my date's
wrong whoops yeah I got it wrong twice
in a row actually
all right it looks like we are
live so another year another disgusting
board so one new piece of news so if you
like this show and you want to support
it I do have Amazon links below for us
UK Canada Germany Austria Italy and
France so if you're in any one of those
countries and you want to buy something
really really expensive that's awesome
if you just want to buy dog cat food and
cat litter and paper towels that's also
appreciated that being said let's get
into this board so did somebody puke on
it looks like it my right ear loves you
huh does
it oh [ __ ] you're
right
hello let's
see how about how about now does my does
my left how about left ear oh awesome
beautiful yeah it's cuz I was only
wearing the headset on my right side
that must have been the problem
see there we go your Amazon Austria link
doesn't
oh huh let's
see you're
right you are correct when you're right
you're right I think you can use the
Germany one for Austria I'm not quite
sure let's see yeah I'm totally focusing
on the right thing while I should be
fixing the
board here I'll give you a better view
while I fix my Amazon Austria link we're
just going to make it match the Germany
link when you wearing your headset in
your right ear I bent it the other way
around excuse me do they dude they never
paid they purposely they said that they
don't want to pay for a plan they yeah
they send it to Steve so we can tell
them to get the [ __ ] out
of oh my
God this is this company and these
companies are tricky they try to do
tricky stuff so what
um how do I explain this how do I
explain this how do I explain this so um
like you know how you set up something
and then you have like um uh monthly
like managed service contract or
something where they pay a certain
amount every month and you go over
anytime they're like my printer doesn't
work my server doesn't work blah blah
blah when you have a company that
specifically says no we're not going to
pay for that and then they call up and
they're like you were supposed to fix
our
printer I don't I don't know what to
say I don't know what to say other than
[ __ ]
you nice people really really nice
people super nice people the nicest the
nicest people but still no nice try nice
[ __ ] try all right let's see do we
have an Amazon oh of course it doesn't
work I spelled my [ __ ] name wrong wow
I'm guilty of what my I'm guilty of what
the DMV does that's sad oh that is sad I
spelled my own name
wrong oh jeez okay I think the Austria
link for Amazon should work now that I
spelled my name properly okay so let's
uh let's move around this board and uh
look at all the parts that are
disgusting yeah I'm I'm looking to get
out of that whole like setting up
servers manage crap because it it always
ends the same way it's like we don't
want to pay for a con service contract
but every time my printer breaks we're
going to say that you probably didn't
fix it when you were here six months ago
for the mail server kind of thing
ew what the [ __ ] is that whoa It's like
a
tower that's a tower of
pubes oh my
God that's a tower of pubes you wear
this Under Armour shirt every other what
was the last time I wore a blue Under
Armour shirt on camera I know that
that's not possible all right so I'm
going to use the com should I use now
the compressed there is not going to be
here was compressed
there wow that didn't move it at all no
lungs no lungs [ __ ] I do need compressed
there dude it's not even close all right
air compressor we need a [ __ ] air
compressor someone says that's feminist
armpit hair in the chat no comment all
right we're going to we're going to pump
up the compressed air container
h
all
right need some
air
the all right time for some air
compression these are some serious
pubes
sor
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success pubes are
gone
okay pubes are
gone
poor headphone users I'm sorry headphone
users the hair of trump it actually did
have a little bit of orange to it now
that you you used bring it up all right
where do we even start on
this all
right
what's your take on doing repairs versus
buying new from a bigger perspective
you're going to have to explain to me
what bigger perspective
means what do you
mean no sound somebody
said I don't think that's
true I think you're
trolling
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all right so we we're at s minutes into
the stream and I think I finally got my
Amazon affiliate links to work we have
so I I said yesterday that I had Spain I
don't have Spain I don't think I can
actually get Spain to pay me so my bad
I'm sorry for all of you in Spain same
for Brazil and Japan I think they only
do
ebooks and Mexico said that they that
there's no way to pay me and it's like
yeah yeah I figured
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yeah go
figure do I love using lots of flux this
is my PAs
time I'm sorry Carlos I would loved to
have an Amazon affiliate link for
you
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Jesus what solution do you use an
ultrasonic cleaner Branson EC I actually
have a link to it in the
description
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India affilia code I don't think so I
forget why I didn't sign up for India it
was either they only do ebooks and
digital stuff or it was that they didn't
want to pay me I forget but I I had a
good reason for not doing India but I
forget what it is it was one of the two
cuz when you sign up for some countries
they give you this little red alert and
it says there is no way for us to pay
you and that made me lose all
interest these countries will only pay
me with a check so I have to actually
get receive a paper check and it's check
with a que I wonder if that's different
like I'm used to CH E CK but there this
is like
CH qu
E I don't know what to do with the CH E
QE that's that's going to be
interesting
it's a fancy
check yep the microscope camera
affiliate Cod doesn't work and it
