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welcome back to another installment of can yes fixing this is that episode where you guys send in all your broken PC parts or parts that you just don't need and you see if I can fix them or tweak them and if I can't then generally they're going straight to the pool booth I said let's start tackling all these problems and sin if we can diagnose them but I do apologize too because this episode has been a long time in the making and the stuff has just been sort of piling up here and I did get those health videos and Darth Jar Jar done so that took a lot out of the schedule but with that said we're back on schedule now so I do apologize if I forgot some of the people's names who sent this stuff in but anyway let's see what shenanigans we can get up to today's view is brought to you by asrock and sometimes you just might need a break from the wd-40 and the data back then if so the Z 390 Tai Chi is your perfect choice if you're on the market for a brand new 9900 K this thing will overclock it with ease with the 10 phase V RM and amazing onboard audio you're shorter play some faces or crush them in games if that's your forte links in description below to find out more so first up here we've got a heap of different stuff sent in from Jon over in the US he sent in some SSDs and said that they weren't showing up when he tried to install them you know computers as boot drives and so I do have a solution for that and he's also got some CPUs which he hasn't tested and they may or may not work so we'll get on very soon with those after we test out these motherboards here but let's quickly show you guys how you can get an SSD that's possibly not booting from a fresh install of Windows to work after you do this little trick so that was just ridiculously easy to check these three drives out and see which one was faulty and in the case of this 240 gigabyte drive oh here that unfortunately just hung in Windows so it's going to be a brick drive you're gonna have problems with that no matter what you do unless of course you're into soldiering and you can find the bad components on this drive and replace it but these two here they're absolutely fine so we can use them in builds so thank you for that John so now we're on to motherboards and I do tackle these two different ways if the person says it works then I quickly check if it does work before I put it in a build but if I've been donated it and it's broken then I generally just go straight to a tech yes love and cleanse and that's where I just go in this case I'm gonna use a bit of brake cleaner and then clean the board up and then give it a bit of wd-40 or a multipurpose spray and make sure that it's all schmick before we give it that chance now in the case of LGA pins here we may need to bend these back some of them might have micro bends or whatnot and then after that if the board just doesn't work at all then we will toss it but anyway let the love and begin so there's a for motherboards they're all ready to go but you may have noticed the data vac is looking a little bit different and that's because early in the month it needed its own tech yes loving basically what happened was I was turning it on and then it just shorted out the whole circuit here in my home and it did it a couple of times I'm like what is going on so I opened it up and there was a positive braided wire like literally right next to open- wire and so I think one of the screws was actually going through the positive braid of wire and causing that to short with the negative but it's all fixed now and it's all ready to go so hopefully there's no more problems with it and also you guys have been hounding me for a long time to get a proper test bench so I not only got one of these I got two and a cool master did us a favor because apparently these are becoming end-of-line so they needed to get rid of them I'm like dude I could definitely use these they're awesome because they're really small and really lightweight basically the whole size of the full sized motherboard and you get a power supply in underneath and also your drive bays and you've got a power and reset button let's test out these four motherboards and see if they can work so now tested all the five motherboards that I had I didn't bother giving this cleaning because it looked really new and I believe the person before Alex who sent it in I believe it was just trying to get a rise in 2000 series chip in here and it's just one of those things that's very easy I've got a rise in three 1200 I put that in there and it booted up so that's absolutely fine this here after some check yes loving this booted up absolutely fine as well this Intel board here I tried using the external flasher on it except I've got no idea what BIOS chip this actually takes and so I was really confused I tried looking on the net everywhere and I just came up empty-handed so if someone does know what exact flash ROM this is let us know in the comment section below so I can give it a proper attempt on flashing it in the meantime I've just got no idea so I kind of have to sideline this motherboard right here and then of course these two motherboards here are on the trash pile this asrock extreme sticks just had absolutely no signal at all so it's a completely gone board this z77 is just constantly boot cycling you can't even get the back up bias to initiate so that thing is toast as well I'm guessing some of the traces have gone and we decided to give it some lovin in the air however off that extreme six motherboard I did pull off the two BIOS chips these can come in handy especially when you've got a motherboard that fits these chips we can then program and with our programmer to whatever we like and that BIOS is now in our hands so now let's move on to testing out all these different CPUs and RAM this is pretty straightforward if it boots it's generally ok with the RAM however you I would like to run a stress test usually my prime95 blend test is a go-to before I actually get a PC ready to flip so in that case I'm gonna see which one's boot with the RAM and then after that if I'm putting them in a build I'll leave it overnight with a blend test and if it fails then I'll have to find out which stick is failing so that's a lengthy process but in the meantime we can just quickly test one by one see what boots in our newly restored HD 3 motherboard and then come back to some of this other juicy stuff so we just finished testing up the CPUs here and four of the six worked two of them just were giving no signal so we decided to scrap those so these can go in the pile of working parts but now let's test out the memory while we're here and actually was going to test it out with the other board but this is the g1 sniper and this thing looks so cool so we finished testing up the RAM there was three sticks that were faulty so we're gonna chuck them in the rubbish bin but we got a heap a different memory that is all good so far so that's gonna be great in the kitty and then over here we've got two power supplies now but I didn't get donated these I actually bought them in a bundle of seven where I've already sold three of the power suppliers and then I've made $10 profit I've got to keep four