welcome to Resurrection blog this is something that I have been planning to
do for quite some time with this dead
GTX 780ti you see nothing NADA dead no
signal boom done but had my hand forced
a little bit by the death of the Intel
750 series SSD in personal rig update
2015 yes my friends while I was affixing
this lovely EK water block or more likely while I was removing the stock
heat sink the 750 series SSD died so we
are going to use a tried and true well a definitely tried and
hopefully true method of bringing it back to
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know technically you're not supposed to run it with no heat sink no that is not
how it died I am only running it for a couple seconds to demonstrate that it is
in fact not working um before we get started here
this is a lot faster than putting the stock heat sink back on it uh since I'm
going to have to remove that to attempt my resurrection anyway
NVMe configuration
nothing also this monitor does that
sometimes boom dead drive here we go so
the science behind this Resurrection method is actually fairly simple whether
due to uh Heating and Cooling therefore
expanding and Contracting or some other type of physical stress the theory is
that some of the solder joints on the board between the chips and the PCB
Could Have Become broken over time and
by heating up the component to the melting temperature of that solder you
could allow it to Reflow and reconnect becoming fully functional again but
before we get into all the stuff you'll need to perform this particular little
miracle I want to start with a hefty disclaimer this will Avid the crap out
of any warranty you may still have so if your product is covered by the retailer
or manufacturer warranty do not do this
instead go through the proper warranty channels in my case both my video card
and my SSD are review samples with therefore no warranty coverage
whatsoever so we have pretty much nothing to lose at this point except our
time and if you're going to watch this video I guess yours as
well so let's run through what we got here we have ourselves a Wolf Gang Puck
oven that was generously donated by Luke to lonus Media Group because Linus media
group's employees made it so filthy and disgusting that he pretty much doesn't
wanted anymore so I'll be cleaning this out uh before trying to repair any video
cards in it it's important to use an oven that can reach 385 degrees fhe and
that you never intend to cook food in ever again because as the guide that I'm
following on over clockers from like 2009 pointed out if you are reheating
stuff like this in an oven there can be um gases and materials LED off that can
contaminate future food that you cook inside it the next thing we'll need is
screwdrivers for taking apart our components our SSD is conveniently
already disassembled but the video card will need its heat sink removed then we
will need aluminum foil this will be to wrap the oven tray as well as to uh
separate the PCB from the oven tray we'll show you guys how to do this later
on and we will need some replacement thermal compound for our hardware for
when we reassemble it assuming that it survives the baking process all
right so let's get to cleaning then ew
oh that's
gross why don't we have a host uh cuz
Ivonne wouldn't let us get one Ed asked why we don't have a hose
see she doesn't deny it that's why isn't
it I wanted a hose I also wanted like a utility sink
out there there why did they get the large ones it's like whoever bought
these forgot that I work here swimming in
there new one for that and I take the
old one here's a funny idea anyone who
leaves their dishes in the sink unwashed I'll wash it with
this look at that it's like wearing right through the uh scouring pad yeah
I've never used it either I suspect Brandon and
Taran ew look at this one there's like a hanger in
here ew got to be
cheese uh okay so this is a really short cord but that's okay because that's why
extension cords exist I'm not a huge fan of run running like an oven off an
extension cord but what
um okay here we go standard bake
convection bake slow cook roast
broil rotisserie let's do standard
bake temperature 385 or
375 does it make a sound when it reaches
the I would think so should go beep beep
beep so we can use the time while our oven is preheating to strip down our
video card that definitely stinks that is
gross oh kind of smells like cancer yeah
it smells like an oven that hasn't been turned on in a year and that was
disgusting the last time it was turned
on now this is one key difference between stripping down a card for water
cooling For example and stripping down a card for baking is that you're actually
going to want to remove as many of the plastic housings on things like fan or
LED connectors as you can make sure you note the orientation as you pull them
off otherwise you're going to have a bad time putting them back together don't
