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  • In today's class, we're going to be doing an autopsy of a desktop PC.

  • So essentially, we're going to go in and we're going to rip apart this desktop PC, take a look at all the parts inside and give you a better idea of how all of the components go together.

  • So the glass class that I did, I was talking about all the different parts, the CPU, the memory of the storage, the motherboard, blah blah, blah, blah, blah.

  • And so you have an idea of what all these parts d'oh!

  • And now that you have an idea of logically what they dio.

  • It is good to see how they're physically all put together.

  • So, uh, what I did actually, for this whole A plus, Siri's, um, in order to have a computer, I could just bang up and destroy and not really worry about how much it cost.

  • I went to Micro Center.

  • So Micro Center is a local computer shop, and I actually was able to buy this computer for 100 and $9.

  • This is actually the Dell with a Dell computer.

  • It has a Windows 10 professional license to it is ah, Intel duo or whatever from like five or six years ago has five gigs a storage like they're five gigs of Ram.

  • About 250 gigs of storage.

  • Got an optical drive.

  • Basically, it's an all around good machine.

  • This is the type of computer I would suggest that you go out to buy in the beginning.

  • Now I know everybody wants to build their own computer.

  • Eli, I don't want to buy some used piece of crap.

  • I want to build my own computer.

  • Well, the thing is, building your own computer actually gets to be a bit pricey.

  • So this was 100 and $9.

  • All told, all told, optical drive, hard drive Ram the whole nine yards You have to stand.

  • Understand?

  • When you go out there to build your own computer, you know, power supply will run you forward your $50 case or on your 40 or $50 our drive old running 40 or $50 CPU is gonna run you amount of money.

  • So even if you go out and you buy it in, you basically assemble a low cost PC.

  • You're going to get a very piss poor quality PC for somewhere between 2 to $300.

  • And so you're going to spend that amount of money, and it's still gonna be a pretty crappy system, To be honest with you, the case I talked about that in the safety class right there.

  • The case is probably gonna have all kinds of sharp metal coming off.

  • It is just not gonna be a good thing.

  • So the nice part is, you go out there and you buy a used machine like this and you can go in and you already know that it works.

  • That's an important thing again in the beginning, when you're learning how to do something, you don't know if a parts dead on arrival or you did something stupid, right?

  • Is it?

  • Is it is it that the power supply failed?

  • You have a bad power supply or is it that you did it?

  • Plug in the power supply the correct way, right?

  • When you buy, we try to assemble a computer from the get go.

  • You don't know those things.

  • What's nice about buying something that's already supposed to work is you plug it in and if it doesn't work, you return it and get another one.

  • That does work.

  • Basically, you don't have to start at square one.

  • You have a machine, you already know.

  • It has all the stuff it's supposed to have.

  • And then you go from there.

  • The other thing that I do like about going out there and buying a used l or use Lenovo I personally hate HP with a passion.

  • My opinion, my pity.

  • I hate HP with passion, but again, if you go out there and you buy a decent refurbished of, you know, brand name vendor is a lot of things like the case the cases will be a lot better and easier like this case in order to get into it.

  • There's just this little there's just this little lever up here.

  • You pull the lever and the case opens up.

  • And so one of the nice parts do as as you're learning how to do things you're not As I sit here enough to fight with it, you're not having to fight with cases and stuff so much just to get parts to go together, right so you can learn how to install a PC.

  • I card.

  • You can learn how to install an operating system.

  • You can learn all the basic stuff once you feel comfortable.

  • Then you go when you buy your 10 80 T I graphics card and your insane stuff.

  • After after you've basically killed the $100 computer again and things like education, that's what you have to think about when you're learning how to do what you're doing.

  • When you know that electricity can cause a lot of damage to components, do you want to learn on ah, $100 piece of crap system that you're just gonna throw it in the recycling bin once you're done?

  • Or do you want to learn on something where the graphics card alone is gonna cost me $800 saying these kind of questions you have.

  • Ah, So in order to crack into this thing or to crack into this thing, I have my handy little screwdrivers here again.

  • Just a nice little set of screwdrivers like this Will do you find for almost all situations for desktop PC support.

  • And then I brought the pliers.

  • I don't think I need the pliers.

  • Probably don't need the players.

