Posted by alenn
So I got a 8800GT XFX Alpha Dog edition for 15 bucks. (or 100HRK in Croatia)
Why so cheap?Because the guy obviously didn't know anything about hardware.
The GPU had a lot of artifacts and only ran in 800x600 resolution with 16-bit colors with many horizontal stripes and it crashed in games.
And then I surfed the net and found this thread...
That is yesterday,but today I finally got it in the oven!
I removed the cooler with the heatsink and just took the GPU's mobo and made 4 aluminium foil cubes to keep it from it from the plate.
I pre-heated the oven @ 200C or 385F.
I put it in and waited 10 minutes.
It didn't even smell bad.It didn't even smell hehe
No dangerous vapors!
Guess what.....it worked!
Me happy!
And some of you fellow Esatonians may know this method before me,but if you have a dead GPU laying around..why don't you try this?What do you have to lose?A dead GPU?
But the thing is,I don't have any thermal paste so I have to wait till Monday..
Posted by hihihans
Next time you may want to fry your screen for crispy colours
It always feels good when you fixed something. Good luck cooking.
Posted by alenn
Aaah..the smell of chips from the oven.
No,not that chips
Some other chips...
Posted by markphil
it's like a PS3 cpu and gpu...... if yellow light of dead occur
Posted by alenn
And Xbox RROD!
And it all fails because newer hardware uses lead-free soldering
Posted by hihihans
Try the microwave
