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Fixing broken gpus

Cantaloupeman
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So there are a ton of broken gpus on ebay going really cheap. It got me thinking i wonder if i could buy one and fix it? I looked up some videos about baking it in the toaster, and they said that reheats the sodder joints. So what if i just went through and unsoddered and then resoddered every joint? Or what if there was a way to check for a flow in the cicuit board to see exactly what joint is causing the issue and then resodder that one? Are sodder joints the only thing that can cause a card to not work or are there other more complicated things? Thanks!

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thats like a slim chance of it working tbh, the baking method. You are lucky if it does work and that is facilitated that the solder point is the actual problem and not something else. 

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4 minutes ago, Cantaloupeman said:

So there are a ton of broken gpus on ebay going really cheap. It got me thinking i wonder if i could buy one and fix it? I looked up some videos about baking it in the toaster, and they said that reheats the sodder joints. So what if i just went through and unsoddered and then resoddered every joint? Or what if there was a way to check for a flow in the cicuit board to see exactly what joint is causing the issue and then resodder that one? Are sodder joints the only thing that can cause a card to not work or are there other more complicated things? Thanks!

This might help. As here the myth of reflowing is debunked.

 

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11 minutes ago, legacy99 said:

thats like a slim chance of it working tbh, the baking method. You are lucky if it does work and that is facilitated that the solder point is the actual problem and not something else. 

What else could be causing a problem other than a bad solder joint?

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8 hours ago, Cantaloupeman said:

What else could be causing a problem other than a bad solder joint?

bad memory, bad power delivery, bad chokes, bad capacitors... a whole slew of things

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