so dads laptop is getting slow af. It can't be hardware, because it's actually faster than mine (i5-3210m, 4GB RAM, W7Pro) and when I scanned it with mbam and Windows Defender it didn't find anything, so idk what could it be.
Drive can't be fragged, did defragging a month ago, also startup is actually fast as shit. I'm suspecting W10 Auto Updater doing this.
Gonna try a reflow on that dead 9500GT. Worst case it's still dead, best case it works and I have a GPU for my scrap PC.
Before you cook it, check the caps, the solder and anything else and see if you can fix it by hand. Cooking it is pretty harsh for every other component and generally, if it works, it won't for long.
Everything else was fine, no visible damage I could fix. I'd checked it a few times before. Card wouldn't POST at all, not usually caused by solder issues but since nothing else was wrong I figured I'd try and reflow it. So, anyway, tried it. 8 minutes at 195C. Long story short, it literally exploded. About 7 minutes 30 in the caps went off, and these are solid caps so they went with a big fucking bang. Oh well, it never worked in the first place anyway. I wonder if it would've worked, had I stopped the oven a minute earlier. Now I have one hell of a mess to clean up. Fun. And I can add 'blowing up a graphics card' to the list of stupid things I've done with computers.
mmmmm called it. No offence, but it really isn't the best way to go. That's why I posted that you should look at the caps and vrms before cooking it, it's kind of a last resort. oh I would love to share every anecdote for the list of stupid things I've done with computers. You can only really understand something once you break it, and I took that to heart. That's among the reasons there's a crankshaft from a lawnmower embedded a foot down into the earth.
Sounds like fun. I've reflowed multiple GPUs in the oven with no problem. 100% success rate, excluding a laptop motherboard but that probably had other issues. (2 8800GTSs, HD6790, FX5800, etc.)
I did. The caps and VRMs had no visible damage, neither did the GPU or memory chips. It's also a 5 year old, mid-range card, I wasn't gonna bother replacing components that may or may not fix it when I can get a better GPU for £10. It was more of an experiment really. I'm pretty sure the temperature regulator in my oven is crap and it was a few degrees too hot. Can't think of any other reason it would explode before even 8 minutes passed.
contrary to the prior claim, solder issues can do that. Reflowing itself is there to fix the solder issues that can develop under the bga packages those gpu dies use. solder under the coils can crack and cause major issues.
I love satire. In light of AMD killing off their GPUs. Thank god my Pitcairn based 7850 isn't affected, apparently it's the Hawaii based GPUs that are melting. Team Green is looking pretty nice right now, I guess.
Is this really a thing? Wow, I was not aware of this. The video had me laughing real hard, too. Thanks for that
Yes, apparently the Crimson drivers lock fan speed to 20% and disables throttling on mainly Hawaii based cards. In turn, after about 20-30 minutes of gaming depending on cooler efficiency, the card burns out. AMD will never recover from this. And that video has to be one of the best memes around. Funny thing is, in the actual translated video, the story isn't even that funny.
Uh,i like the crimson, well the looks of it and the speed but it feels bit restricted. It seems that the tables have turned and now its the AMD that burns your house down and not the Nvidia. Still i love my r9 295x2 !
Yep, however I don't think they should have any issue recovering from it. It's quite a closed and low impact issue. Its basically just defaulting to manual fan speed in the drivers. It is messed up none the less. It is getting fixed later today apparently too, so its lasted only 12 hours tops.
So theres a linux distro based on hannah montana. i think i may have to install it just for shits and giggles.
