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Finally, a subreddit made for Lexi narrated by Lexi
Correct tech and hardware gore should be exclusive lexi not anyone else
I know! And we are all learning stuff too 😊
The past three or four have been with either Zach cougar or Jack or Robin with cougar being my least favourite so it’s good to hear Lexi again
What do you mean finaly? Lexi has done this before many times
@@AmeliaRomanov agreed I love lexis explanations
About the final post:
The fan they installed is from a stock cooler. It is not a normal fan, its designed to go on the heatsink that comes with an AM4 socket CPU.
While yes it technically works they would have likely needed to "modify" the heatsink to attach it.
just like i have electircally taped a fan to the underside of my Low profile cooler because my case is to thin to top mount the included 120mm so 95mm underneeth it is
on the last post, bro made the fan into a tabletop fan to cool himself off
I would assume small zip ties. It's actually a really expedient way to attach electric fans to car radiators (with larger zip ties, of course)
@@brianargo4595 Zip ties really solve most things that doesnt fit quite right while pc building
@@brianargo4595 HA! You are not far off. He zip tied the fan blades themselves to the heatsink
I 100% love Lexi narrating these topics because you learn so much.
Literally, just goes off on a tangent for like 5mins about a wire lmaoo 😂😂
Genuinely though??? Lexi is SUCH a good teacher, I have such a great time listening to her, she's great at explaining stuff. I honestly kinda wish she did it more often! I love learning things from her! 😩💕
@@cakes4056 and the editor knows better than to put her on a timer like they do Robin
Yep here for the Lexplanations
@@Reticulating-Splines ooooh that's a good one
The absolute horror in Lexis voice is just hilarious, subreddits like this truly do drive her insane, and yet she also makes it educational through the growing insanity
she? sounds like a guy
@@carlthelongshoreman1979 I believe Lexi is trans
@@KaiTheRedWarrior8244 then he still is a he
lol wrong channel to be spouting that.
@@carlthelongshoreman1979 wrong She is a She and if you don't like that then don't watch videos with her in it, and just stop causing hate for no reason!
im not super into tech stuff but i love hearing lexi talk about it.
Me too😂
Lexi Narrating this, is like clicking an educational video from LTT and seeing Anthony. Your absolutely about to learn something, and enjoy yourself doing it. 11/10
She really does make this funny to watch and educational at the same time.
Anthony is the only decent thing about ltt
The amount of things I've learned from Lexi narrating this subreddit is insane
Absolutely love Lexi explaining these things, I always learn something while also hearing the frustration and outrage for how some people treat their technology
An uncle of mine had a similar hole blasted in a PCB in his TV by lightning. Another uncle who did electronics got it to work again, apparently the traces only needed to be reconnected. This was in the 80s, and the TV may have been from the 70s.
I found the whole thing fascinating, and it was probably the first time I saw a TV with the back panel off, and the first electronics repair I saw. Now I do my own.
Oh yeah, back in the dial-up days we had a lightning strike hit the telephone lines, and it blew apart an opto-isolator on the 56k modem in our home computer.
Replaced the modem and all was well, we went back to our business of browsing the web on AOL.
That PC was a blazing fast Pentium running at 100 MHz with a staggering 4MB of RAM (later upgraded by me to 8MB), a gigantic 800mb hard drive, and it even had an 8x CD-ROM drive in it so you could play the latest games.
Meanwhile my computer right now is literally thousands of times more powerful, and I'm already thinking about a replacement.
The newest, fastest Intel CPU's can clock literally 60 times faster than that Pentium could (yes, they've finally reached 6 gigahertz).
Amazing what progress can happen in 25 years.
@@44R0Ndin plus each one of those Hz packs way more punch than a Hz did back then. The IPC improvement is in the thousands x.
@@44R0Ndin Ah, yes, I remember my dad having a lot of trouble with losing modems to lightning back in the late 1990s and early 2000s. I was actually at his place for one loss. Loud click out of the modem's speaker and the connection prompty went down and much grumbling from Dad about having to buy a new modem card. Rest of the computer worked fine, though.
