Holy crap, it worked! Dead video card resurrected!

Good job fellow bakers.

I really want to bake an actual motherboard where the PCI-E slot works on and off but I'm worried about the ram slots, IDE/Floppy connector, old style liquid capacitors, etc.

Originally Posted by abbasdr

WOW too many pages to read.
I have a GTX260 that has bad VRAM as it gives horizontal lines greenish or something.
WOULD this methods work??

I dont think its a bad vram then, this process is designed to reheat the "loose" solder joints beneath the electronic components on the pcb, if it was a bad vram, if I remember from overclock.net a guy baked his gtx285 to see if it fixed the problem resulted in a complete dead card at the end due to the vram. But hey, if its out of warranty then bake it, who knows you could bring to life.

Originally Posted by Spare-Flair

Good job fellow bakers.

I really want to bake an actual motherboard where the PCI-E slot works on and off but I'm worried about the ram slots, IDE/Floppy connector, old style liquid capacitors, etc.

Considering my 9800 pro has a power connector on it, as well as the plastic of the video out connectors and the can-type caps (electrolytic - SMD and thru-hole), a notherboard should be ok. I have one that had a bad keyboard port so I was pondering throwing it in th eoven or reflowing the solder on the port and nearby components by hand.

Originally Posted by abbasdr

WOW too many pages to read.
I have a GTX260 that has bad VRAM as it gives horizontal lines greenish or something.
WOULD this methods work??

A lot of what this cures are evenly spaced lines all over the screen. That is what I had.

Originally Posted by iGrooCk

holy shit guys, i just baked my dv6000 laptops mobo and it booted into windows, wow. the only problem now is the speaker is popping non stop, not sure what the issue is.

If you had the speakers in the oven, they are probably fried. If they were off, then it is probably either a bad connection somewhere or the audio chip is fried.

Originally Posted by Matthew Kane

Same problem I had with my 9800 Pro. Well one of the guys here actually mentioned that oven-bake process is more designed for nvidia cards.

I think it all depends on if there is truely a broken solder connection somewhere and where that joint is located to how hot, how long they card needs to be in there. If the joint is one of the center pins of the GPU, then it will take longer for the heat to get to the point and heat the joint up enough. If it is just on an outer joint of a RAM chip, then it should take less time for the heat to get to it.

Regular solder melts at 360-370°F depending on the blend. Lead Free solder can be closer to 400°F.

Thank you guys, I will give it a try as its out of warranty.
It would be GREAT if it revives it
BTW anyone of you got a link to opening GTX260 up.

hmm, no, buts its pretty easy, unscrew all the screws on the bottom, then carefully lift up the heatsink, don't pull it, and disconnect the small 4 pin fan connector, once taken off, clean all the thermal paste off the pcb only, not the heatsink, then remove PCB bracket and your all set.

Originally Posted by Matthew Kane

hmm, no, buts its pretty easy, unscrew all the screws on the bottom, then carefully lift up the heatsink, don't pull it, and disconnect the small 4 pin fan connector, once taken off, clean all the thermal paste off the pcb only, not the heatsink, then remove PCB bracket and your all set.

Thanks man, will give it a try IF my 6month old sleeps early today hehehe!

I have an older X850 that's artifacting. Thought about baking it but there's all kinds of components on both sides of the card. How do I keep them from falling off while baking? Tape?

Thats the problem with my 9800Pro ages ago, I baked, everything fell off, because it was it was baked upside down same as what the op did with his 8800gtx. I learnt the afterwards killing the card, that older graphics cards with old type of chokes, capacitors and heaps of components should be baked with the gpu chipset upwards, so the components don't fall off from the heat.

Before oven baking a ATi card, please read this....a little unpleasant experience I had:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1432783

Does this artifacting appear to be due to bad solder connections? i oven baked my G70M (GeForce Go 7800 GTX) after it produced the above artifacting for 9mins @ 385f and that apparently fixed it, but what do you guys consider of that artifacting? is this fix a long lasting one?

Originally Posted by erek

Does this artifacting appear to be due to bad solder connections? i oven baked my G70M (GeForce Go 7800 GTX) after it produced the above artifacting for 9mins @ 385f and that apparently fixed it, but what do you guys consider of that artifacting? is this fix a long lasting one?

that looks very similar to the symptoms my card was experiencing. the survival time of a resurrected card still isnt known for sure. some people have had one go bad only after 3-5 months...people with cards that are still working may have not chimed back in to say so.
it does seem quite a few people have had success with baking their cards a 2nd time also, so this may be an option for the future.

i recently baked a laptop motherboard and it will be used on and off basically every day...so when it breaks i will post in this thread. my 8800gtx is just sitting on a shelf. i should try it in my computer to see if it still works...

HDTV still working fine here.

Nice ^^

Originally Posted by erek

Does this artifacting appear to be due to bad solder connections? i oven baked my G70M (GeForce Go 7800 GTX) after it produced the above artifacting for 9mins @ 385f and that apparently fixed it, but what do you guys consider of that artifacting? is this fix a long lasting one?

Well it should, I mean as long as you have not damaged the card yourself, by doing so with some high oc's, overheating or volt mods then I'd say why not go for it. Hint: Usually solder cards that keep on/ constant artifacting horizontal or vertical lines and continous driver crashes, then you can bake them and it will be 100% guaranteed a fix. Bad Vram is usually when your card boots up and it can't be detected by anything, even a bios flashing prog and the screen is torn with massive artifacts, then oven baking can't fix this kind of problem.

Good lord.

While I applaud everyone's resourcefulness in this, I can't knowingly commend people using ovens to bake their electronics.

Another 8800gt raised from the dead. Had it lying around from a friends computer, it had died and he upgraded to a 260 gtx. My kid had been asking for his own computer, so over Xmas break friends and I started piecing him one together from parts lying around. Only thing we were short was a gpu, and I remembered this thread so we threw the 8800gt in the oven. Sure enough, works great first try.

Was it completely dead? (Won't even show on startup POST, very loud fan) or was it artifacting at times/constant? (Vertical and horizontal lines and garbled bits of colors on the whole screen).

Originally Posted by Wompa164

Good lord.

While I applaud everyone's resourcefulness in this, I can't knowingly commend people using ovens to bake their electronics.

Why? This is a well known engineering method even used by professionals. It's called reflowing.

Haha, wonder how big the market would be for a reflow oven... that could handle motherboards and video-cards...

Well, a service setup where someone buys one of those ovens for ~$600 and charges a small fee to reflow stuff and ship it back... hopefully fixing it...

I know a lot of people have dead cards/motherboards that are out of warranty.

This is just crazy. I can't believe it works.

Originally Posted by Matthew Kane

Was it completely dead? (Won't even show on startup POST, very loud fan) or was it artifacting at times/constant? (Vertical and horizontal lines and garbled bits of colors on the whole screen).

If you meant me, it was completely dead. Wouldn't show on startup, fan was loud. Tried it in multiple setups, was definitely toast. After baking and putting back together, runs just fine. Installed into the new setup, stress test for a day, installed some games. He's been playing with it now for a few days with no problems.

I definitely have this problem with one my 8800gt's lying around, I've tried the bake method, the card just wouldn't boot even after a second run in the oven BTW, what psu you use to verify the gfx card before and after the oven bake method before it was installed into the new setup?