Baking Computer Hardware

[TensaiBoy]

I have been researching on how to bake a graphics card for a bit and most of them agree on 3 things:

1. Temperature = ~385 degrees (pre-heated)

2. Time: 5-10 mins

3. PCB facing up

 

But I have not found anyone that has baked a desktop motherboard. Is it not safe because of all the plastic?

 

and are there any other tips that I can get before doing it?

 

Thanks

[Tea1337]

Why are you baking your parts? Unless it's something like an 8800GT, keep your parts out of the oven, If something needs to be soldered, use a soldering pin/iron.

[dragoon20005]

its more of a myth about the baking of component

 

and yes plastic will melt and give out toxic smell

 

 

don't!

[Jaybird]

baking anything other than food is not advised. please do not bake anything. like tea said, if it needs to be soldered, use a soldering iron. for that matter, if you feel something needs to be soldered just RMA what ever it is. 

[TensaiBoy]

well the card's warranty has expired about a year ago, so RMA is not an option. The problem with the card is that code 43 poped for my graphics card under display adapters, the screen resolution got messed up. So then I swap the faulty card with an AMD card. Then the resolution can be maxed out again. Since I know for a fact that the card is the problem, I guess I'm need to find a way to fix it. The capacitors on the card seems fine. So I'm just guessing baking it will solve the problem since I have nothing to lose. 

[AlwaysFSX]

baking anything other than food is not advised. please do not bake anything. like tea said, if it needs to be soldered, use a soldering iron. for that matter, if you feel something needs to be soldered just RMA what ever it is. 

Baking is mostly for solder point that you can't really get to or if there's a lot of them that you have one swift process. I agree with baking but not at 385F. Around 200 or so should do or whatever the melting point of the solder is.

[Clyne]

Well baking it would be a larger risk than using a solder iron, if you can't solder or solder that well then i suggest taking it to your local pc shop to repair it.

[TensaiBoy]

http://imgur.com/LJxGwS6

Well this just happened. I guess the card is dead?

[SlayerOfHellWyrm]

http://imgur.com/LJxGwS6

Well this just happened. I guess the card is dead?

1) Welcome to LTT!

2) Enjoy your stay (and follow the TShoot "instructions" in my sig

3) That is most certainly a dead card

4) What exactly is the card?

5) Never bake electronics... It'll reflow ALL of the solder, and this can cause multiple shorts, and for sure kill any component. If you need to reflow solder, use a heat gun, and tinfoil around the target, but not touching the rest of the components to pull the heat away from the non-target components. If you can reach the solder points, solder it with a soldering gun/iron, or get someone else to do it, if you aren't comfortable, or know how