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    « on: December 16, 2009, 02:10:29 PM »
    After years of research and finally getting off my lazy ass, 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

    http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a179/Stafford13/Video%20card%20bake/1208091835.jpg
    http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a179/Stafford13/Video%20card%20bake/1208091835a.jpg
    http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a179/Stafford13/Video%20card%20bake/1208091900.jpg
    http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a179/Stafford13/Video%20card%20bake/1208091923.jpg
    http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a179/Stafford13/Video%20card%20bake/1216091347.jpg
    http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a179/Stafford13/Video%20card%20bake/1216091356.jpg
    http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a179/Stafford13/Video%20card%20bake/1216091404.jpg

    *EDIT*

    Numero Dos tested with:
    3dMark 06 - 3819 - 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
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    « Reply #1 on: December 17, 2009, 01:02:26 PM »
    OMG wow dude that's amazing that it all worked for you!
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    « Reply #2 on: December 17, 2009, 02:55:57 PM »
    haha i read about this on lifehacker or wherever it was posted.  I was thinking about doing it with my old x1900GT but the warnings about toxicity for anything afterwards in the oven kept me from trying it.
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    « Reply #3 on: December 17, 2009, 03:05:10 PM »
    If you see anything start to ooze then you should put a mask on and throw in the trash outside, other than that if you do it right you can't really harm anything.
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    « Reply #4 on: December 18, 2009, 02:54:08 AM »
    Have to watch out for those crazy lead and mercury fumes. But thats pretty cool that it works, do you think it could be used to fix the RRoD on the xbro motherboard?
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    « Reply #5 on: December 18, 2009, 08:00:01 AM »
    probably have to use a heat gun and figure out the specific area you need and build a heat shield out of aluminum foil

    and yeah, the only thing you have to worry about is if the solder is lead based, but 99% of the time it wont be
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    « Reply #6 on: December 18, 2009, 03:45:41 PM »
    God damn those RoHS regulations. Ill get you back someday, EU...
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    « Reply #7 on: December 18, 2009, 04:20:06 PM »
    thats crazy that that worked
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    « Reply #8 on: January 03, 2010, 09:14:24 AM »
    Thats cool! I got a videocard that I wanted to fix, now I know that I can try this!
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    « Reply #9 on: January 03, 2010, 04:34:31 PM »
    Let us know how it goes boba!
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