Holy crap, it worked! Dead video card resurrected!

I can't believe this is on the front page of digg.

I have a dell inspirion 9300 with a 6800 ultra in it, its always produced crazy lines accross the screen, think it might work if i oven it? and should i just remove the graphics card from the mobo or do the whole mobo?

I think I might try this today on a Shuttle SN95G5 mobo cause one of my dimm slots stopped working and i might be a broken solder connection causing it

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Preheating oven now @_@ Hope I don't turn a partially working SN95G5 mobo with 1 dead dimm slot into a dead SN95G5 mobo @_@

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Baking the mobo now @_@

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Baking done, letting it cool down with the door still closed for the next 30mins to an hour.

@ Hyuukai: I think that should help, usually artifacts are bad memory, too high of an OC or bad solder points. I would just pull the GPU and put it in the oven rather than the entire board.

I worked for a company that actually did this everyday in order to fix mobos. You'd be surprised, it works quite well, don't knock it, its been proven time and time again to have a pretty good success rate.

I guess it wouldn't hurt to try this on my old x1900xtx All in Wonder card. Darn thing all of a sudden stopped working two years ago.

I wonder how many people from [H] are now baking their video cards....

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!

Common sense!!! We need more of that.

Originally Posted by Glyphic

I worked for a company that actually did this everyday in order to fix mobos. You'd be surprised, it works quite well, don't knock it, its been proven time and time again to have a pretty good success rate.

Yeah no doubt that it is working (got two 8800gt freshly baked) but for how long?

edit: both 8800gt work fine! 485f for 8 minutes.

I have a dell 6000 from my bro-in-law that doesnt work. Into the oven the mobo goes...I found a small resistor? laying in there during disassembly. Good thing they give you so many! I cant remove all gpu, etc chips, so in they go...oven preheating as I type this.

Originally Posted by Hard and Confused

I think I might try this today on a Shuttle SN95G5 mobo cause one of my dimm slots stopped working and i might be a broken solder connection causing it

===EDIT===

Preheating oven now @_@ Hope I don't turn a partially working SN95G5 mobo with 1 dead dimm slot into a dead SN95G5 mobo @_@

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Baking the mobo now @_@

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Baking done, letting it cool down with the door still closed for the next 30mins to an hour.

Can't wait to see the results

This is pretty awesome , I love the nay saying about how the oven isn't doing anything because its not hot enough to make solder flow ..yet the card is working proof :P

Great story. Very [H]

Originally Posted by Hard and Confused

Preheating oven now @_@ Hope I don't turn a partially working SN95G5 mobo with 1 dead dimm slot into a dead SN95G5 mobo @_@

Baking the mobo now @_@

===EDIT===

Baking done, letting it cool down with the door still closed for the next 30mins to an hour.

Who told you to leave it in the oven to "cool down"?
There is a reason why many have said between 5-9min. Because leaving it in the oven longer melts everything. You do know your oven will stay freaking hot for a long time after you turn it off right. Its not a microwave oven that shuts off when the timer goes.
I hope it goes well for you, but me thinks you haven't spent much time around an oven.

8800GT ZMB

These things never rest.

i have a nearly dead 6800gt card that i used on my old p4 system. it was getting blue and green artifacts all over the screen even before getting into windows. if i can get that thing up and running, i'll have a spare computer to use for lanning some old games.

i'll let you all know if it works

I wish I didn't RMA my 7900gt =( I want to try this!

Originally Posted by funkydmunky

Who told you to leave it in the oven to "cool down"?
There is a reason why many have said between 5-9min. Because leaving it in the oven longer melts everything. You do know your oven will stay freaking hot for a long time after you turn it off right. Its not a microwave oven that shuts off when the timer goes.
I hope it goes well for you, but me thinks you haven't spent much time around an oven.

i agree, i dont think leaving it in the oven with the door closed after that long is a very good idea...

i hope your motherboard survived Hard and Confused...if it didnt, take pics!

Hey can someone give me some advice on a laptop motherboard.
My old compaq 14in laptop started just instantly shuting down. If you twist the laptop you can then turn it on. if you lay it on a solid table it will work I have torn it down and looked for anything obvious but cant see anything.

So I have written this laptop off as dead about six months ago didnt even put it back together after the last episode with it.

So should I due it at the same temp? same time? or what you guys think.

I will take some pics and post if you think its worth a try.

Originally Posted by hstuehmeyer2000

Also, I just stuck a bad stick of RAM in the oven, lets see what happens!

Any luck with that? I might give it a try.

Now HardOCP can throw bake sales!