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**CruisD64** · #**381** 06-13-2009, 05:09 PM

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Originally Posted by akashi_tm

Oh yea.. many years ago. Didn't want to get in any copyright thing. Are we being off topic? >_>

No

I'm just a musician as well. www.giantbeats.com . I just started this page and I have hundreds of beats and it will be updated periodically.

**Alvein** · #**382** 06-13-2009, 06:25 PM

Wait a sec, don't the female connectors melt with that?

**LOCO LAPTOP** · #**383** 06-13-2009, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Alvein

Wait a sec, don't the female connectors melt with that?

nope. I was afraid of that at first.

**shawnoen** · #**384** 06-13-2009, 08:47 PM

Wow, wish I'd known to try this before I threw my old card out!

**trainwreck** · #**385** 06-13-2009, 09:23 PM

My GF gt6600 card didn't revive itself but It still works fine in a workstation just no heavy graphics.
I have a dead GF4200 agp that I roasted be have no way of testing!!!
Compaq Laptop mobo seemed to cook fine but a cap moved. I will resolder just that cap and give it a try later

**Mega666** · #**386** 06-13-2009, 09:31 PM

This is the funniest ***@! Everyone is baking all sorts of crap now. haha!

**shawnoen** · #**387** 06-13-2009, 10:01 PM

Wonder if I can bake my Xbox 360 and fix that? :-)

**Cschill1290** · #**388** 06-13-2009, 10:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Kyle_Bennett

Hey, the card was dead, who gives a shit about the method. Kudos to you Haste. Take pictures next time!

Absolutely. Why not? I'm sure the OP is not the only one on [H] to try something extreme on a computer component.

**g0dM@n** · #**389** 06-14-2009, 02:39 AM

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Originally Posted by akashi_tm

I've done it too for my half-dead video card that kept giving a No signal input after a few seconds of starting the machine. It worked wonders and now I can stick with it until I upgrade to a new system that I wanted to do anyway in a few months... BUT NOT NOW.

Here's a *short* video I made if anyone wants to see the process: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7jUqoKVY-k

I thought I was supposed to have my pants down while watching the video... only to find out it was just about a video card.

**akashi_tm** · #**390** 06-14-2009, 05:35 AM

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Originally Posted by g0dM@n

I thought I was supposed to have my pants down while watching the video... only to find out it was just about a video card.

lol

**Acubens** · #**391** 06-14-2009, 09:59 PM

After reading all the success stories I decided to bake a couple of non-functioning video cards. First one was a 3dFx V5 5500 PCI that had no signs of life. Second was a Geforce 4 Ti4400 that had severe artifacting even in the BIOS screens. I baked them one at a time in a small toaster/oven at 385 degrees for 9 minutes.

The V5 still did not work after baking, but it did give me a POST video error beep that it did not do before. The Ti4400 however, seems to work great with no artifacting at all in the BIOS or OS after running for more than 3 hours!

I have not tried this technique on a motherboard yet, but did fix one of my old Socket A boards by replacing swollen caps around the CPU socket.

Thanks Haste266 for a great thread.

**Paragon** · #**392** 06-15-2009, 01:25 AM

Wow.. this actually worked. I had a 9800Pro that had an an artifact filled screen. Happened middle of last year. I pulled it out the other day and still was borked.
I was searching to find card comparisons on what is out these days (I am so lost when it comes to comp hardware.. so out of the loop) and happened to find this post and tried the oven trick and wouldn't ya know it. I am using the card at this very moment with an image as clear as it used to be. No more need for the geforce2 card for now.
Will see how long it lasts.

Thanks for the post!

**e-geek** · #**393** 06-15-2009, 08:22 AM

Now try running Ati tool torture test on your "baked" card and see how long it lasts....

I know mine fails after about 3s lol, still no graphic anomalies in games.

**Paragon** · #**394** 06-15-2009, 09:33 AM

The artifact tester under Overclocking? Seems to run fine at stock.

**g0dM@n** · #**395** 06-15-2009, 06:18 PM

Tried to bake a biostar tforce 550 that wouldn't post... it didn't work. Throwing the board out once and for all.

First time I did only 4-5 min at 385F b/c I saw smoke and wasn't sure what was burning. Second time I tried I forgot to pull off the motherboard bracket (1st time I had it off)... the bracket melted a bit and bent, which would not have been a good thing if the board worked... b/c I would have had to replace it. It was too badly altered from its original shape.

Anyway, it was fun trying.

**ibex333** · #**396** 06-17-2009, 01:46 PM

OMG! It worked! My 8800GTS 640mb recently started crashing my PC like crazy and I got blue lines running across my screen with distorted visuals and characters even during POST. Well some dude on AT linked me here, I followed the guide and VOILA! Card works like new! Thank you sooo much! you, or whoever thought of this 1st is the craziest, sickest, haxxor alive.

** I took pictures during the whole process so they are available upon request if anyone needs a reference to their 8800GTS 640mb from EVGA.

Question for you guys. Anyone tried overclocking their cards after the bake? I'm hesitant to do so, because I'm extremely happy this thing even works, so I'm not sure I want to push my luck until I'm ready to buy a new card.

**CruisD64** · #**397** 06-17-2009, 02:40 PM

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Originally Posted by ibex333

Question for you guys. Anyone tried overclocking their cards after the bake? I'm hesitant to do so, because I'm extremely happy this thing even works, so I'm not sure I want to push my luck until I'm ready to buy a new card.

If it fails, just do it again!

**Blazestorm** · #**398** 06-17-2009, 02:45 PM

Yea, I did it to a 9800Gt... I tried overclocking and got artifacts / BSOD... so I left it at stock and it's been running fine... friend has been using it for the past few weeks and said he's only had CoD4 crash once...

But it's better then nothing...

**benbrooks** · #**399** 06-17-2009, 02:50 PM

I saw this when it got Dugg a while back, About a week before this thread started, my 8800GTX developed "faulty vram" apparently. Anyways, I saw this but was hesitant to do this to my only card.

Since then I have had a GTX 260 and I felt that today was the day I was going to try this.

To my suprise, it worked! My oven is a gas one however, so with that in my mind. I baked my video card for 6 minutes at gas mark 5.5

Some nice pics for you!

**Haste266** · #**400** 06-17-2009, 03:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ibex333

OMG! It worked! My 8800GTS 640mb recently started crashing my PC like crazy and I got blue lines running across my screen with distorted visuals and characters even during POST. Well some dude on AT linked me here, I followed the guide and VOILA! Card works like new! Thank you sooo much! you, or whoever thought of this 1st is the craziest, sickest, haxxor alive.

** I took pictures during the whole process so they are available upon request if anyone needs a reference to their 8800GTS 640mb from EVGA.

Question for you guys. Anyone tried overclocking their cards after the bake? I'm hesitant to do so, because I'm extremely happy this thing even works, so I'm not sure I want to push my luck until I'm ready to buy a new card.

Quote:

Originally Posted by benbrooks

I saw this when it got Dugg a while back, About a week before this thread started, my 8800GTX developed "faulty vram" apparently. Anyways, I saw this but was hesitant to do this to my only card.

Since then I have had a GTX 260 and I felt that today was the day I was going to try this.

To my suprise, it worked! My oven is a gas one however, so with that in my mind. I baked my video card for 6 minutes at gas mark 5.5

Some nice pics for you!

^

awesome!

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