"It's never the CPU, until it is"

When I was on the test bench many moons ago the MOD and Post Office insisted on a 10g shake for 3 minutes before testing for acceptance started.

Satisfying sip of ☕ over the cpu.
"This works now.... 💦... Dang it!"  😅

Nice work! Good to see proper trouble isolation being performed.

My heart skipped a couple of beats when he started shaking that computer.

Good one. My gut instinct says it was most definitely the bad contact caused directly by the paste on the wrong side of the CPU.

That shaketest with one motherboard screw was brutal and hard to watch. 😱😅

Adam is shaking the pc
Hdd : wtf is going on xd

In out shake it all about!

That poor computer seems to have had a very rough life and the "shake test" is not not an improvement.

You are the Big Clive of computer repairs. Excellent content!

Louis Rossmann - uses a high-powered microscope and heat gun to gently move a chip a hair's width to reseat in on the solder balls. AdamantIT – let’s shake this computer to see if we can giggle anything lose.

As a sort of side note, those Hyper 212 coolers will experience a 30% higher cooling capacity when fitted with a second fan. If you can fit some form of ducting to keep the air going straight the way through the cooler that will also improve it's ability to cool the CPU. Doing both will increase the thermal handling by about half again as much.

Too-tightly screwed down CPU coolers can disable memory channels.

Same problem here with the original Hyper 212 Evo. I'm glad that they fixed it with later versions. Plus that mounting system was a pain in the arse.

I had this same problem after I installed my hyper 212 evo. This video helped a lot thank you

Another excellent, real-world trouble-shooting video typical for a repair process! Excellent work, Sir!

Excellent point on screw drivers.  Thank you.

If you'd like a demonstration in the Dunning-Kruger effect, here it is. Not only did the owner build it, but they also built it wrong. Then, they fully broke it to where it needs to be sent off for repair. Gets it back & fucks it up again. Whenever a repair shop thinks about giving you a loyalty card, you maybe need to consider a refresher course of PC building.

"I will repeat it for the people in the back" lol