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this is one sad man he was just one week

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outside of the three-year warranty period for his monitor when this

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happened yeah look at that the panel seems to be fine but there's something

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going on in the brains of this little guy that's causing it to power cycle all

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day long now he could just go out and buy a new one but that's going to cost

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about 300 US Dollars and besides

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this one's already broken what's the worst that could happen if we tried to

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fix it oh

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I mean it's already broken maybe right

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was just power cycling I woke up in the morning it would just do this for a

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while it would do the whole logo at first right and then it kept getting

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worse and worse and worse I just turn it off unplug it plug it back in hey it

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would work I did that for about a week okay so then what you're telling me is

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that you're a week out of warranty and you knew about this for a week before

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you contacted anyone some of you that actually just

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uh yeah cool always consult a doctor as soon as

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your symptoms develop friends well one way or another you're out of warranty

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now which means we need to fix it ourselves now in a perfect world we'd

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get replacement parts directly from the manufacturer but unfortunately ASUS like

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many other manufacturers doesn't really stock replacement parts for their older

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devices so it's off to eBay

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pick click yeah pick click that's great

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where we're going to run into another ASUS problem this is super cool the just

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the density of these results is amazing yeah don't you hate searching through

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eBay and you got to sort through all the parts like yeah it takes forever to find

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the thing you actually want a valve index uh clip uh Cable cable

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clip I need a cable clip I lost my cable clip for my index genuine OEM valve

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index cable clip replacement for back of headset that's the one I need wow the

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system works oh it opens in a new tab oh because of course it does because it's a

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really well designed web so they know you're going to want to click like five tabs of these things

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this is kind of awesome all right anyway Let's uh actually get back to your

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monitor but it doesn't save us from that

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ASUS problem I mentioned some of their products uh laptops for instance have

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part numbers that differ only by the last couple of characters to indicate a

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different internal configuration but for the same model of product

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for monitors on the other hand we've got results for the vg27aq that's what we

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have and also the vg278q1a which is a completely different

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product if we bought a replacement board from that one and tried to put it in

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here that would not work so even if ASUS

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support can't sell you a replacement part I would suggest contacting them for

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some guidance to ensure you don't order the wrong thing for our part though we

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managed to find this replacement board for really 50 bucks shipped

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yeah not bad there's some other ones on here that are like 112 So I think we

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actually saved a bit of money yeah that's awesome I mean it's used so who

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knows how long it's going to last but personally for that price I'd rather

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take my chances than wait the months that ASUS quoted us to get a new part

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yeah really it came packed like this yep

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used parts I really hope this works

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anyway this should be everything we need a main board with low voltage

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differential signaling speakers and oh I

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guess there's the daughter board for the joystick controller at the front of the

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monitor as well so you've got everything there yeah yeah it's basically a full replacement

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because I don't know which part exactly in the chain is busted so we just got it

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all okay well let's crack open the existing monitor

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from the back where there's like no protective anything to hey look at this

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this looks kind of like the same size as this okay I couldn't help noticing this

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is quite is that is that how this was taped in here yeah

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huh that's a monitor for you you know it's a little less impressive when you

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look at the inside hey wait no no it's actually like this yeah it's actually

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like this we did open it up to take a

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look at it and everything so it has been opened before but yes it was

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legitimately mounted with tape like this angle yeah

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yeah okay because I've opened a fair number of monitors in the past I've

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never seen one that was mounted at an angle sometimes they look a little

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better than this yeah but it's at an angle for the rest of the case right you

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see how these two HDMI ports here

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they're at an angle on this side or this side I can't remember but yeah exactly

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because we got to replace all these ribbon cables

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oh uh oh we only have three second yeah

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we only got three ribbon cables well I really oh they're labeled okay so cn1 I

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have two two and this is three so hopefully cn4 Works yep I sure hope it

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does that that's a lot of ribbons between the main board and the panel I

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don't think I've seen that many before 1440p 165hz right yeah it does do HDR

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but I'm pretty sure it's just single panel uh you know there's no actual full

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array local dimming so I'm not sure why it's got so many ribbon cables are we

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even going to bother replacing the joystick in the menu buttons I don't think so it's it's probably fine without

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it yeah let's do it you know let's do everything else see if it works if it

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doesn't then hey we know what the problem is I see some manufacturing

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schmoo on here but there's nothing that's obviously just shorted or popped

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or anything like that the new one looks cleaner which is nice I guess but that

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also has manufacturing yeah not as much though now this is interesting you're

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getting a new revision of the board oh you're getting rev a11 instead of a00

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that's a huge upgrade is it

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I don't know do we know that this new board works

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even uh not yet okay so it could be more

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broken than it was to start with you never know

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neat we should probably replace this guy too really what does that guy do uh I

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don't know maybe probably power supply yeah and you know what if it's power cycling I'm kind of concerned that it's

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part of the power supply is the issue okay what's going on here because the DC

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in comes in on this board but I don't see anything resembling a power supply

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yeah and it doesn't connect uh connect to this guy I mean it's got this cable

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here like way over here why don't we do one thing one thing on why don't we figure out what the actual problem was

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why don't we just try a new power supply to start okay

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so original board dupe you're not gonna short the board

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out or anything yeah don't worry about it I mean but it's what it's going to get more dead

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okay Power if it breaks at this point

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this is on you hold on hold on no no you

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were here supervising ah it was your responsibility to stop me yeah but this

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was your idea yeah it's uh no it's still flickering okay still power cycling

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let's replace Parts one at a time then okay I kind of like the idea of trying

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this new power supply here yeah if there's anything that has failed

