Any possibility of fixing this corrupted graphics card?

Defunkt · 21 Nov 2010 at 15:10

UberTiger said:
Also thin crust, why you even asked that though I'm not sure because you'd have to be nuts to buy anything else.

That pic is no thin and crispy my friend.

(although the gfx card most certainly is now)

Kouba · 21 Nov 2010 at 15:15

Haha!! This thread made my day, Uber you are a legend!!
"As you can see I did put it on little balls of foil" Lol! You were so cautious yet you completely disregarded the fact that the plastic would melt? ahaha!

Martini1991 · 21 Nov 2010 at 15:18

You were told about 7 times to take off the HSF lol.

opethdisciple · 21 Nov 2010 at 15:18

The PCB on the post bake card seems to have changed colour.

judmann · 21 Nov 2010 at 15:20

couldn't you RMA the card back to overclockers,so they could sell it as a B-Grade as they dont check whats in the box,so they say.

snapdragon · 21 Nov 2010 at 15:21

judmann said:
couldn't you RMA the card back to overclockers,so they could sell it as a B-Grade as they dont check whats in the box,so they say.

Frame352 · 21 Nov 2010 at 16:40

arc@css said:
The bin m8, unless someone can think of something brilliant.

The oven got him into this mess... only three days in the freezer can fix it!

deusexlumina · 21 Nov 2010 at 17:18

send it to me, i'll fix it...

scrlk · 21 Nov 2010 at 17:41

Protip: Read guides. They often contain important information, like taking off the HSF

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reygjabla · 22 Nov 2010 at 09:58

RMA the oven. It's not working properly if it can't fix your GFX card.

subbytna · 22 Nov 2010 at 10:06

god I lol'd at the pics of the melted fan fins LMAO...priceless

buttkinz · 22 Nov 2010 at 10:16

this thread has cheered me up at work lol, classic

Kribby2006 · 22 Nov 2010 at 11:58

Agree with the others, was reading this at work and when I saw the pictures I laughed my head off.

Im sure he is having a laugh right? I see it says suspended under his name, hope its not because of this?

Rob_J · 22 Nov 2010 at 13:49

That has made my day, I just took a gobfull of tea when I saw the pics, I now have a wet screen and keyboard due to me spitting out the tea ... funniest forum post I've seen in a long while.

UberTiger · 24 Nov 2010 at 21:57

Defunkt said:
That pic is no thin and crispy my friend.
(although the gfx card most certainly is now)

True that, the base was pretty thin but looking back at the photo now it looks like in my inebriated state I was fooled into consuming a much thicker crust than I was originally led to believe it would be. I dread to think how much of extra 'thick' crust will go straight to my hips.

Kribby2006 said:
I see it says suspended under his name, hope its not because of this?

Nah, I made a mistake in another part of the forum.

Frame352 said:
The oven got him into this mess... only three days in the freezer can fix it!

I like your logical line of thinking, and thanks to my couple of days off I thought what a better place to store the card than in the freezer next to my other micro-chips. Unfortunately once loaded back into the machine the ice began to melt, sparks flew, it wasn't pretty and now one of my old motherboards is dead. Oh and the street lost power for a bit, but I think the big electrical company truck outside the house fixed that a few hours later.

That just made me more determined to fix the card though. In keeping with the cooking theme I'm thinking that a flambé might be in order at some point this week.

arc@css · 24 Nov 2010 at 22:05

Hey UberTiger,

Have you considered writing in to a cookery programme like 'River Cottage' and seeing if they'd be interested in some of your culinary expertise?

Lightnix · 24 Nov 2010 at 22:21

Is anybody else reminded of that fellow who took a pair of scissors to their graphics card to try and get it to fit in a different type of slot?

^Andy^ · 24 Nov 2010 at 22:38

Was it an electric or gas oven?

BTW an upturned iron in a vice is handy at reflowing buggered bga chips but remember to not use the steam setting and hand wash only!

Sidney James · 25 Nov 2010 at 00:10

Maybe the problem is mixing old tech and new.How about the microwave?...............no :eek:

just joking, don't!................really :eek:

DON'T.

tibbsey · 25 Nov 2010 at 01:37

Unless you've seriously borked the electrics via the oven (twice), couldn't you just chop off the hsf and/or heatsink and use another one?

Although I imagine you don't actually care about getting the card fixed, hence why you left the hsf in the first place. Unless you really are that stupid... :eek: