Hello boss, I randomly discovered your channel on CZcams and being a repair technician myself specifically for the printing and packaging industry, I must say you have poured out all of your experience into these short videos, and not many people are capable of doing this. Hats off for doing a great job! There is so much to learn, the way you flux up your board, the subtle movements you use to pre tin the pads. I wish you the very best for years to come.
I think it helps to have a crowd source blueprint of the Nintendo Switch motherboard. Even if we don't know what the IC's do, it's helpful to know how many surface mount components are on the board and where exactly they are.
Sir, I am from Turkey, I have been watching your videos for a long time and ı really appreciate how you handle the comments and the way you approach the problems with the devices. I am newby in this sector, ı learn many things from you. Thanks a lot. Respect.
Loved finding your channel. Thanks for making these videos. Any chance of you creating and maintaining some playlists? I.e. Nintendo Switch repairs, PS4 repairs etc.? I know from the perspective of the creator, playlists often feel like a pain in the bum and waste of time, but you'd be surprised how helpful they are for the viewer. Also, it means people will likely watch more of your videos as CZcams doesn't farm them off elsewhere. Keep doing what you do. Ed
My boss said that I had taken his expensive tool. After several weeks of searching, at 3am, I found it in my sleep. I walked into the shop and pointed across the room. "There is your tool!" No apology.
Hi alix I am glad that you responded me. I am thankful for honesty and hard working and delivering to the people. Repairing is my hoby from childhood now I am 50 but like this work. I congratulate you this happy Christmas and pray for your good health.
I loved this two part Nintendo Switch repair. We are trying out Northridge Fix for a mail in repair on my son’s Nintendo Switch. I’ve been a subscriber for a while, time to see if my repair heroes can save my son’s Switch!
I'm glad you went back to try and repair it. Things like that drive me nuts. I did notice what appeared to be a missing cap are resistor the other person mentioned, but my main thought was when you put the chip on, it was a bit more solder on the center pad than I would have used, I was afraid it could short one of the traces beneath that couldn't be seen. Anyways, glad you went back to it and got it going.
My take on what happened : M92 chip replaced - shifted caps caused some sort of overvoltage and fried the chip. Then you placed your caps back, everything was ok, but M92 was fried. Replacing it the second time with no fault on the board made it work. That was a tough nut to crack, good job man
I have almost no clue about hardware repairing( just started learning ) but your videos are for me as satisfying videos are for my daughter. Amazing.... :) :) :) :)
I thought of it at the first time. Happenned to me often to replace a chip with a defect one. Happen often lol! Good for you. If you are like me the best pay is not the money it's when you see the console working. This makes me so happy!
What an amazing repair the Customer and the Repair Shop they can both be very Happy to have someone with great Experience and Knowledge working on their Consoles. Amazing work only done because of the Gret Knowledge.
You got it brother with your fantastic expertise 😊👍👏👌 The chances of two faulty chips in a row is highly unlikely but you rationalized the situation against the odds and you fixed it! Happy festive season to you, big boss and family 😊
great job. After watching the previous video I was hoping your would come back to it and try again. Nice how sometimes it is just a bad IC even though it was new, these parts are turned manufactured by the thousands and there will always be a few defective chips in the lot. Happy Holidays!
"buy a new one" what a stupid comment. Obviously not one of your regular viewers. We're all here to learn how to fix stuff and because we find this stuff intriguing & interesting. You're the best master, a student viewer could have :)
One time I was having an issue with an application (java) on a PC no other application would fail except for that one. After hours of troubleshooting the PC thinking it was a software problem found out it was a bad capacitor on the motherboard. I still don't understand why it was only causing issues with java. Ive found some weird rare issues throughout my troubleshooting experiences.
i think it was the solderbridge between the 2 and 3 cap what you see in the monitor at 7:50 on the bottom right but maybe the chip was dead idk i love your videos great job :D
Awesome and quite annoying when you have no doubt about replacement parts.... it happens....once I had caps for power supply. I solder new, it simply exploded... the next one did same and then I realized that the caps jackets were put wrong, indicating false minus....
Probably those misplaced 3 caps caused this chip to die again. It seems like it is very sensitive to noise on the circuit. Or maybe it died during its trip from China to America 🤣 as it was brand new. Good job, it is always nice to see broken electronics come back to life. Cheers from Turkey.
Asalamuliakum sir . Good to see that device is alive again. It shouldn't be possible, experience person like you indeed . It was the third try and how lucky is that board. Wooohoo . We are happy and we all are learning. MaashaAllah. Allah may bless you success at every step ameen. Masalaama ..
As a tech myself, there were a few times in my 20 years when i replace a chip from the manufactures it just didnt work. It drove me crazy when troubleshooting.
The only difference between the customer repair, your first repair and your sencond repair is the replacement of the missing caps, could it burn your m92 chip in the first repairs ?
its shows you that if you just allow your soul and heart to signal where the issue is aka GUT FEELING, then it will pinpoint to that of which needs more tending to. :)
Maybe the new "faulty" chips you get die from the heat... maybe you use a little too high temperature for soldering, and these chips are sensitive to it!
Just a suggestion but from experience you would have seen the fault through a thermal cam as flickering of the meter will be a result of a short in the chip.
I wonder if you could use a curve tracer with the component installed. You can get a pattern on each terminal of a chip on a good board. Then you can use those patterns for comparison during repairs. You'd have a nice database of patterns.
It would be interesting to mount the first chip you’ve installed on another board and see if it works. Too much solder in the central pad can couse hidden shorts. But maybe you did check it off camera and this comment has no sense. As ever great job. 🤗
I'm pretty sure the 1 chip you installed was good but just got damaged from that cap that flowed to a different pad where it was not supposed to be... Now since everything was in correct position 2nd replacement chip did not blow.... just my opinion
Baaaam...you are the boss👍👌 i knew it you would fix that. So, thats experience. You can change things two times, three times and it will worked at the fourth time. But thats a very very small chance that you take a new component thats allready bad, but you couldnt know that.
I think those two bypass capacitors may have been bridged already just not as noticeably before you chanced the IC. They sure did spread out when you removed the bridge. Another great repair! Thanks for sharing
Aaah man who would have thought! Reminds me of a repair of a PLC i/o module I had a couple of weeks ago at work. Device not being recognized by the setup. Everything seems to measure okay so decided to replace the one ic on the board that communicates with the backplane...little bit more life now but still not worki g as it should. Replaced the new ic with a know working one from my own device and all was fine. Took another new one and placed it on my own device and now all was working again. Can't recall correctly btw, did you try to charge the switch after replacing the ic but with the missing component before? If so, could that have caused the IC to die again?
Maybe the capacitor that shifted, shifted to a position that were shorting this IC, and then the new one you put (and the other guy did) got damaged because of it.
So simple end of this video about the Nintendo switch is that M92 chip has a habit of becoming faulty or being faulty right out the gate. Seems Nintendo needs to address this as it appears to be a crucial chip for powering on the system.
This repair was possible possible through experience only! you said it! nice to see your work, it's really enjoyable!
Ohh im in the video :D
😂 great
You sir are an MVP
Instant fame!
You're lucky
😂😂
Hello boss, I randomly discovered your channel on CZcams and being a repair technician myself specifically for the printing and packaging industry, I must say you have poured out all of your experience into these short videos, and not many people are capable of doing this. Hats off for doing a great job! There is so much to learn, the way you flux up your board, the subtle movements you use to pre tin the pads. I wish you the very best for years to come.
Ah. The sweet taste of victory! Congrats on the successful repair. Your persistence and love of your technical craft is enjoyable to watch.
