DON'T USE CONTINUITY MODE TO CHECK GPUS FOR SHORT CIRCUITS

[Xenoray]

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

[johnbrowne]

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.

[adentx]

Fitter. Happier. More productive

good little GPU

[Xenoray]

Buildzoid: Talking alot

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

[frpnopc]

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

[proesterchen]

So I should definitely use continuity mode. Understood! 👍


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[GurkenkoenigZ]

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

[darkwarrior]

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

[marklydon]

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.

[SuperSilvi]

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.

[darkSorceror]

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.

[Hokum_Paints]

Flipping the camera really disorientated me!

[theophilusthistler]

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.

[JubulburbWuldrd]

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.

[Hostilenemy]

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

[phatboycd]

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!

[colin]

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

[asm_nop]

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.

[BeamMonsterZeus]

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

[mikewakefieldgeller]

“Except it fucking works!” Gotta love BZ