This continues to remind me of a phrase my friend once said to one of his close friends/regular customers.
"Processors are like tiny, really expensive rocks that you tase until it starts to think. If the same principle applied to people, I'd have a much different, less stressful job."
I am so excited for Lexplanations!!! I always look forward to Lexi narrated videos because I love her off topic rants/ explanations about stuff!!!
is good
Woo! Lexi's back on the tech support subreddits! This is the way.
I love learning more about tech and the discussion at 2:00 or so is a perfect example. I had no idea CAT5E had such redundancy built in! Awesome :D
Lexi back 🎉
I LOVE any Ethernet cable. I run CAT7 at home, but that's my kind of crazy.
All that matters is, these things can put up with SO much abuse that you can't even imagine. We hung a 1:1 weight medical doll off of a random CAT5 cable and it still works... With the doll STILL ON IT.
Only for slower speeds. AFAIK gigabit speeds needs all 8 wires.
Same! And although Jack or Robin (can’t remember which) did a good job on the last one, Lexi is the best!
"Rule zero: Do not be on fire" is something I'm definitely gonna quote
What I came for: People mistreating tech and Lexi getting mad over it
What I stayed for: Lexi explaining how it works
5:00 You've heard of Light Emitting Diodes, now get ready for Light Emitting Resistors.
Remember, every kind of electronic equipment can emit light _at least once._
Light Emitting Resistor sounds like a euphemism for an incandescent light bulb.
You’ve heard of Light Emitting Diodes, Now get ready for light emitting houses.
Remember Kids, don’t trust mini black pillows of doom
Ah, I love it when my PC turns into a grill.
I love it when it does that too
Rocking the 4090 huh?
Have some sausage for grilling, just in case?
So what happens if you can cook a pizza over a PC?
Asking because I know someone who tried...
At 16:20 the real issue is they don't have the mounting bracket for the AIO, if you look closely you can see the stock plastic mounts on both sides of the CPU socket. Also judging from the thermal paste spread it seems the CPU plate never made full contact with the AIO's copper plate.
Yeah I didn't look that close, but it looked like plenty of paste. I thought they just somehow didn't tighten it down but you made realize it's worse than that.
I always get a little excited when I see Emkay post a video that's obviously gonna have Lexi narrating. I love the way she rambles about computer stuff. She reminds me of my grandpa (huge computer nerd). I'm gonna go sub to her channel now.
Ugh, some of those really hurt... But excellent narration and explanation as always Lexi :3
1:20: kind of doubt that's a solid core cable ^^;
6:00 instead if splicing, a better idea (though bulkier) would probably be to crimp an ethernet jack on both ends and put a female-female adapter in.
16:05 Those look like German Schuko ports, and if you get them from different brands the order of where to put live/neutral/PE can differ. It's usually printed on or moulded into the plastic.
17:40: I think they took the fan from one of those AMD stock coolers that come with the CPU (and are often enough underpowered) and slapped it onto a tower cooler ^^;
Yup, that’s a wraith spire cooler. It’s good enough, for most things, I have one cooling my Ryzen 5600x right now actually.
For 6:00 couldn't you have just soldered them together? No room for error
@@loganroufs9705 No, with soldering you have more room for error. Get a cheap RJ45-Crimptool and the crimpable RJ45-plugs, and easily crimp it.
With soldering you need to get into Account, that the room for Error is much wider, because you need e.g. the right amount of Flux, the wire need to be presoldered, ...
15:54 To be honest, then the molding would differ too.
My assumption would be, that they miswired it, but no one noticed it, because there was no RCD installed.
The middle Wire on the left Socket is blue.
That concludes, devices will probably Work on both sockets, because both are technically ground or neutral.
These lines are seperated at the Point, Where the Power from the grid enters your House and the Power Meter.
(PEN)
But your RCD won't like it for Sure.
uh- wh-
LESBIAN ADAPTERS?????
Lexi is the only person who should narrate techsupportgore.
