Fixing a Viewer's BROKEN Gaming PC? - Fix or Flop S2:E15

🛠️ My troubleshooting gear:

🧼 My cleaning gear:

🎬 My studio gear:

📱 Follow me on social media:

#FixOrFlop

[NTrekkie]

Hey Greg, a friend of mine had a problem like this last month. For him, it was the sata data cable itself, the drive was perfectly fine. In your case, I'm sure it could be either the ssd or the cable that's causing the issue, just wanted to pass along the knowledge.

[Matthew-vlcd]

GREG: I came straight to your channel to say thank you! My computer has its first error today that I had to troubleshoot: no video signal + VRAM & CPU motherboard LEDs, and I was able to do it because of these videos. I reseated my RAM and cleared the CMOS and now my computer works again! These videos seriously help people, thank you!

[tibibss]

This series has by far been the best example of real life scenarios that can happen to anyone with their pc. PC building will forever be a trial and error kind of thing and it requires alot of patience to fix. Out of all youtube pc channels this one really has taught me the most

[ai_square]

That's a cheap SSD, but then probably a SATA cable issue since you've eliminated another issue which was a problematic SATA port when you changed the mobo.

[unxpecteddd]

This series is so informational for me and i learn alot, its also pretty fun to try to guess what the issue is before you can. thanks for this cool series Greg.

[ryogahibiki]

Seeing all the whole video until the SSD was the sole culprit with a sata cable but mentioning "2.5" Kingston SSD" on CC, and seeing the physical SSD in 10 seconds of the video, i realized, that's one of A4XX which its easily broken, because 3 years ago, there was many complaints of that exact Kingston A400 of driver failure or sata cable faulty or lack of DRAM and speed or the SSD doesn't do post. That's why i always knew of those Kingston SSDs is not reliable what happened in the past because of those A4XX.
Anyway good video greg! Keep it up, its still kinda intriguing, also i thinked the same about the video card but in the end, video card was all ok.

[hedonistic_mushroom]

Man, I just love that you keep running into these esoteric issues right and left.

Also love that your channel's solution for different series of content is to create playlists for theme. Other YouTuber create outright new channels (LMG has like 5, granted their stuff is actually varied).

Keep it coming, Greg!

[angelrbarajas]

Currently I'm 38 seconds into the video, I had this issue before and all I had to do was update my motherboard bios and it was fixed!! Let's see if this is somewhere along those lines.

[NonLegitNation]

I absolutely love this series, I like it better then the cleaning videos, overall I love troubleshooting videos and I think everyone else does too and that's why this series is so successful and we keep coming back.

[auntmaryspals]

I'm a 60 something year old woman who has been tinkering around with computers since 1998. It's so interesting to see you solve problems that I've run across many times, but also new issues that I have no experience in. This is better than watching Jeopardy!

[jimwatson]

Greg, when you solved the long hang time issue. You had SUCH a big self indulgent grin and you deserve it, cos you explained the concept and It sounded possible and then you proved your hypothesis which was so wild to find in the first place so for you to think it and then prove it. Nah you deserve to be super pleased about that solution well done man.

[NukeBreath]

Dude I absolutely love this playlist. I didn't see that coming. I have been pretty good at diagnosing some of the problems you've had before with other systems. I don't think I would have caught this one. Awesome. On an other note. Sad to say I can see other repair type services just saying hey you need a new this or that and not putting in the effort to find the real problem. Can't wait for the next one.

[tsiturbotsi]

Okay so this was a good one for me. I didn't know a drive going bad would make it hang going into BIOS. Even after troubleshooting tons of PC issues I never came across this one. Like you were talking about at the end this is why I always watch all your videos all the way through because you really make sure you find every detail of the problem instead of just getting a post and calling it good. Love this series!

[juanmendez]

Man it’s good to see your reaction when you know what the problem is and you test it to be true. I see your passion for what you do!! Keep it up man!!

[FIGHTERSCHOICEArcade]

Absolutely love this series!!! I have learned so much from your videos! Keep up the great work!!! 😎

[leif-erichansens]

Really enjoying this series, great educational value ! I ran into this with a bad SATA CD-rom, keeping the system from posting. I got over 20 years of experience and I really appreciate that you are "teaching" the general audience some trouble shooting, while you learn yourself. And yes, during all this I also learned something, no matter how experienced you are, you are learning all the time.

[griff]

That button on the back of the B450 was a BIOS Flash Back Button. To clear the CMOS on that board, you need to jump the JBAT1 header (bottom right near the front panel connectors). The B450 is likely fine and probably just needs an updated BIOS.

[danielrobles]

I used to work in a PC repair shop when I was a teen-ager. Whenever we had issues where we couldn't get the computer to post. There would be a list of things we would always try first, it was almost always due to a single component causing the issues. RAM was the main reason for most of these problems, replacing or reseating them would fix the issue. When that didn't would disconnect all of the other components except the graphics card and Cpu, we would usually find the culprit.

Great video, really took me back to those days

[lorduggae]

The more complicated the system, the more things can go wrong. Good work as always, I love troubleshooting vids

[Zomifd]

Greg, as someone in the IT field, and who doesn’t specialize in hardware I appreciate this playlist. This helps me in a professional matter. I would love it if you had a playlist of the variety of “Intro to gaming pc hardware.” With all of the variety and quality of components it’s a bit daunting for new enthusiasts to want to build their own machine if they don’t know they’re not built low quality components.