I've heard of this method, will be trying it tomorrow on my 8800m gtx SLI, for anyone else with this card, if you start getting artifacting or failing to boot up with green red blue and white lights flashing, just whip the card out and get a hair dryer on the bottom of it for about 20 minutes, it's a quick fix if you don't have a torque 5 screw driver. Also, you can use nvflash to flash both BIOS' to the 9800m GT, it has a more stable cooling profile, and is generally better. PM me for info.
@Ti133700N I never had to try the oven fix; after using my hairdryer trick and reseating the heatsink with arctic silver 5, then flashing to 9800m GT AND updating the bios properly I've yet to experience any crashes or instability, i've been playing starcraft 2 almost maxed out with physics and shadows on medium, and skyrim on high with the texture packs. Unfortunately one of my GPU's is still dead, but as it's now playing my games I think wait until I can afford the BGA reball.
what a star! just done this, i am in disbelief!!! it worked, i am now looking at my fully working laptop, amazing, can't say how happy i am! awesome, even if it's only for a month or 3, i am so pleased, thank you! before seeing this i was going to strip it down and sell the parts, THANK YOU!
This is interesting stuff. 'Shame on you Dell' indeed! I have a M1710 as well, and didn't realize the video was going on it. Certain programs like Google Earth and Shape Viewer would be 'flashy' at times. And I'd get a blue screen saying 'Non parity memory error'. I just figured I had
to much intense graphic things on at once. Then it would boot, but just 'black screen'. 10min later I'd hear the XP theme. My local service guy said there was nothing to do, and buy a new laptop. So I went Acer.
I had a m1210 which was quite possibly the best audio machine I've ever used. The video / display began going out on it, and eventually it would turn on without a display. I had a Studio XPS 16 as well (Looks great, performance isn't anywhere NEAR the m1210, strange huh?) Anyway, my Studio XPS 16 ended up dieing on me leaving me with the 1555 which I expect to die as well come next year. I plan on buying another working m1210 and fixing the heat issue somehow.
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thanks alot man,this oven fix worked for me,i have 2 xps 1710,s both had the dreaded graphics failure on the same night,baked for 10 mins at 200,now they are back fully workin,a fortune saved,thanks again for the vid
@kingofchongers you shouldnt baked too much(the chip will get fry).
. What you do is get alcohol put it in a pot, and place your graphic card in. Then Baked again. Then cut a small flat piece of aluminum. Go to Home depot get silicon glue. Place a bit on the chip and put the flat pice of aluminum. Then put thermal paste on and then place the heat sink on
Excellent instructions. I did as you instructed on my dell xps m1730 which only had a blank screen at start up. I would recommend this kind of fix that hasn't got the warranty and has nothing to loose.This fixed my problem and saved me a small fortune. Thanks.
AFTER CARE II: Since heat is the main issue, I use i8kangul31 to monitor temperature. I have my laptop on a walmart desk that I cut a hole in, and place the laptop over it. I placed two small fans, one in the back blowing towards the usb ports and the other one underneath where i cut the hole in the desk. This keeps temperatue about the same even under game stress. Unfortunately, its mostly a desktop now, but my netbook does the laptop job. Plus, I can always move it. GL its worth it.
AFTER CARE: I don't turn off my laptop anymore or put it on standby. In part because the reason the graphic card failed was because the circuits in the card probably separated. The separation occurs because of the extreme temperatures between on and off. Baking is a simple way of re-soldering the circuits.The two times I turned the laptop off for a couple days it took more re-boots to get it to work. Fortunately, I didn’t have to bake again.
This absolutely works. But you do have to use 99% Alcohol to clean off the old paste and then apply a good thermal paste. Also don't overcook. Since you are baking chemicals, its wise to open all windows and use a fan to blow out the toxic air. I doubt you would get cancer from the limited exposure, but hey why chance it. (E1705 256 GEforce 7900 gs; going strong after 8 months. saved $1600 dollars still play LOTRO) PS. Hope I wasn't to hard on my original post, I was desperate at the time.
