I cooked my video card today

[Isuxdix]

And no I don't mean I 'fried it' or that it 'died', I put it in the oven silly!

After weird graphical errors started occurring and a couple restarts later, I couldn't get out of 640x480 and 4 color mode.

I did what I do for every problem I have in life, I went to the bastion of knowledge that is google to solve it.

After a bunch of failed attempts to fix these problems (flashing bios, praying to the christian god, loading past drivers, praying to a hindu god) I came across this thread which had many examples of my problem exactly:

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

8 minutes in the oven and voila! It smelled a little funny but my graphics card works and I'm playing tf2 right now. Also the new thermic compound I used in place of the shitty factory puddy for the gpu keeps my video card 4-5 degrees cooler.

First cooking I've done in days. First successful cooking ever.

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

because a heat gun wouldn't be 100,000 times more practical.

[Zeitgeist]

that funny smell probably isnt cancerous, dont worry

[Isuxdix]

because a heat gun wouldn't be 100,000 times more practical.

they way they explained it in that thread was since you don't really know where to apply the heat gun due to the "micro fractures" in the solder, you should just bake the whole thing.

and I don't own a heat gun

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

sounds reasonable to me.

[IamTHEBOOKIE]

and also... who the F has a heat gun at home?

[Biggs]

I have one. >.<
I use it for heatshrink tubing mostly.

[OmegaZero_Alpha]

and also... who the F has a heat gun at home?

yeah, I have like two in my shop.

[Zeitgeist]

stop calling your basement the shop.

[Kaylee]

baking has been used for a long time to repair solder mistakes... it's not really uncommon

works on xboxes too