oven trick on a GX2

[Inioch]

Why not try a heatgun? I've done it a couple times on XBOX360's w/ Red Ring of Death and so far 3/3. That was using 600 F for 5min in a circle pattern, you don't want to concentrate the heat in one spot, on each side.

This is what I did to ressurrect a 4870 just last week. Thanks for the tip, by the way

With a heatgun you can just avoid the caps and other stuff more liable to melt/break.

 

[Perra]

This is what I did to ressurrect a 4870 just last week. Thanks for the tip, by the way

With a heatgun you can just avoid the caps and other stuff more liable to melt/break.

Done the same with 2 360:s with RROD, worked like a charm, installed x-clamp-fix on them afterwards to hopefully avoid RROD for a while

 

[newtekie1]

not to kick you in your balls, but next time try it GPU side up. You basically hung all the parts, then heated the solder, and of course they fell off when the solder got fluid. Someone should have tipped you off on this b4 you baked

LOL, sorry man, had to laugh at that.

I wondered why you put it in upside down, lol.

Go look at most of the other oven trick threads, they are all upside down also.

This I believe is the original oven trick thread, and the card is upside down.

The problem is the oven was obviously too hot, and the card was left in too long.

The original oven trick calls for 385°F, 200°C is 392°F, and yes that extra 7° makes a difference. It is the difference between the solder just barely starting to flow and the solder completely melting. Plus, different ovens run at different temperatures, some run hot some run cool, and even what rack it is on will effect temperature.

I would suggest anyone that is going to try this go buy a cheap oven thermometer and put it on the rack you are putting the card on to make sure the temperature is in the right area before you insert the graphics card.

And yes, a heatgun is a better way to do it, but not everyone has a heatgun sitting around.

 

[qubit]

Upside down or right side up, it may make no difference: if the card has components on both sides, then bits can fall off whichever way you put it in.

 

[Mussels]

if he'd done it the right way up it may have worked