This totally worked for me on my Dell XPS M1710. It is over 3 years old. Let us see if the fix will last. Good video post. Dell site has a great section on how the remove the video card from the laptop.
@vigorousvideo It does, but I hate to say it. It's not a permanent fix. I baked it again after a month, then had it reflowed. And now it's 100%. It works well enough to back up and use windows. Not great for gaming. Sorry :(
@VincentFunk Dude , I tried your method and it worked fine then after a month or so it showed lines again and i baked it then it started working fine but now its again started showing lines so i baked it but lines still showed up .. i again baked it but still lines showed ... I dont know what to do now .. i dont have any other laptops so plz if you can give me any tip any tip if you can plz ....
@MTSMoviez I know what your taking about. Mine would do the same. What you need to do is find someone to reflow your card. That's how they refurbish them. If you can't find anyone. I have a guy here in town that did mine. He fixes the rrod on xboxes and it's the same problem. It's been almost a year since he reflowed my card and it's still going.
Let me know if you'd like it done. Just pay the shipping and he'll reflow it for free.
@MTSMoviez you shouldnt baked too much(the chip will get fry).
. What you do is get alcohol put it in a pot, and place your graphic card in. Then Baked again. Then cut a small flat piece of aluminum. Go to Home depot get silicon glue. Place a bit on the chip and put the flat pice of aluminum. Then put thermal paste on and then place the heat sink on
I almost went out and bought a new laptop. so I figured it wouldn't hurt to try this, when I did it worked like a charm. thank you so much for taking the time to post this i'm sure I speak for everyone when I say this saved me a lot of money and we cant thank you enough.
@KyleIsKoolerThanYou I'm glad you got it working again. Mine worked, but failed again when I played games for a while. A few weeks ago I got it reflowed and I can game on it again. This trick will work a few times, but now's the time to backup when it's going. Look up reflow in your area. Someone might have a reflow station. If not, you can search on eBay under rrod repair. Ooor, ship it to me and I can use my friends station. One day I'll make a video of his reflow station.
You say dell is bad and from your experience it seems it is but, just so you know NEVER buy an HP i have never seen one last more than 5 months so keep that in mind. Asus laptops are nice so are acers and dells are ok
@patricknedz I don't know why they even bothered. I mean, they only made the 7900gtx for it and you can't put a different card in. Pretty stupid. They tried to make it upgradeable but gave up on the whole idea and came out with the m1730. It had two 8800gtx's in it and they gave up on that too.
Can you please post a video on how to remove the heatsink/thermal paste. I have the same laptop, and It's time to change the thermal paste. What kind of paste did you buy from a store to replace the stuff you scraped off?
@hodir Sorry, I don't have time to tear apart my laptop. But it's pretty easy, once you have it all taken apart, there's four screws on the heatsink. They're labeled 1,2,3,4. Then with even pressure, pull the heatsink off the card. It's pretty easy. I used arctic silver 5. You can get it at just about any computer store. I don't think places like bestbuy would carry it. So you should check with a smaller shop. Use about a pea sized blob on it then spread it out evenly.
@VincentFunk Thanks a lot man, sounds fairly straight forward. I just hope I don't zap it with static (only really big fear), but looks like a good weekend project nonetheless :D
@hodir Np, these laptops are very easy to take apart. All the screws on the bottom are the same size. And the ones under the keyboard are the same size. Just don't mix up the bottom ones and the palm rest ones up and you'll be fine. Also, when your taking your screen off, unplug your wireless wires from underneath. It makes it easier to remove the screen. Remember which ones are which. There's only two. Black and white. I take mine apart every six months to clean it.
@hodir I used a plastic scraper, but just about anything plastic will work. Don't use a metal screw driver. You could scratch it and ruin the card. Then to clean the chip and excess paste off, I use isopropyl 99% rubbing alcohol with qtips. Clean all the paste off. Then reassemble it and tighten down the screws in the order labeled on the heatsink. Changing the paste is the easiest part. It's getting it all apart that takes the most time. Good luck, take your time so you don't damage anything.
