@ BarbaricSoul or BazookaJoe
When you said your card wasn't working, how wasn't it working? Wouldn't boot?
I'm trying to figure out what kinds of problems baking fixes. I know it fixes the solder and all, but what problems does bad solder cause?
The SYMPTOM of these cards failure is usually what one would typically call "Memory Failure" and is generally seen as colored stripes or dotty line patterns thorough your display, and although it can sometimes prevent a system from loading , occasionally a faulty device will manage to beet as far as the desktop, but will typically not manage to get any further than that.
Whether or not it is necessarily ALWAYS a solder join failure is also a slightly debated topic - as I have read articles of actual PROVEN memory failure on a video card being repaired by this trick, something to do with the first vram chip on the board taking a lot more load than the rest typically do, as it also runs the frame buffer - and it's performance slowly degrading faster than that of the other chips, and eventually timing issues develop between the earlier chips and the later ones causing corruption, and the oven heat having a form of "wear leveling" effect on the vram's actual silicon.
All I really need to know is that my 2 8800GTS's where broked, and I baked them, and now they work
EDIT : (The fx5400 tho, seeps pretty fuxt to tell the truth
- But I'm going to try reattach the parts just for fun anyway)
