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  2. If the graphics card is still installed into the system, begin by removing the card.

    • Unplug all applicable cables from the graphics card as highlighted in blue, your card may have more or less cables


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  3. To remove your card you'll need to remove the screw(s) from the back of the card

    • After doing so ensure that there is no other things blocking the card from being removed from the motherboard

    • Remove the card from the PC

  4. Precision screwdriver(s): usually Phillips #0 and/or #1.


    • Thermal paste to replace the paste afterwards.


    • An oven.

    • A baking tray.

  5. Preheat the oven to 385F (195C).
    • Preheat the oven to 385F (195C).




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  7. While the oven is pre-heating: Locate specific guides for disassembling your GPU if these steps are inapplicable to your GPU.
    • While the oven is pre-heating:



    • Gently take the fan/duct-work off.


    • Place the screws in a safe place.



  8. Use any provided times as an estimate - different materials melt at different temperatures.

    • Heat the GPU slowly.




  9. Prevent the GPU components from touching any surface by elevating the edges of the card with foil. Do not leave the oven unattended.

    • Do not leave the oven unattended.



    Can you specify which side to have up?

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    iMac 27 » de 2011 bloquer sur la pomme au démarrage. Et quand j’arrive à passer la pomme c’est un écran blanc qui apparaît. J’ai absolument tout essayer. Toutes les combinaisons de démarrage possible. Changement de disque dur… nettoyage complet intérieur. Arriver au bout de tout les forums j’ai oser essayer ce tuto et miracle sa a fonctionner. Mon iMac a redémarré du premier coût. Combien de temps ça va durée je sait pas mais pour le moment je suis heureux

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  10. Vent the oven 5 - 10 times by opening the door. This will regulate temperature.



    • Do not use fans for cooling.

    does the power connector will be effected by heat or no?

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  11. You have 2 options:
    • You have 2 options:




    • Repeat steps 2-9 if GPU fails test.

    • Proceed to step 10 if GPU passes test.


    What are advices for fixed vga..

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  12. Apply thermal paste onto the main chip or on the connection side of the fan. Place the heat-sink over the GPU carefully, lining up any screws or clips.
    • Apply thermal paste onto the main chip or on the connection side of the fan.


    • Apply heatsink on thermal pads as applicable.



  13. Insert and tighten all the screws carefully. They are quite small, and the PCB may be damaged if the screws are over tightened. Tighten the screws in an alternating pattern.  E.G.  Top left, Bottom right, Top right, Bottom left. With more than 4 screws, use a &quot;Star&quot; pattern when tightening the screws ensuring all screws are evenly tightened.


    • Clean off any noticeable dust on the GPU.

  14. Reinsert GPU into GPU slot on motherboard.
    • Reinsert GPU into GPU slot on motherboard.


    • GPUs overheat at around 90C

  15. Verify that the fan was reconnected (if there is one).


    • Verify the GPU works and is detectable by the system.



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Since then he reconnected his fan and it's working fine

Thanks for reading, hope it helps someone

Gaspard Leon - Antwort


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Gaspard Leon -

Hi everyone,



Thanks for this manual it's very usefull!!!

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Lim Chi Yuung -

Report to your duty sir!!

mine transistor exploded at @ 15minutes *evga gtx 570


rakman jnaide - Antwort

I recently did the procedure on an out-of-warranty GTX 780 Ti but sadly it was at a friend’s house and he only had a small toaster oven… the temperature was too hot and the capacitors begin to pop off the board like popcorn after only 8 minutes… a bit of entertainment, but no result

Gaspard Leon -

My brother did this several times on his Asus laptop motherboard for over a year (“many” times he said) and got some extended life out of it before he was forced to replace the computer.

Gaspard Leon -

@ mods :

sorry gona double comment...

- (for grammar improvement's & more details)


Reporting to your duty sir(s)!!


*evga gtx 570


thats why i exceeded the 10min mark...

followed every steps correct'ly

rakman jnaide - Antwort


sorry for triple posting !!



now, i need to observe if its stability...

