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today's video is about to redemption and not giving up on old hardware the enter max liquid tech tr4 - all in one liquid CPU cooler has a massive contact plate made just for thread Ripper and is rated for 500 watts of heat dissipation high pressure pwm fans mount to rubber channels on the radiator to absorb vibration and the sexy logo and edge lighting on the block is addressable for syncing with your motherboard it comes with an RGB control box - so click the spots or link in the description for more I had almost given up on this monitor here this is my first 4k monitor it's from honor price you can't actually buy this this particular model anymore but it served me well and although I don't use it as a primary monitor it's been a floater and recently I got a really cool nude gigabyte r-tx 2080 TI and I went to test it out and I realized that this monitor wasn't working anymore the problem was that the power input in the back and I had known this was going out for a while because when the plug would be plugged in and it would wiggle it would sometimes turn off and the power would be weird sometimes and sometimes I have to unplug it and plug it back in I've had this monitor for four years so over time this plug has worn out and finally gave out on me just a few days back that's the weekend after Black Friday and I wasn't even planning on making a video on this today I was actually in the verge of buying a new 4k monitor and then I was like wait no I know where the point of failure is on this monitor I should really give it a shot and just take it apart and see what can be done so I'm gonna walk you back through that because I think I've already fixed it but I can show you what was wrong those I'm working with today are my iFixit kits I'll put a link to this in the description it's not sponsored or anything that this is the kit that I got during track you had worse it's got many my screwdrivers of course and then I did have to bust out the soldering iron soldering wick and some I'm using lead-free solder cuz that's all I have I'm not at all intending this to be a tutorial or anything I just wanted to show you guys what I did and again this is a four year old monitor it's not under warranty or anything so if it wasn't gonna work I was just gonna have to send it to a recycling place or something like that so a couple sticking plates to get passed and one was getting the actual housing undone for that I had to figure out where the screws are there's three across here there's a few smaller ones across here there's a couple more on the corners that hold on the plate that goes across the front with the monoprice logo on it after getting those all up I can sort of start prying along the edge and get this side up but the top is still very much stuck in place so for that I used a few sputters from my eye fix-it kits to sort of work in along the edge push it slowly and firmly along this edge here and that would get the tabs that are holding the top of the monitor back piece in place to release of course once you get the panel separated from the back piece you want to be very careful because there's gonna be several wires in there that are connecting them so don't just go pulling it off inspect which wires are in there first and in particular there is a flat ribbon cable that goes along with back here that was taped down which I had to untape as best I could so I took was removing four screws to get the main motherboard removed and I'm trying to leave as many of these cables plugged in as possible so I don't have to remember where to plug stuff back in just manipulate it around and get a better look at what's going on so here's the power plug and I have already fixed it like I said but basically the problem was it was wobbling back and forth it's got a couple connections on the side here and then there's a wire going down there in the back that actually goes and connects to the PCB itself and because a solder point was the main thing that was holding this on or whenever there's pressure put on this plug eventually over time it worked and broke so all I had to do is get my soldering iron get a bit of solder heat that up and resolder that joint I'm not the best with the soldering iron so I didn't record that but you know blah blah blah like that I actually ended up using a little bit too much solder so I had to use my solder wick to pull some of it off of there but I ended up with a pretty good connection there and this is much more stable and with that Jerry solder it was just a matter putting everything back together as best as I could remember and I also want to point out that I already did sort of a loose fitting together of everything so that I could just get the power plug back in to make sure that we have power again now I'm going to be putting everything all the way back together one more quick test before I put the stand back on no yeah I was all wobbly before it's much more stable Matt yeah we have a power led one final test yay so there you go guys this video has been sort of cherdon off-the-cuff so I hope you've enjoyed it and just a message again if you have old electronics that have stopped working maybe take them apart first before you decide to throw them in the recycling bin and see if there's something you can do to get them functional again because I will definitely be getting more usage out of this one last thing I wanted to share and that is why why I am so in need of a 4k monitor I mean testing a 20 atti of course it's a good reason for that but don't I have other 4k monitors kind of yeah but not out here in the garage where I have the main streaming and capture system this is a 2560 by 1440 that's a 2560 by 1440 that is a 1440 widescreen then here in the computer room I have two 4k monitors but they are both mounted to my desk so that is very challenging to move I was gonna have the only option of borrowing my wife's 4k monitor but that's 43 inches and it looks like she's using it so that's not an option I think so for that reason I'm very glad this fix was successful because I didn't wanna have to go out and buy another 4k monitor and this one's a lot easier to bring in there connect up to the 4k capture system so I can test something like the 20 atti and get the on screen stats and everything like that but one last thing before I go I wanted to mention just to be clear that my wife works for monoprice this monitor isn't even for sale anymore or anything like that so I'm not trying to sell it or anything I will post a link to the iFixit kit in the video description down below and maybe my soldering iron too because that was pretty useful for this little project that's all for this video though guys thank you so much for watching hit that thumbs up button if you enjoyed it we'll see you next time