First post, by Baoran
I posted here I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread. a picture of 4 graphics cards I found.
After testing them to my suprise it is actually ATI cards that work fine but there are problems with the Nvidia cards.
The Geforce 7800gs card seems to be working fine at first, but when 3d acceleration is started the screen goes black and monitor loses signal.
The Geforce 7600gs card never gives any vga signal at all.
I remember hearing somewhere that there is a chance to fix broken graphics card by putting it in an oven at 200C for 10 minutes.
How does this work in practice? Is it only meant for graphics cards that are totally dead like the 7600gs that I have?
I don't have a heat gun to do the same so I would have to use my convection oven. I know that normally I can use lower temperatures to cook things in that kind of oven, but would I still use exactly 200C temperature with a graphics card?
Would I keep the graphics card in the oven while oven is heating up or wait until oven is at 200C and only then put graphics cards in?