probably never will because they they
don't sell my microscope camera
anymore once I find somebody who sells
the micros a good microscope camera on
Amazon I'm going to update that
link that resistor looks like [ __ ] we'll
replace that later oh my God once we get
it to turn on but what's the rest of
this horse [ __ ]
gross that's how we spell Czech in
English with a
Q what's with the putting a q where
there supposed to be a c a CK like a Q
and an
E I don't get
that oh it never oh under the SMC too
no no I don't have a 2011 SMC every time
I buy a board with a 2011 SMC the SMC on
the board is worse than the one that I
had oh
man is there a full fix for the older
MacBook Pros where Wi-Fi stops working
and only comes back if you disconnect
and connect again I have no
idea sorry
no not enough
info so how many people who are watching
this are a member of the chip Masters
Forum The Notebook
Squad anybody in the chat a member at
notebook
Squad Mo mobix says Hey LS I don't think
you're allowed to hot link non products
according to Amazon terms they'll shut
down your accounts and freeze
any if that's the I well if that's the
case I feel
like
one sec spam must get rid of
spam if that was the case I feel like
lonus and Stefan malanu and a many
others would have been gone lonus I
think lonus lost $30,000 because he was
telling people to bookmark the link I
don't think it was because he was
linking to uh a
non-product
bitwit huh who's a
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bitwit
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USB to SATA they're they're both plugged
into those two machines the laptop and
the iMac in the
front there was only
two I was looking for the USB 2 one that
we threw away because that was all that
was
left
okay almost done
preheating
so much
preheating we charge customer at fixed
cost now [ __ ] that [ __ ] will you charge
by the component that that's just a
silly way of
building that's a silly way of
billing all right I think we've done
enough preheating now we can go in for
the final Reflow
[Laughter]
I saw it move a little I'm
content now we go to the other side of
the
board so back to my question anybody in
the chat a member of the chip Masters
notebook Squad
forum
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clock
chip cuz Duke and I no longer
are we got
banned why is beyond me I haven't posted
on there for like 3
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months I must have gotten at least 10
people to join that Forum like
minimum so I'm going to be asking for my
$129
back cuz I don't have access to the
Forum or the FTP
anymore we're going to see how that
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goes Duke has over 2,000 posts there
over 4
years helping people and I think that he
actually paid the 129 to get in just
like I did that's like a kick in the
balls that's a kick in the balls
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man so does fixed charging mean that
whatever the problem is how much
expensive it may be will you repair it
and one charge extra if repair costs
more than what I paid semi yes and semi
no uh if the motherboard we we we have a
set rate for a motherboard so if it's a
fuse it's the same rate as it is if it's
50 components but that doesn't cover
everything else in the machine it's not
flat rate by the device it's flat rate
based on the issue so if the board is
the issue a flat rate for the board and
so on and so
forth all right I'm kind of curious
since there was corrosion by the clock
chip if we're going to have quarter fans
spin I'm actually curious based on how
nasty the the C area looked if we're
even going to have a green light but
let's see if we get anything more than
dead which is where we were when we
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started Moby fix I don't I don't I don't
sell schematics and board
views so it's it's impossible to
compete I tell everybody you wants a
schematic and a board view to buy it
from there cuz I'm not going anywhere
near
that
I'm not touching providing schematics
and board views with a 10-ft pole okay
as you can see as it turns on and
quarter fan spins which is usually a
clock chip problem and this chip was
corroded so let's go over
that how not to get China ripped off um
good one you start with the small small
order you make sure that the small order
is um uh Chris long it was Chip Masters
that I got banned from anyway anyway for
the question on not getting [ __ ] over
by China suppliers you make a small
order you pray that you don't get
screwed on the small order and if you
don't get screwed on the small order
then you make a big order it's really
just based on purchasing power do they
care enough about you that they're
actually afraid of losing your business
and that depends on how much money you
spend if you don't spend any money then
they're probably not going to be afraid
or care if they lose your business if
you spend a lot of money then they will
be worried about losing your business so
you just have to be willing to put up
enough money in the beginning
that you know to figure you know $200 or
$300 order to see if you're going to get
screwed and expect to pay a high price
for the sample order if they're sending
you a small amount of
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stuff oh yeah tasty indeed tasty
area
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why can't Apple just sell schematics and
board viws on their own website it would
basically be 100% profit for them and
they like money given the prices they
charge that's a good question again I I
would I I would honestly rather just pay
Apple an a higher rate than you pay for
places like notebook squad or chip
Masters that sell
schematics I would much rather pay a
higher rate there to get the stuff
immediately then wait forever to get it
from some dark corner of the
internet I'm sure a lot of others would
as
well mob fix if you have any more detail
