Fixing a Viewer's BROKEN Gaming PC? - Fix or Flop S5:E5

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[YouEnvyMe]

Found you on YT about two years ago and always watch every episode. So excited to see the new house getting set up, congrats!!!

[BLOoMIND]

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[MatFoxSimRacing]

fun fact: Greg chooses his lottery numbers based on that week's Dr Debug codes

[Lagg_]

Greg's Gremlin keeps turning off the power strip on him. Your not supposed to feed them after midnight 😂😂

[JoshsTechWorkshop]

My guess is that the previous motherboard had either BIOS issues, power delivery issues, or both.
Meaning I think the AIO pump was not being given enough power to properly cool the CPU / move the pump effectively, causing the cold plate to get very hot and warping the plastic of the socket, which was a symptom of the motherboard's failures, and a red herring to the actual problem.
Well done identifying that issue!

[xjasonx]

Complete bricks are always fun to diagnose!

Said no one ever. 😂

[simondogs]

Good job, again, Greg. People should note that fixed is not the same as repaired.

[georgekofinas]

Hi Greg ! When you installed your 7600X, if you check closely, you didnt mount it good, one side was like abit on the socket plastic, that is why it couldn't turn on :)

Peace !

[tmpltw]

A new episode of fix or flop, the computer is not the only thing that is bricked right now.

[CiTRU]

Did you swap the CR2032 battery? I've seen some WEIRD shit happening because of the battery being dead/sending the wrong output voltage.

[Fredfox]

So, as soon as you showed the specs of the PC I immediately knew it was the motherboard. I as well was upgrading a few parts in my PC, and when turning on the PC, I was getting the same LED bug. Fortunately, I was able to do a return exchange with Newegg and got it replaced. I was able to test it and now have a working PC. Gigabyte may have a know issue with that version of the motherboard because the new motherboard I received is version 1.2, and the one I returned was 1.1.

[murraystechtime]

I've been an electronice repair tech since 1973 and a computer repair technologist since 1978, you are doing a great job at troubleshooting. I did do repair to component level but that was a long time ago. Great video...

[MaheerKibria]

So 15 is a pre-memory Northbridge initialization. 46 is one of the ones gigabyte doesn't tell us and just tells us it's reserved. 00 is a restart. That told me that it was never the memory. This narrows it down to CPU or MB. For some reason, the motherboard is having trouble communicating with the IO Die Those codes are useful if you know how to read them. Once we saw the socket was warped it was definitely the motherboard not making good contact. I know a lot of people think debug LEDs are good enough and 90% of the time they are but in cases like this you could have diagnosed this in like 5 minutes by just reading the debug codes. I feel like this should be a standard feature. I miss the days when you could just add a post card and read post codes by plugging it into the LPC debug port or PCIe bus.

[chexmixkitty]

reminds me when I pushed down on my 3700x to realign the pins. Heard a crunch, but ran perfectly fine lol. I bent the pins because my cpu fell right out of the socket. Pushed the CPU into the socket to align the pins back to stock and amazingly didn't break any pins.

[oui_ofc]

ouch @ 8:40 that processor is not seated flat

[wesleyschick]

I definitely would have recommended to try a BIOS flashback to an older version. There's a strong possibility that doing that might have fixed that board.

[MGCMorph]

You opened this video with the message from user regarding an update. I suspect he updated the bios and has bricked the board..

[GGigabiteM]

You may want to invest in an EEPROM programmer and some basic board level rework tools. I've seen an increasing number of motherboards with corrupt BIOS/UEFI firmware, and I've had to get out my programmer to fix them.

For motherboards with SPI flash chips (most boards these days use them), you can sometimes get away with one of those clip programmers. But more often than not, you have to remove the SPI flash chip to program it. Other things on the SPI bus can drag down the bus so the programmer can't read the flash chip.

[gabrieldeleon]

I got a question about a nzxt b650e mother board. I can’t get the WiFi or Bluetooth to work where should start looking? Would it be in the bios ?

[JacksLair]

Seems like a dual bios board. Have you tried switching to the 2nd one?