  • Was just nice to have a good set of pliers sometimes when you need to pull out parts.

  • So basically, with these, we're gonna rip this thing open, take a look at how all of the components go together and ah, really show you what makes a desktop PC and what you should do what you will be looking at when you crack one.

  • Open yourself.

  • So this is the desktop PC we're gonna gut quicker than Susan W guts the hopes and dreams of aspiring YouTube content creators.

  • Ah, what does that mean?

  • I was kind of mean.

  • I don't mind, though.

  • There's a certain point when you're just like I want to be mean.

  • There's a certain point in life when you're like Oh, I'm trying to be nice.

  • I'm trying to get along Then there's a certain point where you're like now we're to the point that that I want to be mean.

  • But basically, we're gonna crack this little guy open.

  • So, as you can see, looks like a pretty normal computer.

  • I got your USB on the front, got your optical drive has has a smaller, smaller bay.

  • If you want to put something in there, if you flip around, you take a look at the back of it.

  • You can see you have the normal ports going on here.

  • We have a graphics card down at the bottom.

  • Then you got your com port your network card, USB the whole nine yards.

  • So again, although this is an older computer, by normal standards, it's a It's a rather modern computer and any kind of desktop computer that you're gonna be ripping apart Maur or less is gonna look like this.

  • Like literally.

  • If you buy something from like an expensive computer from this year, it may look a tiny bit different, but I'm gonna say a tiny bit different now.

  • One thing to realize with this particular desktop computer is that it's what's called a low profile desktop computer.

  • So although it's big, I mean, you take a look at this thing you're like, uh, compared to a lot of the modern stuff coming out.

  • There's nothing about low profile.

  • This doesn't look like anything that you would call a low profile for a desktop world.

  • It is basically what low profile means is that it's thinner.

  • It's thinner than a normal desktop computer.

  • Why that's going to be important is for your expansion cards.

  • So when we crack this open, I'll show you.

  • But this is the normal size of the back plate for an expansion card when you have a normal sized that stop computer.

  • This is how big the back plate for the expansion card is for a low profile desktop.

  • It is that big is smaller, so it's It's sometimes called a low profile desktop or 1/2 size PC.

  • I card one of the other more or less.

  • This doesn't matter for a lot of things with that stop computers other than the expansion card.

  • So I actually added my own graphics card to the system.

  • And so when I did Ah, add the graphics card is I'll show you what I cracked this thing open.

  • I had to get a low profile graphics card because it's simply if it had used this plate, it simply would have been physically too big again.

  • This is just one of those things you'll learn as you go in the world.

  • But just keep in mind.

  • If you're looking at that stop computer and it seems a little thin and you're gonna wanna graphics card or a sound card or any kind of expansion card, you may have to buy a low profile card instead of the regular size car.

  • That's one of those things to be thinking about.

  • And with that, let's crack this thing open.

  • So with this, what's nice is again we have this little lever on the side.

  • And with that, what's cool is you just pull the lever and the case pops open.

  • This is what I talk about when you when I say bye, in a good case, why buying a good case is valuable, especially in the enterprise world.

  • Now, if you're gonna buy a desktop computer, you're gonna symbol a desktop computer and you're really never gonna take it apart, like ever, ever, ever, ever.

  • Then the case, you know, as long as you don't, you know, need a tourniquet while you're putting this thing together originally.

  • Ah, you seal it up when you're done, you should be fine.

  • But especially when you're dealing with lab computers.

  • When you're dealing with computers, you're going to be pulled, pushing and pulling stuff in a lot.

  • You want a good quality case because it's just so just being able.

  • I mean again, if your new when you haven't dealt with cases, I mean, it's nice that being able to put on or take off the side is literally this easy with some of them with some of the cases, the inexpensive cases, you basically have to pull out the pliers and a hammer every time you want to do this.

  • So having something is easy, is that again?

  • Right now, it may not seem like a big deal, but it really does matter.

  • So now we start taking a look at this thing, and so when we're looking at this from the top, we can start to see what's going on.

  • So this is the motherboard right here sober.

  • But everything's connected to the motherboard.

  • This right here, this black thing.

  • Basically, this is a cooling cow.

  • Also, a cow forces the air to go in certain directions.

