Baking my 280 GTX

[fiskov]

Well, i took the plunge and decided to cook my card.

This is a continuation from my original thread I think my 280 GTX is blowing up (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=240297)

To sum it up, the card either pink screened or showed nothing, crashing the PC every time a 3D application was run.
E.g. You could boot into Windows 7 Safe mode, but you couldn't Windows 7 normally.. Due to Aero.

Anyway, lets begin with the pictures:

1. The Victim

http://home.btconnect.com/fiskov/images/280/1.jpg

2. Taking off the sticker

http://home.btconnect.com/fiskov/images/280/2.jpg

3. Removing the Screws

http://home.btconnect.com/fiskov/images/280/3.jpg

4. Remove the back

http://home.btconnect.com/fiskov/images/280/4.jpg

5.Remove the heatsink

http://home.btconnect.com/fiskov/images/280/5.jpg

6. Clean it up

http://home.btconnect.com/fiskov/images/280/6.jpg

7. Place the card on the baking tray

http://home.btconnect.com/fiskov/images/280/7.jpg

8. In the oven it goes.. 200C for 10 mins.

http://home.btconnect.com/fiskov/images/280/8.jpg

9. Oh ****, something appears to be very wrong here..

http://home.btconnect.com/fiskov/images/280/9.jpg

10. GPU has fallen out, and another bit appears to have dropped off.

http://home.btconnect.com/fiskov/images/280/10.jpg

11. Hmm, this bit appears to have come off one side too.

http://home.btconnect.com/fiskov/images/280/11.jpg

12. The empty GPU socket

http://home.btconnect.com/fiskov/images/280/12.jpg


OK, so.. i think i know where i went wrong.. Placing the card in the oven the wrong way dammit.

The card has been placed back in the oven, in an attempt to resit the GPU and the other bits which came off...

Well, it appears successful, everything re-soldered itself back into position.
But total, including the first attempt the gfx card has been in the oven for around 30 minutes.

[fiskov]

RE-ASSEMBLY

Ok, well.. after a little bit of soldering action and re-heating in the oven, the card *LOOKS* right.

13. Everything back in place..

http://home.btconnect.com/fiskov/images/280/13.jpg

14. Well.. It seems to be sitting properly.

http://home.btconnect.com/fiskov/images/280/14.jpg

15. Damn flash, thermal tape on the stuff.

http://home.btconnect.com/fiskov/images/280/15.jpg

16. Better picture of thermal tape.

http://home.btconnect.com/fiskov/images/280/16.jpg

17. ALL FINISHED! Hopefully putting the sticker back on will help it work!

http://home.btconnect.com/fiskov/images/280/17.jpg

[fiskov]

TESTING

18. Well, there it is.. Installed and ready to go!

http://home.btconnect.com/fiskov/images/280/18.jpg

19. RESULTS!

http://home.btconnect.com/fiskov/images/280/19.jpg

No Display, card fan was stuck on 100%, computer booted and thankfully didn't catch fire.

Conclusion.

FAIL

But, could it have worked if i hadn't of ****** it up? We will never know..

http://home.btconnect.com/fiskov/images/280/20.jpg

Well, i tried.

[MrDiaz]

Genius

[[XC] Oj101]

I'm sorry for your misfortune but that is :ROTF:

[Sn@ke:~]

I'm sorry for your misfortune but that is :ROTF:

sorry for you mistake, but buahahahah

I thought someone who would do that would understand that the idea behing cooking a card is to melt down the soldering in hoping that when you let it cool down in the oven for a few hour that all the soldering took place like it should originally giving back its contact point where it failed to do.

Very sorry for your misfortune.

you could add soldering in the little piece that as fallen and place the GPU core back in place and recook it in hoping that the core would resoldered itself in proper place, just make sure to align all the contact first.

Thought, you will need to add weight on top of the core in order to do so and i would weight the core and put the same amount of weight on top of the core when cooking. Make sure that the weight won't be melting too.

Regards

[[XC] gomeler]

Oh wow.. that is epic. No joke though that is pretty damn awesome and I'd personally just keep the GPU separate :D Good luck reassembling it, photo document it all and become an internet hero.

[ReaveN]

OMG!

hahahahahahaha

[iTravis]

I like this thread. Subscribed :D:D:D:up::up:

[Blackstare]

LOL! Awesome thread! It made me laugh when I saw that the GPU had fallen of xD

[NaMcO]

That really sucks :rolleyes:

But then again, this image is priceless:

http://home.btconnect.com/fiskov/images/280/10.jpg

:ROTF::ROTF:

(Sorry though!)

[[XC] Oj101]

If I pay for shipping can I have it? :rofl:

[fiskov]

If I pay for shipping can I have it? :rofl:

Heh, i was actually going to put it up in the "for Sale" section of XS, buyer just had to cover shipping costs.

And that was before i buggered it up!

