THE OVEN TRICK - WORKED

Agerkvist · 11-24-09, 04:47 AM

I don't suppose you guys reckon this trick would be an option is my situation: http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=625456 ?

Afterall my card has been tested to work - at least that's what they tell me

Desperate thanks.

Sydney · 11-24-09, 07:46 AM

My 8800GTX started artifacting and this trick fixed it

Let's hope it will last a while.

Devar · 12-03-09, 01:50 AM

Registered on OCF just to say that this WORKED!

I have an 8800GTX that was crashing under load, and eventually it crashed and stopped working when I used my computer, wouldn't even POST.

Stripped it bare, cleaned it, and put it in the preheated oven at 190°C for just about 8 minutes.

Rebuilt it, using the last of my arctic silver :-( and put it back in my pc, booted... and well what do you know, IT WORKED, YOU LITTLE BEAUTY!

Now to see how long it lasts :-)

HoTsHoT · 12-09-09, 02:38 AM

My 7800GT now lives, thanks guys

Passed everything I could throw at it, brilliant ideas you people have!

DumpALump · 12-09-09, 10:50 PM

With all these broken cards, did u guys have cooling mods (3rd party or otherwise) done, or were they just the stock cooling?

antipesto93 · 12-10-09, 12:46 AM

stock for me

aftermath · 12-10-09, 03:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aftermath

Well done antipesto93 my GTX8800 died on the 25th of sept this year (Full of fluff) and I am posting from the rig that its in! Lets see if I can save some cash before it goes again.

I wrote that on the 15th of October its now the 10th of December.
My card dies again and was just re-ovened.

Been used ever day and 3d games too.

Stock cooling btw.

Sydney · 12-10-09, 06:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aftermath

I wrote that on the 15th of October its now the 10th of December.
My card dies again and was just re-ovened.

Been used ever day and 3d games too.

Stock cooling btw.

So the reovening re-revived it?

swanysalien · 12-11-09, 11:32 AM

can you belive this IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i have been bashing me head against the wall as my alien area 51 stoped working, i have been quoted over 300 pounds for a second hand video card as you can nolonger get new ones, so i thought i had nothing to lose but to try this unbelivable thing and ITS WORKED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am so pleased a BIG thank you and have a happy xmas .

Bobnova · 12-11-09, 11:40 AM

I should have tried this with my laptop mobo instead of sending it off to jerkoffrepair,com. Hell of a trick to know about!

antipesto93 · 12-11-09, 12:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by swanysalien

can you belive this IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i have been bashing me head against the wall as my alien area 51 stoped working, i have been quoted over 300 pounds for a second hand video card as you can nolonger get new ones, so i thought i had nothing to lose but to try this unbelivable thing and ITS WORKED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am so pleased a BIG thank you and have a happy xmas .

wow thats alot of money saved!

JoshOohAh · 12-12-09, 11:55 AM

This is the funniest most awesome thing I have EVER! seen in my entire life .

Yehoodi · 12-23-09, 04:09 AM

Hi!

I have just registered to thank you, I have fixed a X850 Radeon that showed a lot of artifacts and memory errors.

First of all I disasembled the fan/cooler, removed the termal grease on the GPU and then covered with aluminium foil all the components of the video card expect the ram and GPU chips, especially the electrolytic capacitors as they can pop at hight temperatures.

Then I preheated the oven at 150ºC, and tried to follow this temperature/time curve (taken from http://www.lrr.in.tum.de/~acher/bga/index.html)

That is:
- Preheat the oven and leave the card 4 minutes at 150ºC
- Up the temp to 230ºC and leave 2/3 minutes at 220-230ºC
- Open the oven door to lower the temp to 150º, close the oven door, leave the card for 3 minutes more.
- Off the oven, leave the door opened and let the card cool naturally for 40 minutes.

Thank you one more time, this trick rocks!

Xtreme Barton · 12-23-09, 02:43 PM

this is pure madness .. who would have ever thought .. my first time hearing about this today

~~Tito~~ · 12-23-09, 02:55 PM

Anyone think a Geforce 2 MX/MX 400 would work? For about 3 years now(yes its older than that I know, BUT) it has been displaying things fine, but it has some minimal discoloration and it has trouble displaying black and everything has a black shadow, and minimal flickering. Its very usable, but do you think it will work?

antipesto93 · 12-23-09, 03:00 PM

sounds more like a vga cable/monitor issue to me,

~~Tito~~ · 12-23-09, 03:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by antipesto93

sounds more like a vga cable/monitor issue to me,

Its not the VGA cable works perfectly fine on my laptop, and I pulled this from an old P4 mobo as a temporary fix until my dvi to vga adapter arrives, and it has the same problem as the old P4 mobo.

theELVISCERATOR · 12-25-09, 07:35 PM

I think the tinfoil should be going on my head....this is madness...rofl....