  • So underneath this, you can't really see it where?

  • Yeah, but underneath this, this is the heat CPU, heat sink, and so underneath that he sink.

  • Is them a CPU, so I can take a look at it.

  • I can go.

  • Okay, so this is the CPU.

  • I look at this.

  • Okay, so this is the optical drive tells me it's a DVD writer again, depending on how old you're, the desktop you're dealing with is you should just take a look at this to see what it is you know.

  • Is it just a CD?

  • CD is a just a DVD player.

  • Is it a CD writer?

  • Is it a DVD writer?

  • So on and so forth.

  • Nowadays, everybody, everybody's gone with thumb drives, so it doesn't really matter so much.

  • But this might cause you some issues, especially with these old these old optical drives.

  • E mean, especially because people use them so little they don't actually use them a lot.

  • You might have a really old optical driving there.

  • You may have, like, a 10 year old optical drive that's just gone through a few different computers.

  • And so it may be something like it's, you know, you're like, Why?

  • Why can't I install the operating system and then you find out?

  • Oh, because I have OS DVDs and this is only a CD player.

  • So you just look at something like that and you can see we got a power supply here.

  • You look down here.

  • These are our Ram Bram Sticks.

  • Aram.

  • I can look down.

  • I can see that under underneath the optical drive, the hard drive is here And then, of course, we've got the graphics card right here.

  • So I have a basic I have a pretty clear understanding of what's going on.

  • You may also see with, like, enterprise level computers, like when you buy Dell or Lenovo, you'll see little but him like this.

  • So this is a little button.

  • What this does is this the text to see whether the case is closed or not So within bios, normally you can configure to say whether or not you want the computer to boot if the case is open.

  • So this is just one of those things to realize it exists.

  • Sometimes you can see there's a little cable here.

  • Sometimes this can get pulled out, or somebody somebody can do something stupid and pull it out.

  • And so if you're having weird like, it won't boot or it's giving you weird errors.

  • It might be something like this has been pulled out.

  • But this is the basic idea of what we've got here.

  • So we start looking at this and we start thinking Okay, So what?

  • What, are we gonna pull out of this first?

  • And so Hey, what the hell?

  • Why don't we pull out the graphics card?

  • Since we're talking about PC I cars before Now with this, this has an interesting set up.

  • So normally, um, with these Well, I guess I could do it this way.

  • So what we can dio is with a lot of these types of of expansion cards.

  • They'll be screws on top that we screws.

  • I go in here, this just uses a little friction thing.

  • That's he's a little friction force thing.

  • And so, basically, you just pull this up now for PC I cards, there's gonna be a little locking mechanism of the bottom.

  • Can you see this blue thing you see is blue thing down here.

  • This is the locking mechanism.

  • So you want to pull that so that it's going to release the graphics card?

  • Come on, release the graphics card.

  • Don't screw with my hair.

  • Dell computer.

  • Well, the thing is in there tight.

  • Hold on a second, comma.

  • There we go.

  • So we pull that out and now the frictions out and they were able to pull out the graphics cards.

  • So this is the graphics card.

  • Now, you take a look at this graphic scarred.

  • Now, this isn't This isn't cool.

  • This isn't almost so Mrs in the tit 10 80 year.

  • Ah, whatever the hell am he came out with?

  • This is basically a much older graphics car.

  • What I like about graphics cards like this is you'll notice there's no fan on this graphic scar.

  • There's all one big heat sink.

  • So this is one thing you have to think about in the enterprise world, especially when you're building computers that are much more appliances.

  • You know they're going to do whatever it is they're gonna D'oh is whenever you put a fan on to a graphics card, you run into the issue of the fan will wear out.

  • At some point, they will get gunk in there.

  • It'll get dirt in there because it spit and I mean it's spinning 20 especially if it's in some kind of system.

  • It's on 24 hours a day.

  • It'll be spending 24 hours a day.

  • Anything is moving 24 hours a day and a certain point it will fail.

  • The problem is, is that the fan is on the graphics cards because it needs to cool as soon as the cooling the fan fails.

  • Well, then the graphics card is going to fail, and then the whole need things get repaired.

  • So something to think about is if you were desktop PC or your appliance isn't doing anything graphic intensive and what I mean graphic intensive.