11:01 always makes me feel good at this very moment of sincere satisfaction :-)
I think it helps to have a crowd source blueprint of the Nintendo Switch motherboard. Even if we don't know what the IC's do, it's helpful to know how many surface mount components are on the board and where exactly they are.
Sir, I am from Turkey, I have been watching your videos for a long time and ı really appreciate how you handle the comments and the way you approach the problems with the devices. I am newby in this sector, ı learn many things from you. Thanks a lot.
Respect.
Maybe the missing components destroyed the M92 chip and now with all the components in place another M92 chip has survived ?
Yeah, it could be the case :)
Bypass cap can destroy a chip?
@@mokrapower5270 if the chip is too sensitive to noise or spikes, it could.
I was thinking the same thing
I wonder if that chip is sensitive to static and easily fried
Just writing this comment to help with the algorithm. I know nothing about electronics but I enjoy your videos 😬🤷♀️
Evil little ic... Thumbs up for not giving up Alex!
Loved finding your channel. Thanks for making these videos. Any chance of you creating and maintaining some playlists? I.e. Nintendo Switch repairs, PS4 repairs etc.? I know from the perspective of the creator, playlists often feel like a pain in the bum and waste of time, but you'd be surprised how helpful they are for the viewer. Also, it means people will likely watch more of your videos as CZcams doesn't farm them off elsewhere. Keep doing what you do. Ed
Excellent! Many times sleep it over make us rethink everything and leads to a solution. Superb job
My boss said that I had taken his expensive tool. After several weeks of searching, at 3am, I found it in my sleep. I walked into the shop and pointed across the room. "There is your tool!" No apology.
I found myself with a wide smile when you finally fixed it. Great job really enjoying the videos!
Hi alix I am glad that you responded me. I am thankful for honesty and hard working and delivering to the people.
Repairing is my hoby from childhood now I am 50 but like this work.
I congratulate you this happy Christmas and pray for your good health.
I always love your smile when something is fixed. I understand the feelings..
I loved this two part Nintendo Switch repair. We are trying out Northridge Fix for a mail in repair on my son’s Nintendo Switch. I’ve been a subscriber for a while, time to see if my repair heroes can save my son’s Switch!
Being a viewer from day one I actually like this reading comments and putting your 2 cents. Maybe we can make this a regular thing 😇🙏😇
I'm glad you went back to try and repair it. Things like that drive me nuts. I did notice what appeared to be a missing cap are resistor the other person mentioned, but my main thought was when you put the chip on, it was a bit more solder on the center pad than I would have used, I was afraid it could short one of the traces beneath that couldn't be seen. Anyways, glad you went back to it and got it going.
I was happy for you to fixed this device … congratulation
My take on what happened : M92 chip replaced - shifted caps caused some sort of overvoltage and fried the chip. Then you placed your caps back, everything was ok, but M92 was fried. Replacing it the second time with no fault on the board made it work. That was a tough nut to crack, good job man
I have almost no clue about hardware repairing( just started learning ) but your videos are for me as satisfying videos are for my daughter. Amazing.... :) :) :) :)
that's where it gets tricky , when you change the chip once, and not knowing that the donor board chip was bad too,
good work,
Hope you have a great Christmas with family and friends and a even better new year. Love watching your videos
I thought of it at the first time. Happenned to me often to replace a chip with a defect one. Happen often lol! Good for you. If you are like me the best pay is not the money it's when you see the console working. This makes me so happy!
WOW, that's crazy ! Your persistence paid off, you gotta feel good with this one. Nice fix.
Lol famous phrase "3rd time is the charm." So happy the console worked after you spent lots of time working on it.
I've watched the whole videos just to see this smile 11:04 ^^
What an amazing repair the Customer and the Repair Shop they can both be very Happy to have someone with great Experience and Knowledge working on their Consoles. Amazing work only done because of the Gret Knowledge.
