How to "bake" your graphic card

pantherx12 · Nov 28, 2009

Take the shroud off and cable tie two fans to theheatsink perhaps?

DrPepper · Nov 28, 2009

pantherx12 said:
Take the shroud off and cable tie two fans to theheatsink perhaps?

I had the fan balancing on the motherboard blowing into the card while the fan on it was cooling the other core.

mchlor · Nov 29, 2009

do not bake your card.

Marineborn · Nov 29, 2009

Binge said:
Just like baking xbox 360s.

Lol, i was just about to say that, baking xbox's work, just remember to take your cd out....

mchlor said:
do not bake your card.

well holy shit thats a very good argument, and here i was gonna bake my card for no apparent reason maybe put some frosting on the top of it, LOL@mchlor what you gonna do with a dead video card use it as a coaster in which i do sometimes, but still if theres a chase thats theres a small break in the solder somewhere that baking will melt down and let reconnect i would say more power to youif you can get it to work

DrPepper · Nov 29, 2009

mchlor said:
do not bake your card.

It works.

zithe · Nov 29, 2009

If it works, those 8800GTX's could provide a cheap SLI/Tri SLI system or cruncher.

If it doesn't work and the cost of getting it repaired is not that bad, then it still probably will end well.

Xazax · Nov 29, 2009

I think with the 8800GTX you gotta put chocolate Frosting on them first, then once there finished baking you gotta put on sprinkles mmm.. wait or is that for cupcakes?

Wile E · Nov 29, 2009

Black Panther said:
The likelihood is that it melts 'broken points' sufficiently for them to spread and get 'soldered' back together.

Ie it will work only if there are broken points on your card.
If there's some other fault it won't work.

Which makes me think, before you try such methods there are ways to test whether your hardware's got 'broken points'...

Personally I use this product:

You spray holding the can upside down on the powered-on hardware and the condensation immediately shows you where the circuit is broken.

http://img.techpowerup.org/091128/Untitled306.jpg

3dsage said:
Nice, I have a couple of non working 775 mobo's laying around. Im gonna search for this product.
Great stuff

Any canned air does that.

KainXS · Nov 30, 2009

you can bake a cake with the video card inside and give it to someone you hate

"Oh CHOCOLATE CAKE THANKS^^"
takes a bite
"AWW MY TEETH WTF IS THIS"

ChiSox · Nov 30, 2009

I prefer baking ATI cards they taste better than Nvidia except the 3 series they were non-fat

engr_alas27 · Nov 30, 2009

I worked for me.. my card is resurrected.. im still using it now.. 8800gtx.. hehe.. the red lines and artifacts are gone..

MilkyWay · Nov 30, 2009

Dr Pepper if it works how come its still broke?

DrPepper · Nov 30, 2009

MilkyWay said:
Dr Pepper if it works how come its still broke?

Because at first it never posted at all and the LED's indicated there was no PCI-E 8 pin power. Baking it fixed that but that wasn't the only thing that was broken. I now get artifacting etc.

MilkyWay · Nov 30, 2009

DrPepper said:
Because at first it never posted at all and the LED's indicated there was no PCI-E 8 pin power. Baking it fixed that but that wasn't the only thing that was broken. I now get artifacting etc.

The memory is probly faulty. Sounds like this does work, kinda like how you get the temporary fix for the 360, heat it up till the solder becomes loose.

DrPepper · Nov 30, 2009

MilkyWay said:
The memory is probly faulty. Sounds like this does work, kinda like how you get the temporary fix for the 360, heat it up till the solder becomes loose.

Yeah its the memory it heats up instantly and it gave me a blister when I touched it. Same ram as on my 4890 and that runs fairly cool.

lism · Dec 1, 2009

On some older nvidia cards 'baking' is a used method to revive them back again.

Because of the bad solder somtimes used on cards, remelting the solder can sometimes revive it again. Otherwise its just good as dead.

KainXS · Dec 1, 2009

This really works, I was just about to throw my P35 Neo 2 FR motherboard away because it would not post, I put it in the oven@200 and 20 minutes and booted it up and it started up with no problem.

it works

PP Mguire · Dec 2, 2009

FUcking nice. I have some video cards ill do this too....or perhaps my current motherboard :laugh:

pantherx12 · Dec 2, 2009

Doing this to 3 PS2s soon

overclocking101 · Dec 2, 2009

lol this is awesome im going to try this with my 4850 tonight just for shits and giggles but i dont think itll work seeing how to much voltage killed it it still posts but gets the red lines as described in this thread worth a shot

KainXS · Dec 2, 2009

before you do it make sure you get the temp right, every oven is calibrated differently and if the older they get the more "off" they get.

overclocking101 · Dec 3, 2009

i gots one of them new crazy good glass top ovens lol baking right now will post my find

3dsage · Dec 4, 2009

Well if anyone was curious about the 8800GTX I got off ebay, it arrived. Had a sticker that said "Dead J3" which is what one of the DVI ports was labeled on the PCB. So things looked good so far.
Tried it out before baking, nothing, Blank screen.

So I cleaned it well, then
I Baked it 385* for 10mins.
Tried it out, nada, still no workie :cry:

.

So I decided to try the freezer technique (used for dead Hd's and Ram)
still no workie :banghead:

.

Then I tried deep frying it ( used for french fries) still nothing :laugh:

.

Oh well, no biggie.

DrPepper · Dec 4, 2009

3dsage said:
Well if anyone was curious about the 8800GTX I got off ebay, it arrived. Had a sticker that said "Dead J3" which is what one of the DVI ports was labeled on the PCB. So things looked good so far.
Tried it out before baking, nothing, Blank screen.

So I cleaned it well, then
I Baked it 385* for 10mins.
Tried it out, nada, still no workie.

So I decided to try the freezer technique (used for dead Hd's and Ram)
still no workie.

Then I tried deep frying it ( used for french fries) still nothing.

Oh well, no biggie.

Explain the freezer technique ?

3dsage · Dec 4, 2009

DrPepper said:
Explain the freezer technique ?

Basically stick suspected dead ram, hd's in the freezer for a few hours, then try it out. Supposedly has a 50% success rate.

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How to "bake" your graphic card

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