  • I mean intensive.

  • I mean editing, video, playing video games.

  • At times.

  • The thing if your computer is basically gonna be used as a Web browser used for productivity stuff or anything else you may think about just getting one of these inexpensive graphics cards that don't have a fan attached, because these things will end up lasting much, much, much longer simply because you don't have anything to fail.

  • That's just one of those things to think about.

  • So we put the graphics card over here, and then we take a look at what else is going on.

  • So we're taking a look at this.

  • And so why don't we pull out the optical drive now?

  • Since we're pulling out the optical drive now with this, it's got these little it's got these releases.

  • How do I do?

  • The real I pull up on the really.

  • That's one thing.

  • Even though even though they engineer these things well, sometimes you're not sure what to do you like.

  • Do I push it?

  • Do I?

  • Do I go?

  • Oh, no.

  • I pull it right.

  • So if I pull this, this will then release the optical drive for me and I can pull out the optical drive.

  • Now what you see in this particular desktop computer is that the screws that go into the side, they're separated slightly from the side of the CD or the optical drive, and that allows this whole thing just to slip in basically into the little slides that they have, so that you can just click that in pretty easily now, depending on what desktop computer you're using or the or the case that you have.

  • Sometimes you'll skill screws slides into the side of an optical drive in order to slide it into the case.

  • Sometimes there's nothing at all.

  • There's no screws.

  • You just simply slide the optical drive into the case.

  • And then there's some kind of friction mechanism within the case.

  • But this basically gives you an idea of what's going on now with here, you'll see on the back there's a power connector and the hard drive controller connector.

  • And so we just pop those out.

  • And now we've got the optical drive.

  • This is more or less what all optical drives look like.

  • Whether it's a CD drive or a blue ray drive, it's gonna look like that and we put that to the side, and then underneath.

  • What you can see here is that we have the hard drive, so this is the main storage.

  • This is where all the data is stored, and I'm not even gonna lie.

  • I'm not really sure how to pull this thing out right now.

  • It's like, Okay, so there's Do I pull that up?

  • Ah, yeah, That's what this is.

  • This is a frustrating part light.

  • Say, when you're pulling apart computers for the first time, you're not really sure how to do it.

  • So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna pop out and pop out the cables so you pop out the cables, so it's much easier to take a look at what I'm doing.

  • And then from here, there's something on the sides here, so I can do that.

  • Does that do something?

  • How do I get it out?

  • Not even joking.

  • See, you guys get to see me look like a stupid head in real time.

  • Ah, there we go.

  • Okay.

  • Yeah.

  • And again, this is where this is where I say every case, you have to figure out what's going on.

  • So with this, there are these two little tabs on the side.

  • So you push those together.

  • That's kind of hard to push those together.

  • And then when those air together, then you kind of force it and then on, and you're able to pull it out.

  • So Now we have the hard drive again.

  • This is kind of like a non custom little rack or slider thing.

  • But now you've got the hard drive.

  • So if you want to be able to swap this hard drive out, you would just literally you would unscrew it from this little connection mechanism.

  • Put the new hard drive in, saw the new hard drive and sell your operate system or whatever.

  • When you take a look at this, you can see.

  • So this is a C gate hard drive.

  • You can see this is a 250 gig hard drive.

  • You can see what the model number is, so you can go and you can take a look at any of the additional information you need to know.

  • And that's that's a story for you.

  • That's what you got going on there.

  • Once you get the storage out, might as well go and pull out the power supply.

  • So the power supply is always gonna be screws on the back.

  • Even with well engineered, that stops again.

  • You grab your screwdriver, you make sure you do.

  • Make sure make sure what screws were gonna be taken out.

  • So when you look at this, you're gonna see a lot of screws.

  • So you see this screw and you see this screw and you see this girl in the screw?

  • You don't take those out.

  • See these screws?

  • Right?

  • The fan.

  • The fan for the power supplies right here.

  • These screws attacked the fan to the case.

  • So if you unscrew those and you don't know, it's just a pain.

  • It's not gonna kill you.

  • Don't worry.

  • That's not gonna kill you.

  • Just don't want to do it.

  • May damage your power supply.

  • So what you're gonna do instead, is there gonna look for where the power supply connects to the case?

