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  1. 2012-06-21 07:45 #1
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    Baking GeForce 7x00 Line

    For any of you familiar with the older Nvidia 7x00 line from 2006~ may know that there was an issue with these cards in which the solder joints would eventually crack causing artifacting and eventually making the card only be able to run off the default Windows VGA.dll driver. This means you could not dual screen or play games efficiently.

    After some research I found that reheating the card in your oven at around 400F for 10 minutes would get the solder to reheat and hopefully rejoin where it needs to be. I did it last night and its now working perfectly. I can now install the actual drivers without the screen going black, the artifacts are gone, and its just running the way it should be.

    My question is what is anyone elses experience for this? How long did it last after you baked it and put it back in your system. I'm going to be running 2 monitors on it with FFXI idle so I'm pushing it a little bit but not too hard.
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    Yep, it's just a temporary solution. It typically lasts around a month to a year, at which point you'll need to try it again. If you're not doing anything more demanding than ffxi, low end video cards are really cheap, so it may be easier to just buy a new one. As always though, that's up to you. If you've got more time than money, you can probably keep the card running quite a while.
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    At this point a replacement card for it seems to be around $80-100 and I may just run into the same problem with a new card eventually. I guess I'll just sell the laptop for parts and buy a new $400-500 laptop if it dies again. It seems it may have possibly failed already though haha. Thanks for the input though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by neuroticelite View Post
    At this point a replacement card for it seems to be around $80-100 and I may just run into the same problem with a new card eventually. I guess I'll just sell the laptop for parts and buy a new $400-500 laptop if it dies again. It seems it may have possibly failed already though haha. Thanks for the input though.
    Oh, it's a laptop? Yeah, that will be more expensive to replace then.

    It's going to die completely sooner or later, but hopefully with a little luck you can keep it running a quite a while as is.
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