*** Baked a GPU back to life ***

[NEOAethyr]

Would this work on a 8600gt that is completely dead from overheating?

I killed when putting together my mom's computer, didn't use a fan, since I have a big heatsink epoxied to it.
Figured it would be fine, I ran for a year without a fan.

Though in this case, the card was facing down, the normal direction in most cases.
Which caused the heat to get trapped.
Card ran for 40mins and died completely, board won't post with it in it.
Actually 2 board's won't post with it in them...

If I could fix the card this way I could sell it on ebay, lol just messing.
I'de give it to my brother with my asus nf980 board and 2 gigs of ram plus a 4600+.

Thinking of wood blocks for the stand off.
Not sure if my mom would flip out on me, she don't care if I wash my boards in the tub but she might not like me sticking boards in the oven.
Might have to wait until she's gone somewhere...

I'm thinking another way might be to find a few cement blocks to stack up, and light a fire under it for a half hour...
That way I don't have to worry about mercury or lead saturating my oven...

[chew*]

For those of you having done this and had it work for a week then die again, do it again but longer, and if it dies again longer with a tad more heat, repeat till either it dies completely or stays alive.

Did this with my PS3 4 times, finally its running for well over a month now.

[railer]

So far in 5 years i baked my MB, my sound card and my GPU. All got fixed. And my wife does not belive me that i can cook.

[Computurd]

So far in 5 years i baked my MB, my sound card and my GPU. All got fixed. And my wife does not belive me that i can cook.
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ROFL!


yeah i know a guy who jumped in the shower with his mobo and did unspeakable things to it....

okay okay, he just scrubbed the crap outta it under a shower head with soap, rinsed very well then baked it. works great! as a matter of fact i believe he has some hardware points on the bot with it

[killerxp100]

Going to try fixing a HD 4890 using this.

[BETA911]

Succesfully baked:
HD4870X2
HD4870
HD4890
8800GTX (2 cards already)
8800GTS 320
8800GTS 640
2900XT (2 cards already)

So basically, really cool trick . Excepts the flow is needed again within months, looking for a more lasting solution...

[Wega52]

Baked a 8800GTX back to life a couple of weeks ago, and it's still going strong. Nice trick

[DexNfX]

Thanks for sharing this tip. It gets the job done.

[C-N]

Nice & well saved

I've also done it with RAM successfully & a CPU unsuccessfully

[fitipaldi]

So far in 5 years i baked my MB, my sound card and my GPU. All got fixed. And my wife does not belive me that i can cook.

Haha! Why you baked sound card? What was wrong whit it?

[Hausmeister]

In December my 9800 GTX stopped working - and I also tried to bake it back to life.
It worked Fine - as a side effect it also reaches higher overclocks now than before (about 50mhz more on core).

Because I always read to preheat the oven I want to share what I did:

I didn't preheat the oven, just put it in there, set to 200°C and waited until it reached the temperature and immediately took it out to cool off.
The Power connector pins did sink a bit so I guess this was already nearly to much.

[davidkozat]

Yeah It worked!! My friend and baked my old 8800 GTX tonight and it worked been doing crazy benchmarks and it looks stable this a great idea, I was getting crazy coloured lines for months until I bought a 480GTX now I wish I would of done this earlier ...

[Q56_Monster]

I baked my laptop's dead 7900gtx...now my daughter has a new lappy!

[-=DouglasteR=-]

I just backed an Xbox 360 back to life too !

feels good man !

[fatherTime27]

awesome

[Nikolasz]

I got one old one nv6600 dead, going to bake it soon

[kikicoco1334]

been therrr done that got the t shirt

[OC Maximus]

I got like 10 of them t-shirts

[Ket]

Nice revival story, but I would of just ditched the thing. Not like its pretty on that fugly green PCB. Also gotta think, how long before it dies again?

[Nikolasz]

Today my older 9800gtx start to crash. Like weird dos boot up problems even when bios counts memory, asci caracters poping up, and finaly unable to load into windows..
So i deside to clean abit more my gfx, and no progress here, it was same. Then i deside to bake it. But i say no, first I rather go vga bios replace found sourse on net and i replace it, and now it works ok.

[CrazyNutz]

Glad to hear you fixed it

[breathemetal]

I've baked both of my 8800's (GTX) many times...over and over, and each and every time it fixed them!
Sometimes for weeks, sometimes for over a month or two.
Luckily those days are behind me for now, a new upgrade is being ordered tonight!

[Walrusbonzo]

It's a nice trick. I've used a similar heat-gun trick to fix PS3s for a while now.

For those of you doing this fix and it failing quite soon after. Get some flux pens and flux the hell out of the chip before baking it. This should help stop the joints drying out which is what makes them brittle, crack and ultimately fail.

[The Jesus]

Hmm, never heard of this (know of the 360 RRoD fix with a similar method), definitely keeping this in my "silly things that work" book.

[Bobsama]

Haha! Why you baked sound card? What was wrong whit it?

Probably for better audiofidelityness--the opposite of treating it with liquid nitrogen.