  • And so for here, we got these two screws.

  • Uh, please.

  • Um uh, Mary Oh, unscrew that one.

  • That's a hair.

  • Ah.

  • Uh huh.

  • Among you sleep with them, don't it?

  • Ah, Mama, I'm going in his lab.

  • Holy crap!

  • The hell did they Dok go now it's on security.

  • That's fun.

  • It's always fun to look like a weakling in front of all these news.

  • Oso, those air unscrewed.

  • So put this down.

  • Is there anything else that connects this in?

  • Let's see here.

  • What else connects this thing in.

  • Ah, come on.

  • Come on.

  • Okay, so this is the power.

  • This is the connector that goes to the motherboard so he can pull that out to pull that over here.

  • You've got all these wires connected up, so let's un connect them so you can see what we're looking at.

  • Let's see.

  • Here.

  • Put that to the sun.

  • Okay, so we got power wires.

  • Yeah.

  • So these are the power wires.

  • And now I'm looking for why this won't pull out of the computer.

  • Mmm.

  • Come on.

  • Why will you pull out of the computer?

  • Come on.

  • Seems to be connected somewhere else, huh?

  • Okay, that's there.

  • Maybe it is.

  • Pull straight up.

  • Um Ah.

  • Well, that's not connected.

  • Okay, well, that's not working.

  • So we're gonna pull out a couple of other things and see if when we pull out the couple of other things, we can figure out why the power supplies not coming out.

  • Wait a minute.

  • There's something there.

  • Nope, that's not there, huh?

  • So Okay, that this connects from there, I feel like there should be like a little Meckler.

  • Should be like a little release mechanism or something.

  • Come on.

  • Oh, Well, we'll get to that in a second.

  • We'll get to that in a second so that what we can do is to make things of life life a little bit easier.

  • We can pull out these, say, two cables.

  • So these air sable to say the cables that go from the hard drive Thio to the hard drive to the motherboard into the optical drive.

  • So just pull those out.

  • So you're not dealing with those who put those to the side.

  • Take a look here and you got the power things.

  • We have the ram.

  • So basically, in order to pull out the ram now we have two dio is you push a little The little tab.

  • Thanks.

  • He pop out the Ram, pop out that ram.

  • Then you do the tabs here, pop out of that round.

  • Okay, so we have we now have the ram is out.

  • So that's just basically what a nice little Ram stick looks like then passed that.

  • Now we'll get to that the CPU.

  • So with seep, you will go in.

  • And basically first thing that we'll do is we'll remove the cow.

  • So now, depending on what kind of desktop computer you're dealing with.

  • There may be a cowl over the CPU, or they may just be a large heat sink.

  • It all kind of depends on what kind of system crack this open, huh?

  • And then Oh, well, there we go.

  • That all came off a lot easier than I thought, so So depending on what kind of heat sink you have on your CPU Ah, lot of times the the heat sink itself will secure two different points kind of on the motherboard.

  • And then you have to release all of those things.

  • Apparently, with this, the cowl mechanism and the heat sink is all one.

  • So when I pulled this off, you got everything you'll notice here.

  • If you look at it, there's this gunk.

  • This is this Arctic silver.

  • This is the CPU compound paste.

  • So this is kind of like it's like a schmutz with stuff that you put on the CPU.

  • And then when you when you press the CPU together with the heat sink, it allows the heat to transfer much more effectively.

  • So put that over here, and then we'll poeple the CPU out all you D'oh!

  • Once you have the heat sink off.

  • There's usually some kind of lever like this.

  • You pop off the lever, then he pop up the little door on.

  • Then you can just grab the CPU.

  • And there you go.

  • Okay.

  • That that is a beautiful, nice little CPU there.

  • Again.

  • Again.

  • Theoretically, If you're doing this by the book, you should have an anti static bad.

  • And you should be doing this on a on a static Matt.

  • But as you can see, I don't do that kind of stuff.

  • I don't really worry about it.

  • Um, it's never really been a problem again.

  • I know a lot of people that literally takes the fuse, and they literally just throw them into Rubbermaid containers, and they almost always work.

  • But that's a CPU for you.

  • So let's put that off this side.

  • Then we'll be pulling out the motherboard.

  • So pumped that there.

