I Paid $2500 for 5 BROKEN High End Laptops - But Can I Fix Them?!

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I Paid $2500 for 5 BROKEN High End Laptops - But Can I Fix Them?! There are two Razor laptops, an HP Spectre, an Acer Nitro 5, and a Lenovo Yoga. I found a variety of problems including software issues, charging issues, keyboard issues, and one of them was crazy dirty inside. I don't have a ton of experience repairing laptops so it's fun to challenge myself to figure them out.

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[Tronicsfix]

Thank you so much to Ridge for sending me this wallet and supporting the channel! Here’s the site if you

[fanatic]

If this channel has taught me anything it is that 2/3rds of all electronics dumped in the bin are not actually broken and just need maintenance

[MITTuts]

I just can't believe the first one was considered salvage just because owner didn't want to reinstall Windows. This is a huge eye opener for what people consider to be e-waste. I hope you sold these to make good profit on these machines.

[joshhayes]

That first laptop is a heck of a buy, all it needs is some drivers and good to go!

[Vroenir]

For the Lenovo: Might also be a problem with either the charging cable, as my Yoga 730 recognizes if it‘s the supposed original one or a different. Which brings me to the second problem, if I use a different one I need to have the laptop open, because there is a light sensor near the camera which has to detect light. Else it won‘t start charging on another charger than the original one. This seems to be a known problem in Lenovo forums.

[boban]

Regarding the battery issue, I'd measure what changes when you connect the battery after it triggers 20V, especially on the battery sense pins, either voltage or resistance to ground and resistance to the charge controller. Also I'd check the battery connector soldering

[avinashanish]

For the Lenovo, you might want to try to use their proprietary charger just in case it's an issue with the USB-C charger/port

[dogs_r_forever]

For the Yoga, that was likely a display unit in a security lock. Those dents might have been caused by the security brackets that hold the laptop to the shelf/table.

[ugzz]

As a computer tech, I was definitely smiling as you struggle with the software issues (like the lan card). We all like to think that windows just has an automatic driver for everything, and while it's driver database is good, it's certainly not perfect :). Great luck getting so many working systems though!

[Underscore]

For the first Razer, I've had issues with SSD's you might want to do a whole SSD diagnosis to make sure that it's not faulty and why the image of Windows went corrupt. Sometimes SSDs will work for months, then suddenly clear sectors.

[HopsAndLead]

I am 28 IQ short of even being considered a village idiot but I really do enjoy watching you diagnose every issue and at a very high success rate, diagnose and fix issues with very valuable electronics that people like me would just toss in the trash. Great job and we need more people like you doing this. Cheers!!

[ragev]

Anytime you have a windows install that doesn't detect certain hardware (particularly the internet connection), you just need to install the drivers for it, you do not need to reinstall windows. You can usually find downloads for the driver software from the manufacturer's site if you simply search up the model number of the computer from another computer and download it to a USB drive for it. /IT professional

[WiBla]

For the charging issue: my guess is that your dongle is not able to "boot" (initialize) itself, maybe try without your dongle and the computer on, see if the battery icon shows a charging indicator?

[Acanis]

Laptops with battery issues are a tale old as time. Been doing laptop repairs, tech support and troubleshooting for over 15 years. One of the most common things I've run into is no power, no charging, etc. which seems to match up with the Lenovo. Most common fix I've had for that is to remove the battery, plug the unit into ac power, power the laptop on, go into windows, give it a few minutes, then shut down. Power off the laptop, reinstall the battery, boot back in, plug it in, and more often than not, it starts working again.

[MightyJabroni]

The first laptop just goes to show how quickly people abandon something as "broken". I once bought an allegedly broken laptop. Only issue was that a RAM bar wasn't properly set in the slot. That was all it took to "fix" it.

[melcrose]

ALWAYS beat the GPU to death as a matter of testing. A good chunk of the time, that's the failure point. Everything will look peachy until you run a game and you get green lines on the screen after a while . . .

[sijedevos]

Make sure to test the ram on all of these laptops especially the easy fixes. When it comes to PCs and laptops faulty ram can cause crashes and blue screen when put under a very specific load and with basic testing you have a chance you won’t encounter those issues. I suggest run memtest or Aida64 stresstest on all systems and if they pass it’s all fine.

[Zebra_Paw]

For the dead keyboard sometimes a BIOS update fixes it.

There was nothing wrong with the two first devices. The first one just needed a single Windows reinstall and some drivers (that device manager looked horrible).
Now it's worth taking the working ones apart for repasting and cleaning the dust.

[AndRooooooo]

"There is an error code, that's something to go off of at least." - Proof that he's not a software guy 😂 Windows BugCheck codes are 100% useless!

[TravisStamper]

If you do hardware IMO it is imperative that you learn the software as well that way you know if it is a hardware problem, otherwise the rabbit holes you fall into suck