try to take off stuff like the PCI Express power connector housings uh
those Will Survive the bake just fine oh
shoot oh I'm an idiot oh wow oh that
smoke that is so gross okay
well I have to pull the tray out because
you're supposed to wrap it
okay damn it oh weird it's like curling
can can you not do that Mr Trey thank you so this y this is cool enough
now so let's wrap this baby up now the
guy doesn't say shinys side out or shiny
side in but that looks like the shiny
side out it's amazing how how many like non baking people will not realize that
aluminum has a reflective side and a matte side for not reflecting as
much yep you learn something every
day every day that you watch this show
which should be every day you have videos every day un now the next step is
to create little aluminum
balls just like that we're going to use these to keep
the PCB of our SSD or graphics card off
of the tray itself it's important not to
position them on top of one of the components that we want to resolder so
you want this just touching the bare PCV which might make it a little tricky just
be careful and go slow I think this side
is probably my best bet but then this is
probably the side I think was most likely damaged by removing it so maybe I
want H okay so if I went like
this kind of wish I had smaller balls
aluminum balls so let's make sure we're
not making contact with anything we shouldn't be any surface mount
components or anything like that looks like we're good it's at 385
standard bake okay let's get
baked okay
timer start start start
timer I don't know well okay it's 4:33
so at 4:41 we pull it
out and hope for the best you should
never just pull it out and hope for the best that's why you only need one glove
cuz it can do up to five at a time although that might be a bit of a
bottleneck I'm pretty sure it's working it's hot gentle now okay this is a terrible
terrible situation because oh no wait wait no maybe it's
okay uh okay I need it to come out a little bit further I don't want it to
shift on those balls
though okay here we go I got to be
dextrous with this glove
okay now we let it cool to room
temperature um it's very cold in here maybe I'll cool it to a room temperature
near the oven um or on top of the oven or well
okay that seems like a bad idea yeah I don't want to put it
down I don't know what to do with it I don't want to hold it the whole
time okay well I want to start baking the video
card here at some point can you reuse
the balls yeah no it's okay I'll just hold it
actually I think I can probably I can
probably do this without yeah there's like nothing on it
here so I'll just put one there ew ow ew
okay this whole I had the glove
pan okay I forgive you all right okay so
the video card is done now too it's
definitely warm ouch um I'm just going
to put this here for now and let's try the
SSD come on well there's lights on on it
I don't remember if it had those before Oh I don't see it in the boot
priority thing I don't know if it
worked
crap well I guess I might as well try baking it one more time don't have
anything to lose maybe I'll try flipping it the other way this
time the black like under part of the sticker is still there it's like sticky
but the barcode is completely done by contrast our sticker that we put on it
is just fine it's not the outcome I wanted but
if the GTX 780 Ti works then at least this is for something cuz I can use this
for a new render server concept that I have that I'll be building out pretty
soon with that said I'm not going to count my chickens at this stage in the
game anyway but let's see how it
goes come on baby let's get something out of this
exercise I'm pretty sure we should have a display by now wait
wait hey all
right so the video card is back from the
dead rock on that's
fantastic all right let's take another crack at the SSD
then oh crap I don't know how long this has been
done well what are we going to do kill
it more at this point shut up
Brandon oh wow we overcooked it
it looks dark I can't tell I thought I saw steam Rising oh you know what it's
probably from I oh my goodness ow ow my
fingers no I think the steam is like I accidentally spat a bit I think it like
well okay I'm not trying to just spit all over shut up everyone just shut up
one of the tricky things is that different boards will use different
soldering techniques and different solder materials so just because
something works well on a graphics card made by NVIDIA doesn't mean that it
works well on an SSD made by Intel
unfortunately I don't have like special guidelines for 750 series ssds oh well
you should use this temperature for this long so we just have to kind of hope for
the best here the good news is our 780ti
is running the heaven Benchmark with no issues whatsoever
so yeah let's take another crack at it eh
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