  • Okay, so from there we have you know, this cable, actually sure what this cable is?

  • Is this some kind of cable for the fan mechanism on the other things going on the front of computer, so we'll pull this out.

  • This is a non standard.

  • Whatever this is is nonstandard.

  • Oh, This is the cable that controls your USB connections in your front speakers and such.

  • So what you should realize is the front USB connections and the headphones in the microphone.

  • There, almost every desktop there will be a cable that runs from those connectors back to the motherboard.

  • This is how this particular desktop does it Just realize different desktops do it different ways.

  • Um, well, just pull that out.

  • So that's at just that cable getting down here.

  • Now we have the motherboard.

  • Before we pull the motherboard out, I will pull.

  • So this is the little connector.

  • This is the wire that goes from the button here to the motherboard.

  • So pull that out and put it to the side.

  • And then beyond that, this whole little mechanism for the expansion cards that can actually get pulled out in this particular one.

  • And we'll put that to the side so that we can now get to the motherboard ups.

  • There's also a little power connector over here.

  • Pull that out and then put that to the side.

  • Okay, so now we're down to the motherboard now.

  • They were down to the motherboard again.

  • We take our trusty Phillips that screwdriver way, Uh, Bob one screw.

  • Then we take another Go on, grab the next school.

  • On you go.

  • And the thing is for these screws, you gotta look, you gotta look, because you think you got all the screws.

  • You think you got all the screws and then they just seem to have a screw And like a completely what seems like a random place.

  • So do that screw, and we'll do this.

  • Screw.

  • Ah, See it is that screw, right?

  • They're like, why is there another screw right there?

  • Good service.

  • I got that.

  • So, actually, be good.

  • So now that all this is a part that I can use all these different parts for the classes that will be coming up.

  • I had a thought about that little Hannah thought about that too.

  • Right this second.

  • But like I look, I can now show you people a motherboard.

  • Ah, Then we do that screw, and then you don't want to overdo screws.

  • So?

  • So there's two Phillips screws here.

  • That's for that mounting mechanism.

  • I don't think they go to the main board or the old.

  • They go to the case, but maybe they dio so you don't.

  • That's the thing is you got to go through and you got to figure out S o.

  • I got those screws.

  • Where are they?

  • I guess these screws do go down to the motherboard.

  • Okay, That's the thing is, you don't want to take out too many screws, because any time we deal with electronics, the more parts you pull off, the more things you might break.

  • And then sometimes the screws that you don't think are important actually are important.

  • So take these off.

  • Okay?

  • Put that to the side.

  • Pull off the There's still something up.

  • There is a spirit.

  • See, this is why I'm telling you there's another school right there.

  • All kinds of random screws in these motherboards.

  • Okay.

  • No, I think I can pull it up, unplugged the speakers.

  • So there's a little speaker wires up for the front.

  • There's another kind of fan wire controls the speed of the fam that comes up to the front, and now you're gonna pull this thing out, Still connected to something.

  • Ah, I'm not even joking.

  • Like you sit here and you're like, where Where's the screw?

  • I thought I did that one right What was I talking too much?

  • When I was doing this one?

  • I thought I did that.

  • OK, Aereo.

  • So we got that.

  • So that screws out that score.

  • Is that okay?

  • So now we got the screws out on, then you figure out how to get this thing out.

  • So there we go.

  • And now knock off the screws, go the screws out of there.

  • And there we go.

  • A nice, pretty beautiful motherboard right there.

  • This is where the ram slots are.

  • This is where the CPU goes.

  • He's there.

  • The expansion PC I expressed P c I and such.

  • This is the say, the hard drive controllers again.

  • You got the back stuff.

  • You got all that kind of stuff.

  • So there we go.

  • We got the motherboard out.

  • We can put that to the side.

  • And then when you figure out how the hell'd you know?

  • Seriously, take these apart.

  • They take these out.

  • I know.

  • No, seriously.

  • How the hell does the the powers of light come out of this thing?

  • Why?

  • I like doing videos like this is you can see you can you can see and you can hear the frustration as I say no, but I don't understand.

  • A damn thing should come out.

  • Oh, wait a minute.

  • Oh!

  • Oh, you're bastards.

  • Oh, yeah.

  • Oh, I know this is just a tab.

