Why Do Computers Die? (ft. The 8-Bit Guy) - Krazy Ken's Tech Talk

Why and how do computers die? You go to turn it on and suddenly it's making weird noise, or the screen is flickering, or it just does nothing. How does this happen? Today, Krazy Ken will show you the "computer killers", with help from: The 8-Bit Guy, Hugh Jeffreys, Mac84, and Branchus Creations.

Krazy Ken's Tech Talk - Why Do Computers Die? (ft. The 8-Bit Guy)

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[bill_clinton]

So my parents tell me of this story when I was like 2 years old or something, I put an egg into a DVD player. I cracked that egg and it got inside of the DVD player. When my parents took it apart and cleaned the egg out of the DVD player, it still worked. Thing is, the DVD player would only play homemade or pirated content. It would not play a DVD movie that you would buy from a store.

The egg that I put in that DVD player must have fried some sort of DRM chips on the motherboard.

[Nolroa]

Sometimes damage to computers is caused by anger ... In my country Colombia we usually call that type of damage as: “Ctrl + Alt + Kick”.

[FerintoshFarmsPhotography]

Nope, you're wrong; it's gnomes, it is always the gnomes....

[ThomasFarmer]

When I was younger I would pull capacitors off of an electronic, and see how many I could take off before the thing stopped working.

I was an idiot.

[half-qilin]

My mom dropped her old iPhone 6s in the toilet. It was working immediately after that incident. Then she washed it with WATER. That killed it.

[weatheronthes]

You seriously just taught me why one of my computers has to sit plugged in forever before it will turn on. I guess it is a bad capacitor. However, I have no idea where the cap is, so I wouldn't know what to replace, not like I even have equipment to do it with. I assume it is in the PSU though so replacing the PSU would probably just be safer.

[sundhaug]

Also:

- If the magic smoke escapes
- Thermal-cycles (Various things expand and contract at different rates and temperatures)
- Bit-rot
- Crashed drive arm

[OliverBusse]

This was the best explanation of how a capacitor works I have ever seen!

[vwestlife]

The 8-Bit Guy himself now counts as a computer killer.

[leap_]

8-Bit guy: **collabs with Ken**
*_6 hours ago before this video uploaded_*
8-Bit guy: **uploads video about mouse**

[MrAwesomeTony]

I believe you missed water damage!

Well, technically speaking not technical problems but I would say it is the #1 killer for electronics.

[renav]

This content is so amazing dude, always catching my eyes. It's amazing how you could collaborate with The 8-Bit Guy!

Keep it up!

[matictement]

That's a collab we didn't know we wanted!

[thabg]

I still have a 2001 Compaq laptop that still turns on, I had windows 2000 on it since it only had 256MB of ram, found more ram on ebay now its maxed out at 512MB of ram, then upgraded it to windows XP pro, then upgraded the CPU from 800Mhz Pentium 3 mobile to 1Ghz Pentium 3 mobile, 80GB hard drive, added a linksys wireless G pcmcia card, 100MB wired Ethernet port. firefox verson 52. Youtube videos run at 1 frame per second, i just use it as a joke to friends that come over and want to use a computer lol

[SleepyRaccoon]

Once when I was around... eh, 7 or 8 years old, I spilled a glass of milk on a cable box.
Amazingly enough after the milk dried up, it worked perfectly fine.

[woodengamer]

Great video, seen my fair share of horror stories when restoring vintage computers. from NeXT slabs stored outdoors for 10 years to flood damaged retro computers. Those restorations are always some of my favorites to accomplish. Too bad they canceled the VCF in Chicago this year, maybe see you in 2021 there.

[jeffreyphipps]

My most humorous repair was for a major manufacturer. I worked in IT maintenance for a company. A user complained that anything he typed came up as random characters on screen. I went and retrieved the keyboard/computer for testing. His assessment was repeatable. There was no obvious reason. I swapped keyboards to see if that stopped the gibberish. It did. Keyboard problem. Went to plug the problem keyboard into another machine and noticed a switch on the bottom of the keyboard with three positions marked simply as reset/lock/map. I discovered in the service manual that if set to map, you would press a key and then the next key you pressed was assigned to the first. So if you pressed the A key then pressed the P key the A key acted as the P key. Worse, until the switch on the bottom was locked, this kept reassigning keys. So you would press the A key (nothing would be displayed), then the P key (displayed). They you would press the A key again (no display) and press another key, say J (displayed) and not that key was assigned to A. The mapping never ended until you locked the mapping. Fortunately, you could switch to reset, which used a ROM original key set and also copied it to the map. The keyboard did work, but it was decided that the switch was a user hazard not worth the trouble. My boss told me to set it to reset and super glue it there and then put a chassis seal over it. so that no one would seem curious. Problem solved.

[adiblasi]

Ken, you had a good opportunity for the “crack party” joke. Also, the Apple /// “drop” was legit. I recall that as an Apple Tech Note entry, back in the day when I was selling those computers. The purpose of the drop was to reseat chips. Fun times in the good old days. Great video, Ken!

[kilgarragh]

wait cant i just recap my board once? isn't that enough?
WHY ABILLIOLN!!!

[Ashquacks]

Hugh: I fixed this Macbook and now it's very nice

Ken: Well that was truly horrifying