Z97-G45 desktop gaming motherboard diagnostic + repair process

It felt like I was at a medical appointment. The expertise is insane, this guy is the computer doctor.

Would be nice if you could give sort of a checklist what to check when diagnosing a motherboard and what the approximate voltages/Ohms should be otherwise, Great Vid! big thumbs up from South Africa

When he says "Hub" he's referring to the PCH (Platform Controller Hub), older computers used a North Bridge and a South Bridge for Intel based chips. AMD had its own PCH called Fusion Controller Hub. Now Intel and AMD simply refer to it/them as the "Chipset", meaningless trivia but here we are.

You should place the camera overhead, so we can see what your'e actually probing... Its very hard to see what your're actually doing, for the 1st half of the video. Thanks for the videos anyway.. Keep up the great work!!!

Wow. Troubleshooting a motherboard down to the component level is truly genius.

I'm impressed! If I ever need any repairs of this nature, I'll send it to you. Great work!

As an electrical engineer, I really like your videos. Wish you would better show the diagnostic steps though

I could watch you repair electronics all day.

mate this is the best video ever, I have work on smd soldering for a year know, it's really satisfying how easy you cleanup the pads

I love your work. I've learned a lot just watching you.

Nice work! Came here for a DIY solution of troubleshooting but stayed for the entertainment

Awesome thank you, I'm a PC tech from Bolivia, never knew you could buy a Hub Chipset and re-ball it, and checking the voltages was great, we don't have anything like this over here

Astonished! This kind of knowledge is mind-blowing!

Thanks. That was actually potentially helpful. It's unbelievably hard to figure out the minutiae of not only everything that can go wrong with a motherboard, but what did, which is often first assessed by figuring out what didn't.

Nice video and hope to see more in the future. Quick FYI: Some desktop MOBOs can have a resistance of less than 50ohm on the 5v line (with nothing connected or inserted). I have 2 Intel boards that show 52ohm and 24ohm on them and work fine. Th is can fool some people used to healthy rails showing 500+ on them. My first desktop board repair had this. I spent 2 days searching for the 24ohm short on the +5v rail. Two days of prodding and marking data because, surely, 24ohm is a short. Always. Nope. Got fed up just before taking the PCH off and tested it. Booted right up, lmao. Noticed more like it after that. If it's showing 20+ ohm and it isn't taking too much current on power injection, it just may be good. Now, here the PCH was getting hot on standby. That's obviously a definite short so look for that but of it stays cool even with powerinjection, test it FULLY (CPU, one stick of RAM, all fans plugged in, etc).

thank you for all your labor, im getting enjoy and learn step by step. choov

I like when you say "We have a picture" :)

wow I could just watch this guy all day

so cool man and you are growing as hell I wish my channel grow that fast congratulations my friend

Keep doing this type of video. Very interesting and the step by step vlog is really nice