@VincentFunk What kind of thermal paste should I pick up from a store (Brand/type/???). Also, do I start getting into the laptop from the keyboard side or the back. Any links/help is appreciated. :D
Try it. Worst that will happen is You won't get any video. Have you tried plugging it into a monitor? Try plugging it into a monitor with the card removed. And if none of that works, search eBay for a card or the same laptop. Maybe you can use it for parts.
I have a Precision m90 and my video card crapped out on me. Warranty expired a long time ago. Tried baking but sadly it didn't work as I still see artifacts.
Just wondering, would the laptop still work if I took out the graphics card completely? Most laptops run without a VC right? I'm willing to try anything to make the machine usable for casual web browsing at least, don't want to toss it in the bin just like that.
i've got a 8700m sli graphic card on one card. Recently one gpu is died (won't detect in windows) it is possible to get it to work again using this trick? I can still use my laptop with one card working. However i want to have the second card working again to run it in sli. My laptop is a dell laptop m1730.
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@deepmolloy Those are some good questions, I do plan on making a better video now that I have a camcorder and a stand. I couldn't hold the camera and work on it. Plus I was in too much of a hurry, I didn't really care about making the video as much as I cared about finishing it and putting it all back together.
@VincentFunk Dude it was a great video , troll just hate .... it helped me a lot and also deep your a reall sicko , u watch porn on disney yukhhh you perv ....................
@MTSMoviez you shouldnt baked too much(the chip will get fry).
. What you do is get alcohol put it in a pot, and place your graphic card in. Then Baked again. Then cut a small flat piece of aluminum. Go to Home depot get silicon glue. Place a bit on the chip and put the flat pice of aluminum. Then put thermal paste on and then place the heat sink on
I'm going to take mine apart every six months to clean it so I don't have to bake it again lol. My sister has the same laptop as me, and when I took hers apart she had a huge lint ball on both her heatsinks. It dropped from 60 degrees idle to 45 degrees celcius when idle. I'm surprised hers lasted that long without dying like mine did.
After that, I finally installed the 179.48 mobile drivers and now is working perfectly. How much time, I don't know but at least I can use normally may lappy (for now). I loaded some video games to stress and test the videocard and is working without problems.
Needs to mention that I used Arctic Silver paste and cleaning kit.
BIG news. IS WORKING! Youpie. But with a little fuss. Firstly after "cooking" the videocard and inserting again in his place, I powered my laptop and almost I havit a heart attack because the screen was WHITE. I shutit down the computer and powered on again. Now I have a pixelated screen. Some few power on-off cycles and little by little has began to disappear the pixels. I booted constantly between Win and Slax5 (play some video files with mplayer).
I have exactly the same problem with my Dell Inspiron 9400-GeForce 7950GT card! The only way to make it to work is to enter in safe mode and remove the windows drivers. After reboot is working with some default VGA drivers but no DirectX or OpenGL support. Also if I'm loading an older SLAX Linux distro from CD, and I play some video files using mplayer, after some time but randomly I get ride of blue-green pattern.
Please can you explain me more clear what I need to do using your method? Thank!
@raducoc Leave it in for 10 min, take it out and leave it on the counter on a plate or something. I began to reapply thermal paste while the graphics card was still warm. Not hot, just warm to the touch. Make SURE you use Arctic Silver Thermal Paste. Don't start this project until you do. I've had a tube of Arctic Silver 3 for years, but I just finished it today doing an Xbox 360. So i'll have to buy some Arctic Silver 5.
@VincentFunk I already dissembled the video-card but just waiting (impatiently) for my order of Alcohol cleaner and Arctic Silver 5 to arrive! I'm not a native english speaker and something is still unclear for me :) . After heating for 10m at 200C in oven, I will remove the card from oven or I need to let in oven to cool down?
