What Artifact is this and is fixable by baking?

[AizW]

After Failing once, I tried updating the bios that msi gave me personally, windows boots but gives no 3D acceleration, and if I try to use ubuntu, it gives me the same artifacts seen in this image.

that picture is what i saw after I restarted the pc from first failure, I was playing saw artifacts and the pc crashed.


I saw many videos baking cards, or using heatguns but I dont know which to do, if I should just use the heatgun on specific components of the card or bake it completely.

 

[USAFRet]

First off, put that whole 'baking' thing out of your mind. Completely. Utterly. Totally.

Second - is this a new issue?

Third - Please give us a full list of the parts in this. Make and model.

 

[AizW]

Well I tried everything that MSI support told me to do, drivers, bios, clear cmos, try differents psu, cables.

I never overclocked, the only issue i saw once... the fans were running slow because MSI Afterburner is dumb and disabled the autospeed for fans, card went up to 90º I noticed it because frames were dropping to avoid melting the card, i was playing crysis... but the card was running perfectly after that, the issue came months later and i was just playing league of legends, no overheating.

it is a MSI GTX 580 - cpu i5 2500 - psu corsair TX750 - Motherboard ASUS P8Z68-V.

 

[USAFRet]

Well, it might just be a bad video card. Time to start the RMA process.

 

[1LiquidPC]

Still don't see why people "bake" their cards either. I use mostly Lead-Free solder at work(most everything in consumer electronics), and it's needs a much higher temp to melt/reflow than traditional leaded solder. The oven isn't going to get hot enough to "reflow" a cracked/cold solder joint. A heatgun *may* work, but unless you know which BGA, whether the GPU itself, or VRAM ICs to reflow(if that's the problem) you can easily destroy the card unless you know what your doing.

 

[AizW]

Yeah, thats why I was trying to bake it I cant RMA warranty is over.

 

[1LiquidPC]

Well, it does appear that the card is bad, so you could try it to see what happens, but I'm not really expecting it to improve. Your probably going to have to replace.

 

[USAFRet]

Still don't see why people "bake" their cards either.

Because they saw it on a youtube video.

 

[AizW]

yeah I saw many videos and people commenting this in many forums so I wanted to experiment and learn new things, I was hoping any of you had some experience could guide me... I already ordered a new card so thats not a problem.

 

[sora]

You will probably need a new video card since that one looks fried. Also, baking a GPU is not the way to go.

 

[1LiquidPC]

For inspecting the card, you typically would need a good microscope and preferably an X-ray machine to inspect the solder joints of the ICs themselves, which is why it's not your typical DIY without these types of equipment. For reflow would be a decent heatgun and a circuit board preheater comes in handy. A tiny hairline fracture in the solder joint could be causing the problem.