So has anyone tried baking their GPU to try and fix it before?

>>56332017
Yeah loads of times, it should work.

>>56332017
I mean it can't cause any more harm right? Unless a cap pops and fills your kitchen with tantalum gas...

>>56332017
I've had more success doing this with nVidia cards than ATI's. My recipe was preheat 475 Degrees F for 10-15mins. Any longer and it fried the board lol. Best o luck OP. ATI fanboi fur lyfe

>>56332068
Tantalum having a boiling point at 5500*C/10000*F, I'm pretty sure OP's kitchen oven wont pose a threat.

>>56332017
It's a dead card, you got nothing to lose. Might work.

>>56332017
>heating up toxic chemicals in an oven you use to cook food with

are you retarded?

>>56332200
>toxic chemicals

>>56332200
This is scare mongering, there's been literally no documented cases or posts of people getting sick from doing this.

>>56332017
Won't hurt to try, but if it's a problem with the VRAM and not the joints on the chip it won't help anything.

>>56332017
I've tried once with my problematic 280x, didn't change anything, although I only tried doing it once (heard people saying to do it 2 to 3 times).
Also, I must say that the card wasn't really dead, it would just misbehave and give me BSOD under ANY kind of load (including opening YouTube or installing drivers, I had to use window's generic ones)

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>>56332528
>but if it's a problem with the VRAM and not the joints on the chip it won't help anything

This is a picture of the kind of artifacts I was getting until the card failed completely (no picture, but the fans still worked).

Is it any indication on what's wrong with the card?