Bring a dead GPU back to life!

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You guys might have heard of baking a GPU. this may sound crazy, but it works. if you anything about BGA (ball grid array) and soldering, you can believe this. first, here are some links with success stories:

http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2009/06/15/how-to-fix-your-graphics-card-maybe/

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1421792

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=606658

And a how-to video:

[YT]R7jUqoKVY-k[/YT]

procedure:

1) Strip card of removal pieces
2) Cover a baking tray in foil, and make 4 balls of foil
3) Place the card GPU-down on the tray, supported by the 4 foil balls. (one on each corner)
4) Preheat oven to 400*F/200*C
5) Bake the GPU for NO LONGER THAN 10 MINUTES
6) Remove from oven and allow card to sit and cool naturally
7) Once reached normal temperature, rebuild the card and test

If you have a dead GPU sitting around with no warranty, give it a try!

I am seriously considering buying a dead card off ebay and testing this.
 
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I didn't realize how common this problem was, but I did a similar technique to fix this Compaq. It would not POST or anything, just a black screen (no backlight) and fan running. I pulled it apart and toasted one of the chipsets with a heat gun. Not only did it start working again, but the wireless, which had died earlier, began to work again!
 
That's why I buy Evga...just send it back and get a new one:D

A year ago, my brother in law had a 7800GTX that he had for about 6 years die on him...submitted an RMA and sent it back. Got a brand new 8800GTS in the mail.
 
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linkin93 said:
You guys might have heard of baking a GPU. this may sound crazy, but it works. if you anything about BGA (ball grid array) and soldering, you can believe this. first, here are some links with success stories:

http://blogs.howstuffworks.com/2009/06/15/how-to-fix-your-graphics-card-maybe/

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1421792

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=606658

And a how-to video:

[YT]R7jUqoKVY-k[/YT]

procedure:

1) Strip card of removal pieces
2) Cover a baking tray in foil, and make 4 balls of foil
3) Place the card GPU-down on the tray, supported by the 4 foil balls. (one on each corner)
4) Preheat oven to 400*F/200*C
5) Bake the GPU for NO LONGER THAN 10 MINUTES
6) Remove from oven and allow card to sit and cool naturally
7) Once reached normal temperature, rebuild the card and test

If you have a dead GPU sitting around with no warranty, give it a try!

I am seriously considering buying a dead card off ebay and testing this.
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This in the very least wont ruin a card, I did this a few months ago to a Radeon 7000 that had green vertical lines, the card exhibited the exact same problem afterwards.
 
Springy182 said:
This in the very least wont ruin a card, I did this a few months ago to a Radeon 7000 that had green vertical lines, the card exhibited the exact same problem afterwards.
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As someone said above: if the problem isn't a bad solder then this trick does diddly squat ;)

though on such an old card there could be anything wrong with it.
 
Crazy.

I have a 7900GS Extreme that causes random freezes to any machine I put it in.

Maybe I'll give this a shot sometime soon. :good:
 
ganzey said:
WOW, the guy in this video is beast. he's like the exact opposite of most computer savvy people.
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i started checking out his youtube vids... i saw he had one linked to him benching 405. i was like "pfff i can bench more then that" then i watch it, and the fool reps it like 10 times! i shut up after that.
 
BigSteve702 said:
i started checking out his youtube vids... i saw he had one linked to him benching 405. i was like "pfff i can bench more then that" then i watch it, and the fool reps it like 10 times! i shut up after that.
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he's got another vid where he does 540#, but only one rep
 
LOL this sounds so ridiculus, but it actually makes sense! I wish I had tried this on an old unbootable system I had once!
 
I was the one who just saved my 8800 GTS. So glad I tried it. Really had nothing to lose. I was using my brothers exact video card for about 2 weeks after mine dumped, but when his laptop at school went down and he needed his desktop I had to give it up. Couldn't believe it when I plugged mine back in and it fired up good as new!
 
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