Broken Video Card, Motherboard, HDTV or Laptop? PUT IT IN THE OVEN!!!

[DaRizzle]

So long story short today my somewhat nice video card crapped out on me. In my desperate search to figure something out I stumbled upon this thread:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1421792

Basically it says to put your striped down graphics card in the oven for about 8.5 minutes at 385 degrees to fix it! AND IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!

The idea behind it is you liquify and reharden all the soldier points which fixes the microfratures that occur over time from heating and cooling.

My video card preped for the oven...hahaha

 

[VanillaGorilla]

WTF thats awesome lol

 

[Denny Crane]

And it now smells like tuna casserole.

 

[GriLtCheeZ]

That is awesome! Do you play Black Ops?

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

freeze a hard drive, cook a video card.

 

[jlprk]

I once had a fried graphics card too, but I never even thought of cooking it.

 

[Wheels]

wow great info thanks Rizz!!!

 

[DaRizzle]

That is awesome! Do you play Black Ops?

yes i do...but was sorta pissed with the black ops being so glitchy

 

[DaRizzle]

Day 2 and video card still kicking ass...

I read on the link I posted that it usually lasts for 3-6 months BUT you can just repeat the process...one guy said he baked his card back to life 3 times over already


PS...HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

[DaRizzle]

freeze a hard drive, cook a video card.

Wow...just googled that, thanks! Gonna try to recover pics on a busted HD

 

[Bob Dobalina]

Wow...just googled that, thanks! Gonna try to recover pics on a busted HD

Wow. I'd never heard this before. That is awesome. I think my mom's video card is going out on her, I may be doing some baking soon!

 

[speeds]

Basically the same as the towel trick for broken xbox's.

 

[DaRizzle]

^lotta people using a heat gun on xboxs evidently

 

[MARIS61]

This is nothing new.

KP preached it to us for years.