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snotorio - Antwort

What about plastic parts on laptop board?

Arman - Antwort

With a laptop board it is best to use a heatgun.

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hansson1984 - Antwort

This fix is still going strong!


Preheat oven to 220C (200C with Fan assist)



Protect all but GPU by wrapping in Aluminium foil.


Cook for exactly 10 minutes.

Remove immediately and allow to cool for at least 30 mins.



Reinstall and you are good to go...


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Jason -

Reballing is the right method not this bullshit

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is it still alive?

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Thank you!!

Marinos Klouras - Antwort

GTX 580, artifacts…fixed and working like new…

saved me from buying new gtx 1080…This is beautiful hack

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Regis Souza - Antwort

Second cook, day one… all good for now!

Regis Souza -

how is it now? xD

Shibō san -





Any ideas before I give up on it?

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Great stuff - thanks.

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Steve K -

J’étais sceptique mais ça a marché :D


Radeon HD 7850 achetée en ~2012,



Ressuscitée au four :p


It worked !


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Kenneth E. - Antwort

I think my gtx 970 broke from putting it inside of my backpack and traveled with me to my friend’s house. It has no physical damage as I have opened it and viewed it, but it is not being detected by BIOS now. The lights and fans are on, and power properly connected, but I can only use my integrated gpu now. So could this method work for me?

Kevorex Wang - Antwort

before that i need to know something ….actually if i insert the gpu in the pc it could n’t start (fans spins for second and turns off). So should i do the reflow stuff or should check the card’s circuitary using a multimeter for failed stuffs such as vrms, mosfet, etc,. Any ways im planing to use a heatgun instead of oven becoz i dont have a oven :|………

im having a GTX 750Ti 2gb from zotac…………….

Prithviraj - Antwort

If you planned to do it with a multimeter, did you find any help/tutorial for it ? Oven method didn’t work for my 980Ti so I might try this, but didn’t find anything about it, only some videos of guys doing it without exlpaining much.

Alexandre -

Thank you for this tutorial and the updated posts on lower temperature requirements. Wrapped my dead iMac mid-2011 GPU in foil, exposing only the chip. Baked it for 10 minutes at 325 º F and allowed it to cool slowly to room temp. Works perfectly now! This gives me time to locate and buy a backup / refurbished GPU. Has been working for a week so far. Will post back on it’s next bake to see how long it lasts.

iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011) - 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7

AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2048 MB

Robert - Antwort

Hey, I encountered this problem recently and I thought of solving this problem by myself and here I am.. So I wanna try this method ASAP, what I wanted to know is that whether it is OK to put the card in the oven without the ports covered?

I hope someone will reply soon because I'm very nervous about this method.

Uzman - Antwort

How much dangerous it is to use the oven to cook food again .

Vla Bog - Antwort

I built my rig just over six years ago with:

SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 7970 OC 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card (11197-01-40G)

10 days ago it failed for the first time in the middle of Prey: Mooncrash. Both monitors went completely dark - the card crashed.

Rebooted the machine and got artifacts spanning the height of displays, until it would crash again before even loading Windows.

Exposed the GPU core and applied heat directly to the core with hot air rework station:

Aoyue 850A++

Held the the nozzle a couple inches away from the core and slowly moved it around on both sides of the board at 70% heat for ~ 5 minutes. Not very scientific, yet this yielded improvement. I could boot into Windows without the card crashing, and there were less artifacts on the screen, but the resolution was low.

Applied heat again. This time used FLIR camera to get real data. Got GPU to 160C+ for 10 minutes. PRESTO CHANGEO! Been working like a champ for 24hrs.

Lucky to work in electronics lab.

Daniel Cantilo - Antwort

Still going strong

Daniel Cantilo -

Repaired a EVGA GTX 780ti with the following recipe: 8 minutes @ 190 degrees in  a pre-heated oven.

Sébastien Wirz - Antwort

No luck here with a GTX 980Ti that did not start up at all before (and after…).

Method :

- 9-10 minutes at 195°C~, no luck

- 9-10 minutes at 205°C~, no luck

- 15 minutes at 210°C~, and no luck, symptoms were still the same, the computer won’t ever power up when the card is plugged in.

I hope this works better for you ;)

Alexandre - Antwort

I didn’t learn this technique from here, but I have been keeping my Nvidia GTX 660 Ti alive for the past year using this same trick. It was due to be replaced with a HD 7970, but this has kept the GTX alive and well. Thanks for taking the time to write a iFixit article about it! Also, never ever put the GPU in the oven with it’s chip facing down. It will fall out of it’s socket if you do and once it goes out you’re pretty much out of luck forever.

Mathys Oliveira - Antwort

Didn’t work for an ATI 290 that the BIOS didn’t recognize. (Fan spun up and VRM’s were warm to touch though.)

- 380 for 9 mins, no luck

-395 for 9 mins , no luck

Just an FYI but second time “browned” the fan power connector (from white to a brownish hue). There was advice to de-solder everything you could before baking. Card was dead and long out of warranty so didn’t worry about it. Vapor chamber cooler still works so likely will ebay it. Have a 290x with some artifacts (yellow vertical lines on basic graphics driver) and Windows gives errors when installing the ATI drivers. Going to bake that too and will post results when done.

Scott H - Antwort

I tried it on mine, so far everything works better. No black screen since 3 days when I did it. I hope it keeps going like that. One question, where does that:

“Re-couler la soudure peut marcher sur certains circuits, mais de nouvelles informations montrent que ces réparations "rapides et temporaires" sont en fait causées par l'élargissement ou la contraction des bossages de soudure en dessous des puces montées en surface comme le GPU ou les puces mémoires (ce qui est possible à des températures moindres). “

come from exactly ? I read everywhere online that it is the resoldering that works.

BOBOUDA - Antwort

Unfortunately, heat is the enemy of electrolytic capacitors. If the capacitors are on there way out, this excessive heat may finish them off.

Have you replaced the electrolytic caps after doing this process to prolong the life of the card?

AlexZander - Antwort

I tried it on mine, so far everything works better. No black screen since 3 days when I did it. I hope it keeps going like that. One question, where does that: link ++https://themechanicautos.com++

fishing shop - Antwort


Since then he reconnected his fan and it's working fine

Thanks for reading, hope it helps someone ++https://themechanicautos.com++

fishing shop - Antwort

I tried "baking" my card in the machine. My iMac would stay on (gray screen) in safe boot mode, so it would heat up on it's own. I turned it on and laid it flat on the screen for about 20 mins, hoping the internal heat would help reseat the graphics chip. (Seemed from the videos I saw, we want the chip to move down towards the front of the computer)

Really I was just hoping for it to work for a few minutes while we grabbed some much needed files.

After a few attempts, the iMac is up and running. It's been on all night syncing files to the cloud. I'm sure this is a temp solution, but might be worth a try if you're not prepared to take everything apart.

cshafferwhite - Antwort

I baked my AMD RADEON R9 280X and It Worked! However For everyone that wants to do the same keep in mind that it is only a temporary fix. For example if you are saving money for a new GPU , but you still want to play games. I will have an update when the GPU dies again. Also for people that have a button for accelerating fans DO NOT cook the graphics card for more than 10 minute otherwise it will short something. I honestly cant believe that it worked!

Hrisi - Antwort

Don't preheat oven for best results, better to build up temperature than shock it instantly hot

Use 190c without preheat 13 minutes

After use 200c for 5 minutes

Open oven door and leave to cool 20 minutes+

If doesn't work try putting flux around GPU chip, heat for 8-9 min on 200c heated oven

Make sure clean after with isopropyl alcohol to remove flux other nearby components

Or can use smd hot air station around GPU chip with flux go in circle around CPU when you see it wiggle with the hot air movements keep going for 5 sec and then stop it will naturally seat onto the bga pads with the solder in right place

If GPU has lots of underfill as sides you may need remove it or pointless

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