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I just baked my Intel NUC back to life!
awesome thread.
awesome thread.
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I just baked my Intel NUC back to life!
awesome thread.
Best thread on this board! I've successfully used this method like 5 times already!
Would this method work with a card that is artifacting? Or is it only for solder joints?
If people would recycle and do their part to keep environments clean and use proper safety equipment we wouldn't have near these issues.If they would just use leaded solder we wouldn't have near these issues.
I've found that most of the time it isn't the solder, but possibly the interconnects of the flip chip modules because I've heated a few cards a few times well under the temp needed to melt the lead free solder and those cards would usually work again for a time.
My mom's 10 year old Gateway laptop died. I opened it up, masked the surroundings around the chipset and integrated nv graphics with aluminum foil. Heated for 60 seconds with a heat gun.
Worked fine for about 6 months, now dead again despite improved airflow (created some conduits within the case).
For reference.
15 more years in the future and it will be necro'd by people who have gotten some weird form of cancer.
So bake this shit again! I baked my 8800 GTX around 4 times, and still sold it to someone else later, and as far as I know it trucked along for them at least another 6 months. A lot of people are quick to say "temporary fix". Yes, it is a "bandage solution", but what's the alternative?! Throw it in the garbage? I think not!
As long as your device keeps working, keep baking it, till it bakes to death one day...
I fear that the next fix will last less than the previous one. Was that the case with your 8800?
No, it wasn't. It lasted at least as long and possibly much more. I cant site remember now. It was like 8 years ago or more.
The other caveat of this "bandage fix" is that a normally repairable item that was fixable is no longer, and the repeated heating degrades otherwise good components. And for one claim that reflowing it a 2nd time made it work longer than the first would be followed by 90 others that said that it didn't. There are people out there who will replace the GPU chip for a reasonable fee. These people are hard to find, but they are definately out there.
Did anybody actually learn anything when this shit went big during the 360 RRoD fiasco? First it was people saying that others were using improper heat, and then it was said that those people who were using a IR setup were the only ones that were properly fixing them, then it was about reballing, then to finally using donar chips. Every step of the learning process, there were always folks who wanted to flame others to promote their own flaky service as "a working solution" when in fact, it wasn't. The bad thing is that there were businesses opened that banked on these techniques, and told people that if we cant do it, then it was perminantly screwed to begin with. This shit has been a very shady area for years, and all the wonky services offered from people and their false claims didn't help anything either.
Then you got the people who read this shit and try it, and if it doesn't work, send it in for warranty or a reputable technician and have to get an answer that they are basically SOL because they melted all the caps on the board...
How many of you are actually using a proper way to read temps, and are using flux?
I need to try this on a GTX 570. was there ever a consensus on whether baking vs heat gun was the preferred way to go?
I need to try this on a GTX 570. was there ever a consensus on whether baking vs heat gun was the preferred way to go?
so... The thermal pads pretty much all crumbled and fell off when I removed the heatsink. Will the card live long if it put it together without them?
Yep do it the right way will always be our answer.you should order up new pad, or salvage some out of a burnt up audio amp or inverter or something
you should order up new pad, or salvage some out of a burnt up audio amp or inverter or something
Yep do it the right way will always be our answer.
The ghetto but interesting method is super glueing a shim made of folded up tinfoil (secured so that it won't shred and cause a short). Drives heat away better than the pads and presses on the modules more.