She makes it funny and educational!
Here before the transphobes arrive
@@Bubblegum1526 ditto
@@Bubblegum1526Ditto
@@Bubblegum1526ditto.
Sorry I'm here @@Bubblegum1526
The first time I had to replace the thermal paste myself I did some research and found one set of instructions that said to put a pea sized blob right in the middle, that method worked just fine so I've been using it and it hasn't failed so far. It makes sense when you consider that it's going to spread uniformly from the center towards the borders as soon as it gets sandwiched between the CPU and the cooler.
"It's like a sauce packet of sin and punishment."
I'm laughing so hard I'm about to have some serious stomach issues. Lexi's done it again.
3:57
"spouting benchmarks"
I don't know why, but that's kinda funny :D
Thank you Ms. Lexi, every narration of yours makes me learn more than my IT classes
Well yeah, in my case I learned some of these in electrical engineering, not IT, guess it's a bit odd
These lexplinations are amazing they have quite literally taught me more over time about hardware than actual guides I also love hearing Lexi rambling about tech
I love how every three posts or so we get a free lesson in computer science. Love ya lexi
I’m so glad lexi narrates this subreddit because other wise I would just be so lost
7:37 Cheap air filter cartridge would be nice like a cheap vacuum cleaner.
I learned a lot from this episode! Thanks, Lexi ❤
Lexi, I'm glad to hear you going insane over this
Love your voice!
I love this subreddit because I have no idea what is going on in any of the pictures, I just listen to the horror levels fluctuating in Lexi's voice
If there's one thing I learned in electronics classes, you're NOT supposed to let out the magic white smoke.
But…I wanna be a wizard! *dies of 1d4 tech damage*
Oh awesome :D, more Lexi!!
For anyone wondering, as long as the Cat5e cable makes a connection, it will work. The worst which will happen is that your '1Gbps ready' cable will only do 100Mbps (or worse, 10Mbps). You also may get some dropped packets, but it can usually survive that...
0:35 Try turning it off and then turn it back on again
And have a fire extinguisher ready
I have been waiting for more Lexplanations! Will definitely check your channel :D
"it would puppet all the customers in the store and steal all the rotisserie chickens before running into the wild" 😂LOL
2:08 that cable thing was my grandparents house. For about 22 years they had their cable line running under the carpet, my grandfather was laying carpet over the hardwood floor. He had gotten advice from the Time Warner cable guy who came out to setup all their shit, and the guy was like. "Well I can drill up through the floor right here where it comes into the house at, you can run it along the wall under your trim. Then when you get out of the dining room, since you won't have any heavy furniture sitting in the middle of the room. You can just run it straight from the dining room arch directly to the TV box there". Now I'm helping my grandmother tear up carpet and get rid of all that shit, we found the cable. It was a thick black cord, my grandmother said she remembered being surprised by it's thickness when he laid it. The only part of protective coating was on the underside, about 7/8 of the cord had it removed and it was just the copper wire there. I was like "hey grandma, maybe this time. You should run it up along the edge of the ceiling"
1:17 (ignore timestamp made this for myself)
7:00 I second this, still using a 2012 HP ProBook and I love how you need no screws to replace the hard drive or anything, they call it a "Service Door" because it clips in just like the battery.
The increasing level of horror from Lexi as the video progresses is wonderful😂❤
I'm in IT I love Lexi imparting her knowledge and expirence on me as someone only just getting started.
Absolutely love how Lexi actually explains everything ♡
Wow! This episode almost perfectly encapsulates my it life. The casing of the ethernet, chasing gremlins on cat5e, the old thinkpad (I still have a working t43, awesome hi-res display), even stripping down a laptop (if you pull the display off, disconnecting the display nicely, it's just like unplugging an admin cable). I even repaired a customer laptop with the overheating issue with canned air; only charged the diagnostic fee on that one.
At my current work, all the cat5e was wired consistently, but not in sequence; I changed all the ends, putting them into proper tia sequence, and all the connection issues (only connecting at 100mb, random dropouts, etc) went away.
