LOL should try this on my dead 3850 and see

LOL bumping 2 years tred just 4 this?

Hahaha. +1 GC Baking service...

That day I PM @TS, he say his GC died 1 month after 2nd baking... LoL...

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Added on September 1, 2012, 12:32 amYeah. My GC fails me

This post has been edited by sanderz: Sep 1 2012, 12:32 AM

Too bad......thought can last until now
still need to move on for new GC.

Before baking the graphic card please beware of the capacitors. If you have electrolytic ones, then remove them otherwise they will bloat from the heat. Also do not exceed 250C to 300C for too long. A soldering heat gun would be the better choice instead of the oven...

Then just get a new/another one...

i think my galaxy 9800GT are having all solid caps....should i try? but i dont have oven

No point actually, the success rates of using the oven are actually very low. You will likely cause further damage and/or kill off your graphic card. If you want to know the true method then check the Youtube example videos below...

might try it, i have dead 4850. now use 7850.

what is suitable temperature for this method and how long?

200C / 385F @ 10mins

I got interested in oven baked graphic card (to revive back dead/ artifact gfx card)
my Sapphire HD 6790 ... suffer from a severe artifact , twice actually, the first time .. I send for RMA, its took 6-7 week.

survive 1 years after the RMA, then of of sudden in end oct 2015. its just boot up with Blank screen & boot in bios with severe horizontal artifacts.
kept it for almost month in box.

then found out about oven baked graphic card online:


http://www.overclock.net/t/1511575/bringin...y-step-tutorial

credit to the KamaYeah

I tried it on my Sapphire HD 6790, and it works.
So far 4 days already, past couple days I run COD black Ops 3 on it. @ medium setting @ 1600x900
So fa so good.

I re-apply thermal paste.

I download the new crimson software run with it.
I change the manual fan in overdrive run it 100%
idle @ 40'C ... Full Load at 58'C

its a common practice in the west..... i have macbook with a dead graphic card which is embedded ..... so i was advised to bake the whole mobo ! which is no easy task...unless it was a desktop !

but the there chances that the problem may re-occur.

i used a hair dryer for my laptop, works for while then kong again lol

is it... doesn't work all the time !

U need more heat, especially with modern ROHS standard, manufacture are required to use lead-free solder which melt at roughly 217C, compare to the leaded solder which melt at 180C. A hair dryer only can provide at best 110C. Try a heatgun next time.

yeah ...i think a hairdryer is not enough to melt it!

And also there another myth that circulating around
Some say that it is not the BGA solder itself that gone bad, is the bumpgate itself that is bad, bumpgate is the joints that connect the silicon die to the chip carrier. In the layer, the solder is ruined. That also can be reflow to get it fix temporally, and that also what explain why some laptop after a reball the exact same prob come back again. During the process of removing the chip from the board, the bumpgate are exposed to heat therefore being "fixed". Is the process that fix it, not the reball that fix it.

hi, do you know where i can reball an old ibook ?

Specifically for apple, i dunno where, but most of the laptop specialist repair shop got do. And don't ask me where to do, because i never send my stuff to get it done before.
Before u think of reballing, watch this :

I have previously tried doing it to my msi gtx560 two years ago and how stupid am I , I baked the card upside down, .. capacitors facing down. after baking I notice all the caps falls off , so please be aware of this if you guys want to try. haha , then a month ago my bros gtx 460 got artifact, I baked it the right way and to my surprise it really works. hopefully It will last for another year or so.

Hmm... So in the end do u resolder those cap back yourself ?

And also another advise is don't attempt to bake cards that still using electrolytic capacitors, they are rated 105C max, u are gonna heard it burst and pop.