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How to repair a graphics card with the oven trick

funny how it actually works lol. an oven :D altho high temps are used to make the cards so it'l be like rebirth..until it happens again :P
 
Its a very sound principle although its not often that it comes to cooking your graphics card in the oven as a last option.
I dont care for the mashup used in the video :P
 
I revived my old 8800 GTX this way, twice.

The oly difference was that i did it at 180 for 10 minutes.

Fan oven and all....

(It will only last a month or so though, once in the oven you are on borrowed time imo)
 
Putting a graphics card in the oven sounds like the stupidest idea ever. Who the hell gets a dying graphics card and thinks 'I know, I'll bake it'... :D
 
He could have saved a little cooking time and used the microwave, 30 seconds would have done.
Or could have used the Frying Pan... brings a whole new meaning to "i fried my GPU"
(JOKE.... please dont try this).

Seriously now, we used to do similar with PCBs, it helps remelt any solder that has failed over time (or over heated and broken contact). Sometime it worked other times it did nothing...
 
Tediore said:
Putting a graphics card in the oven sounds like the stupidest idea ever. Who the hell gets a dying graphics card and thinks 'I know, I'll bake it'... :D
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It would be if building graphics cards didn't involve baking them. The chips are in ovens on and off for 4-6 weeks during production, then the pcb/various other components and gpu all go in an oven to melt the solder for everything to get connected.

Failing solder points is one of the more likely things to fail over time. Completely making up numbers but assume of all cards that die, 25% are failing memory chips, 25% are failing cores, 25% are failing vrm's/other parts and 25% are down to the solder connecting working parts failing. 75% of those, sticking it in the oven is going to do smeg all, for 25% it could remelt the solder and end up remaking the broken connection, or it could cause other solder to melt and break connections.

If your card is out of warranty, theres no harm, if its in warranty you'd have to be mental to try it instead of RMA'ing.
 
drunkenmaster said:
It would be if building graphics cards didn't involve baking them. The chips are in ovens on and off for 4-6 weeks during production, then the pcb/various other components and gpu all go in an oven to melt the solder for everything to get connected.

Failing solder points is one of the more likely things to fail over time. Completely making up numbers but assume of all cards that die, 25% are failing memory chips, 25% are failing cores, 25% are failing vrm's/other parts and 25% are down to the solder connecting working parts failing. 75% of those, sticking it in the oven is going to do smeg all, for 25% it could remelt the solder and end up remaking the broken connection, or it could cause other solder to melt and break connections.

If your card is out of warranty, theres no harm, if its in warranty you'd have to be mental to try it instead of RMA'ing.
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I know it makes sense because of the way they're manufactured, but I didn't know that much about them, so thanks. More knowledge is always appreciated. It will be useful for when I attempt world domination :D

I just got this image of your wife/girlfriend/whatever coming in and saying 'what's that in the oven?' - 'my graphics card :D' - 'your what?!'
 
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