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9800GTX Baking Question

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phrazel

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I have a 9800GTX that is semi-screwed. I get colored dots/lines at the BIOS boot up screen and windows does not seem to recognize the card fully.


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My question is if I bake this card, is there a good/any possibility it will stop working completely? Right now I can still use it for the internet and videos, just little hiccups here and there. But I cannot play video games(was right in the middle of Skyrim when it screwed up )

So what are the chances baking will screw the card up more and render me w/o a computer? slim? If I do it and it does not do anything, so be it, only time lost. If I bake it and it ruins the card, I am w/o a computer.

Thanks for your time!!!
Thanks
 
I had an 8800 GTX, 9800 GT and 7900 GTX, all experiencing similar problems to yours, baked them, they all work fine to this day. Just follow the instructions on the baking post and don't overcook them.
 
Take a picture of both sides of the card before you bake. If you have a glitchy oven some of the chips will fall off. It's not necessarily the end of the world if some of them do. It happened to my card and I was just able to rebake the card with the chips perfectly back in place and it fixed it. I would start and aim low though until you see what the conditions are for your oven though. If it says ten minutes at a given temp I'd start at 4 let cool and see if it fixed your problem. Rinse repeat for slightly longer if it didn't work.
The only problem with this is that if this is happening to you then chances are you have components with either a bad soldering job or the soldering formula used was bad. This will temporarily fix it if its bad soldering formula. The problem being that a bad solder mix forms micro-fissures(tiny cracks that impede the flow of electrical current) too easily with the heating and cooling of the solder connections. If that's the case this method will cause the solder to partially melt and hence the microfissures will go away temporarily. The key here is to not overdo it. It may not even fix your problem. This should be your last recourse after seeking all other possible remedies. The following is from my 7950 GTX from my Dell MX 1710 laptop which shipped with the nvidia card having bad solder mix. You should see corruption like this if bad solder mix is your problem
 
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