Baked graphics card

Kreubs

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Baking your graphics card is an awesome way to bring it back from the dead.

Ok, so I had a 9800GT sitting in a box for a year and a half because it had been artifacting. I am glad I didn't take it apart because just the other day, I thought of trying the oven trick. I took the heatsink off and cleaned that sucker up, put in on foil balls, and popped it in the oven at 200° C for 8 minutes. I noticed the board was a little warped, but I never really examined it before hand so that may have been the actual cause of the issue.

Here it is fresh out of the oven. :D
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Now my once dead graphics card is now pumping pixels in an older machine.
CUDA cakes anyone?
 
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ponyboy

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some nerd: Baked graphic cards makes graphics on ur comp 1515153532341413414x12389190381309183 pixels
 

Jack

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It'd probably taste better if you actually put icing or something on top.
 

DamageINC

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Nice one Kreubs!

Pony, the oven helps melt the solder and reset the connections etc as far i as i understand it.
 

Nate

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i tried this once, didnt work for me lol, the capacitors popped. lol
 

Nate

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temp was 250 F i think, preheated, shoved the card in walked out the room, heard a pop like it was in a microwave lol pulled it out capacitors popped off, some were swollen
 

Predator'

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temp was 250 F i think, preheated, shoved the card in walked out the room, heard a pop like it was in a microwave lol pulled it out capacitors popped off, some were swollen

I dunno why it would have done that doesnt sound like you had it in very long.
 

Kreubs

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temp was 250 F i think, preheated, shoved the card in walked out the room, heard a pop like it was in a microwave lol pulled it out capacitors popped off, some were swollen

That's a bummer :/ I put mine in at 385° F and they didn't even budge. Were they swollen beforehand?
 

Nate

K3's Caribbean dude
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Nope, everything was fine visibly, this was abt 2 weeks ago maybe..gots no funds for a new card atm, using intel HD3000 graphics....siggh oh well :)
 

Joe Momma

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Former Krew Member
Baking can work wonders. You prob just added another 6-8 months of life into this card. After that you might need to rebake. The chance of it working again a 2nd time drops a bit. By the 3rd bake it becomes really slim.
 
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