I love when Lexi does this subreddit because she is so good at and I love when she explains some of these!
8:09 And THIS Ladies and Gentlethings is why Cooks must NEVER retrain as Network Technicians...
Because they STILL think they're working with Spaghetti...
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
16:13 Actually, this one is because they just plonked the AIO on there without actually properly mounting it.
Like, the mounting bracket on the motherboard is for a stock heat sink. Not for whatever this AIO water cooler is. So there's nothing to bolt it down to! Which means basically no actual contact with the CPU, which is *also* why the thermal compound (which is probably excessively applied but better too much than too little) isn't spread out properly.
1:30
ethernet basically _is_ what landline was.
the tech was already there, ethernet just uses two in and two out with ground. minus the special stuff added to reduce noise for high speed internet, its almost identical!
recycling tech is common, because it works, and was already there!
6:44 my desk used to get that hot with my old laptop running, somehow it didn't die, catch fire or explode
I know nothing about tech. But hearing Lexi talk about it makes me so relaxed.
The last post with the replaced fan is gore because it's AMD Ryzen's boxed cooler fan ripped out of its original heatsink and screwed to the big tower heatsink. The towers usually only take clip mounting mechanism, so this means the user destroyed the heatsink's fins by screwing right into them, not using metal clips on the sides as it's meant to be used. Also you're supposed to use fans with a square shaped shroud on those tower heatsinks and by using a fan with just a round shroud it leaves the heatsink looking very janky and empty, and it doesn't work as well as it's supposed to since it doesn't cover the sides that well.
I really want to punch whoever invented this stupid way to attach fan to heatsink for Socket AM4, as I may have to use duct tape to attach fan to heatsink later on.
I, for one, would love to hear you narrate explanations on techsupportgore like these!
Please! One can learn so much!!
And have fun at the same time.
Lexi is back on the techsubreddits in full force and i am 100% here for it!
0:24 It is technically possible. With a clean room rated ISO Class 5 Clean Room Maximum Number of Particles/ft3 for the following. Particle Size
0.1 µm
0.2 µm
0.3 µm
0.5 µm
Maximum # of Particles
100,000
23,700
10,200
3,520
So Yes ... AND NO!
1:01 - I'm pretty sure that if I remember correctly, back in like, around 2004-2006, there was an issue with a lot of Dell laptop batteries (most, if not all of them being manufactured by Sony), where they wouldn't inflate, but straight up explode.
I've heard about it a few times from my older sister (both of us are big computer nerds) a few years back, and yeah... But I'm still probably going to get myself a Latitude D620 sometime, it's just bound to happen.
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, I haven't looked it up very recently.
The only way in which you’re wrong is in thinking that this was an issue specifically with the batteries in Dell laptops. Dell got the reputation because of a laptop that exploded into flames at a conference and hit the media. Sony recalled millions of batteries after that, but less than half of them were in Dell laptops. HP and Apple also recalled millions of batteries in those years, as well. And, of course, lithium cell phone batteries were also being recalled.
The batteries do swell - it’s just either not noticed, or is very rapid.
FYI, modern lithium, batteries, do still explode and burn, it’s just relatively rare and is usually either due to substandard manufacturing by a knock off brand or due to damage.
0:57 my coworker once called a battery in like this and said that the battery was swollen. The representative on the other end was disgusted and promptly called him a perv and hung up. This was several years ago. We also used to play a fun game we called “How Close” it involved grabbing 2 batteries and seeing how fast and close you can get to slamming them together but not actually. Let me say we had a cardboard box, used for several paper reams, full of bloated batteries and batteries that are on the edge of decent and bloated. God I love IT.
