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Fire-Flare
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by Fire-Flare » Fri Aug 13, 2010 2:16 am
I've cleaned all the AS5 off and made sure there's none touching any metal bits, but still not getting a response out of it.
I've heard baking it in an oven has a good chance of repairing traces and solder that may have cracked while I swapped the cooler, but is there anything less drastic I should try first?
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KayDat
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by KayDat » Fri Aug 13, 2010 6:52 am
If you shorted something, then it's pretty toasted. Were you careful to work in a clean area, and made sure to ground yourself before/during working?
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fumino
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by fumino » Fri Aug 13, 2010 8:37 am
i've heard of the oven trick too; if your card is dead, is it really that drastic?
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Deucal
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by Deucal » Fri Aug 13, 2010 12:01 pm
The oven trick does work.
Did it with an apparent dead nVidia 8800GTX this summer.
Easy DIY vids on youtube
200C° for 10 mins was enough for mine.
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Fire-Flare
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by Fire-Flare » Fri Aug 13, 2010 2:25 pm
KayDat wrote:If you shorted something, then it's pretty toasted. Were you careful to work in a clean area, and made sure to ground yourself before/during working?
Placed it on a paper towel and used a clean wood-topped desk. Clipped my antistatic strap to the PCI brackets.
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Fire-Flare
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by Fire-Flare » Fri Aug 13, 2010 2:26 pm
fumino wrote:i've heard of the oven trick too; if your card is dead, is it really that drastic?
Sounds risky to me.
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psyopper
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by psyopper » Fri Aug 13, 2010 4:11 pm
If the card is dead then it's really not that risky at all. In fact it's risk reversal if he doesn't try - he may just wind up spending $200 on a new video card when he could have spent ten minutes baking his "bad" card for free.