  • I thought that was just a tab.

  • See how this this is marked with a little blue things?

  • At least you know that right there.

  • That's on a tab.

  • That's a lever.

  • Oh, look at that lawyer.

  • That that's that's the real that is the reality of disassembling a PC for you.

  • I swear to you.

  • I mean, you look at that.

  • You don't realize that that's a bolo button thing there.

  • Ah, fat is a little button thing, so we now we pull out the power supply.

  • As you can see, this is kind of a nonstandard power supply.

  • This is one of the issues that you deal with whenever you're dealing with enterprise equipment again from Dell or Lenovo or anything like that is normally when a power supply fails, it's very easy to replace power supply.

  • You just go to new egg, pay you 50 bucks by a pretty normal power supply.

  • The thing is, with these types of computers, a lot of times they have like specifically built.

  • It's not really proprietary to say proprietary means like they own the design.

  • It's not really that they own the design theyjust designed in such a dumb ass way that you just can't buy generic knock offs of it.

  • And so essentially So instead of buying a $50 powers, apply on new egg, you buy 100 and $50 supply from Dell, but that pulls out the power supply for you.

  • We will now put that to the side.

  • And that's really about all you got with the case going on.

  • There is the if the fan.

  • So we have the case fan here that normally you're able to pull out.

  • I'm not sure if I should push my look at this point.

  • I've made myself look so incompetent today.

  • Um, does that work?

  • I'm not really sure.

  • Okay, so what's you pull that aereo okay.

  • And then we can pull the entire case fan out.

  • So again, So this is the type of thing.

  • So this, like, if you look at this, this looks like it's a proprietary fan, but in reality, it's a pretty generic fan that simply again gets put in this little cow.

  • So if this fan did fail or if you had an environment, maybe you needed faster fan or something.

  • You should be able to replace that.

  • If you wanted Thio, you put that to the side.

  • And really, really, at the end of the day, that's all you got.

  • Then you got the little case that's left over.

  • Um, and that's it.

  • So that is that is a gutted computer for you.

  • This is everything that goes on a computer.

  • And again, as I do all this, I'm pretty sure I'm pretty sure this will keep working even after I've I've ripped it apart.

  • So don't worry.

  • Like there's this this whole world, there is a world like this concern like, Oh, no, If I took any of this, it's never gonna work again.

  • Okay, let's let's be honest.

  • That is a possibility.

  • That's a possibility.

  • But as long as all of the stuff is fine again as long as all that, all the components are generally fine.

  • Even if you talk it even if you lick it, even if you do stupid things to it, it'll it'll be good.

  • It'll be good.

  • But they're ago.

  • That is that is a desktop PC completely 100% gutted for you.

  • So there we go.

  • That was the class on a desktop PC autopsy.

  • I do have to say there is just something viscerally satisfying about ripping apart a computer.

  • Just good.

  • Just kind of Get your hands in there and you pull the stuff apart.

  • Now, some people again, we're gonna be laughing.

  • A laughing a good old Eli the computer guy, say and see.

  • See, Eli doesn't really know what the hell he's doing.

  • Look at look at how much trouble he had a ripping apart that that desktop computer.

  • And I did think, to be honest with you, I did think I was like, you know, maybe I'll do a dry run of taking apart a desktop computer and then and then I'll do it a second time, right?

  • And then I'll do everything perfectly.

  • But what I dislike about that what I truly dislike about that is Look, I have 20 some odd years attack experience.

  • I mean, my my company, when I had it, we built I don't even know, like 1000 or Maur desktop computers.

  • We I mean, at one point we would have 50 computers, you know, waiting to be repaired at any one time.

  • And so even someone like me that's been dealing with this for years.

  • I swear to you, like ripping a particle, you really are like some of these things.

  • You're like, I don't understand.

  • I don't know.

  • I took out all the screws like right there is a screw.

  • There's a screw up.

  • Oh, I don't understand what I'm supposed to dio.

  • And I just want you folks to see that because especially when you're dealing with Dell and Lenovo or any of these manufacturers, they design all of their cases differently.

  • It's It's like not only is Lenovo different than Del different than HP, but even with the vendors, you know, the old Dell OptiPlex is air different than these new del.

  • Whatever the hell, this thing is, right and so literally.