@VincentFunk I already dissembled the video-card but just waiting (impatiently) for my order of Alcohol cleaner and Arctic Silver 5 to arrive! I'm not a native english speaker and something is still unclear for me :) . After heating for 10m at 200C in oven, I will remove the card from oven or I need to let in oven to cool down?
@raducoc Pre-heat your oven to 200 degrees celcius. Crumple up some alum foil into small balls and place them on a cookie sheet or baking pan. Put the graphics card on the alum foil balls and place it on the middle rack in your oven.
@raducoc Once you've taken the card out, take the heatsink off and use some isopropyl alcohol 99% proof to remove the paste that Dell put on the card and the heatsink. I used a plastic card to scrape it off the heatsink, and a few q-tips with isopropyl to get it off the graphics card. Don't use anything metal to scrape the old paste off.
@raducoc You wont have to take the motherboard out to get to your 7950GT, the card is on top and pretty easy to access once the keyboard and palm rest is removed. Make sure you disconnect your wifi cables so the LCD comes off easily. I left mine on and it was difficult to move the LCD.
One bit of advice I could recommend when taking your laptop apart is, keeping track of the screws, and where they came from. Get a peice of paper and pen. On that paper, write where the screws came from. Then place those screws under the heading. Just make sure you don't bump the table, or paper. Or you'll mix up all the screws.
I drew a circle, labled it bottom screws and put all the bottom screws in that circle.
@raducoc First thing you have to do is take it apart. The link in my description should do the trick. Follow steps 2,3,4 and 5. It's not very complicated. Just take your time.
I still think Dell uses cheap paste and applies way too much. I mean the stuff was gobbed on and it was probably insulating the chip, not keeping it cool like it should.
actually thermal paste over long periods of time will harden, with some kinds its actually considered cured once its hard, and u get the best connection between the sink and the prossessor....it was the same with my old p4..over time it hardens
I've heard of this method, will be trying it tomorrow on my 8800m gtx SLI, for anyone else with this card, if you start getting artifacting or failing to boot up with green red blue and white lights flashing, just whip the card out and get a hair dryer on the bottom of it for about 20 minutes, it's a quick fix if you don't have a torque 5 screw driver. Also, you can use nvflash to flash both BIOS' to the 9800m GT, it has a more stable cooling profile, and is generally better. PM me for info.
MaleficusVIII 2 weeks ago
@MaleficusVIII So did it work for you ?
Ti133700N 2 days ago
@Ti133700N I never had to try the oven fix; after using my hairdryer trick and reseating the heatsink with arctic silver 5, then flashing to 9800m GT AND updating the bios properly I've yet to experience any crashes or instability, i've been playing starcraft 2 almost maxed out with physics and shadows on medium, and skyrim on high with the texture packs. Unfortunately one of my GPU's is still dead, but as it's now playing my games I think wait until I can afford the BGA reball.
MaleficusVIII 2 days ago
what a star! just done this, i am in disbelief!!! it worked, i am now looking at my fully working laptop, amazing, can't say how happy i am! awesome, even if it's only for a month or 3, i am so pleased, thank you! before seeing this i was going to strip it down and sell the parts, THANK YOU!
blobbyboy1 2 weeks ago
This is interesting stuff. 'Shame on you Dell' indeed! I have a M1710 as well, and didn't realize the video was going on it. Certain programs like Google Earth and Shape Viewer would be 'flashy' at times. And I'd get a blue screen saying 'Non parity memory error'. I just figured I had
to much intense graphic things on at once. Then it would boot, but just 'black screen'. 10min later I'd hear the XP theme. My local service guy said there was nothing to do, and buy a new laptop. So I went Acer.
DungeonStudio 1 month ago
I had a m1210 which was quite possibly the best audio machine I've ever used. The video / display began going out on it, and eventually it would turn on without a display. I had a Studio XPS 16 as well (Looks great, performance isn't anywhere NEAR the m1210, strange huh?) Anyway, my Studio XPS 16 ended up dieing on me leaving me with the 1555 which I expect to die as well come next year. I plan on buying another working m1210 and fixing the heat issue somehow.
