This article makes me hungry.
In a related anecdote, a friend of mine tried the "towel trick" with his Xbox 360 after its output got garbled, and it sprung back to life, too.
I wonder if I should trying this baking trick with a laptop that has a malfunctioning usb port from a static discharge to the USB port...and/or the dvd/cd-rw that no longer reads CDs
Septimus - all the stickers are all brittle now, they hardly remain, but I was surprised myself to find them intact.
If you're going to bake a lappy, make sure to remove all the plastic parts as possible. And the screen, obviously. The heat would probably do more harm than good unless you strip it down.
Glad everyone is enjoying the piece, this was one of my favorites to write.
You just HAD to throw in a Portal reference. For that, your card is going to commit seppuku to restore honor to your PC.
...but ranting aside, glad to hear it works. Between the excellent story and the mouth-watering epilogue photo... well done! Oops, that pun wasn't intended! Nooooooooooooooo!
Wow!!! I will have to try this on my 8800 GTS 640mb that broke a year back when i took the heat sync+fan off to clean it...
Oh oh and i will also put in my reacently deceased HD 4870 that died on me last week after 15 Mins of playing borderlands... this is after a suck of the Dyson tho... again cleaning dust out of the Heat sync is a kIller of my cards!!!
its good i found this article, otherwise my cousins dead laptop would still be sitting on the table i left it on 2 weeks ago, collecting dust. thank you septimus and bobby
and btw, the humor in the article made me smile a few times (LOL-ing is a non-function)
Vacuums generate massive static electricity as ionized dust particles rush across the plastic of the unit's attachments. Bad mojo. Better to use canned air.
O right.. Thanks Thrax well im looking at a 5770 next with the option of a second next.... But one question.... Was this over fan-assisted?? 196C with a fan assisted wont melt the 2 cards il be baking in the morro?? :S
What's wrong with editing in Windows Movie Maker? I've been using it for 6-1/2 years and 159 episodes of my webshow, "Online Video" at www.loudmouthtim.com .
What's wrong with editing in Windows Movie Maker? I've been using it for 6-1/2 years and 159 episodes of my webshow, "Online Video" at www.loudmouthtim.com .
I wish I would have known about this when my laptops gpu took a poop..I sold the laptop on ebay for real cheap and the person who bought it got it working in 12 hours.....even sent me a e-mail like he was taunting me.....lol.
Oh yes, I remember. I'm hardly the first to do this (and n00bs on reddit have been calling me a hack, stealing the idea, ect). That was never the point. The point was to spin a web of the experience of my bake. The whole story was so asinine and absurd, it just had to be shared. If I'm telling a story, I might as well make it informative and functional. What a blast it was to do.
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The writing alone was worth the read. XD
In a related anecdote, a friend of mine tried the "towel trick" with his Xbox 360 after its output got garbled, and it sprung back to life, too.
Questions, Questions, Questions
btw, this method of reflowing works on laptop motherboards too
It takes about 35 seconds....
@septimus, Thanks for the tip...I'll put this to my list of questionable activities to do this winter.
Septimus - all the stickers are all brittle now, they hardly remain, but I was surprised myself to find them intact.
If you're going to bake a lappy, make sure to remove all the plastic parts as possible. And the screen, obviously. The heat would probably do more harm than good unless you strip it down.
Glad everyone is enjoying the piece, this was one of my favorites to write.
...but ranting aside, glad to hear it works. Between the excellent story and the mouth-watering epilogue photo... well done! Oops, that pun wasn't intended! Nooooooooooooooo!
hey just to wonder does not the PCB board melt>>>??
I done the Towel Trick..... it worked and saved me £200
Oh oh and i will also put in my reacently deceased HD 4870 that died on me last week after 15 Mins of playing borderlands... this is after a suck of the Dyson tho... again cleaning dust out of the Heat sync is a kIller of my cards!!!
and btw, the humor in the article made me smile a few times (LOL-ing is a non-function)
What you get at Icrontic:
Personal service. Lincoln (the dev) just went through and manually edited the DB so that your old posts came over to the new account.
Welcome to our home
I've frozen a lot of hardware but never baked it
Easy on the A1 sauce
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Three wheels works for millions of toddlers. They can't possibly be wrong.
Unfortunately without the pictures, I was in a bit of a hurry.
But here is the thread.
http://icrontic.com/forum/showthread.php?t=83994
[EDIT Link fixed, and BTW the gfx is still working fine, and it has been working fine in the five months since I attempted my bake-off.
so, so true.
So glad everyone is enjoying this piece. If you decide to have your own bake-off, do let us know how it turns out!
And Winga - I agree. A well baked GPU will have enough intense flavoring that A1 will only detract from it. nom nom
Oh yes, I remember. I'm hardly the first to do this (and n00bs on reddit have been calling me a hack, stealing the idea, ect). That was never the point. The point was to spin a web of the experience of my bake. The whole story was so asinine and absurd, it just had to be shared. If I'm telling a story, I might as well make it informative and functional. What a blast it was to do.