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The oven trick worked :)

sparky05084

sparky05084

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Got an old 8800GTX that died on me some time ago. I was considering selling it for spares or just binning it until I was advised (on here actually) to YouTube oven trick for graphics card.

Well, stripped her down, removed paste and put her in oven for 9 mins. Let it cool and reapplied paste etc and put it back together. Put it in machine and booted up. It's working like new :)

Bloody well impressed! What a clever idea. Any one else had this work for them?
 
I have an old 8800GTX that I used to take a heat gun to when it would artifact badly. Worked every time. Lasted for a couple of months then out with the heat gun again
 
It worked for me, well on my old machine i sold to the mother in law, but about 2 weeks later it failed again.

I just got her a £20 card from PC World otherwise i'd be there every other week fixing it again, hope yours is a more permanent fix!
 
I did this to my wife's 8800GTX about 9 months ago and it's been working fine ever since.
She had a second 8800GTX though, which was still faulty after the bake.
Well, I say "still faulty", but what I mean is that before the bake, it would just artifact and crash often, but after the bake her PC wouldn't even boot with the card in.
 
I have posted about my success too a while back.

Got an old x1900 crossfire edition card and a 4870 working again doing this. Granted the 4870 needed redone after a bit but the other card has been running great for years :)

Trying to convince a work mate to try this on his old gtx295 ..
 
The idea is that the solder reflow's with the heat so any broken connection get's remade, therefore fixing the card. Of course, if you heat it as long as the tonestar, then it will reflow and let parts fall out lol.
 
I read somewhere that you get tiny cracks in the solder or something and when you heat it up gently the solder melts a little and refill the cracks?
 
Rich43 said:
What is the science behind this trick?
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the heat melts the solder, which can then flow back into the micro-cracks on the pcb (caused by either physical, or thermal, wear and tear), making the connections more reliable again. Beyond that, it's a much harder question than I'd care to try to answer here.

once fixed a YLoD PS3 with a heatgun, a stanley knife, and a bottle of graffiti remover :D same method, just I needed to be able to see it as I went, the heatgun allowed me to focus the heat where it was most needed!
 
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One of my colleagues makes a fortune buying broken mobile phones, and then using the oven trick to fix them. Once fixed, they get flogged on ebay. He makes a tidy sum out of doing it.
 
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