What Destroyed This Gaming Laptop After Hours of Repairing It?

You shock at the amount of hair in the fans amused me. We had a long haired cat, recently deceased. When we bought a new refrigerator the instructions for the condenser were - never needs cleaning, if you have a cat clean once a month. I've probably vacuumed enough cat hair out out the carpet to weave a new carpet made only of cat hair.

As a layman I don't understand why the CPU's aren't replaceable. They seem to be with Desktops. Help me understand this please.

I'd say it is worth trying to reflow the cpu at this point. Either it will work or stay nonfunctional.

at 1023mins you can see a damaged capacitor on the gpu power rail

I think Andy is knitting a sweater out of gooch. You won't be offended if he uses it for that, right?

Too bad you couldn't save the laptop after putting so much work into it. I know $1100 for a new PCB seems like a lot, but that is a high-end machine even today. It might be worth the price.

Incredible skills, love the videos.

Are there any specialists out there who can replace the cpu?

Sorry had to stop watching as that beeping in earphones is hurting my ears 😢

I was thinking, when are you going to show a video of a motherboard meet its doom hammer. But, for the hell
of it, flash the bios and re-flow the CPU. Only because the CPU is not totally dead ..... its trying to see the light.

I`m total noob when it comes to this but why CPU and GPU cant be replaced ... i feel like i`ve seen reballing happening with GPU... again total noob. BDW its a pleasure watching you early in the morning with a cup of coffee. Also where would one start learning about laptop repairs if one wants to make it a hobby.(book or udemy or something else - if you have direct link or the name of the book) Thanks

I'm always amazed i learn almost every video about spicific voltage ang watts of certain parts

When it's been abused and worked on by someone else, a percentage of the repair chances of successes have already been halved. Good diagnostics and description, great video.

That laptop actually needed "The Church Lady"...............

They sign it to make sure someone doesn't swap out the parts for duds 🙂

Those look like eyebrows

Hello! Sir, may I know what model of your Multimeter

POV "When you see a very very simple capacitor crack but you checked the video runtime and it still has almost 30 minutes left" : Ohhh boyy.
That CPU is probably ded. The symptom is real similar with the degraded Intel gen 13 and 14 CPU. Random BSOD code and zero stability. Whenever it's asked to do something it just gave up.

Also no way you actually send that to the gooch collector. Thanks for making the best collab that ever lived.

are you using regular thermal paste or PTM?

And mistery of missing hamster solved :D

Amazing video thanks

Moral of the story: Don't let your cat sit on your laptop.

why are boards with the CPU not repairable? cant you just swap the CPU out and continue on?

That many scews, and mfg use several diameters, heads, and lengths, scares the heck out of me about trying any laptop repairs, I'm amazed you put 'em all in one cup. But you've been doing this a long time for many of the same or similar systems so probably know which ones are different, if they are.

Or is the size/length differences not as bad as Apples makes them? :)

Is it common to replace laptop mobo components these days? About 15 years ago, it was cheaper to replace the whole board.

This kind of problem I believe is from using your laptop while you are in bed. The laptop constantly is sucking lint and microfibers in through the air intake. If you like to use your laptop in bed, you should use a piece of wood or something (anything really) to sit the laptop on, giving it the proper ventilation. Cheers!

Shouldn't the CPU self shut down to protect itself if it is getting too hot?

the pipes are a vapor chamber type.

Too bad you cant remove a working CPU from a dead GPU board and then reball it and resolder it.

Wow, bummer. Nice work though. I thought all modern cpus would throttle down as much as needed to keep from overheating, or is that just to keep them from melting/catching fire?

Why did you delete my comments of me talking about China’s tariffs

So you rather defend a Communist Country over America? Yeah I see that you hate me telling you the truth

I don't know much about laptops but are you saying you can't replace the CPU? Do you have to replace the whole motherboard if the CPU fails? On desktops the CPU's are socketed. Or are you saying the CPU is the 1100 dollar component?

Yesterday i replace the cpu thermopaste on my bussiness Dell laptop with 3542 motherboard .
10 years working laptop.
When i press the start button and laptop turned ON again a big smile figured in my face!

Hello! Can you try changeing the 330uf capacitor next to the one you (already) changed? (it may have suffered during the reheat and leaked).... and a Reflow of the cpu may also fix the errors.... PS. Try booting a win7 live PE , and share the error with us... thanks. (nice video).

CPU couldn't resist any more heat and ended up giving up. What a bummer on such amazing laptop.

Thanks for the video. I hope your injuries heal quickly! (I noticed injuries on your right arm / wrist). 👍

Heat is not god for laptops

I'm following Sorin's advice to have my gaming laptop cleaned internally from dust and repasted every 2-3 months. Air has many particulates including human and animal hair and carpet lint including air pollution, especially if you live near factories. Nothing to worry about, not another pandemic so move along...🎩.

Maybe the ssd was bad you should've try with new ssd

Thanks for this good video.

Maybe a Reflow of the CPU?.. because of overheating due to poor ventilation may have caused micro cracks of the balls under the CPU.

always take care of that...hairballs you can contract anthrax at any moment and send it to cdc

There is actually 4 more capacitors that have smoke damage, that was documented in your video, but you missed when you zoomed the camera around.

After seeing what can happen to an Alienware, if the cat/dog hair + Dirts! Can kill/destroy the machine! Make me want to tear my down! Sadly, win10/11 don't have a widget that would measure the CPU/Ram temp, and you should tell overheat clean the fan out! Being looking for a fan/temp widget/gadget for Window 11 machine!

Surely NOT worth the invested time.