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i have a dead 8800gtx, computer boots but i get red vertical lines all over the screen and then it wont boot into windows...was thinking of giving this a try.
are you putting it in the oven with back of the card facing down? or the front(gpu side) down?
thats the exact problem i had ( red vertical lines )
what i did was. put foil down first ( on the oven rack thing), then make four foil balles, to put on each corner of the card ( the balls should be about 3cm high
then put one ball on each corner of the graphics card, so the main pcb is elevated
I put it so that the Nvidia chip/cpu was facing upwards, and the plain pcb side was facinh down ( touching the four foil balls)
i just left it in there for ( i think around 5 mins < i completly lost track of time ), but i stopped when i saw one of the stickers on the pcb go abit yellowish, and you might be able to see some of the large solder joints go a shiny silver, thats when i took it out
i took it out the oven straight away, and let it cool naturally for 5 mins under a fan
by the way - make sure you remove all the themal paste (and obviously the heatsink ) before you put it in
oh and make sure you 'preheat' the oven.
( soz i typed that lot abit fast so if anything is unclear i can help )