Reply 17080 of 52886, by TheAbandonwareGuy
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wrote:wrote:Cleaned the 7800GS OC inside and out. Waiting for it to dry completely before trying it. Some of the screws that held the cooler on were rusted and the cooler was full of this black gunk crap I cannot identify. Not good signs.
I'm going to try the bake trick on the two 8800 and the GTX285. The others aren't worth the trouble/waste of thermal paste or need caps first. At least by the time I'm done with all this I should be a master in GPU repair.
Does anybody here have experience baking GPUs?
Yeah, and it was a bad experience. I tried baking a couple different dead cards and I guess I had the temp up too high because it melted all the plastic bits. The cards weren't really worth anything even if they did work so it wasn't really a loss.
What you really want is a soldering station with a hot air gun. Reflowing using one of those is a piece of cake.
What temperature did you use? I plan on removing the entire cooling assembly and as much plastic as I can. The PCIe connector can take the heat I believe as those should be made of a harder type of plastic.
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