1) The card is already dead. I doubt there's nothing worse than a dead card.

2) The problem lies with the soldering material. You see, those RoHs certified solders used on the GPU (the chip) are not as good as the lead-based ones. A reheating makes them reflux and puts the connection back to its proper place.

3) This method will also fix super-artifacting cards (i.e. half the screen is full of artifact while the other half remains clean).

4) Putting it into an oven(not microwave oven) is how the industry solders the cards properly, so it's perfectly safe(baking the card for 30 minutes is still NOT OKAY).

5) Those who got this problem are usually unlucky. It's not supposed to happen.

Always RMA before trying to bake it.

I guess I should mention this. This is pretty much the same way how people fix Xbox360's RRoD.

This post has been edited by blindbox: Dec 13 2009, 02:10 AM