Oven bake dead card

[Nevakonaza]

Just curious if anyone actually tried this and what was your results?

Have a HD6950,Not sure what sort of life its had as it came in a system i got in a clearance,It powers up fans spin and everything but no signal comes through to monitor.
Ive had a look at the PCB and cannot see any tell tail signs of heat damage or blown caps etc.

I know this day and age its a 6950 but would make a good backup GPU if i can get it working so thought about baking it,i read you do it for about 8 mins at 195c.

 

[OspreyO]

Don't do it in your oven it gives of toxic fumes. Will sink out the while house and you'll have to scrub the oven.

I used a cheap halogen portable oven for my 7900 did it in the garden. That's said I don't know if it will fix your card. Baking cards only works on specific cards with a specific fault. Never heard it done for yours. Also it's usually for corrupt graphics not a dead one .

 

[james.miller]

It's never a proper fix but if you get more life out of it them why not, especially when you have nothing to loose?

 

[OspreyO]

I used to get 6 months out of mine then I'd have to redo it. Did that for about 3yrs.

 

[Nevakonaza]

Well i decided on the "Heat gun method" rather than putting it in the oven because of what OspreyO said.

1st go - covered whole card pcb with a layer of tin foil except the GPU die and went over that for a couple of mins at 200c,No change still no signal coming from the card.
2nd go - covered card except memory and GPU die gone over all with heat for a couple of mins,appears to have made it worse ,fan now spins at 100% soon as you power it up.

Oh well,maybe not enough concentrated heat i dont know but meh,makes a nice ornament on my desk

 

[Tom B]

Remember to thermal baste before you put it in the oven and serve with a side of ram chips.

 

[Kei]

Did this to the mxm geforce go 7600 card from my laptop back in 2012. It's still working today.

Tried the same process on a quadro 3000m mxm card and had no luck.

 

[tyler_jrb]

Depends what’s wrong. If you have a multi meter you can work out roughly what is wrong. What voltages you have, what resistance values you have.

Oven baking rarely ever works, and only works if there is a broken solder joint causing the problem.