Gobblecoque
Sergeant Knight at Arms
Damn, if I had known about this a few months ago, I would still have my old 8800 GTX as well.
Ya towel trick is amazing. It worked for a bunch of my friends, the ones that didn't burn their houses down. I kid of course, but the **** gets pretty damn hot.Voutare said:Sort of like the towel trick for the Xbox, I guess. I've done it twice, worked the first time, and the second time it worked for about a month.
Leprechaun said:...Which then begs the question of how the trick was discovered for the xbox.PrinceGhaldir said:Sushiman said:How the **** does someone discover this?
"Ok, i got an 8800gtx of ebay, and it had artifacts all over the screen, like a chessboard
i reflashd the bios --- still nothing
then rememberd some cases of heat fixing xbox 360's and thourght of oven trick
i put it in the oven for around 5 mins AND NOW IT WORKS"
Just click the first link...
Reverend L. Lamb said:So... I just fixed my ruined 8800 GTX graphics card by baking it in the oven
Went from heavy artifacting on startup followed by a BSOD to flawlessly running M&B on max graphics for 5 minutes, haven't had time to test it further yet.
Mindboggling ****ing stuff...
It's apparently a semi-legit way of fixing electronics in general:
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=606658
http://www.madshrimps.be/vbulletin/f22/fix-your-broken-geforce-8800-gtx-putting-into-oven-64140/
http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1034145333&postcount=1
Lord Burgess1 said:If you had a Geforce4 TI 4200 like I do, then you would have already done this to fix it.
Common sense? When the chips get loose by heat, heat can fix it?Leprechaun said:...Which then begs the question of how the trick was discovered for the xbox.PrinceGhaldir said:Sushiman said:How the **** does someone discover this?
"Ok, i got an 8800gtx of ebay, and it had artifacts all over the screen, like a chessboard
i reflashd the bios --- still nothing
then rememberd some cases of heat fixing xbox 360's and thourght of oven trick
i put it in the oven for around 5 mins AND NOW IT WORKS"
Just click the first link...