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Legit channels for "Fixing a Viewer's PC" type of videos (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I can't seem to find similar opinions out there so I am feeling like this belongs more in r/aita but are does anyone have a good channel on YouTube for people who teach others how to fix PCs? Everything popping into my algorithm results are just people who guess and swap parts.

"PC won't turn on? Swap the Motherboard, CPU, Case, Power Supply, and CPU cooler (so only really keeping the SSD and RAM)!" This mentality doesn't teach newer generation of PC enthusiasts much and gives the impression that taking care of issues themselves is costly.

The "Fixing a Viewer's Broken PC" string of videos by Greg Salazar are exactly what I am talking about as not being helpful. I've never once heard him mention an Event Log or do any investigation.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

"PC won't turn on? Swap the Motherboard, CPU, Case, Power Supply, and CPU cooler (so only really keeping the SSD and RAM)!" This mentality doesn't teach newer generation of PC enthusiasts much and gives the impression that taking care of issues themselves is costly.

Well it can be costly, yes. People, wrongly, state that building a PC is like Lego for adults or some such nonsense while completely ignoring the miserable reality of the software running on the machine or that a percentage of hardware released out into the wild is expected to fail by the manufacturer. One's Lego model doesn't suddenly stop working one day.

I've been using/building PC's for almost 3 decades now and I'd not wish a person to have to just blinding build, operate, and/or repair a PC (or Mac) without knowing someone who could help them who is literally near by or a phone call away. It's just not realistic for most of society. So I see little profitability in going through all of the steps and commitment one has to make to run a successful, profitable YouTube channel on the subject.

Hell, even a YouTube series on how to properly search for information (or how to phrase one's question about their problem) on Google and Reddit would be better, in my opinion, than a rando doing "PC repair basics!" on YouTube alone. But even the latter is the most I would expect. Beyond that it seems to go right to KrisFix or Louis Rossman, doesn't it?

Besides, all one can really rely on is generic observation, testing (regardless of method), repair attempt, and confirmation that the problem is gone like any trade school teaches for any repair trade/profession.

There is just no tablet of commandments for PC repair because each person has different knowledge and tools/parts available to them. This also is completely ignoring the cost of tools used to do a repair/build. I know everyone is like "you just need a Phillips screw driver!" (to strawman like you have in the quote), most of the time, but that's not what my work bench looks like after I finish a build or do a repair sometimes. A screwdriver is sometimes a few hundred short of the tools and other things I end up using be they pen magnets, zip ties, a Dremel, or a even a known-good PSU (with known good cables!).