A subscriber offered to fix my broken graphics card. Here's what happened...
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- I recently pulled a broken graphics card from an HP gaming PC which had some serious issues. After uploading the video, a subscriber reached out to ask if they could try to fix it. Here's how it went...
Thanks for watching :) - Věda a technologie
Before: "Sure you can keep it"
After: " *WHERE'S MY RADEON STICKER?* "
lol
That guy shoved it inside an oven to "reflow" the core for sure.
Yeah that’s what I’m thinking
@@RandomGaminginHD just go buy a toaster oven thats what i use i have had success prolonging death of cards.
Except that the GPU die is completely cooked and it is gradually dying completely, finally this will be the case when the silicon has reached its maximum entropy by constantly overheating to succeed in functioning and then the GPU will refuse definitely restart...
Such a janky fix , and he knew it too which is why he probably didn't want to explain ;) He'll also enjoy an oven full of fumes too.
There are people who can repair them on the component level
That's expensive though, and people who do that usually advertise it and the guy would have told RGHD about his eletronics repair business
Hi, Andrew here! I managed to fix the graphics card by fusing my soul to the GPU but it didn't go perfectly. We are now one, we are in your PC.
That RX580 is a Goddamned horcrux now.
you got parkinsons then?
Ed...ward...
In the end, Andrew's soul will go to GPU graveyard. 😢
Made me chuckle 😂
The Radeon sticker was too heavy and slowed the card down, I'm thinking about removing the stickers from my card too.
I did, and now it is identified as RX 590 8Gb, Totally worth it!
😂
I removed mine and got 33 more fps
im thinking on using a grinder to remove the word gigabyte from the plastic cover of the gpu too
fake news, stickers add more horsepower! everyone knows that!
That guy definitely baked the gpu. 😂
But who the hell bakes the GPU with the cooler still on? That doesn't explain the missing sticker
@@phen96 In the video he said the paste is fresh so I assumed the guy took the cooler off. For the sticker part, idk maybe the sticker was yummy or the actual plan of the guy was taking the sticker and we just don't expect it 🤣🤣
@@phen96 It fell off in the oven LOL
I own a heat gun now, just for these purposes.
More control than oven baking.
@hrayz that is definitely a good investment. I still find the baking in the oven hilarious 😂
Next time send it to me, I promise not to send it back.
😁
@@RandomGaminginHD are you homosexual
yes, he is @@abaialsa712
@@abaialsa712 your mom is. And i still do her.
@@abaialsa712dafuq?
In that case, there are numerous cases where GPU repair technician somehow managed to get it working but also, at the same time, breaks its own clock speed scanner.
So it's incorrectly reported in MSI Afterburner.
I've seen someone fixing RTX 3080 and after it was fixed, everything runs normally as if it's brand new. Except for 1 thing: the Clock speed of 3080 shows at 0 MHz. Lol
Imagine playing Cyberpunk 2077 with RTX 3080 on max settings, averaging 90 FPS, but clock speed reported 0 MHz.
That happened
sound like a chip was replace and the vender id was hard code to the chip do you think a bios replace will reset the vender id
@@thesmashtvnetwork the GPUZ will catch it if it was replaced or "fake".
But it's not.
@@thesmashtvnetwork also, don't forget that RTX 3080 chip Pin layout is incompatible with any other card below it. Like RTX 3070, or 3060 or 4070 or 4060
@@niezzayt3809 Chinese scammers have put 3080ti cores on 4090 pcbs.
@@IvanOoze1990 I did say it's about RTX 3080 repair, not 3090 or 4090.
So it's far less likely to use fake chip for the repair since RTX 3080 already at the bottom of performance of its Compatible Pins layout. No other weaker card has same pins layout as 3080.
My guess is that he flashed a bios onto it with super reduced clock speeds, you could rip the bios to check what it says if you care enough to try.
Yeah could be I’ll have a look
100%
He probably did the oven method by cooking it in the oven for 10 minutes at 200 Celsius, or used a heat-gun on it for the soldering lanes to relink. Unfortunately this is just a temporary quick fix, because what caused the issue with the card in the first place was heat, hence why he probably adjusted the cards clock specification to prevent future high temperatures. Oven method has never been lasting repair.
Was about to post pretty much the same.
I think people need to be more aware that putting a GPU in a Oven can cause harm, as there's lead and possibly traces of it landing in the food later on.
