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The Oven Trick

Did the oven trick to my 8800GTX over a year ago when it started giving me loads of artifacts on my screen as soon as the POST screen came up and in Windows desktop, and 10 mins in my oven at 200c (the oven we all eat out of), and then left the card for an hour, installed it back in to my missus' rig and it worked perfectly, no more artifacting at all, and it's still going strong today.

Though watch with Xbox360s, I told my mate to bake his xbox mobo as he was getting RROD, but they dont have solid state caps, so after ten minutes he went to remove the board, and all the caps had swollen up and burst!!!

But it 100% worked with my 8800GTX, I thought the card was bricked, but someone mentioned this method, and the card was out of warranty anyway so I had nothing to lose from trying it, thankfully it worked like a charm. :)
 
@bobbydigital, where you seeing the missing capacitor mate? just looked at my WC'ed 280 cards, and there's only 3 caps visible just like in his pic.

Though the white stuff around the MOSFET's look dodgy, is that just thermal pad residue?
 
Fixed many cards using the oven trick
It was the lead that was the problem with the cards ,If they contain lead(which most dont) then i would not oven it but if it has no lead in it then no worries

200c for 8 to 10 mins and then open the door turn oven off but leave the card to cool down for half hour before moving I use 4 nuts and bolts through 4 of the holes to hold it off the tray much easier than 4 bits of foil

This is a good fix for corrupt card where the pic is 16bit colour etc or with artifacts (square blocks over the screen)
 
Putting it in the oven will definatly sort the solder out. I did an old 8800 gtx a while ago. I never got it working though but the solder did reset it self.

Just a tip - Do not touch or move the card once you bake it. Let it cool down fully before you touch it. I didnt do this and by moving it a handful of resistors fell off from the rear of the card. secondly make sure the tin balls are no where near any resistors or anything soldered on as once melted they will slide out of place from the tin balls.
 
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