DrSphinctenstein 2 months ago
This worked for me! Thanks so much, i'm fucking flabbergasted! :)
orchidsystem 2 months ago
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precisiondivisionfla 7 months ago
would this method work for a m1730 graphics card ?
IceBurgh000 7 months ago
@IceBurgh000 Yes, this works on all graphics cards. And xboxes with RROD.
VincentFunk 7 months ago
thanks alot man,this oven fix worked for me,i have 2 xps 1710,s both had the dreaded graphics failure on the same night,baked for 10 mins at 200,now they are back fully workin,a fortune saved,thanks again for the vid
kingofchongers 7 months ago
@kingofchongers you shouldnt baked too much(the chip will get fry).
. What you do is get alcohol put it in a pot, and place your graphic card in. Then Baked again. Then cut a small flat piece of aluminum. Go to Home depot get silicon glue. Place a bit on the chip and put the flat pice of aluminum. Then put thermal paste on and then place the heat sink on
HyperSTAND 5 months ago
Excellent instructions. I did as you instructed on my dell xps m1730 which only had a blank screen at start up. I would recommend this kind of fix that hasn't got the warranty and has nothing to loose.This fixed my problem and saved me a small fortune. Thanks.
lyokoboy0 9 months ago
AFTER CARE II: Since heat is the main issue, I use i8kangul31 to monitor temperature. I have my laptop on a walmart desk that I cut a hole in, and place the laptop over it. I placed two small fans, one in the back blowing towards the usb ports and the other one underneath where i cut the hole in the desk. This keeps temperatue about the same even under game stress. Unfortunately, its mostly a desktop now, but my netbook does the laptop job. Plus, I can always move it. GL its worth it.
deepmolloy 10 months ago
AFTER CARE: I don't turn off my laptop anymore or put it on standby. In part because the reason the graphic card failed was because the circuits in the card probably separated. The separation occurs because of the extreme temperatures between on and off. Baking is a simple way of re-soldering the circuits.The two times I turned the laptop off for a couple days it took more re-boots to get it to work. Fortunately, I didn’t have to bake again.
deepmolloy 10 months ago
This absolutely works. But you do have to use 99% Alcohol to clean off the old paste and then apply a good thermal paste. Also don't overcook. Since you are baking chemicals, its wise to open all windows and use a fan to blow out the toxic air. I doubt you would get cancer from the limited exposure, but hey why chance it. (E1705 256 GEforce 7900 gs; going strong after 8 months. saved $1600 dollars still play LOTRO) PS. Hope I wasn't to hard on my original post, I was desperate at the time.
deepmolloy 10 months ago
This totally worked for me on my Dell XPS M1710. It is over 3 years old. Let us see if the fix will last. Good video post. Dell site has a great section on how the remove the video card from the laptop.
JohnsDigitalDen 10 months ago
man if this works I love you
vigorousvideo 1 year ago
@vigorousvideo It does, but I hate to say it. It's not a permanent fix. I baked it again after a month, then had it reflowed. And now it's 100%. It works well enough to back up and use windows. Not great for gaming. Sorry :(
VincentFunk 1 year ago
@VincentFunk Dude , I tried your method and it worked fine then after a month or so it showed lines again and i baked it then it started working fine but now its again started showing lines so i baked it but lines still showed up .. i again baked it but still lines showed ... I dont know what to do now .. i dont have any other laptops so plz if you can give me any tip any tip if you can plz ....
MTSMoviez 10 months ago
@MTSMoviez I know what your taking about. Mine would do the same. What you need to do is find someone to reflow your card. That's how they refurbish them. If you can't find anyone. I have a guy here in town that did mine. He fixes the rrod on xboxes and it's the same problem. It's been almost a year since he reflowed my card and it's still going.
Let me know if you'd like it done. Just pay the shipping and he'll reflow it for free.
VincentFunk 10 months ago
@MTSMoviez you shouldnt baked too much(the chip will get fry).
. What you do is get alcohol put it in a pot, and place your graphic card in. Then Baked again. Then cut a small flat piece of aluminum. Go to Home depot get silicon glue. Place a bit on the chip and put the flat pice of aluminum. Then put thermal paste on and then place the heat sink on
HyperSTAND 5 months ago
hmm mayonnaise and chips with that gpu please
Ricscott 1 year ago
I just did this to my son's 1710 and it worked. We were sure it wouldn't. But it did.
glashoppah 1 year ago
I almost went out and bought a new laptop. so I figured it wouldn't hurt to try this, when I did it worked like a charm. thank you so much for taking the time to post this i'm sure I speak for everyone when I say this saved me a lot of money and we cant thank you enough.
KyleIsKoolerThanYou 1 year ago
@KyleIsKoolerThanYou I'm glad you got it working again. Mine worked, but failed again when I played games for a while. A few weeks ago I got it reflowed and I can game on it again. This trick will work a few times, but now's the time to backup when it's going. Look up reflow in your area. Someone might have a reflow station. If not, you can search on eBay under rrod repair. Ooor, ship it to me and I can use my friends station. One day I'll make a video of his reflow station.
VincentFunk 1 year ago
worked for lattitude D820 but didn't work for my dell inspiron 9300. but one is better than none. thanks for the tip!!!made a believer out of me.
bumbero911 1 year ago
You say dell is bad and from your experience it seems it is but, just so you know NEVER buy an HP i have never seen one last more than 5 months so keep that in mind. Asus laptops are nice so are acers and dells are ok
lizardmannnn 1 year ago
thank's to you, mine it alive again bro!!! Keep going foward!!!
joseruben777 1 year ago
my laptop has integrated graphics so this is not an option, it is interesting how the heat makes it work again
patricknedz 1 year ago
@patricknedz I don't know why they even bothered. I mean, they only made the 7900gtx for it and you can't put a different card in. Pretty stupid. They tried to make it upgradeable but gave up on the whole idea and came out with the m1730. It had two 8800gtx's in it and they gave up on that too.
VincentFunk 1 year ago
Can you please post a video on how to remove the heatsink/thermal paste. I have the same laptop, and It's time to change the thermal paste. What kind of paste did you buy from a store to replace the stuff you scraped off?
hodir 1 year ago
@hodir Sorry, I don't have time to tear apart my laptop. But it's pretty easy, once you have it all taken apart, there's four screws on the heatsink. They're labeled 1,2,3,4. Then with even pressure, pull the heatsink off the card. It's pretty easy. I used arctic silver 5. You can get it at just about any computer store. I don't think places like bestbuy would carry it. So you should check with a smaller shop. Use about a pea sized blob on it then spread it out evenly.
VincentFunk 1 year ago
@VincentFunk Thanks a lot man, sounds fairly straight forward. I just hope I don't zap it with static (only really big fear), but looks like a good weekend project nonetheless :D
hodir 1 year ago
@hodir Np, these laptops are very easy to take apart. All the screws on the bottom are the same size. And the ones under the keyboard are the same size. Just don't mix up the bottom ones and the palm rest ones up and you'll be fine. Also, when your taking your screen off, unplug your wireless wires from underneath. It makes it easier to remove the screen. Remember which ones are which. There's only two. Black and white. I take mine apart every six months to clean it.
VincentFunk 1 year ago
@hodir I used a plastic scraper, but just about anything plastic will work. Don't use a metal screw driver. You could scratch it and ruin the card. Then to clean the chip and excess paste off, I use isopropyl 99% rubbing alcohol with qtips. Clean all the paste off. Then reassemble it and tighten down the screws in the order labeled on the heatsink. Changing the paste is the easiest part. It's getting it all apart that takes the most time. Good luck, take your time so you don't damage anything.
