Video Card Repair Oven Baking Technique to Repair Solder Guide Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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so while the oven preheats you can see the temperatures going up pretty quickly
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here well it was until I looked at it
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and tried to point out to somebody there it goes finally um so I want to show you
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the preparation process that goes on here first of all you put some aluminum
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foil I should mention I'm certainly not the one who discovered this um and there
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seems to be a lot of debate about how long to bake it for I'm going to try
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this guy for 7 minutes uh the general rule is that anything over 10 to 12
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minutes is probably too much and anything under 5 minutes is probably not
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enough I have some aluminum foil balls on all four corners of the video card
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holding it up you don't want it to make direct contact with your baking sheet or
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any other surface inside the oven and so as soon as that gets up to 385 we're
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going to go ahead and try this out so there's the card inside the oven it's
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kind of hard to see but uh I think you get the point it's in there oops excuse
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me my timer's going so uh once that runs down I'm going to go ahead and remove it
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and find out if the card works when you're removing it from the oven you want to be really careful bearing in
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mind the whole point of this process was to turn all of the solder points on the
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card to liquid so if you go and move it too fast or Flex the card then you're
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probably just asking for it to be even more dead than it was
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before okay I just took it out and it's
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actually fairly evident by the shininess
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of the solder points that are visible that the solder didn't indeed melt I
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can't really get it to focus right now but uh so my hope is that whatever was
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ailing it will be fixed and everything will be well reconnected and oh yeah sh
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up but I guess we'll test it let's find out what happens I'll let it cool for a
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while and then uh off we go okay this is the Moment of Truth a card is in the
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system so let's find out if we get a display on the monitor or not
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so far it is looking like or
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not
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well there you have it so I was not able
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to fix my 8800
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GTS with this method but that doesn't
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mean that it won't work if uh the problem actually is something becoming
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desoldered so there must be something else wrong with this card that is not
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related to that and it's time to throw it away thank you
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