Just cooked my graphics card...

[Eddyg]

Literally.. 190 C for 8 and half minutes in the oven! It works now!!!!

It was buggered and works a treat now! I have my laptop back YEY!

 

[s88urd]

wtf 190 degrees?! cards will usuall turn themselves off or start artifacting at around 100 depends on the model of GPU. Was this on the grill setting?

 

[H182]

wtf?

 

[Magic Johnson]

Do not get?

 

[Griff]

http://www.overclock.net/graphics-cards-general/529271-bake-your-graphics-card-oven-fix.html

 

[planetx]

that guy is hoooooooooooge!!!!

 

[Adam]

f**king beast lol

 

[SC03OTT]

He is the total opposite of what I'd imagine a computer geek to be.

 

[DrR]

What an oven?
How come he knows how to use it?

 

[Cookie]

I had that same case he has

Absolute b*****d to keep clean!

Think it's still in bits in my parents loft

 

[Eddyg]

Yea watched his vid before i did it and thought the same thing HUGE!! my mate thought i was watching a video about using pro-gain or watever!

If anyones interested the physics behind it is that it remelts all the solder and so that any micro fractures etc that are causeing bad connections sort themselves out. Its not in so long that the board and chip fry themselves. Worked for me

 

[clio_mad]

Is this the same method used to fix the PS3 problem?

 

[Eddyg]

I heard it originated from xbox.. It can fix a lot of stuff i saw one guy fix a motherboard with it.

 

[SC03OTT]

Is this the same method used to fix the PS3 problem?

Yes.

 

[Mike_182]

Dodgy nVidia chip? Fix won't last long...

 

[Jason_E]

Same as the Xbox fix where you suffocate it with a pillow so the solder melts.

 

[Eddyg]

Dodgy nVidia chip? Fix won't last long...

dunno we will see comp is like 4 yrs old soon. it overheated i think and seems to be working ok now..

 

[SC03OTT]

When done to the PS3, the fix only lasts a couple of months.