You got it brother with your fantastic expertise 😊👍👏👌 The chances of two faulty chips in a row is highly unlikely but you rationalized the situation against the odds and you fixed it! Happy festive season to you, big boss and family 😊
Really appreciate all of your videos. They are VERY HELPFUL and easy to follow
great job. After watching the previous video I was hoping your would come back to it and try again. Nice how sometimes it is just a bad IC even though it was new, these parts are turned manufactured by the thousands and there will always be a few defective chips in the lot. Happy Holidays!
"buy a new one" what a stupid comment. Obviously not one of your regular viewers. We're all here to learn how to fix stuff and because we find this stuff intriguing & interesting. You're the best master, a student viewer could have :)
11:00 I was so excited to see that you actually got it working :D .... I watched both parts. New subscriber.
One time I was having an issue with an application (java) on a PC no other application would fail except for that one. After hours of troubleshooting the PC thinking it was a software problem found out it was a bad capacitor on the motherboard. I still don't understand why it was only causing issues with java. Ive found some weird rare issues throughout my troubleshooting experiences.
Lot's of hardwork and never give up to get success 👍(mashallah) ❤️from india🇮🇳
You are an inspiration to me! I'm studying electronic engeneering to be just like you!
Aspire to be better than him.
The beautiful switch is saved. Sweet
Thanks for part 2 amazing fix amazing job as always keep it up !
Masha'Allah you are doing your job properly, greetings from istanbul
i think it was the solderbridge between the 2 and 3 cap what you see in the monitor at 7:50 on the bottom right but maybe the chip was dead idk i love your videos great job :D
Happy Holidays Northridge Fix
You guys know what the hell your doing
Nuff Respect !
Awesome and quite annoying when you have no doubt about replacement parts.... it happens....once I had caps for power supply. I solder new, it simply exploded... the next one did same and then I realized that the caps jackets were put wrong, indicating false minus....
Probably those misplaced 3 caps caused this chip to die again. It seems like it is very sensitive to noise on the circuit. Or maybe it died during its trip from China to America 🤣 as it was brand new.
Good job, it is always nice to see broken electronics come back to life. Cheers from Turkey.
Asalamuliakum sir . Good to see that device is alive again. It shouldn't be possible, experience person like you indeed . It was the third try and how lucky is that board. Wooohoo . We are happy and we all are learning. MaashaAllah. Allah may bless you success at every step ameen. Masalaama ..
As a tech myself, there were a few times in my 20 years when i replace a chip from the manufactures it just didnt work. It drove me crazy when troubleshooting.
its quite common for chinese chips to not work , brand new sealed in package... i've seen this happen... it also depends what chip is in question...
Thank you for all the experience that you share!
The only difference between the customer repair, your first repair and your sencond repair is the replacement of the missing caps, could it burn your m92 chip in the first repairs ?
maybe the cap that was shorting the pad and the other cap burn the chip
I’m thinking the same thing.
Hi, nice to see your problem solved. Your thinking is spot on. Marry Christmas 🎄
The misplaced cap that was shorting must have burned the m92 chip
How do you identify bypass capacitors vs regular or necessary capacitors?
Because one of the side is ground.so its a bypass cap
This is getting interesting. Quizzes makes learning interesting.
Congratulations. Perfect job.
Satisfaction at 100% merry Christmas and Happy New year!
Awesome. Glad to see that sharing knowledge leads to success somehow.
Never give up!
And this is exactly why I suggest to my American friends they should use NorthridgeFix if they ever need electronics repaired.
its shows you that if you just allow your soul and heart to signal where the issue is aka GUT FEELING, then it will pinpoint to that of which needs more tending to. :)
Maybe the previous chip got damaged due to missing components
Never give up
Never...never!
Maybe the new "faulty" chips you get die from the heat... maybe you use a little too high temperature for soldering, and these chips are sensitive to it!
Always learning something new sir keep it up
Now I know why You always say "We did" :) Nice work!
Just a suggestion but from experience you would have seen the fault through a thermal cam as flickering of the meter will be a result of a short in the chip.
