Wife loves her GT740 but I have fixed her old lappie by baking it in the oven!!

Nice one ^^^

The place that repaired mine out of warranty was a very popular, large stationary/office store, so there might be hope yet. It was 18 months old, and basically not fit for purpose as it had an intrinsic defect. However, since I was not the first to ask this store, the hard work had probably already been done by someone else. They sent it to a 3rd party repair company and footed the bill, and AFAIK it was a reflow but there were no real details provided. Could have been a new/refurbished GFX chip too I suppose.
 
Wonder how long a fix like this will last? Laptop is just over 2 years old - kight stick it on the bay and build a desktop still.
 
We use a professional reflow machine at work, the success rate is hit and miss, sometimes they can last many months sometimes a few weeks. I've had some that only lasted 20 mins on a full load graphics benchmark.

Fair play for doing the oven trick can't fault it if you get a few more months use out of it.
 
I've managed this on a few of my laptops (9000's, 2000's). Most of the time it works and they have continued to work but I have come accross times where they die again. I wouldn't ever rely on them completly. Luckily for me where I source "broken" ones and repair them I get a very sweet deal :cool:

I find using a heatgun (what you use to strip paint) a little more effective as its more directed around the GPU area.

Most people think I'm crazy when I tell them how I fix things like this, believe it or not there is a lot of hardware that can be fixed by use of heat.
 
Hungryjoey said:
I've managed this on a few of my laptops (9000's, 2000's). Most of the time it works and they have continued to work but I have come accross times where they die again. I wouldn't ever rely on them completly. Luckily for me where I source "broken" ones and repair them I get a very sweet deal :cool:

I find using a heatgun (what you use to strip paint) a little more effective as its more directed around the GPU area.

Most people think I'm crazy when I tell them how I fix things like this, believe it or not there is a lot of hardware that can be fixed by use of heat.
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I've told a few people how I fixed the gfx on my lappy and then look at me like I'm mad.

It's on the bay at the mo - five hours to go!
 
keeping an EYE on it hope you get some last minute bids :-)

wow £435.00 nice one :-)
 
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Yeah that's not bad - once I take off the ebay selling fee (£43.50 - shocking isn't it!) I will be left with £391.50. Wonder if I can get a gfx card for less than £50???
 
just finished playing cod wow "not the second console based one" .

yep ebay loves to take the money off us :-(
 
Just a quick update on the fake-baked DV9000 laptop. The laptopis performing very well, been playing a few WOW sessions on it and so far no graphical glitches have returned as yet. I suspect they will return again in a few months time and then I will have to bake the board again, but so far so good.
 
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