More recently we had a junior technician tell us that he found a computer with a colony of ants living under it.
love how you explain everything in detail
10:50 Adapt, adapt, adapt, adapt, overcome.
i love it when lexi does these because i just enjoy listening to her infodump
17:09 When I bought my current computer it had an issue with it's thermal paste seemingly from day one. Every time the computer was unplugged or if the power went out it would pop up it's bios first thing the next time it was booted (mind you, no settings ever needed to be changed nor was there any warning, just boots up to the bios and I could just tell it to boot to windows and it would have no issue from there). It was also having very rare crashes of an 'IRQL-not-less-or-equal' bluescreen. I took it in to a local computer shop and the only physical issue he could find with it was it's thermal paste, which he fixed up for me. No more crashes, no more bios after unplugging or losing power.
"The red SQUARE of doom. Sometimes it can delete your house!"
Lexi is a comedic genius
The thing with the last one is that the fan is FIXED WITH SCREWS
Im glad that Lexi explains anything because I dont understand anything
Ok so for the sockets on 15:55
Short answer is, as long as nothing will be connected to the right one, nothing should happen. If you connected something to it, an RCD (Residual-Current Device) will shut off power in the whole house.
That is, if the ground wire is connected to the left socket as well. If not it is pssible it was just wired with different colored cables, but was routed correctly with this swap in mind, at which point nothing should happen. It's generally not advised to swap the wire colors, because your electrician will not thank you when he has to find a problem and this will mislead him.
I love Lexi tech support/ hardware/ software gore vids. I always learn something new
Protip if you have to deal with Point of Sale systems (They're called PoS for a reason): Shove a playing card in the receipt printer, that'll clear the out of paper error AND it will not be able to print. we used to do this with our debit card machine, saved us lots on thermal paper. The thickness of the playing card makes sure it does not get too hot to be a problem too :) (EDIT: drilling the hole in the printer was probably because someone dropped a wedding ring in it, have seen it happen before)
Orange computers in Florida? No reason its called Orange County lmfaooo 0:19
S H I T
6:06 Oh no, what you don't realize is, under each of those shrink wraps, they actually went as far as soldering the wires. its only now that they have realized, they forgot to put the larger shrink wrap over the entire band. so out comes the electrical tape.
And then there's how I would "splice" the ethernet cable.
I'd just terminate the ends of the cable with RJ45 plugs and then use an RJ45 inline coupler.
Should work fine if it's not literally outside. And if it IS outside, I'd use the weatherproof RJ45 connectors and couplers like you saw half of in another part of the video.
Sometimes it's just too much work to re-run the cable.
@@44R0Ndin trust me, i know... we had one in our home, THREW our walls, so re-running it was all but impossible, as it ran up duct lines and such. so... you can imagine how annouyed we were when the cable installer coming into install the new cable modem, drilled a mounting screw right through the middle of the cable.
we didn't have an extender and we had just enough slack to splice solder, shrink wrap each line + the outer casing.
17:00 i just realized you didnt realize that that watercooling block on that AIO is not clamped down, and doesnt have pressure. sooo that amount of thermal paste is not spreading
I don't understand any of what she's talking about, but I love these videos because you can tell that Lexi has a genuine passion (and hatred) for it
in response to Lexi's comment about Laptops having drop-able back plates, I'm kinda surprised Framework wasn't mentioned as they are designed around being really modular and easy to do, Linus has made a few videos on the laptop and company.
on one hand framework is a smaller company.
on the other hand Lexi does know of LTT, and works/worked in tech, so she would be someone to know what framework is.
@@Reverend_Salem that's kinda why I was surprised it wasn't mentioned
Framework is probably not a machine you would find in the home of someone who doesn't know that heatsinks exist and are able to be clogged. It's going to be whatever awful laptop that's on sale at the back of the grocery store.
I’m so glad lexi is here to narrate this one 😭
I love Lexi's explanations, I learn so much 💜
At 17:17 from what I can guess, what the person was using before was a custom air cooler whose fan broke, so he ripped out a fan from an AMD stock cooler that came with the CPU most likely (or bought it for super cheap), and simply replaced the fan with that.
AMD stock coolers aren't that bad tbh, and thanks to the larger surface area of the custom air cooler, this should theoretically be more effective than the AMD stock cooler. Plus a fan is just a fan anyhow. The "gore" portion most likely would be referring to what the person would have to do to actually mount a non standard fan to the cooler.
