I Baked My GPU

[Omnificent]

So today, I was fortunate to come across a guy who was giving away some PC components. He said he had a 775 mobo with some bent pins. When I show up to obtain this motherboard he also gives me an 8800 gts a power supply and some RAM. The power supply is not working. I jumper the green and black together and it makes a hissing noise and the fan doesn't spin or light up. The ram is good, and I haven't tried to bend the pins back on the motherboard.

Now, to the fun part. I tried the 8800 gts and green lines appeared that went vertically up and down my screen. Green dots also appeared all over the start screen of windows. Windows 7 showed the card in device manager as existing but that it had reported a problem and was not working (code 43). I read up on this error and stumbled across some ideas about baking the video card in the oven. This sounded intriguing. I did some more searching and low and behold I came across a Linus tech tips video, that if I had watched I had forgotten, of Linus himself baking what looked to be the same exact model of video card I have. I did what he did, set the oven to 385ºF, took off the fan and heat sink and grease, propped it up on some tin foil balls and baked it for 8.5 minutes. Put it back together with some thermal grease on the GPU and popped it in my system.

No more green lines! Windows detects it perfectly! What the hell happened?

My questions to you guys are:

Have you ever done this?

Did it work?

Why does this work?

Was it because i re-applied the grease, because I baked it, or both?

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[Dave :)]

I assume it works due to allowing the solder to soften and thus reform with "stronger" connections between each component. Although, it seems to be a very fine line between fixing it and just causing more problems - but if it's worked for you then that's great!

[Kilmer02]

Don't ask how it works, just be thankful that it did!

[JohnWeiand]

Its because the salder point in the card where damaged, by baking it, you repaired them and made the card work again, as of the fact that you did not report any BSOD I don't think it was the grease because the card wasn't overheating, and I haven't tried it myself no...

[Aredlac]

Don't ask how it works' date=' just be thankful that it did![/quote']

lol ^^^ this

[Omnificent]

I sure am grateful, I will probably just give it to my parents once I find a power supply that is capable of supplying it. I know their HP something or other will enjoy the upgrade.