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.
Man I’m really curious if something comes up. Over here in my country, the channels that are trending most are car mechanics channel doing deep dives into engines and chassis and fixing the customer cars. And they are rightfully popular. You learn a lot from them and the professionalism of the mechanics are just great to watch. Wonder if something if this sort exists for computers as well.
If that is what you’re looking for then I’d recommend watching multiple PC build videos, but not some few-minute montage ones. Paul’s Hardware, for example, will, from time to time, do something along these lines where he goes right into installing the OS. Hardware Unboxed sometimes and even Optimum Tech will occasionally do this, too. But in the case of the latter even he can get a little too montage’y at times. These videos usually provide discussion into why parts were chosen, etc. That’s about as deep-dive as a normal user needs and should give them the foundation they need for using observation to help diagnose things by elimination and/or isolation.
Anything more detailed is what long form reviews and architecture explainers are for when a processor or graphics card comes out. But after that is usually to the Reddit-mines to look for anybody talking about specific problems with a specific thing and/or it’s firmware/software at a given time, unfortunately. Too many devices from too many manufacturers with too many things that can individually go wrong.
There’s a chance you may already be seeing/reading these things you seek, but aren’t quite recognizing them for what they are. Of course like car repair (and the modification/performance scene), though, professionalism will vary.