Cooked Graphics Card :P

[Pharaxes]

Lol,

A mate and me had our 8800 GTX cards both die 2 months ago, (screen was artifacting at post and wouldnt boot into windows or even recognise a card at all) when we came across a thread with a supposed fix... apparently cooking it in the oven at 200deg for 8 minutes fixed alot of UK cards.

Well, the card being dead already what did I have to lose?? what the hell, I removed all the heatsinks and exterior casing and cooked the PCB, propped up on a cookie tray for 8 min at 200deg.

and OMFG it actually works, seems that flash heating the solder like that melts it and causes it to re-seal any micro fissures due to overheating/age.

So now i have a working 8800GTX again still going strong after a week, I wish I had known this before I went out and bought a GTX 295 :P.

Just thought I'd let you know in case anyone has any dead cards. They may just live to see another day

-Paddo

[chicaboo]

I had a bricked a 7950GT I would've liked to try that with. :(

Gav.

[Pharaxes]

lame

Its pretty funny, apparently the price of busted cards has gone up 50% on ebay :P

-Paddo

[chicaboo]

Are motherboards too delicate to do this with? Not that you can kill it a 2nd time if it doesn't work...

Gav.

[70NYD]

hahaha gav awesome idea :p
i know old xboxes had shorting problems with the mother boards, so a quickfix solution was to wack it against the table gently 3 times and whatever was out of place falls back in sort of thing :p

[zappy65]

Wouldn't want to cook the Northbridge too much....lol

[DavoAust]

Wouldn't want to cook the Northbridge too much....lol

if the GPU can survive that the northbridge should be able to. i'd be more worried about all the extra plastic bits on a motherboard

[Pharaxes]

I've heard of it being done with mobo's aswell, just make sure you pull of everything that you can. The plastic power connections on the GTX were fine, DVI ports were a bit brown when it came out, but that may have been how it went in.

[Ice88]

Caps are the issue for motherboards :)

[Frankie17]

Not sure about cooking Mobo's or GPU's. But I always freeze my HDD's when they die on me before i try to recover data, i've mad much success with that in the past, don't ask me why, I just heard they do it in the seagate labs so i gave it a shot. Worked like a charm.With this 1 particular HDD which i couldn't recover anything from.

[Ice88]

Its to do with the platters IIRC and the magnetics of it all.

Theres also the effect it has on the head too ofc. :)