I have an 8800GT that used to fold very well, now it just fails over and over. It's a G92 118 stream processor 8800GT from PNY. Would baking it possibly help it?
remove the heat sink and examine the card wih a magnifier; you may be lucky to find cracks or broken tracks; f yes soldering them can help; however its v tedious and tough job as over soldering can damage parts and can also short something else; usage of thermal paste also should be in the right amount to not let it ooze out
hello everyone... hope that everyone is gud, I'm new to this forum and this is my 1st post to any thread of this forum... i know i'm too much late for this but I have just joined it today therefore I dont think I'm late ....
I really found this whole thread very informative as well as cooperative too, cause all those guys who knows about the problem of a certain users do helps him.... thats really gud thing..... appreciate it
Well since this thread has been briefly revived, I will provide an update on my Geforce 8800 GTX.
Recently I popped it into the oven for the third time, and once again it did the trick.
All artifacts dissappeared and it is still working fine.
But I imagine that it is a matter of time before it fails completely.
This method of reviving the dead cannot work forever, but I am quite pleased so far.
My "recipe" is 200 degress celcius for 6-7 minutes.
That has given me roughly 6 months with no problems every time.
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NVIDIA 8800s are like the old IBM DeskStars and the pre-Jasper Xbox 360s: At some point, they WILL FAIL due to manufacturing defect.
I really found this whole thread very informative as well as cooperative too, cause all those guys who knows about the problem of a certain users do helps him.... thats really gud thing..... appreciate it
Recently I popped it into the oven for the third time, and once again it did the trick.
All artifacts dissappeared and it is still working fine.
But I imagine that it is a matter of time before it fails completely.
This method of reviving the dead cannot work forever, but I am quite pleased so far.
My "recipe" is 200 degress celcius for 6-7 minutes.
That has given me roughly 6 months with no problems every time.