Xtreme Barton · 12-25-09, 07:38 PM

happily sticking all my dead parts in the oven ....

come on dead cpu !!

Haste266 · 12-27-09, 05:20 AM

I had the chance to purchase a good laptop for cheap with borked video. here is what it looked like before baking:

after baking!

pics of process... 7m 45s @385f in a conventional oven did the trick. i just happen to have a pan that supported the motherboard perfectly on 3 sides so i only had to use one foil ball.

11-24-09, 04:47 AM	#201
Agerkvist Registered Join Date: Nov 2009	I don't suppose you guys reckon this trick would be an option is my situation: http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=625456 ? Afterall my card has been tested to work - at least that's what they tell me Desperate thanks.
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11-24-09, 07:46 AM	#202
Sydney Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Reykjavík, Ísland	My 8800GTX started artifacting and this trick fixed it Let's hope it will last a while. __________________ Asus Maximus Formula X38 flashed with X48 BIOS \| Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 4.01GHz, 1.360V \| Swiftech Apogee GT 2x2GB OCZ Reaper 940MHz 5-5-5-15-2T \| EVGA GTX275 @ 700/1600/1200 \| D-Tek Fuzion GFX2 \| MCP350 \| Black Ice Pro II Gigabyte Odin GT 800W \| Antec P182 \| 2x 320GB WD Caviars RAID0\| Arch Linux 64-bit \| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 My guide to Linux folding \| My guide to RAID dual booting
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12-03-09, 01:50 AM	#203
Devar New Member Join Date: Dec 2009	Registered on OCF just to say that this WORKED! I have an 8800GTX that was crashing under load, and eventually it crashed and stopped working when I used my computer, wouldn't even POST. Stripped it bare, cleaned it, and put it in the preheated oven at 190°C for just about 8 minutes. Rebuilt it, using the last of my arctic silver :-( and put it back in my pc, booted... and well what do you know, IT WORKED, YOU LITTLE BEAUTY! Now to see how long it lasts :-)
	QUOTE Thanks

12-09-09, 02:38 AM	#204
HoTsHoT Registered Join Date: Oct 2004	My 7800GT now lives, thanks guys Passed everything I could throw at it, brilliant ideas you people have!
	QUOTE Thanks

12-09-09, 10:50 PM	#205
DumpALump Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: California, US	With all these broken cards, did u guys have cooling mods (3rd party or otherwise) done, or were they just the stock cooling? __________________ I5 2500K @ 4.5ghz 1v idle 1.32v load \| P8P67 Pro \| XFX 6870 \| 16GB Ripjaws \| MCR320+RX120+MCP355+Apogee XT
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12-10-09, 12:46 AM	Thread Starter #206
antipesto93 Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: london	stock for me __________________ i7-930 3939A @ 3.8ghz 1.3v W/HT Cogage arrow + Akasa apache Gigabyte Ex58-Extreme GTX470 (unlocked 465) 6GB DDR3 OCZ Gold 1600mhz 1tb + 500gb F3's Corsair TX650W CM 690 II z-2300
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12-11-09, 11:32 AM	#209
swanysalien New Member Join Date: Dec 2009	can you belive this IT WORKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i have been bashing me head against the wall as my alien area 51 stoped working, i have been quoted over 300 pounds for a second hand video card as you can nolonger get new ones, so i thought i had nothing to lose but to try this unbelivable thing and ITS WORKED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am so pleased a BIG thank you and have a happy xmas .
	QUOTE Thanks

