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so usually when companies release motherboards you hear of all these fancy terms eight plus four phase power design for example or even six plus three but today I've got a special for you guys never heard of it before and eight minus four phase power delivery here on this gigabyte motherboards so the story behind this was in the previous can yes fix it episode came into a motherboard that had a blown up MOSFET and so what we did with this and a lot of people recommended I do this in the comments was just completely knock out the face but upon closer inspection the face I saw that a few of the phases were damaged so I decided to knock the whole top line off and let's see if it works all right now here it goes and that's a complete fail welcome back to tech yestiny this is Brad coming to you guys today with another episode of can yes fix it the episode where you guys send in your broken PC parts and you try and get me to get them to work so we saw there with that motherboard that motherboard was a complete fail did not work even with an 8 - 4 phase power delivery no chance of getting that working so I don't know if there's something else I need to do to get that motherboard working let me know in the comment section below but also we have a heap of different graphics cards in the background there now the story with these graphs cards was when I moved out of my previous house I used the oven to oven bake all these computer parts because people were like dude throw all these Burke and gravis cards that you have and you've collected over the last year throw them in the oven and I've got hosed on these deals a lot of this but deals by the way throw them in the oven and just see if you can get them working so we've got four graphics cards here and as I said before a oven baked them I believe it a hundred and eighty-five - or 190 degrees for like 10 minutes so I did follow a guide where someone said they got their oven baked card fixed so I followed that guy to a tee because I've tried this in the past and it just hasn't worked but they did come out all all the cards did come out looking pretty good it looked like that a solder had rigged flowed so we'll see if that fixes the problem but I did suspect that at least on two of the cards the memory was the problem so if you had a bad memory chip I don't think I've been baking that would bring it back to life but hopefully some of these other cards here will work I don't remember specifically which card had which problem but anyway we'll quickly fire it up and if we get a signal out of it then we'll put the cooler back on because if we're gonna go to the whole trouble of just putting the cooler back on and it doesn't work then that's just a heap of wasted time as well as thermal paste and not only that if the card doesn't work then we can just keep the cooler as well because some of these GPU coolers do come in handy but let's try and fly this thing up so this card actually was giving us a signal to the capture card so we're going to sideline this put the cooler back on and then inspect that one after we test the other three so as we saw there with the galaxy card that had the same problem as it had last time and that was just the picture coming out of it was just completely munted so we're gonna chuck that on the trash pile so this is I believe is 7970 it was broken last time and it's still broken I've tried both the bar switches at the back and the weird thing in two was there was just really no heat coming out of the GPU dye itself so perhaps one of the phases is busted on the vrm not too sure but that one that will be going in the junk pile and we'll test the last graphics card now so we did get a signal out of this one but I'm pretty sure last time this graphics card here was the i9 to ATO believable some of that I saw when I got hosed on with a gum tree deal but as soon as you boot it up into Windows and installed a driver the graphics car became buggy which I would suspect it would be the one of the memory chips but anyway it was booting up again so we're gonna put the cooler back on this card and also this graphics card here which I think is the most promising because I believe this didn't give out a signal last time and it was giving out a signal this time so there are these guys the 7870 is now back to life and to be honest I'm really shocked I didn't think the oven baking method would work on any of these cards but at least one of the four cards is now fixed by doing this up and bake method so that is really cool so yeah I guess the oven baked method it can work and as other people have stated it is a last resort method but we now have a revived 7870 the r9 280 however as you saw it just tried to boot up and once it got to Windows it crashed out that was the same problem I was having and since the driver was already installed from the 7870 it was installed after this got in stalled and yeah it just clunk out so this is the dud as well so we've got three cards now that are duds but this one here is working but let's check out what other parts we can try and fix up because we got a motherboard sent in from Tim it has an i7 870 and it came in a little bit dirty but they're just saying that it didn't work so we quickly gave it a cleanup with an alcohol wipe and now it's looking pretty damn schmick so we're gonna put this on the test bed and see if we can get this to work so there it is guys the motherboard here is toast it is not working and this chip here does have a bit of rust on it so that could be the problem the i7 870 however that does work and that's working really well so we got something out of this thanks a lot Tim for sending that in and this stick here the one gigabyte stick surprisingly didn't work on the gigabyte motherboard but the 8 gigabyte stick did so that was a little bit weird but let's get onto the next prize that we have here and this was sent in sort of like it was pre broken and there is two sticks of ddr3 memory on it the Pentium it's got a pentium g 620 so I'm not too sure if that is any good even if it does work I'm pretty sure I couldn't really use a pentium g 620 on anything it's not that good of a CPU at all especially when you've got your ex 34 30s for seven bucks which have doubled