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Can I Fix This BROKEN eBay Gaming PC?

Dawid Does Tech Stuff

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I bought a broken Acer Predator gaming PC from eBay for way too much money...

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20 Comments

@DawidDoesTechStuff Creator 2 years ago Pinned

For everyone whose day I clearly ruined by not checking the CMOS. This morning I reset the CMOS and tested the motherboard with a different CPU, PSU, RAM and GPU. The motherboard is in fact still not working.
Also, I know Predator is an Acer sub brand. My holiday brain just misspoke.
Thanks for watching, bye!

@cnvdh3514 3 months ago (edited)

A 512gb ssd for 40 bucks? The good ole days

@FistsOfHam 2 years ago

In today's video Dawid refuses to admit that he has an Acer PC by repeatedly calling it an HP to try and shame it into working.

@yaldabaoth2 2 years ago

Imagine how wild global economy has to be that a PC assembled for a tournament in Germany ends up broken and sold in Canada.

@CaveyMoth 2 years ago (edited)

This PC is more broke than me.

Maybe the IceTunnel froze it.

@JustSomeDinosaurPerson 2 years ago

Broken PCs used to be so cheap and were an awesome bargain deal for savvy starters. Now they are almost as expensive as intro builds themselves. What a joke.

@AleCuostea 2 years ago

As a Romanian I can say that 13 year old Romanian kids do not buy broken prebuilds, they do way worse.

@toaster98 2 years ago

PC clearly has Acer written all over it.
Dawid: Calls it HP 😂

@JokaGaming2K10 2 years ago (edited)

9:40 No way!! A Samsung Galaxy Z Fold SSD!!

@Gizmosis_ 2 years ago (edited)

"Prostate shattering pile of crap" almost had me spit out my morning coffee 😂

@douglasgudenkauf1952 2 years ago

As a Semi-Pro Seige player, seeing that background, I can confirm that, the pc u have is very likely to have been in the berlin major, we had a "major" around the same time and we were using hand me downs from a pro league and this system looks almost identical (ours used 3060's) and that wallpaper was only ever used during the major. I am VERY jealous

@Davani-b3q 1 year ago

0:10 as a representative of Romania's population, that is on point

@wews2047 2 years ago (edited)

For troubleshooting: Buying motherboard speaker beeper helps me a lot.

@akr4s1a 2 years ago (edited)

I worked at ubi MTL during the summer of 2022 and I can absolutely confirm that Acer Predator were the PC sponsor of the Berlin Major. I remember seeing that exact case on the platform / stage thing that the players competed on so it absolutely could be a PC from that tournament, not sure if they did co-branded sales including the wallpaper or not.

@patchwrk 2 years ago

I'm very curious why every tech YouTuber seems to have forgotten that almost all motherboards still have beep codes for troubleshooting, and the PC speakers, with the slide-on connector, are like $5 for a pack of three on Amazon. Am I just that old, and this is forgotten magic of eons long past?

@Zentrox2121 2 years ago (edited)

0:13
Dawid definitely got his wallet stole by a Romanian.

@mihai_700-x1v 2 years ago

00:10 ...the fact that my country is mostly known for scams is amazing

@memelord_699 2 years ago

The surgical process is so well practised now that it makes me wonder if there is a parallel universe where Dawid is a famous heart surgeon. Losing scalpels in the endless abyss of some guys open heart surgery.

@CantankerousDave 2 years ago

I dunno, I’ve always thought that bad PSUs give you all kinds of weird, seemingly unrelated symptoms. They do more than just go pop and release the magic blue smoke.