8800 GTX is baked and Comes back to life!!!!

[L1qu1d]

http://icrontic.com/articles/dead-8800-gtx-scienced-to-undeath-by-oven-mad-owner


Very Interesting and Funny!

 

[Kari]

@okini you have no clue how electronics are manufactured, do you?
Even the ati boards go through a 400f+ reflow, saying they would melt is just plain wrong.... granted the pcb gets a bit soft at the peak temperature but that happens to all of them...

 

[okini]

@okini you have no clue how electronics are manufactured, do you?
Even the ati boards go through a 400f+ reflow, saying they would melt is just plain wrong.... granted the pcb gets a bit soft at the peak temperature but that happens to all of them...

wow take it easy i was just messing with you ATI fanboys

 

[Kari]

well take your mess somewhere else

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

wow take it easy i was just messing with you ATI fanboys

My suggestion to you is, quit messin and start contributing/helping

 

[coozie7]

The Xbox and PSx boys have been doing this for years and it works for VGA cards. I've lost the threads but I have pointed two posters here to this solution to the same problem and both have replied that it works.
Should you doubt me just google reflow or check out Ebay for reflow ovens, as I did when I did not believe it the first time

 

[okini]

My suggestion to you is, quit messin and start contributing/helping

dude it was a joke. Im helping ppl. Ive done it on several threads.

 

[paperfox]

fake

no silicon product that can survive 400f +

if you had read the article it says he baked it at 385.

anyway, interesting stuff. i should have kept my old x850 to try it on

 

[roofus]

the oven bake does work but that is old news. not all survive very long after-wards though. i wouldn't purchase one knowing someone did this and expect it to last any amount of time.

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Yeah, if the balls dont form completely like before, theyre already set again to fail, and theres no control over it whatsoever

 

[nforce4max]

Wow this thread is a trolls delight but at least the obamabots don't mess with any thing that requires a moments though. As for ati and nvidia they have their strong point and weak points. Both need to improve.

 

[shorion]

It works! I just did it with my olg 8800 gtx AND gts both now work.

The plastic parts have gone a little cream/yellow color and strangely, the stickers are still white, all but 1 anyhow, that one burnt into a brown crisp. The dvi ports are now yellow/brown and the fan power plastic thino is yellow now. ANYHOW it works! and I've tried it with WIC for 8 hours max settings and no crash. Today I've been playing Left for dead 2 and no problems! 1 week and its still going

BEST FIX EVER! THANKS!

 

[Kari]

^-^ sounds like you overcooked it a little bit

 

[gregorio2]

You can also use "electric skillet" . Serious about reflow work? These guys are! Check em out!

http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/tutorial_info.php?tutorials_id=59

Here's some reflow ideas from guys who have tried many methods. I like their "electric skillet" method toward end of page.