so while the oven preheats you can see the temperatures going up pretty quickly
here well it was until I looked at it
and tried to point out to somebody there it goes finally um so I want to show you
the preparation process that goes on here first of all you put some aluminum
foil I should mention I'm certainly not the one who discovered this um and there
seems to be a lot of debate about how long to bake it for I'm going to try
this guy for 7 minutes uh the general rule is that anything over 10 to 12
minutes is probably too much and anything under 5 minutes is probably not
enough I have some aluminum foil balls on all four corners of the video card
holding it up you don't want it to make direct contact with your baking sheet or
any other surface inside the oven and so as soon as that gets up to 385 we're
going to go ahead and try this out so there's the card inside the oven it's
kind of hard to see but uh I think you get the point it's in there oops excuse
me my timer's going so uh once that runs down I'm going to go ahead and remove it
and find out if the card works when you're removing it from the oven you want to be really careful bearing in
mind the whole point of this process was to turn all of the solder points on the
card to liquid so if you go and move it too fast or Flex the card then you're
probably just asking for it to be even more dead than it was
before okay I just took it out and it's
actually fairly evident by the shininess
of the solder points that are visible that the solder didn't indeed melt I
can't really get it to focus right now but uh so my hope is that whatever was
ailing it will be fixed and everything will be well reconnected and oh yeah sh
up but I guess we'll test it let's find out what happens I'll let it cool for a
while and then uh off we go okay this is the Moment of Truth a card is in the
system so let's find out if we get a display on the monitor or not
so far it is looking like or
not
well there you have it so I was not able
to fix my 8800
GTS with this method but that doesn't
mean that it won't work if uh the problem actually is something becoming
desoldered so there must be something else wrong with this card that is not
related to that and it's time to throw it away thank you
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