Holy crap, it worked! Dead video card resurrected!

Hey !

Im new at Hardforum...

I have 2 cards.

One is a MSI 8800GTX OC

And the other is a x1650PRO 512mb ddr2


Thing is, the 8800GTX was ¨working¨ fine for a lot of time, sometimes i had like some weird black and white micro lines on screen when i was playing or when i finished playing, at desktop, and the card just locked up. So i restart the system and the problem was out. All fine again.

Yesterday, it started to artifacts even more at BIOS, like weird characters, red, blue, yellow rectangles... and at OS selection is like a lot of lines , kinda some channel that is not well tuned.

Now the artifacts dont go away... doesnt matter if i turn off the pc and on like in the past.

Other new symptom is that sometimes when i turn on the pc the vga cooler spins a lot and there is no vga signal, and sometimes spins a lot and calms down and i get signal, but with the mentioned artifacts, wtf is going on with this one???

So , i tried the oven system , i used the same aluminium... i sitted the vga at the second ¨floor¨ inside the oven, the highest part.

I dont know exactly what temp is my oven since it doesnt say it.

But when you people says 385F you mean 196 Celsius right?

I guess i did the method only at 90, 110 C tops... so the card was hot after 10 mins yes, but the artifacts still comes out, the same, nothing changed.

When the vga is connected i touch the Memory controller , is a little chip in the back of the vga, and the screen goes nuts, i guess is that part that needs better soldering am i right?


I will try at way more celsius to see what happens.



The X1650PRO in the other hand, i used a bit more hot i guess because i tried it after the 8800GTX, that card was DEAD, no video, no nothing. And it worked for 5 mins... DAMN!

i have no luck...


then i guess i should try more celsius.... right? thanks in advance.

I'm about to try this on my "oxidized" Gigabyte motherboard. Does anybody have any tips for me? I'm highly doubting this will work since it's not a solder/joint problem... but ya never know.

I think I might try 420 degrees for 5 min. Let's see how that works...

The thread has gotten so large, has anyone tried it on a laptop? I saw some mentions of it but dunno if anyone was successful doing it. I imagine depending on the model it may be more/less complicated to disassemble it to the point where you can yank the bare mobo out of the chassis, but still... I've got a friend's dead laptop (video suddenly flipped out one day during video playback and it wouldn't turn on afterward) that's out of warranty, might as well try if there's a glimmer of hope.

It's very plausible it had similar issues as some of the cards mentioned in this thread as it had other weird issues before it died, a non-working USB port and a WiFi adapter that randomly disappeared from Device Manager for instance.

i am going to bake my gateway 7322gz board and see if it will fix it if it dont oo well but its worth a try

Originally Posted by Impulse

The thread has gotten so large, has anyone tried it on a laptop? I saw some mentions of it but dunno if anyone was successful doing it. I imagine depending on the model it may be more/less complicated to disassemble it to the point where you can yank the bare mobo out of the chassis, but still... I've got a friend's dead laptop (video suddenly flipped out one day during video playback and it wouldn't turn on afterward) that's out of warranty, might as well try if there's a glimmer of hope.

It's very plausible it had similar issues as some of the cards mentioned in this thread as it had other weird issues before it died, a non-working USB port and a WiFi adapter that randomly disappeared from Device Manager for instance.

http://www.hardforum.com/showpost.ph...&postcount=315

Has anyone tried this with a RedBaron Pizza? I have one in my freezer, and I wanna see if this will do the trick

Does anybody know if this is bad to breathe in? I just tried this and it's giving off a bit of a smell.

It's not good, but I don't think it's harmful... someone mentioned because all these cards are ROHS compliant that they can't have anything harmful. (Lead-free solder is commonly used, even those it's an inferior quality and probably the reason a lot more electronics today are failing.)

Originally Posted by bluehash

http://www.hardforum.com/showpost.ph...&postcount=315

Cool, thanks, I think I had actually read that post but forgot all about it... Guess we'll get to tearing my friend's HP laptop apart sometime soon, he's probably only gonna use it at his apartment from now on anyway (since he bought a netbook to take to work) so it shouldn't be to stressful.

Well, I baked a broken Gigabyte 965P DS3. 380F for 8 minutes.

I booted it up and it POSTed the first time. I got into the BIOS for a minute then it froze. After that it wouldn't POST.

Why hasn't Fudzilla or Inq picked this up yet?

Originally Posted by TS28

Has anyone tried this with a RedBaron Pizza? I have one in my freezer, and I wanna see if this will do the trick

I think it should work, just be sure to keep a close eye on it. lol

This also brought my x1650 back to life. Very Pumped!!!!

I wish I didn't send my DFI Mobo back for an RMA so quickly. I could of tried this

I also wish I didn't toss my artifacting FX5500 (shit card i know, but it would of been useful in my PCI only backup rig lol)

I've removed the heatsink and fan. Do I need to clean the old epoxy or grease off before doing the baking? If I do.. I have no epoxy to reapply.. but I do have heatsink grease for cpu's. Would that work or is the HSF not attached well enough for that?

Originally Posted by OrAnGe

I've removed the heatsink and fan. Do I need to clean the old epoxy or grease off before doing the baking? If I do.. I have no epoxy to reapply.. but I do have heatsink grease for cpu's. Would that work or is the HSF not attached well enough for that?

Remove it. And when you put the heatsink back on, put the CPU grease on (as long as it isn't AS5

definitely remove the TIM(paste, grease) from the part you are baking. you want it completely stripped as much as possible. down to a bare minimum.

the closer u can get the card/part the way it was initially done in the first place, the better...

I see a lot more g80/g92 cards for sale on various forums now. lol.

Originally Posted by Haste266

definitely remove the TIM(paste, grease) from the part you are baking. you want it completely stripped as much as possible. down to a bare minimum.

the closer u can get the card/part the way it was initially done in the first place, the better...

What's the harm in having the TIM on, though... not that I don't clean mine anyway b/c I like a fresh TIM on everytime...

360's sound like such POS's

Originally Posted by g0dM@n

What's the harm in having the TIM on, though... not that I don't clean mine anyway b/c I like a fresh TIM on everytime...

because im guessing TIM isnt designed to withstand 200c temps...please correct me if im wrong. i dont know for sure...just assuming.