Recent repairs ASUS X570-Plus
ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Plus — motherboard crystal / oscillator replacement
Component-level replacement of the crystal / oscillator on an ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Plus mainboard — a personal bench project, recorded on video.
Work performed
- Crystal / oscillator replacement
- SMD rework
- Kapton masking
- Flux + magnification
A personal bench project rather than a customer job: replacing the crystal / oscillator on my own ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Plus motherboard.
The work was done at the board level. The surrounding components were masked off with Kapton tape, flux was applied, and the area was worked under magnification with fine tools — as shown in the photos and the short clip above.
Recorded across two sessions on 19–20 August 2026 (from the recording file timestamps). This entry will be expanded with a fuller account of the fault and the result; nothing about the diagnosis or outcome is claimed here beyond what the footage shows.