details on that Amazon thing and could
message me a link I would highly
appreciate it cuz I'm open to the fact
that I'm terribly
wrong so how much do you want to bet
that this clock chip that I took off of
uh 2915 is good I'm hoping it's better
than the graphics chip on that
board hoping
praying lots of
praying
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most I've had people try to post
schematics in the Forum and I've banned
them so there's no I wouldn't say
there's a competition between notebook
Squad and this
if you look at the average quality of
advice offered there
um yeah no
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comment you always say that you started
this business with $200 but you never
actually explain how you spent that yes
I do but you just don't
listen I think it was 2 a181 screens in
a
screwdriver I think no it's probably
three a181 screens in a screwdriver two
or three a1181 screens in a
screwdriver from Sun Valley us or Sun
Valley
Tech I'm pretty sure that was
it I bought them at like crap or maybe
four Sun Valley Tech screens I'm trying
to do the math now because you got me
confused I I started with either 2 240
to 260 the screens were somewhere
between $50 to
$68 okay I don't know the exact math it
was like 8 years ago but it was a it was
a1181 MacBook screens and a screwdriver
which is really pretty much and I think
some $5
hosting that was it that was a long time
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ago
hey all right time to plug it
in time to plug it
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in I'm scared to plug it
in
[Music]
how sustainable is it to replace versus
repair how are boards becoming harder to
repair Etc
ah um H well hey no more quarter fan
spin check it out look at that look at
that look at that isn't that beautiful
oh you can't see it here we see that
that is a continuously spinning
fan continuously spinning fan all right
so what did you ask on here
so how are boards coming harder to
repair how sustainable is it to replace
versus repair well there's a there's a
tricky thing going on here so on one
hand you have the fact that devices are
getting cheaper and the boards are
getting cheaper but on the other hand
you have the fact that they're becoming
more and more integrated so for example
the technology itself keeps becoming
cheaper however it keeps becoming more
integrated so when I say more integrated
I mean the CPU used to be socketed now
it's soldered onto the board so let's
say the CPU is cheaper and the board is
cheaper than it was last year but when
you put CPU Plus board together now you
have one product that costs more money
now you can continue this with
everything like RAM and SSD so the CPU
and the board became yet even cheaper
but then with the MacBook Air and the
retina they decided to start soldering
the ram onto the board so even though
the ram is cheap now you have that added
cost into the board which raises the
price of the board then the boards
became cheaper and the CPUs became
cheaper and the graphics chips became
cheaper and the soldered Ram became
cheaper and now they're soldering the
SSD onto the motherboard so you have all
these cheap components but as they
become more integrated it's like it's
kind of this pattern where uh yeah
microphone clip almost fell off where
price of the components goes down but
then you have more components on one
device which then makes repairing that
specific device uh more more worthwhile
so it's these kind of dips in these um
goes up and down up and down and the the
real interesting part is going to be
with the new 12-in Macbook and also the
touch bar ones where data is on the
board so yeah apple may help you with
let's say your graphics chip dies but
let's say power rails to the board die
that power the SSD due to liquid damage
now fixing the board has become more
lucrative or with the 12-in Mac like you
may that that computer could be worth
$10 if you want the data that's on the
board you're going to fix it so it's
interesting it's interesting it
constantly changes it constantly changes
eventually I think this is all going to
be a joke because you'll be able to just
replicate your data by like pressing a
button and it'll just beam itself to
your glasses that you're wearing and the
device will be five bucks but that's
ways down the road do you ever a plan on
upgrading your website [ __ ] that no no
no I learned my lesson on that I used to
have a website that had a green
background a Microsoft Word table and
text with my phone number I got a new
website looks so much nicer didn't
increase business at all it actually
dropped my Google ranking by a few and
it took six months to climb back up I
did it again same [ __ ] no I learned my
lesson the website should excuse me the
website should answer the customer's
questions that's it if you're if if you
answer customers questions quickly and
you provide them all the information
they need to feel comfortable doing
business with you you're good if you're
like focusing on like what color should
go here and this that and the other
you're just torturing yourself and I I
mean I I I I know this from experience
it's not like an opinion that I just
came up with I've had about four or five
different websites from some half what
you know designed by me which were a
joke some that were WordPress templates
and others that were designed two of
them that were designed by professional
designers and every single time I've
done it when you change the whole
website your SEO goes down for a few
months and then it goes back up again
later so like if you're like let's say
ranking number one or two you'll go down
to like five or six for a while and the
second thing I've noticed is that it
truly has no no difference on phone
calls no difference on conversions no
difference on Bounce rate all that stuff
it's all about the content I'm keeping
that website until I'm dead probably I
learned my lesson it's just not worth it