  • When you go to crack it open, you'll be surprised how frustrated you get over.

  • I took out the screws to the power.

  • I don't it's Dad, Why won't come out and the important part and again, this is where I try to show you is like real trouble shooting routines and really, how you do it is what I've seen is a lot of new technicians will get frustrated, right?

  • If they can't figure out how to do the power supply, they won't knock on it a little bit.

  • They really will pull out the pliers and start ripping things out.

  • And I even had if I hadn't fire an employee once, um, employee was already having issues.

  • Ah.

  • Then I brought him in for doing retraining.

  • We're building.

  • We're building like these 10 computers and literally I went in there one day, and he was He was assembling the computers, but he started snapping off the screws in order to connect the mud, the motherboard to the case.

  • It was like the's screws don't work.

  • Oh, this is just ridiculous.

  • And I went over, I picked up and he had already snapped off, like five or six city screws.

  • I picked up the right size screw that was sitting on his workbench.

  • I put it in, I screwed it in the case and said, OK, well, we're gonna have to have our final conversation.

  • Um, and really, that would that was it.

  • That's at the end of the day.

  • What got him fired was, you know, communication skills with the customer.

  • You know, we can work on that.

  • A lot of things we could work on if you can.

  • If you can't take that extra few seconds to make sure what you're doing, make sure, like if you're if you feel like you're about to break something that you're not taking the extra few seconds to verify what you're doing, that's at the end of the day.

  • You got to go.

  • And so it's again.

  • That's what I'm trying to show you.

  • I really did.

  • This was the first time I pulled apart this computer.

  • So, as you can see, since I was pulling apart the entire computer anyway, when I got to the part with the power supply where I couldn't figure out how to get it out, that's where I kept moving.

  • I kept working.

  • I kept talking to your folks.

  • I pulled everything else out, and then I went back to the power supply so I could just look.

  • Just the power supply could focus on that.

  • And that's where I saw that little sweetie thing that doesn't look like a swishy thing again.

  • And that's what you find with designs so much.

  • It's so weird again with these big manufacturers, right?

  • You know, again, if they didn't put that little switch, anything in there find whatever, right?

  • But they designed that little push button, sweetie little thing.

  • But they did it.

  • Paint it.

  • They didn't color it in any way they did.

  • It did note that it existed.

  • So somebody took all the time and energy to design that.

  • And nobody took the time and energy just to put a little little little scrape of paint or something across it.

  • So you know that it's not, You know, it's something that you could work with, but anyways, that's why I did.

  • This is a one take a Senate.

  • Chile is just to show you what it's really like to rip apart these computers because again, you can have your m c.

  • S C.

  • You can You can be a smart as you like a computer guy, then still said, I want the power's off like I'm out and I'm looking like a moron right now.

  • And again, again, this isn't too bad.

  • This isn't too bad because I'm doing this and I'm looking like a moron in front of you folks, like, literally.

  • It's me.

  • I got my two Chihuahuas here.

  • Once I upload this all you folks will laugh.

  • Really?

  • This isn't too stressful again.

  • I look like a goofball, but it's no big deal.

  • What I want you are sent again when you talk about real stress.

  • Imagine that same type within when you're building out in, like, 100 bucks an hour.

  • You've got a CEO going.

  • I've paid you and you can't even figure out how to remove a power supply.

  • And you're like, But But I came here to set up your rowdy to remote access, sir, for the power supply.

  • Failed.

  • I'm just trying to be nice and I've gotta die, aren't I?

  • Ah, but, anyhoo, anyhoo, this was the video on Ah, on that's top PC autopsy as always.

  • I joy uh, I hope you enjoyed it.

  • I actually did enjoy this one.

  • This was kind of fun to Dio and I look forward to see what the next video.

  • I hope this video has been useful for you and you can use the information that I provided to go out and make the world a better place.

  • But please remember that I cannot pay my mortgage with passion.

  • It's true.

  • It's true.

  • I try to do it the other week, and they were not amused.

  • Here's a whole bunch of passion.

  • Can I pay my mortgage with this?

  • And I said No.

  • So if you want to support what I d'oh, whether it's the videos that I do for Eli the computer guy, the videos they do for failed normal or even the M Person meet up.

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