Baked my XFX 4850

[linkin]

So i baked my xfx 4850 because it had issues... they seem to be gone now. however on the pcb there are 2 caps that are not solid. they are bulging, i cant remember if they were before i baked the card.

I did at 200*c for 10 minutes, which seems to be the same as everyone else is doing it.

The caps aren't spewing any orange liquid or anything, and the card appears to be working better... should i be worried?

I'm on my brothers computer, trying to install furmark but im on a limited account

 

[Okedokey]

um, why on earth would you do that?

bulging capacitors is not good at all. I would say you have stuffed it. What you have probably done is evaporated out some of the electrolyte. Not good. Bloody stupid in fact.

 

[Fatback]

um, why on earth would you do that?

bulging capacitors is not good at all. I would say you have stuffed it. What you have probably done is evaporated out some of the electrolyte. Not good. Bloody stupid in fact.

Actually baking a GPU is a pretty common way of getting them working again once they have died. I don't know all the technical details of it, but people do it all the time.

 

[bomberboysk]

Actually baking a GPU is a pretty common way of getting them working again once they have died. I don't know all the technical details of it, but people do it all the time.

Its generally used to attempt to reflow the ball grid array of the GPU core or memory if it is not making good contact. Its somewhat dumb to bake a card for any issue you are having and think that it will fix it however. If the card is 100% dead, baking can sometimes be used as a last ditch effort. However i would still recommend against baking, and at that point would resort to a hot air reflow system, or in a pinch use a heat gun with nozzle and start by reflowing the core and memory. Also, the only time i would attempt any of this is if the card is out of its warranty period or if the warranty had been voided.

 

[Okedokey]

Hey bomb, started to write the exact same reply!!! I gotta be quicker! Now that is something 16 year olds are better at

 

[voyagerfan99]

Hmm....I have a dead 8600GT out of an HP. I think I'll try the heat gun on it and see if I can get it working

 

[Fatback]

Its generally used to attempt to reflow the ball grid array of the GPU core or memory if it is not making good contact. Its somewhat dumb to bake a card for any issue you are having and think that it will fix it however. If the card is 100% dead, baking can sometimes be used as a last ditch effort. However i would still recommend against baking, and at that point would resort to a hot air reflow system, or in a pinch use a heat gun with nozzle and start by reflowing the core and memory. Also, the only time i would attempt any of this is if the card is out of its warranty period or if the warranty had been voided.

Hey bomb, started to write the exact same reply!!! I gotta be quicker! Now that is something 16 year olds are better at

I'm not saying it's a good thing. I was just saying it's a pretty common method. I agree I wouldn't do it, unless I had already tried everything else.

 

[bomberboysk]

I'm not saying it's a good thing. I was just saying it's a pretty common method. I agree I wouldn't do it, unless I had already tried everything else.

Yeah, i know, it was used alot with the geforce 8800 series, they had alot of poor solder issues, especially the 8800 ultras IIRC.

 

[FuryRosewood]

yea...bulgy caps is not a good sign...will possibly fail in the near future, i considered reflowing the board in my everex stepnote but since it seems the problem with freezing is rampant with the chipset being quite poor...im not going to bother, just going to not depend on it too much... reflowing a board to me is a last resort..as i would expect things to go horribly wrong with heat and electronics...