I’m glad that my uncle and aunt live in the middle of the forested mountain because they would have each and every one of these things happen to them if they tried to use anything hardware or software or tech lmao 🤣
I'm here for those tech support stories. Gonna subscribe to Lexi's channel because I've wanted this since the first time I've seen her do software gore.
"Is this an error?"
Oh hell no, you just caused a bonfire.
7:30 my guess is laptop manufactures don’t want to make it easy to clean and maintain laptops. They want it to be difficult so people won’t bother and their laptops will need replaced more frequently so the company can sell more laptops.
17:40 It's an AMD stock fan mounted to the side of a heatsink
bro I was just thinking of a series called lexplanations where you explain stuff and I did NOT expect to see it actually be real
Lol I'm learning so much from Lexi today, thanks!
1:45 it seems like Lexi said "days" and then they edited in her saying "years" over it
Her?
@@Santiagogleissner they’re transgender as far as i know, and ik if i said “he” then i would probably be crucified for not “honoring their desires”
@@titaniac3037 Well i am trans too but oh well…
@15:47 That appears to be a Shuko socket, use in most of Europe.
The earth is indeed Yellow/Green and is very much wired up wrong.
What you are seeing here is the left socket is connected to the mains and is daisy chained to the right connector. This is normal and standard practice for sockets next to eachother.
What isn't normal, is the wires all being white. There should be a Blue and a Brown wire for Lead/Live and Neutral in anything after the early 70's
It would appear one of the wires is Green....which was the colour for the Lead/Live wire before 1970 (Neutral was Red)....and it NEVER goes to the middle terminal. (Left/Right is not regulated in Shuko a.f.a.i.k.)
The left socket will likely work fine, but the right one won't, and might seriously damage anything plugged in.
Whoever did this should never work on sockets again. Or test things out with a fork.
16:06 i like that he didn't notice that the cpu cooler was not screwd on
Uh yeah, because their showing the thermal paste
This reminded me of all the crazy things I saw while I was a field service tech / repair tech at vendor companies during 10 years of my 30 year career. And then some other things during my user/client side of my career for the other 20 years.
Ahhh... memories.
11:40 Proper Electrical Enginerding done properly.
oh god, i had the same reaction to the HDD at 0:30..
I love when Lexi nerds out. Occasionally, I actually learn something.
0:58 "And now it identifies as a spicy, angry, bean bag."
5:07 Please people, just terminate the ends and use a coupler. You'll get way better results.
*Thumbnail pic:* Every machine is a smoke machine if you use it wrongly enough.
One of my oldest friends I met because I went to a random party, and he'd hoovered up his cable, and I spent 10 minutes cutting and splicing the wires back together with sellotape.
He used that cable for about a decade afterwards 😂
I love when lexi do this subreddit.. i learn new things..
She's back on her subreddit!!
As a floridian can confirm we left a tv outside for a few years and it was never the same
I love when lexi just goes on a rant abt hardware. Very fun yo listen to.
Back in the day, I was working on a handful of desktops for a company that, among other things, refined sugar, there were complaints of some of the machines not working as fast as they should, or not working at all... because of the dust that was everywhere in the place, all the motherboards were, for lack of a better term, carmelized... like an apple... it was a horror show and they seemed to think we could just clean off at least half an inch of the candy shell and carry on as normal... thankfully I didn't have to deal with that aspect of the operation, I just popped lids & swapped chips and left wrangling clients to the guys in the suits.
7:55, ALL HAIL THE GREAT SPAGGETTI MONSTER!
8:00 Hmmm, Spagetti in a glas bowl
3:17 I know this is techsupportgore and they were showing off how much of a brat the pup was but can we take a moment to appreciate how adorable that schnauzer is?
Absolutely yes!! I’m so happy you’re going to have this stuff on your channel! I don’t understand any of it but when you explain it, I actually get it!! This SR is meant for you!