12-11-09, 11:40 AM	#210
Bobnova Air Superiority Senior Member Benching Team Leader Join Date: May 2009 Location: Humboldt	I should have tried this with my laptop mobo instead of sending it off to jerkoffrepair,com. Hell of a trick to know about! __________________ "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe." -- Einstein (maybe) How to check your PSU with a multimeter. 17bXw5t51rEBXGavJFMJsC8g7HQgThUGc7 Heatware.
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12-12-09, 11:55 AM	#212
JoshOohAh Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Canada	This is the funniest most awesome thing I have EVER! seen in my entire life . __________________ Desktop \| Intel Core i7 920 @4.0 Ghz\| Crossfire XFX HD 6870s \| Asus P6TD Deluxe\| Corsair Vengeance Red 3x 4GB Kit 2133 MHz\| Corsair TX850 Psu \| 2x Seagate 7200.12 1TB (Raid 0) \| Coolermaster V8 Lenovo Thinkpad W530 \| Intel Core i7-3610QM \| Nvidia Quadro K1000M 2GB\| Corsair Vengeance Black 8GB 1600 Mhz \| Crucial M4 256 GB
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12-23-09, 04:09 AM	#213
Yehoodi New Member Join Date: Dec 2009	Hi! I have just registered to thank you, I have fixed a X850 Radeon that showed a lot of artifacts and memory errors. First of all I disasembled the fan/cooler, removed the termal grease on the GPU and then covered with aluminium foil all the components of the video card expect the ram and GPU chips, especially the electrolytic capacitors as they can pop at hight temperatures. Then I preheated the oven at 150ºC, and tried to follow this temperature/time curve (taken from http://www.lrr.in.tum.de/~acher/bga/index.html) That is: - Preheat the oven and leave the card 4 minutes at 150ºC - Up the temp to 230ºC and leave 2/3 minutes at 220-230ºC - Open the oven door to lower the temp to 150º, close the oven door, leave the card for 3 minutes more. - Off the oven, leave the door opened and let the card cool naturally for 40 minutes. Thank you one more time, this trick rocks!
	QUOTE Thanks

12-23-09, 02:43 PM	#214
Xtreme Barton Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Omaha,NE	this is pure madness .. who would have ever thought .. my first time hearing about this today
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12-23-09, 02:55 PM	#215
~~Tito~~ Registered Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Las Vegas	Anyone think a Geforce 2 MX/MX 400 would work? For about 3 years now(yes its older than that I know, BUT) it has been displaying things fine, but it has some minimal discoloration and it has trouble displaying black and everything has a black shadow, and minimal flickering. Its very usable, but do you think it will work?
	QUOTE Thanks

12-23-09, 03:00 PM	Thread Starter #216
antipesto93 Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: london	sounds more like a vga cable/monitor issue to me, __________________ i7-930 3939A @ 3.8ghz 1.3v W/HT Cogage arrow + Akasa apache Gigabyte Ex58-Extreme GTX470 (unlocked 465) 6GB DDR3 OCZ Gold 1600mhz 1tb + 500gb F3's Corsair TX650W CM 690 II z-2300
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12-25-09, 07:35 PM	#218
theELVISCERATOR Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Michiana	I think the tinfoil should be going on my head....this is madness...rofl.... __________________ Intel 2600k @4.5ghz Megahalem/Corsair SP120 Pull Gskill Sniper 8gb DDR3-2133cas8 @ 1866 MSI P67A-GD65 BIOS 2.4 Galaxy Winforce GTX670 @1215/3404 SLI Xfi Fatality Pro Sound Boot /Adata SX900 256gb SSD Storage/ 2x 640GB WDAAK Raid 0 Antec 1200/Corsair 750 TX PSU / Win7 Pro 64bit Yamakasi 30" IPS 2560x1600
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12-25-09, 07:38 PM	#219
Xtreme Barton Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Omaha,NE	happily sticking all my dead parts in the oven .... come on dead cpu !!
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12-27-09, 05:20 AM	#220
Haste266 Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Roanoke, VA	LAPTOP BAKING! I had the chance to purchase a good laptop for cheap with borked video. here is what it looked like before baking: after baking! pics of process... 7m 45s @385f in a conventional oven did the trick. i just happen to have a pan that supported the motherboard perfectly on 3 sides so i only had to use one foil ball. __________________ i5-750 @3.78ghz on a Gigabyte P55A-UD4P / XFX Radeon 5870 / G.SKILL Ripjaws 2x2GB DDR3-2000 Intel X-25M 80gb / 2x 750gb Spinpoint F1 / 2x Barracuda LP 1.5tb / 1x LG GBW-H20L / NZXT M59 Seasonic M12-D / X-Fi Xtrememusic / MCP655, Apogee XT, Black Ice GTX M92 & M184 / Windows 7 Pro x64 / LG 37LH30 LCD 1080p TV Heatware: haste266 \| E-Bay: haste266
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