the cause and of course can overclock this here so hopefully we can pull some memory out of this if the board doesn't work but let's fire this up and see if we can get a signal out of it so there it is the h-60 one motherboard the RAM and the CPU they all work absolutely fine so perhaps it was just a bad power supply or a bad graphics card now the saddest thing is I forgot who sent this in and I'm so sorry it's been sitting on the shelves for quite a while and I've just yeah I've been extremely busy trying to set up the studio and a huge backlog it won't happen again and I promise that but this is working thanks for that and I'll put this to good use let's move on now to the next thing that we have here and that is a I 546 70 K and a stick of memory sent in from Dean so he said this didn't work it might have been a bad overclock or it might just the motherboard might have been toast but he wanted me to take a look at it so we're gonna fire this up and see if it does work and testing the 4670 k out it looks like it's indeed toast and there's no physical signs of damage or anything smoked up so what can happen sometimes with CPUs like these is especially if your auto overclocking some of the VTT voltages can be set aggressively higher like your memory controller chip for example and it might not actually be the CPU that dies it's actually one of the controllers on board and so just be careful with Auto voltages guys you really have to be careful with that I do suspect that's what happened here the 4 gigabyte memory stick however that works absolutely fine so thanks for that Dean this however is pretty much no coming back from a warp to die so now the last motherboard we have up here is a really special case I got this sent in and I'm not gonna name the person's name just cuz it's it's just one of those things that happens and the whole CPU socket here was just cracked I've never seen anything like it it was yeah the whole thing was just cracked off so I thought maybe if I position the CPU in the right manner I can then try and get a signal out of it and started up however that was not to be the case this was unfortunately just completely toast this motherboard of course it is a really nice motherboard it had the FX 8350 in it so what I did for the person was they came around and they swapped the motherboard for a working 970 motherboard so this one just yeah just be careful with your CPUs guys and how you mount them and how much mounting pressure you do place on the CPU socket I'm not sure how they cracked this whole socket cover off and the mechanism for it but it just all came apart and yeah there's really not much you can do with that because CPU sockets if you replace them they're extremely difficult to replace you need some real specialized equipment there are people in the world that can do it but again for the for the individual like you and me it's pretty much completely out of the picture especially for the amount of time and the specialized gear that you need to actually replace the CPU socket so this one is unfortunately tow as well so we're gonna drop that in the bin as well and then we're just gonna take a look what happened here today however before we move on to a recap right behind me here I have a special guest on the channel this is the EVGA sr2 LGA 1366 dual sockets with 2 X 56 90s I just want to boot it up see it living and breathing in the flesh I have to do it so the EVGA SR 2 that is booting up absolutely fine we've got 12 cores 24 threads now I did have to shut that down pretty quickly because when I got into the blast one of the CPUs was saying was at 96 degrees of course I'm just free mounting the fans which I usually never recommend anyone do unless you're quickly booting up to see if something boots or not that's generally when you frame out just coolers because saves a lot of time so in this case the SR 2 and the 2 CPUs are working absolutely fine looks like the Rams are working too so look forward to doing a build in that I'm not sure when that will come because it's gonna take a lot of times I want to do something really special with that but also a big thank you to you guys for sending in the PC parts some of them work some of them don't but the ones that work you just salvage it and that's what it's all about especially if you come into broken pcs just salvage some of the parts of work and then you can mix and match and you'll have yourself a really cheap gaming PC that's 7870 we've got to stop here because the oven-baked method did work I am shocked I thought it would never work I've tried it in the past but this time around one of the four cards is now revived it's now working and it was playing fortnight absolutely fine so the oven-baked method it can work as the last resort that's a testament to that so give it a go if you've got nothing else to lose and you don't mind stinking up your house and your oven by the way it does reek when you do it so be careful maybe use an oven that you're not used to using but with that guys if you have any pea see parts that you don't no longer need or you just want to send them in and they're broken and you want to see if I can fix them and have a laugh then I'll put my p.o box in the description below and thank you all for watching and also let me know in the comment section below if you're digging the 8 - 4 phase power design but also in there note of the broken phases if you guys have removed them and you have brought a motherboard back to life let me know if there's anything else I can do to try at the motherboard working again because of course bringing a whole motherboard back to life is always a good thing the micro soldiering is you guys saw the 2400 G the Reisen I failed but I am sending that off to someone in the u.s. they're going to show me their micro soldiering skills and they reckon they can get it working again as when we personally have tried micro soldiering in the past and I am just hopeless at it it's such a hard trait to learn and it's a lot easier said than done in my opinion one of those things I would like to learn however but just take a lot of time to learn properly but anyway guys hope you enjoyed today's video if you did the me sure to hit that like button and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye