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Graphics card broken... Bake it?

please note im not sure if this oven has caused this or whether it was the fact it had been on my desk for 6 months taking a few hits by random objects on the desk.. guess I should have inspected better or took a picture before I started lol.
 
webbhost said:
franky, the card is RoHS Compliant which means there are no harmful chemicals in the card?
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Yeah but I dont think the RoHS compliance takes into consideration heating up plastics/metals in a consumer oven.

It maybe fine though....just a consideration, especially if your family use the oven is all :)
 
fair play rancky, not gonna start an arguement when you just trying to watch out for me eh :) The family do use the oven, but I asked my dad first lol. Didn't get any strange smells either which is a good sign I guess...

Think im gonna try screwing this card back up and trying it anyway... even if it doesnt work properly, if it "starts" but just messes up screen then still a good indication that this method works... if it does exactly what it did before then I'll assume those 2 chips were already damaged and this is what has caused the card to break?
 
he he no worries :)

Baking does work....a lot of companies sprung up using the technique as a repair service for faulty video cards.

But by the sounds of it, two vital bits have broken off.
 
As for baking, I have tried it with an 8800GT and it worked for like a week and then stopped again. Probably not worth rebaking and I would just replace it with the best you can afford.

The 6850 is a good offer at the moment and I think it's the best performance for price card :)
 
Yup... plugged it back in, and exactly the same result as before baking... switched on for a split second, then stopped...

My guess is that these components were already faulty... so I guess the next step is... find out if I can get replacement parts, place them on the board and bake it, hopefully re-soldering it..?

Trouble is im not an electronics expert and I don't actually know what it is.
 
momentarily posting a picture of the back of the board with arrows to the missing components (healthy board in pic, borrowed from google)

if I can find out what they are and re-solder or re-bake them on, then could make for an interesting little experiment.

or maybe if they're a generic sorta univeral thing and they're all the same then I can break one off another older board and use that instead!?
 
okay so got as far as figuring out that they're surface mount capacitors... however I dont know the value.. I get the feeling that this is where my quest to fix my long lost card stops... :-\
 
yeah they are capacitors, but as you stated, pretty much impossible to know the value without a circuit diagram/tech sheet. chances of fixing seem slim to none, and even if you did know the capacitance, I don't see the point in buying in components for the slim chance that you could fix it. get on the auction site, or up your post count and hit the members market: you can pick up a much faster card (8800gtx, or even a 260gtx) for around £40 or less.

for anyone who has come here looking for tips on baking, I would recommend using a decorators heat gun if you're concerned about poisoning the family oven! I cooked a YLOD PS3 back into life with one a few months back, and it allows you (if you can see where solder traces have merged/broken) to focus only on the affected area.
 
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