Card died after cooler upgrade. Any revival suggestions?

Fire-Flare · Post 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?

KayDat · Post 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?

fumino · Post 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?

Deucal · Post 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

200CÂ° for 10 mins was enough for mine.

Fire-Flare · Post 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.

Fire-Flare · Post 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.

psyopper · Post 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.