VincentFunk 1 year ago
@VincentFunk What kind of thermal paste should I pick up from a store (Brand/type/???). Also, do I start getting into the laptop from the keyboard side or the back. Any links/help is appreciated. :D
hodir 1 year ago
Arctic Silver 5
VincentFunk 1 year ago
Ok, I'm trying this fix on my M1710 right now.
What is this Thermal paste you mentioned????
IamCell24 1 year ago
@IamCell24 Arctic Silver 5
VincentFunk 1 year ago
Try it. Worst that will happen is You won't get any video. Have you tried plugging it into a monitor? Try plugging it into a monitor with the card removed. And if none of that works, search eBay for a card or the same laptop. Maybe you can use it for parts.
VincentFunk 1 year ago
I have a Precision m90 and my video card crapped out on me. Warranty expired a long time ago. Tried baking but sadly it didn't work as I still see artifacts.
Just wondering, would the laptop still work if I took out the graphics card completely? Most laptops run without a VC right? I'm willing to try anything to make the machine usable for casual web browsing at least, don't want to toss it in the bin just like that.
tetankemint 1 year ago
Yeah, it should work. You'll probably have to test both cards to see which one is toast. Or just bake them both.
VincentFunk 1 year ago
i've got a 8700m sli graphic card on one card. Recently one gpu is died (won't detect in windows) it is possible to get it to work again using this trick? I can still use my laptop with one card working. However i want to have the second card working again to run it in sli. My laptop is a dell laptop m1730.
d01010 1 year ago
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froot55 1 year ago
Does not work for me :(
It just shows nothing on the display when I started it up.
I ran the Diagnostics, it did the same thing yours did, my model is a 2003 model, but mine shows color bars.
:( My model is Dell Inspiron 8600 ):
x86tutorials 1 year ago
how do you remove the heatsink from the graphics card?
looks65 1 year ago
glad it worked, why make youtube video
waste of 5 minutes (istening to your computer die)
1. show cleaning of graphics card
2. why did you take off the heat sink (also show how you did it)
3. did you brown on both sides, or just once
4. what thermal used and show how you applied it
5. referene where you got this bit of knowledge.
I understand you don't have to show everything, but this was like watching porn film on the disney channel all the good parts are cut out
deepmolloy 1 year ago
@deepmolloy Those are some good questions, I do plan on making a better video now that I have a camcorder and a stand. I couldn't hold the camera and work on it. Plus I was in too much of a hurry, I didn't really care about making the video as much as I cared about finishing it and putting it all back together.
VincentFunk 1 year ago
@VincentFunk Dude it was a great video , troll just hate .... it helped me a lot and also deep your a reall sicko , u watch porn on disney yukhhh you perv ....................
MTSMoviez 10 months ago
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@MTSMoviez you shouldnt baked too much(the chip will get fry).
. What you do is get alcohol put it in a pot, and place your graphic card in. Then Baked again. Then cut a small flat piece of aluminum. Go to Home depot get silicon glue. Place a bit on the chip and put the flat pice of aluminum. Then put thermal paste on and then place the heat sink on
HyperSTAND 5 months ago
I'm going to take mine apart every six months to clean it so I don't have to bake it again lol. My sister has the same laptop as me, and when I took hers apart she had a huge lint ball on both her heatsinks. It dropped from 60 degrees idle to 45 degrees celcius when idle. I'm surprised hers lasted that long without dying like mine did.
VincentFunk 1 year ago
How much dust and lint did you take out???
VincentFunk 1 year ago
After that, I finally installed the 179.48 mobile drivers and now is working perfectly. How much time, I don't know but at least I can use normally may lappy (for now). I loaded some video games to stress and test the videocard and is working without problems.
Needs to mention that I used Arctic Silver paste and cleaning kit.
