems I've had are the wifi chip dying within the first 2 months and MSI ignoring my repair requestS, and some quirky in-windows behavior that I can only assume is BIOS/driver related...in spite of the occasion format/install/latest drivers - no change

Just dawned, you 'could' theoretically upgrade an LG1700 to an LGA18xx, change required chips onboard, to create an X870 / X870E LGA18xx motherboard, from a Z690 LGA1700! Wild..

And no short's has fallen victims to this repair.

the glass is most likley coming from broken PC case fronts from transit also probably why there on your bench from the damage they received in said transit

Was thinking about getting this one for the Ryzen 9000.

RDIMM means "registered dual inline memory module" you would only find RDIMM sockets on workstation/server motherboards that take registered ecc memory.

Where can i find some information on converting the temperature sensor?? I wanted to move mine off the plates . Any tips?

Whats your opinion of ASRock and the quality?

Could alpha particles from Lead-containing solder cause issues for memory chips?

Interesting 🤔

Yeah as @CoinRingsUSA suspects ,must have dropped the tower and has a temperate glass as side panel (mine have too) and from the fall break the glass and from the weight of the Dimms break the socket , the metalic frame above pcie is for extra protection against heavy gpu that will protect the socket , they called them Armored PCI-E .

That looks like the exact same mobo I use for my PC. MSI MPG x670e Carbon Wifi.

The glass could be the broken piece of pc case side panel that may be damaged and got in there during shipment

Which software are you using to test memory status

12:16 What issues does the "cheap" flux cause exactly? Being new to this, I couldn't even tell whether the flux I got on Amazon is good or bad! How can I check or know beforehand?

when changing an LGA Socket due broken pins? :D

OMG you didnt use the anti-glare lens that are in stock!

MSI board with rog strix socket cover. Kind of curious what's the story of this board

The glass is from when the user punched the case after an expensive failure

that board was more than likely in a pc that was dropped or damaged in shipping

Those piece of glasses coming from side glasses of cases, it is tempered glass and when you do something to that glass it turns in to million tiny little pieces.. Try to drill a hole on it even that will turn that glass to millon pieces right away..

👍👍👍

Can you please make an update when the customer tested the boards? I am really curious about the success of this "blind" repair.

Tony you got a link to the dimm socket I got 2 same boards to replace, must be thing with these boards ? Cheers

So you doing repairs for motherboards too know?

Yeahh .. I know all about it .. I've been designing PCB layouts for 30 years

16:40 indeed, indeed

Considering the state of this motherboard, I'd say that glass is chipped off of the side panel of the case it was in.

They are sending you parts of your favorite glass window you forgot about until the ransom is paid. Keep it all and make a mosaic from them.

The glass shard is from 9th dimension

ship gaming pc in a black pc case with a glass side panel and shit packaging. gpu will pop loose and hit the glass and pop damaged PCB on the gpu and maybe a damaged pcie slot a clue is the locking tab will be damaged or missing

Broken dark tempered glass included with every repair package... from the cases broken side panel that broke at the same time the part did from the same cause. And to think the owner is going to find glass side panel chunks for years. Like glitter if you think you found it all and cleaned it up... think again.

Different DDR5 socket? You sure that you/supplier weren't confusing DD4 and DDR5 sockets?

Yep that smoked/tinted tempered glass. I really dont know how people break so much pc stuff

The pieces of glass are very obvious it's side panels for cases that someone keeps shattering I'm assuming these are probably damaged stock/RMAs that people keep sending you for repair..😮

OH my dog, they forgot to place the battery when they designed the pcb xD

How is it that you can heat up the solder without melting the memory socket?

!first

people keep shattering case windows. that's where the tempered glass is coming from. I'm guessing when the owner dropped the case and broke the window it also damaged the first pcie slot, that's why it was covered, they have been using the x8 slot. total guess

That board must have suffered a tantrum of a brute

Hopefully the 2 pins on the pci-e slot he repaired have nothing to do with power because those wires will turn into a puff of smoke within seconds with any RTX card. They probably have nothing to do with power because the traces looked pretty small.

Noce job thys manebord has two PCH?

so new motherboard right now the RAM slot is smd type of mounting if accendentaly rip it will rip also the trace line.. omg

why is that mobo $397??? help me understand

SMH... Nice... I've literary built today new PC using this board... I guess there is no real choice with am5. All brands are having problems with boards/bios these days

Perhaps the equipment with the glass fell off a truck? Who was parked outside, in a very dark, isolated parking lot... Just guessing.

surface mount pcie slots with modern heavy gpu's has got to be asking for a failure..

Why replace the memory sockets? Is it even worth to send in a motherboard for a repair? UDIMMs represent the most basic type of memory module and offer lower latency in one DIMM per channel configurations and (relatively) low power consumption, but are limited in capacity. RDIMMs offer larger capacities than UDIMMs and include address parity protection.

the motherboards most likely dead, they really don't like being heated especially with hot air no matter how careful you are.