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it's my money is on the power supply

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um just because it's a weird power cycling thing it's not like I suddenly

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lost you know an input or it just

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doesn't do the OSD navigation or anything like that so and if there's

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anything that I've learned in all my years doing this it's that if a problem

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is unpredictable or uh flaky yeah it's

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RAM or power supply yeah and this

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doesn't have RAM so ready to try this yeah okay and Power

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no still wrecked let me yeah it just

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power cycled a couple times yeah all right well it was worth at least

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exploring because think about it this way even if we weren't able to buy one

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individual part for our repair if we determined that hey it was only the

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power supply that was dead you can resell this and maybe recoup

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some of our costs well yeah but

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yeah off my cost yeah yeah exactly that's what I'm saying and that and I

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suspect you could get more than 20 bucks for this just because it's a standalone

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part good luck looking for it yeah exactly and it's the main part yes your

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board after we've done this if it's still

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messed up then maybe it is a cable oh yeah I guess that's true not a loose

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connection but maybe one of them is just shorting out for whatever reason yeah

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just bad because that's the other thing that often goes wrong if it's not RAM or

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power supply we spend like an hour and a half troubleshooting uh busted cable

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I can't wait until we make our own cables oh yeah like yeah that's that's

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happened to me at least like two or three times on different videos so I

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can't imagine how many other times this happened to other people too oops so

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that's the new power supply Pro tip

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put a little Sharpie Mark oh yeah or just you know put them somewhere

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completely different from the space where you're working just mark them yeah

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I press the button nothing's happening really

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it's not power cycling or anything uh you made it more dead

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no that's not possible but it's gonna get more dead did you put the old power

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supply in yeah okay look I gotta try stuff at this point

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yeah I mean maybe we maybe we had it switched

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switch the cables out maybe you broke one of the ribbon cables with all the

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finagling as possible it's possible I really don't

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think so don't worry very confident right now uh I'm trouble getting that in

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there no no no okay highly highly

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confident right now he's gonna be like the camera fixing video no

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nothing will ever be like that again

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yeah luckily we're not trying to bake anything in the oven you must bring up every one of my past

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failures who do you think you are my wife

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here we go big moment

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pretty cool um

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we've done a full replace

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you guys saw everything okay you know what okay here's what

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we're gonna do we're gonna replace literally we're gonna we're gonna go back to the original board for a second

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here God hold on hold on we're gonna see if it power Cycles sure because then we

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know whether it's the board or something or maybe it's maybe it's the

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installation maybe I got some of those funky cables kind of mixed around or

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something I'll take this off please tell me it at least power Cycles please

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so it's not doing anything are you kidding okay is this plugged in I

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checked that earlier that was one of the first things I looked at the squid

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should still be on we can change it to a different port if you want it's going

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right here no I believe you but like yeah we haven't done anything just

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us okay what I don't know I don't

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understand I don't either man what is even the purpose of this channel hey you

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should DIY repair your stuff don't worry it's really easy oh my God

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it's lighting up okay lights up

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those old board yeah it's power cycling okay

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yeah it's power cycling for sure okay

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we're back where we started hell yeah

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should we just try it again yeah

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oh we got light this time full disclosure we went through a whole thing

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with this thing where it seems dead

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um we were not getting a light oh I got an OSD input selection wait

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really yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah you wanna look

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why so we've got the new power supply the new board yep and we're good yeah

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it's yeah we should probably plug in HDMI okay to make sure it fully works I

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am not letting myself believe that this is actually fixed yet but I know I don't

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seem I don't seem very excited right now

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100 percent 100 and now what we just

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tape this yeah we do yeah this is

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bizarre this is where the vase amount goes into it's not screwed on

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I gotta put Gap tape over top of that just for some added rigidity

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great but Gaff tape is going to do anything you know it takes a gooey tape

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probably not but it makes me feel slightly more comfortable

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slightly while he's putting that together why don't we talk about one of

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the jargony terms that I was throwing around earlier I said this is an lvds

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board lvds stands for low voltage differential signaling and it's a

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communication standard that's created to help deal with electromagnetic interference or emi emi can degrade the

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signal to the point of malfunctioning so this lvds is typically used in computer

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buses and video data transfer including

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on LCD displays there are a few reasons that it's used over other signaling

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standards it provides a more scalable approach to voltage easily adapting to

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small Supply voltages while maintaining signal Integrity the voltage compliance

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is doubled because it's not limited to a single ended output and the output

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current remains constant which simplifies design and reduces overall

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cost which as we know is I pretty much

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everything is designed to the way that it is that's why we assembled it with

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tape

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speakers even if they weren't I don't need the speakers all that much oh you

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listed it up before I hit it no no you got to put it down when you hit it

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yeah yeah okay

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he's not stressed look at him you can tell he's not stressed now hold on a

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second you already replaced this thing did I just refurbish it so that you can

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sell it no I'm not gonna sell it I'm gonna use it I've currently got a little

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24 inch 1080p 60 monitor for keyboard streams for monitoring chat and stuff

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and um you're going to use

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144hz gaming monitor for monitoring chat yeah

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I'll put a vertical you know how much you're making everyone's brain hurt right now right why by holding like this

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no by using this to monitor chat

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you know it's gonna look really good Starving Children could have eaten this game well that's true you know what

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maybe at the very least I'll sell the old 1080p 60 that it's going to replace

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for basically free I'll give it away to somebody look at that it works does it

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yeah are you sure okay plug-in a it does incredible

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there you go Jesus we found it incredible at last

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they don't have to search anymore I I'm never gonna get tired of that joke

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