But Nooope, stupid me decided i'd try to fix it.. Instead of letting someone who knows what there doing give it a go. :shakes:

[[XC] Oj101]

I just want the cooler if it will fit my GTX260, it looks AWESOME :D

[aythrea]

Sucks man. You might have had the chance if it hadn't been baked upside down. At least now we know you'll never do that again. :/

[IvanG]

OMG epic Fail , now we all know how do it next time!

lets do a min. of no typing for the lose.

[SoulsCollective]

BWAHAHAHAHA.

You just made my night. Thanks for the thread, and for making sure to take pics. I wish you the best of luck with your new card, whatever you choose.

[Mad-Marty]

Great Photos ... :D

I wonder why you didn't see it coming that the huge chip *could* fall of when the solder melts ;-)


Anyway, even if the GPU is aligned perfectly again after the fixing try ... 30 minutes @ 200 ° C is very long i think, so it might have destroyed some other parts too


What is your next card you are going to buy?

[Halo_003]

Ouch... That sucks. It's still epic though. I want to do it to a broken card just to get the GPU core now. :rofl:

[Jowy Atreides]

Failure, but legendary pic created in the process.

http://home.btconnect.com/fiskov/images/280/10.jpg

I can see this being stolen a few times by trolls

[[XC] Oj101]

Pity there's no video :D

[fiskov]

Heh, thing is.. I watched some youtube vids, saw some pictures of other attempts at doing this and people had put the card in that way round.
So i just assumed "Oh well, seems strange but should be ok" my brother even said to me, i think it should be the other way round. But i said and quote "This is how other people did it".

Looking back though, most the videos/pictures i had seen of other people doing it, they where all cheapo small GPU core cards, like a 8800GT at best.
It PROBERLY would have been alright, but when i was taking it out the oven i slightly banged the tray and thats when it dropped out.

Your right though, when the GPU had fallen out, i knew it was game over straight away, as a lot of the solder in the socket had started to spread, although i couldn't see it touching each other.. I'd imagine when i put it back in/with the weight of the GPU it spread.

Something else i'd like to warn people of if your going to do this, is the LED light on the back of the gfx card. It's a long piece of plastic in a C shape, which is really glued down and the only way to get it off it to snap it.
I didn't bother doing this, instead i just put it in the oven.

As you can see in the picture bellow though, at the very bottom theres a white blob.. Thats where it melted.

http://home.btconnect.com/fiskov/images/280/10.jpg

So if your going to try this SNAP THAT OFF!

Next card is 1 or more 480 GTX's hopefully, and if i come to doing this again, it will be the CORRECT way.

[avddreamr]

Oh my god, I'm so sorry, but thats f*cking hysterical. It would of only been funnier if the oven was hello kitty.

[jazkat]

ummm did you really throw it in the bin?

i noticed 2 of the transistors had been unseated... c440 and c406...

i had same prob with my card before it stopped working it would start up but with no display and card at 100% fan same as urs...

when i checked the card closely i had a prob with 2 transistors where they were soldered one side but the other side of 2 transistors had been unseated from the solder

so i soldered then back and the card came back to life.... just a thought

but then again ur gpu dropped out so maybe urs isnt as fixable.

[PreacherMan]

Hahaha! This is amazing. You made my day! :D

[Mabyboi]

ummm did you really throw it in the bin?

i noticed 2 of the transistors had been unseated... c440 and c406...

i had same prob with my card before it stopped working it would start up but with no display and card at 100% fan same as urs...

when i checked the card closely i had a prob with 2 transistors where they were soldered one side but the other side of 2 transistors had been unseated from the solder

so i soldered then back and the card came back to life.... just a thought

but then again ur gpu dropped out so maybe urs isnt as fixable.

Test this! the card is already F***ed, might as well give this a try!

great process otherwise :rofl::up:

[fiskov]

Sorry, i did actually bin it..

Before i finally binned it i reheated it again and took the GPU out, there was no way it was going to work again basically.. Like 2/3 of the pin holes where connected by solder.
I also think a lot of solder had been buggered by the number of reheats, as lots of it was burnt.

+ overall i think it was about 55 minutes in total it had been in the oven.

[Onoff312]

Wanna send me down the heatsink to Australia i really need one for my card AHHH

[Serpentarius]

this is epic ... detaching the gpu! :up:
man, that's insane ... but sorry for the loss ...

[Mic]

great story, just sorry to hear it didn't work. fixed two video cards with the oven trick before, but luckily never had any cards falling apart in the oven.

[insurgent]

I thought XFX had double life warranty? Amusing read but tragic at the same time =/

[Kartoff]

This is the right direction of baking a video card ! You did it well but i dont know why GPU is falling...
I bake video cards verry often here and allways with GPU down... Most of the times i have success with some 8400GS, 2x 7800GTX, 7900GS, 7600GS, 8800GTS etc...
So i think you did something wrong with your oven and maybe baking temperature was higher...

[btdvox]

200 bucks down the drain....lol

[audioave10]

Sorry for your loss...but a priceless lesson learned.
:eek: