Fix your broken Geforce 8800 GTX By Putting It Into The Oven
 

I got the idea from another forum, because some guy in the UK bought a dead 8800gtx off of ebay that had red vertical lines through the screen...my card had the same symptoms...one day it locked up on me, rebooted, then locked up on me even quicker...rebooted, red lines all over the screen and windows wouldn't even boot. i tried the card in a friends computer with the same result...


sooooooo, i removed all bits from the card including the i/o shield and placed it gpu side down with the card raised up on 3 sides by tiny balls of aluminum foil and placed it on a very thin cookie sheet. i preheated the oven to 385f, put the card in and waited around 8-10 minutes. i carefully removed the cookie sheet and placed it on top of the oven to cool down naturally. waited about an hour and voila! =D

http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=...33&postcount=1

If they launched it on april fools I would have laughed on the floor. But reading in the forum this method seems succesfull? Mayeb I can resurrect some AGP cards John :p

To me it sounds like they are melting the BGA's solder to fix a broken contact.

which AGP cards are broken?

Not yet tested as massie got the Asrock... and I'm working on the Gene II now ( 478 is back in the box )

about 6-7 people in that H thread have revived broken video cards with this method, do note that it were "newer" cards, 7900 and up

[NL] http://faust.tweakblogs.net/blog/192...ieuwe-360.html

yup, takes a bit longer to get your mobo out of the 360 though;)

you only need a towel to fix a 360 :D

uhm, the towel "trick" is to break your 360 to you can get RMA ;)