Thanks again for your invaluable infos.
raducoc 1 year ago
BIG news. IS WORKING! Youpie. But with a little fuss. Firstly after "cooking" the videocard and inserting again in his place, I powered my laptop and almost I havit a heart attack because the screen was WHITE. I shutit down the computer and powered on again. Now I have a pixelated screen. Some few power on-off cycles and little by little has began to disappear the pixels. I booted constantly between Win and Slax5 (play some video files with mplayer).
raducoc 1 year ago
Yes, remove from it from the oven after ten min. Any longer in the oven and it will melt.
VincentFunk 1 year ago
I have exactly the same problem with my Dell Inspiron 9400-GeForce 7950GT card! The only way to make it to work is to enter in safe mode and remove the windows drivers. After reboot is working with some default VGA drivers but no DirectX or OpenGL support. Also if I'm loading an older SLAX Linux distro from CD, and I play some video files using mplayer, after some time but randomly I get ride of blue-green pattern.
Please can you explain me more clear what I need to do using your method? Thank!
raducoc 1 year ago
@raducoc Once you've reapplied the paste, start putting it all back together.
Good luck, let me know if it works for you.
VincentFunk 1 year ago
@raducoc Leave it in for 10 min, take it out and leave it on the counter on a plate or something. I began to reapply thermal paste while the graphics card was still warm. Not hot, just warm to the touch. Make SURE you use Arctic Silver Thermal Paste. Don't start this project until you do. I've had a tube of Arctic Silver 3 for years, but I just finished it today doing an Xbox 360. So i'll have to buy some Arctic Silver 5.
VincentFunk 1 year ago
@VincentFunk I already dissembled the video-card but just waiting (impatiently) for my order of Alcohol cleaner and Arctic Silver 5 to arrive! I'm not a native english speaker and something is still unclear for me :) . After heating for 10m at 200C in oven, I will remove the card from oven or I need to let in oven to cool down?
raducoc 1 year ago
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@VincentFunk I already dissembled the video-card but just waiting (impatiently) for my order of Alcohol cleaner and Arctic Silver 5 to arrive! I'm not a native english speaker and something is still unclear for me :) . After heating for 10m at 200C in oven, I will remove the card from oven or I need to let in oven to cool down?
raducoc 1 year ago
@raducoc Pre-heat your oven to 200 degrees celcius. Crumple up some alum foil into small balls and place them on a cookie sheet or baking pan. Put the graphics card on the alum foil balls and place it on the middle rack in your oven.
VincentFunk 1 year ago
@raducoc Once you've taken the card out, take the heatsink off and use some isopropyl alcohol 99% proof to remove the paste that Dell put on the card and the heatsink. I used a plastic card to scrape it off the heatsink, and a few q-tips with isopropyl to get it off the graphics card. Don't use anything metal to scrape the old paste off.
VincentFunk 1 year ago
@raducoc You wont have to take the motherboard out to get to your 7950GT, the card is on top and pretty easy to access once the keyboard and palm rest is removed. Make sure you disconnect your wifi cables so the LCD comes off easily. I left mine on and it was difficult to move the LCD.
VincentFunk 1 year ago
@raducoc
One bit of advice I could recommend when taking your laptop apart is, keeping track of the screws, and where they came from. Get a peice of paper and pen. On that paper, write where the screws came from. Then place those screws under the heading. Just make sure you don't bump the table, or paper. Or you'll mix up all the screws.
I drew a circle, labled it bottom screws and put all the bottom screws in that circle.
VincentFunk 1 year ago
@raducoc First thing you have to do is take it apart. The link in my description should do the trick. Follow steps 2,3,4 and 5. It's not very complicated. Just take your time.
VincentFunk 1 year ago
This works and its easy. Took me about two hours and most of that time was waiting for it to cool down.
Trx1127 1 year ago
I still think Dell uses cheap paste and applies way too much. I mean the stuff was gobbed on and it was probably insulating the chip, not keeping it cool like it should.
VincentFunk 1 year ago
actually thermal paste over long periods of time will harden, with some kinds its actually considered cured once its hard, and u get the best connection between the sink and the prossessor....it was the same with my old p4..over time it hardens
timboak 1 year ago