Video Card Bake

[StaFForD]

After years of research and finally getting off my lazy behind, I baked my 2 dead video cards, card 1 (The Original) was completely dead and couldn't even boot. Card two (Numbero Dos)started giving me artifacts on boot and then ended up at random times crashing with artifacts on the screen.

What I did

1. Preheat oven to 385 degrees Farenheit

2. place card with 4 aluminum foil balls on each corner, heatsink down, on the middle of a pan and in the middle of the oven.

3. wait 8-10 minutes (I did 8 on The Original and 9 on Numbero Dos)

4. Turn off oven and crack door for natural cooldown for 10 minutes

5. Remove pan from oven and leave in the open till cool.

7. Clean and reapply Thermal Paste

8. Clean and reattach heatsink with Thermal Adhesive

9. Wait a few hours (I was just starting finals in college so I waited a week lol)

10. Put in laptop and test!

So far both cards boot up without artifacts, I just reassembled my laptop to start stress testing the first card, will let you know how it goes

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*Edit for stress tests*

Numero Dos tested with:

3dMark 06 - 3849 - 87 degrees - no artifacts

TF2 - 40-50 FPS - 80 degrees - no artifacts - 1 hour

The Original tested with:

3dMark 06 - 3896 - 80 degrees - no artifacts

TF2 - 40-50 FPS - 79 degrees - no artifacts - 1 hour

Edited December 16, 2009 by StaFForD