of them however two of these power supplies didn't come with CPU eight pin connectors so what we're gonna do is use this digital multimeter here to read out these proprietary connections even though they're eight pins and a lot of other power suppliers have eight pin connections and what a lot of these companies do is they actually change all the routing around so basically it's if you use another company's connector you're gonna have the wrong voltages going to the wrong pins and so that's going to cause problems but if we use a multimeter we can then rearrange things and see how they perform so now for this next part we simply get our motherboard and put a short connector on it which allows the power supply then to start and we'll have active voltages in these pins here and this is the 12-volt pin so we want the top four to be positive and the bottom four to be negative so we simply turn it on now the fan should start spinning and ideally would want to hit this with positive and then this one with negative and we can see that that's actually the other way around so that one they're switched in this case so that their top one is negative so now we can go around and test its that bottom ones positive as well that's positive as well and that's positive as well and since we know these bottom four positive now we can then go on the top here and we can see that that's negative that's negative and that's negative so this one here is actually just reversed so I think a very quick and easy fix for this would just be to simply grab the power supply grab this connector here I mean I could be wrong but give it a go simply turn it upside down and just Ram that in and let's try that again success success success success getting past proprietary modular power supply connectors has never been easier just flip it upside down then again I think according to you guys over in the u.s. in Australia that's normal so we did the exact same trick on the other power supply there this time with a corsair CPU 8 pin and that worked exactly the same as the thermal take a pin where we flipped it upside down and it was now working correctly now what we got left here on the desk is a old logitech trackball mice and I mean this thing just came like this it's so like it's really filthy like I don't even know what that is could that give me a disease or something like I mean guys when you send some stuff in like I really appreciate getting sense I'm like the motherboards and the RAM and stuff but like I I don't know what I'm supposed to do with this okay I mean I'd give us some check yes loving except I might get a disease from it but I did get these two old gravis cards here I am keen to test them out apparently they do work but I do have a video coming up for you guys where I'm gonna be testing some of these old potato cards so I look forward to hopefully featuring them in that video and then behind that the last of the stuff I got sent in here was a lot of cables from a guy in Singapore he actually didn't even leave his name on the envelope he's just sent over a lot of different cables and so here's a lot of LAN cables these here I actually don't need these so if someone in the audience needs some telephone cables let us know I'll gladly give them away too and there was a heap of different power cables that got sent in so a big thanks for that but I guess it's now time to conclude everything that's on the desk here because I guess today's episode really sums up what it's all about and that's small victories so there Elizabeth today's episode and I'm actually really excited because everything today just went so smooth the stuff just didn't work or it worked I didn't have any problems where it was giving me a flicking screen or there was a message that would come up it was just straightforward we had the RAM that either didn't work or it worked and in most cases with the CPUs and the RAM a lot of it did work so this stash has just gotten bigger and so now I've got more stuff that I can use in future builds and speaking of builds we've got those five builds coming for the school very soon finally have found four of the kids that were going to be giving them away to I've actually selected the winners I'll be making a separate video on that and I'm also going to be giving one of the extra computers away to the school itself so everyone at that school can use it it's been a long time coming but that's coming very soon also on top of that the power supplies we got kind of lucky where we've just flipped the CPU eight pins around and they worked perfectly has two very good module power supplies that I can use in builds and also the motherboards that did work there were the good ones so except for the extreme six that just flat out had no power going to it whatsoever so I'm really confused what happened there because usually you at least get like the USB ports lining up the keyboard for example and we didn't even have that with that multiple it was just completely gone and then lastly of course that Intel motherboard that needed to be programmed I just didn't know what flash ROM it was exactly so if someone does know in the description below I'd love to hear that and give it a try and try and bring that board back to life as in a previous video a build I did it bricked when I was doing the update via Windows which was the only way you could update the BIOS on that motherboard and yeah try not to update your BIOS through Windows it's not good now better than that in today's episode you can see how we cleaned a lot of stuff and we just try to avoid problems from the get-go and now the whole process around here is so efficient where I'm just doing things and not trying to waste time and so I'll clean those motherboards clean them very effectively very efficiently same with the RAM and CPUs I even gave them a clean and so I know that that's not the problem after that and I've brought so much stuff back to life by just giving it a thorough clean and a lot of people are messaging me behind the scene saying the same techniques and processes have saved a lot of PC parts especially when people come to them or they're selling in their local area and they say this whole computer is faulty and they go around and they buy it and then they can actually get the whole bill back to life so that was really cool but other than that guys I hope you enjoyed today's episode if you did then be sure to hit that like button also if you have any pots that you want to send in to us then I'll put my p.o box in the description below any parts that you may not need or you just want to see me mess around with them then you're welcome to send them in however in terms of donating parts that are worth a good amount of money and you guys know that they work I do employ you guys to donate those to people in need around your local area it's sort of like an initiative that I started from last year when the channel started to build up but of course if you want to support the channel link for the merchants in the description below and also there's my patreon link if you just want to trust us a tip and get access to monthly behind-the-scenes vlogs and with that said I'll catch you guys in another tech video very soon peace out for now buddy