@@MadIIMike Most PCBs have been lead-free for two decades, now.
Tried that with a malfunctioning Xbox 360. The trick lasted for all of six weeks. :P
@@Gabu_ I don't think there would be lead warnings on gpu packaging if there wouldn't be any in it.
I think the clock speed is read wrong, cause I had a rx580 and it most definitely performs like this for most games atleast in elden ring and csgo
5:55 u made a smiley face on accident haha
@@AgentLazarus the spell burnt the right wall and it looks like a smile
lol xddd
@@AgentLazarus the fire on the wall
Gamer eye. One eye sideways while the other covers your front. They call it lazy eye but I know better.
@@robertmueller6979 not lazy eye i just scour everything like an eagle 🦅
I wonder if he flashed a lower clocked BIOS on it so it would be stable.
that's the correct answer
@@WaptimusPrime Hi Andrew.
Hold on so if you downclock a dying gpu it will work again at lower clocks?
@@nushnume sometimes, but in my experience once the silicon starts degrading it doesn't stop so it just keeps getting worse and worse.
@@nushnume No
I am very intimate with that kind of artifacting you got. It was definitely a blown cap - I've had two HD 7850s that behaved the same way when their power delivery blew up.
Wonder if he had one that worked, swapped em over and sent you the one that worked back whilst he worked on the broken one? Strange he didn't message you or anything though.
Yeah I’m not sure but I’m grateful for the attempt either way.
He might of pulled the sticker off to look to see if there was a way to lubricate the fan possibly? but like others said, I think he took it apart and baked it in his kitchen oven.
Love the PS3 Slim in the back Steve!
one of the first things i spotted as well haha
The most reliable of the three models for sure.
Andrew, thank you for trying to fix the card and hang some success with that. And for giving us some CZcams content from this enjoyable CZcamsr.
Would be interesting if you could let us know what you did. Maybe through the CZcamsr, or in a comment, or some other way.
I'm guessing you're a tech interested person who's learning to fix electronics, and probably most of us viewers here would enjoy seeing that.
The green screen means that the card's firmware is gone. It happens that the EPROM with the firmware becomes damaged over time. He reflashed it with lower timings, but poor thing it was time to die 😸He removed the sticker from the fan to see if there was a hole to put the oil back in, but they are made of paper with strong glue and are difficult to reattach. Maybe it can still be fixed, we need to reflow the gpu chip, ram seems ok, no artifacts. Bought rx580 £40 refurbished new on aliexpress
What I was thinking, no bake just a re flash... Used to do that to Radeons for a free upgrade
bro i've been watching you for years..many many years......and you still look like a kid to me.
At least he temporarily fixed the card and got a free sticker, and you could make a new video.
I'd happily fix any gpu you have on hand. Keep up the videos
Sometimes, theres no need to say anything... Results speak for themselves.
Your faded
@@Ryan-sk9ij You're* Do Better.
@@fetus2280 nah ur faded
He's edited the BIOS and limited the clocks. He raised the voltages but that would normally have made it run a lot hotter, so he lowered the max clock to keep temperatures in check.
Good video and hopefully IT'S COMING HOME.
Oh I hope so. Going to be a good game for sure!
Let’s hope
90+ Lamine Yamal remembers Messi showered him:
@RandomGamingHD Please send this card to someone who has the ability to test it thoroughly so we can know what the hell is happening with this weird card
definition of "plug a lil weird but he chill tho"
You should try to flash the original bios, these are typical symptoms of a mining card.
This.
the missing sticker is the biggest mystery of all. andrew you have some explaining to do 🤔🤔
......he baked it without taking off the shroud? God lord.
Should have sent it to Kris-Fix Germany or northwestrepair for a collab video
yup, worth a try!
Faulty core or power delivery compensated for by limiting the power draw, probably through a firmware hack is my guess. That would explain the high temps at low speeds.
If he really did try to reflow it by baking then there are a few things to consider: this method doesn’t fix the problem of the solder itself which became bad and brittle. Another issue the card may suffer are bad ceramic caps which regenerate a little due to the heat but fail soon again.
Revived gpu literally did a 'change da world my final message'
Maybe Andrew is made up just to hide the fact that this bloke was drunk as a kite last night and had such a hunger (we're hungry when we are drunk, aren't we?) that he put his Gpu in the microwave and ate the AMD sticker afterwards. Confess!!
That's a nice offer!
Maybe the core and memory are faulty / damaged. So I think he could have flashed a new bios, that has limits and limits the MHz to be as low as possible, in order to make it boot and stable. Maybe previously the bios was modded or flashed and had it forced at a MHz that it couldn’t handle. Maybe?
The 580 s a great card , my granddaughter is still using my old one in the PC I built for her. Glad to see you mention a 4060 I get fed up when I see reviewers slatting it
eg. Hardware Unboxed it time they realised that not everybody plays triple A games I bought a 4060Ti and it plays all my games, no problem keep the great videos coming
Scooby Doo, where are you, mysterious Andrew.
rut row raggy
it was me. i just wanted the sticker. sorry
It needs the Radeon sticker for its full performance. Andrew has now more performance with his GPU.
Andrew is smart. Andrew now has access to your system and is mining it for data and dogecoins.
Probably bios modded to lower mem clocks since that is what was failing. Potentially with some voltage tweaks as well. --- A nice trick to try if you can get a dead/dying mining card for free. --- Though I would not sell a card after bios modding it can be handy if you're putting together a zero-budget build. RX 470/480/570/580 were used a lot for mining so it's fairly common to find them in a similar state.
but hey its working, and u got a chance to test it!
Looks like a bad power phase, It looks like he tried to replace the mosfet but it kept shorting so he may have removed the mosfet all together, hence it is missing a power phase. It may explain the Core frequency being so low. Or he could have disabled the phase by using the I2C interface.
I've done this to "save" a GTX 660 before. Just underclocked the stuffing out of it to make it stable.
It is a huge problem with those old rx 400/500 series that just stop working correctly.
Tech yes city made a video about those relics
Ah clever. He either baked the chip with a heat gun or the actual oven and then set a custom bios so it doesn't boost to normal frequencies, hoping to prolong the already dead chip.
Oven reflow and reball, but that core is dying
A little reflow while baking some cookies.
Try a bios re-flash maybe? It's worked out well on 2 cards I purchased. I even managed to flash one that produced no image using the Intel graphics on my I7-4790K. Might be worth a shot man.
The missing sticker will probably forever remain a mystery lol.
Thought this was going to turn into the story of how a hacked RX580 stole his identity and emptied his bank accounts. 😂
Maybe that'll be the next episode? lol
Seems like a reflow job via the heat gun or oven method. This sometimes works, and mostly doesn't - and when it does work, it's only temporarily. This GPU is completely cooked.
A proper reballing, (removing and reapplying new solder balls) could have probably brought the card back to full functionality.
@@Yy-ig6fm Possibly, but good luck taking the GPU die off in one piece, removing the old solder balls, adding fresh solder balls, and then getting the GPU back on the board again in one piece.
@@TheSpotify95It can be done pretty consistently if you know how, but it's a pretty niche skill.
Bios on Polaris gpus is so easy to change, tweak, do almost everything you like with the values.
Idk if there was a reflow of core and memory (lines should be fixed with reflow or total changing of chips both gpu or mem), but bios reprogramming is easy to do and make a gpu work on different values...like higher voltage maybe, power phases, mem clock OC, core downclock, fan speed...idk what he did there, I'm just saying what can be done with Polaris gpus. They are really made great for tweaking with bios values changes.
4:12 thats just the normal fallout 4 experience
The fact the you sound the most annoyed about the Radeon sticker being gone makes this even funnier.
3 minutes ago is crazy 💀
6 minutes ago is crazy 💀
47 minutes ago is crazy 💀
crazy? I was crazy once
autism is crazy
@@LiquidSnakeSSJ4 just like your profile picture
I had similar low clocks when I used thermal pads that were a quarter of a mm too thick. I fixed it by using a rolling pin on the pads because .5mm lower was too low. The die just needed better mounting pressure.
Check the bios version maybe flashed a bios for a different model but more than likely there is a damaged resistor somewhere from the possible reflow/oven attempt. Most cards are fixable for someone like northwestrepair if the core is not dead so it can still be fixed I would even have a go but i'm overseas from you.
Clean the pcie strips on the card
Electrolytic capacitor bulges if you put them in the oven.
That's awesome he sent it back I like the mystery guy.
Imagine if that graphics card could talk. As soon as it got put into the envelope for the return mail, it’d be like *’Ah s***, here we go again.’* like in GTA
what a good history, probably andrew fell bad about just doing a mess and that´s the reason of the silence, he had their best intentions and even resurrected it a bit
So he increased the voltage (hence the temps) and lowered the Hz
One explanation he might have been a repair guy and labeled all his jobs with the return address and after he repaired it passed away and his family decided to mail back all of his jobs that had addresses.
I wonder if this was a miss binned card from the factory? Instead of being a full 580, maybe it was supposed to be a 580sp.
maybe he just reflash the bios with lower clocked memory
shadow distance for fallout 4 is bugged , when u put it to ultra the fps dank dramatically. if u switch them to high or medium this problem goes away.
Removed the Radeon Sticker and got surprised temps went up!, Try removing the heatsink and/or fan from your cpu, and see what happens to the temperatures!
I mean stickers are a vital part of the systems cooling, why you think they used to stick them all over the place on old laptops/prebuilts? Just to advertise it was an Intel Inside? no of course not, to keep things running cool.
The chip on that graphic's card needs re-balling and as such reflowing is a temporarily fix.
Everything else doesnt look good too.
Looks like the pads are too thick and the heat sink isn't making proper contact with the core. Also the PCIE pins could use some cleaning.
Hi Steve, it looks like one of the memory modules looks burnt out going by the look of the board.
Seems to me like a good'ole "bake'n'flash" and it is good to go 😂
He flashed a bios to limit the card to a stable spec
I Thought this dude was Elon musk' for a sec?😂😅
Sounds like a borderline reflow job. The kind you might get using an old toaster oven because it's what you can afford.
yooo lets go
i guarantee the Fan curve is garbage all the rx 500's iv run in to have its stock fan curv giving up at 80% fan speed..i have had to always config the fan curve to make sure when card get hot fan go fast.
r9 270 i have showed the screen corruption lines and would stop windows from loading.. oven baked it and came back to life it did it again months later .. oven baked it a second time. and it hasn't died yet. altho it is now mothballed and replaced by a 590 ..
That he did these things isn't weird (just kind of expected when the average punter says they can "fix" your card) but the fact that he completely ghosted you, that's weird.
Wasn't me! Different Andrew 😂
My own RX 570 runs extremely hot under load, shoots up to 90°C in seconds on furmark or a demanding game, i had to undervolt it a little bit and add a lot of fans around the GPU to have it run fine lmao
Andrew,... We call him the Sticker Stealer.
I think he bios modded it and tried to remove the fan for voltage stuff
that guy prolly installed some bitcoin mining on that card
i offered to replace thermal paste of your rtx 4090 gpu
Either it's ovened or a modified bios was flashed.
Fan swap as you can see through it so zero dirt on those fan blades?
He prob took the sticker out to replace the fan oil.... after put it in the oven and got lucky it actually for once make a slight difference.
Nothing gained really, but very much an interesting experience.
WE WILL FIND HIM !!!!!
He backed the card. Fixing these things properly ain't easy task and you need professional equipment.
Just give it a smack it probably worked because the postal company droped it alot
I wonder if he modded its bios for lower voltage and clocks.
I don't know if you have access to a GTX 1650, but if you do, it could be a interesting video to test FSR 3.1 in supported games to compare if it makes them playable on low end hardware.
Not really. Frame gen doesnt work good on old cards, and if you didnt have good FPS to begin with - it will still feel like shit even if you cant see powerpoint presentation effect anymore.
@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 Sure, that's the impression we all have, but, if you don't see the new tech in use, do you really know? If everyone just assumes that's the case, and no one tests it, what is gained? Science is about testing assumptions, not just using what we know in most cases and going with that.
I have too many older GPU's you'd likely have a field day with, just to test retro gaming builds
ooo new vid
I'm surprised that card still works. Memory chips are toast, they are deformed beyond anything I have seen in my 15+ years of repair experience.
I'd love to get a modern GPU that's this size. A 4070 only uses about 20 more watts...
I'd guess it didn't work as Andrew expected and just felt a bit ashamed so didn't include a message for that reason.
If he sent it to me, I'd send him back a different card just to mess with him :)
Does Andrew even exist ? This story is crazy :D
Andrew is his other personality. He forgets what his other persona did once he falls asleep and wakes up.
Me watching this as an Andrew: 😮
reflowing might have fixed it but oven method is no good, have to go professional with proper reballing. However, reballing a 580 is no good deal as a proper working mining card can be cheaper than the fix and survive longer than a 3-times reflow/reball core.