Baking my nvidea 8800GT in the oven

[TRSmith]

That's right, in the oven. 400 degrees F for 10 minutes completely brought the previously dead card back to life. I've ordered a newer card to replace it and help me get by until the new Mac Pros come out, but this was a trick I would not have believed but had little to lose.

I'm giving myself 4 geek stars!

T.

 

[stephengilbert]

What a coincidence: I baked a dozen bialys the other day, and they worked, too.

 

[jlm]

400 degrees would have livened me up as well

 

[TRSmith]

I love Bialys!

 

[thrice]

I used to do some insane things with my computer hardware.
After phase change (refrigerative, -50C) cooling my CPU I had some condensation issues which killed the motherboard.
I scrubbed the motherboard with a toothbrush and naptha and then under a running tap to clean off the dielectric grease (electrical insulator meant to protect AGAINST condensation). After that I dried it in the oven and voila, it worked again.

I also bridged pins on the base of a cpu to give it an overclock on a motherboard that doesn't support overclocking.

This is my current dual radiator machine

 

[TRSmith]

thrice: OK, I am suitably humbled by your uber geek. And that computing device is a work of art!

 

[huddy]

Very nice save, and very nice setup Thrice. I finally gave up my dual radiator setup when I got hitched... I didn't want to have to worry about leaks as more things in life came along.