I am very happy that u fix it 😇 everyday I am learning something special from u
better than factory. more entertaining than movies :D
Chanduviney thoppikaan aakilla makkale!! Good work
I wonder if you could use a curve tracer with the component installed. You can get a pattern on each terminal of a chip on a good board. Then you can use those patterns for comparison during repairs. You'd have a nice database of patterns.
Good work paid off, job will done.
It would be interesting to mount the first chip you’ve installed on another board and see if it works. Too much solder in the central pad can couse hidden shorts. But maybe you did check it off camera and this comment has no sense. As ever great job. 🤗
Nice to see you fixed it 👌
Nice job mannn.. im also working with these issues lately here in my little shop..
You are always after solution which is praise worthy
I Love that Face When u Done Something Well. Ty For What u Doing there.
Nice one Have had faulty chips when new ordered just goes to show.
I'm pretty sure the 1 chip you installed was good but just got damaged from that cap that flowed to a different pad where it was not supposed to be... Now since everything was in correct position 2nd replacement chip did not blow.... just my opinion
very nice you will reach the 100.000 subscribers..congratulations
Baaaam...you are the boss👍👌 i knew it you would fix that.
So, thats experience. You can change things two times, three times and it will worked at the fourth time. But thats a very very small chance that you take a new component thats allready bad, but you couldnt know that.
Good find...
I have a capacitor that fell out. But my question is when you buy a replacement. How do you know what spec capacitor you need to replace it with?
Congratulations on the success! :D Could you please show what you do to keep your soldering tip clean so it accepts solder?
I think those two bypass capacitors may have been bridged already just not as noticeably before you chanced the IC. They sure did spread out when you removed the bridge. Another great repair! Thanks for sharing
Thank u sir for reading our comments.
Would be interested in seeing the "dead" chip(s) tryed in "working" board. But if they are only cents then maybe not bother
Aaah man who would have thought!
Reminds me of a repair of a PLC i/o module I had a couple of weeks ago at work.
Device not being recognized by the setup. Everything seems to measure okay so decided to replace the one ic on the board that communicates with the backplane...little bit more life now but still not worki g as it should.
Replaced the new ic with a know working one from my own device and all was fine.
Took another new one and placed it on my own device and now all was working again.
Can't recall correctly btw, did you try to charge the switch after replacing the ic but with the missing component before?
If so, could that have caused the IC to die again?
Great job that's why its good not to give up
The caps still look bridged at 9:28 before you place the new chip on.
I think that was the problem,those capacitors were bridged...
8:29 no
I think in the last video 4:56 the shifted capacitor caused a short and that burned the 3 IC m95 ,in the end of the day you fixed it job well done 👍
Hi i am not a technician but those chips are probably produced by the thousands and there could easily be
bad chips or even a bad run good video
Always learning Mr Fixit :)
Maybe the chip was damaged when the capisator were missing in Part 1
Where do you keep the prongs from the volt meter. Always see the one prong point but not where the second.prong point is placed to get a reading
Well done.
Good for you . always enjoy your videos.
CONGRATULATION MISTER!!! VERRY NICE JOB!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR... BIG LIKE... YOU ARE THE BEST... HAVE NICE DAY... 😍😍😍😘😘😘
Always watching from the Philippines, i do learn so much from your video sir thanks for sharing this video god bless and more power to your channel.
ಅದ್ಭುತವಾದ ಸುಂದರವಾದ ವಿಡಿಯೋ ❤️😍 amazing and beautiful video ❤️🌹
You are the hombre i love how you doing the repairs
Maybe the capacitor that shifted, shifted to a position that were shorting this IC, and then the new one you put (and the other guy did) got damaged because of it.
So simple end of this video about the Nintendo switch is that M92 chip has a habit of becoming faulty or being faulty right out the gate.
Seems Nintendo needs to address this as it appears to be a crucial chip for powering on the system.
Nice, really satisfying.