like the time that you put into that
could be spent on any other part of your
business like what services could you
add to the website what parts could you
sell that you didn't before what El like
anything but that [ __ ] the website
making the office look
nicer nah my lease is up in 2023 when
2023 comes they're probably going to
make the rent for this place like
$35,000 and I'll be happy that I didn't
invest in putting making it
nice uh what else is there in
chat it's never good to let the smoke
out I
agree pretty sure I shorted out shorted
S I don't know what s is on my old
iPhone 5S nothing shows in the screen
before I pretty sure I could find the
problem if I dug in but I don't have hot
hair handy should I bother I mean if you
don't have the tools that are required
to do anything then you're kind of
screwed do you want to if you want to
buy the tools and you want to learn then
fix it if you don't want to buy the
tools and learn then don't but you got
to make choices that are consistent with
what you want to
do if you see a pulsing fan with no boot
what would you think it
is usually the RTC chip Mo either RTC
chip current sensing by r750 r751 r752
or 71517 152 on the retinas the battery
current sensing or the RTC chip if it's
not one of those two things and it's
quarter fan spinning
then Chuck it well I mean technically
you could keep looking into it but I
mean realistically speaking I just Chuck
it oh more
spam spam
spam just watch your video where you say
it's easier to just replace a suspicious
resistor instead of checking if it works
can't you just check its resistance with
a multimeter well to check its
resistance with the multimeter let's say
I have my soldering let's say I have my
tweezers and my hot air right so this is
in my hand I could
either or I could put them down pick up
the multimeter turn on the multimeter
and then do this it actually takes more
time to measure the resistor than it
does to replace it if the resistor is is
good then I still wasted more time than
if I had replaced it if the resistor is
bad I've now wasted the time of
measuring it and wasted the time of
replacing it which is a really sad thing
and when these res again if you buy all
these donor boards for like 17 bucks I
mean what is a resistor cost like two
cents so for me I'd rather just replace
it and even if it works now it may not
work two weeks from now because it got
shocked so like in a lot of these videos
I actually do go back you know off
camera later and like if I see stuff
that looks even the tiniest bit screwed
up
I just wind up replacing
it but it's boring to do all that on
camera due to your channel I've have
started getting back to work I have so
far fixed two water damage iPad and a
busted MacBook Pro that is awesome that
is
awesome I think that's
great is it possible to even recover
data from the SSD that is soldered onto
the mobo that depends of I mean if let's
say 12 if 12 volts went to the SSD then
then then that's not going to work if um
if 12 volts went to the SSD then you're
screwed but if it's just the power rail
missing or something then you may not be
screwed there's a startling amount of
time sadly that the that the SSD got 12
volts that makes me sad I always hate
giving people that
news
I heard warranty void of sticker is
removed as [ __ ] is this true it's
true by the law to my knowledge and I
could be wrong with this it's Vice did
an article on this hate to credit vice
vice did an article on this it's true by
the law
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however however what was I saying it's
true by the law however it doesn't
matter what the law is if the
manufacturer doesn't cover it and most
people are not willing to go over to to
court over their two $200 cell phone so
what really matters is that the
manufacturer doesn't cover it cuz again
most people don't go through the legal
system for their $200 cell phone because
the legal system is
painful leis I'm getting close to
retiring from the Air Force and I didn't
have a clue what I wanted to do but
thanks to your videos I now know what I
want to do thank you that's awesome wish
you the best of
luck so not sure but I think I may have
been wrong what Amazon slam Linus for
was that he tell his viewers to replace
their bookmarks to Amazon with a link
containing his referral okay yeah which
by the way is something I don't don't
ever bookmark any of my Amazon links
never bookmark my Amazon
links ever that's a very very very very
terrible bad bad
don't I'm still going to look into that
because if just be if if you thought it
was mobix is smart so if he thought it
was true there's probably a good reason
but still
do you have use an osilloscope for
repair audio yes this
no I use the osilloscope for teaching
purposes but not
for
best way to add an SSD to a PC with no
CD what no CD Port
what why did I read
that is it a good pie to actually get
the 17-inch quadcore MacBook Pro to this
day no no no do you want a dead graph
unless you want like a decoration for
your window where you just put that
little pixelated [ __ ] up looking Apple
that doesn't boot in there no that's a
bad idea don't do that don't don't do
that that machine is a piece of [ __ ]
uh
to continue with replace versus repair
apart from Apple how do you feel about
the Microsoft Studio or the direction
think thinkpads have just turned to
[ __ ] no antimicrobial keyboards no
dedicated volume buttons cases that
crack again getting rid of the old
keyboard layout that's just all really
sad I don't think the Microsoft I
haven't really looked at any of the
Microsoft Studio machines again my only
experience with the surface was I went
to the Microsoft store I walked up to
the surf the surface laptops and then I
saw it said ask associate for price and
then I just kept walking cuz ask
associate for Price means that I can't
afford it so you charging you doing on
the house
right all
right all right that's it for today and
as always I hope you learned something