Can I Fix This BROKEN eBay Gaming PC?

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I bought a broken Acer Predator gaming PC from eBay for way too much money...


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[DawidDoesTechStuff]

For everyone whose day I clearly ruined by not checking the CMOS. This morning I reset the CMOS and tested the motherboard with a different CPU, PSU, RAM and GPU. The motherboard is in fact still not working.
Also, I know Predator is an Acer sub brand. My holiday brain just misspoke.
Thanks for watching, bye!

[FistsOfHam]

In today's video Dawid refuses to admit that he has an Acer PC by repeatedly calling it an HP to try and shame it into working.

[Gizmosis_]

"Prostate shattering pile of crap" almost had me spit out my morning coffee 😂

[patchwrk]

I'm very curious why every tech YouTuber seems to have forgotten that almost all motherboards still have beep codes for troubleshooting, and the PC speakers, with the slide-on connector, are like $5 for a pack of three on Amazon. Am I just that old, and this is forgotten magic of eons long past?

[DalakusRex]

As a Romanian I can say that 13 year old Romanian kids do not buy broken prebuilds, they do way worse.

[akrsa]

I worked at ubi MTL during the summer of 2022 and I can absolutely confirm that Acer Predator were the PC sponsor of the Berlin Major. I remember seeing that exact case on the platform / stage thing that the players competed on so it absolutely could be a PC from that tournament, not sure if they did co-branded sales including the wallpaper or not.

[toaster]

PC clearly has Acer written all over it.
Dawid: Calls it HP 😂

[CaveyMoth]

This PC is more broke than me.

Maybe the IceTunnel froze it.

[yaldabaoth]

Imagine how wild global economy has to be that a PC assembled for a tournament in Germany ends up broken and sold in Canada.

[douglasgudenkauf]

As a Semi-Pro Seige player, seeing that background, I can confirm that, the pc u have is very likely to have been in the berlin major, we had a "major" around the same time and we were using hand me downs from a pro league and this system looks almost identical (ours used 3060's) and that wallpaper was only ever used during the major. I am VERY jealous

[memelord_]

The surgical process is so well practised now that it makes me wonder if there is a parallel universe where Dawid is a famous heart surgeon. Losing scalpels in the endless abyss of some guys open heart surgery.

[WarpRulez]

The very first thing you should try in these situations is clearing the cmos. It's very easy and quick to do, doesn't require dismantling anything, and can fix the problem surprisingly often. There's no reason not to try it.

And the funny thing is that if the culprit is the cmos, when you don't check it you may get the false impression that the entire motherboard is bad, and trying another motherboard will just strengthen that confirmation bias if the other one seems to work. It may well be that there was nothing wrong with the original, you just had to clear the cmos to make it work. This can cause you completely unnecessary extra expenses.

[CantankerousDave]

I dunno, I’ve always thought that bad PSUs give you all kinds of weird, seemingly unrelated symptoms. They do more than just go pop and release the magic blue smoke.

[gernblanston]

$750? The old prostate did get quite a workout ..

[Gamer-xb]

9:40 No way!! A Samsung Galaxy Z Fold SSD!!

[JobeStroud]

If you have a Mobo Speaker you can plug one in and it will give error beeps.

[DJSammy.]

Those dont touch stickers gives me uncontrollable laughter!! EPIC!

[wews]

For troubleshooting: Buying motherboard speaker beeper helps me a lot.

[CarbonPanther]

I'm betting 50 bucks that mainboard still works if you just tested it with a PC speaker and reset the BIOS as well. FIGHT ME.
Please like absolutely please 666K Dawid, exorcise Elma once and for all with a PC speaker i'm begging you!!
And PSU tester while you're at it, both of these things cost like 20 bucks total...

[prorex]

0:13
Dawid definitely got his wallet stole by a Romanian.