And Now My Graphics Card Is a Zombie · 7:56pm Nov 12th, 2014
Thanks to rvcjew23's comment (as well as some people on different forums recommending the same thing), I did what would appear as the most downright dumbest thing ever to every sane person in this world.
I literally baked my graphics card in the oven.
At first I was genuinely under the impression that this is a stupid myth that some people invented to raise false hopes for some unexperienced users, like the people who spread that lie about putting your smartphone in the microwave to recharge it. Granted, that was even dumber, but I had the same first impression here.
But, as it turns out, it worked! Took everything off, preheated the oven to 170°C (~338°F), put the card on a tray with tinfoil balls, and let it bake for exactly 10 minutes. Then I put everything together again, stuck it into my PC, turned on the machine, and now it's acting like nothing ever happened.
So what do we learn? Don't ask why, just trust science.
ITS ALIIIIIVE!
Yes!!!
It's also a good way of fixing it after it's taken a dunk in water as well, just make sure to get the temperature right.
http://www.computerbase.de/forum/showthread.php?t=470823 ^^
What the fuck.
Well, whatever works, right?
Not sure that I'd ever be brave enough to try this if thr graphics card on my desktop PC ever started acting strange, but weirder things have happened in my life.
Man. And I thought my headset fix was stupid.
Reflow soldering is a good way to extend the lifetime of boards that have had their electrical connections damaged due to overheating and such, I did the same thing to a broken PS3's motherboard in order to fix it. Cheapest console I've ever had.
Well.....
Strange but interesting, I wonder if it's something to do with burning off impurities and reinforcing the soldering...hmm.
I'm informed by my friend who actually gets to build satellites to send into space:
2594206 Uh, really looks ugly. I'm a "builder" for one of my school clubs, thus I have a lot of random crap around. Two of those things included Kevlar fishing wire (same stuff they make bulletproof material from) and super glue. I remembered something someone told me about if you mix the two, it makes like this super hard material, which I fixed my headset with.
It's been going good so far. I'm still scared to test it, though.
2590827 Huh. So that's how it works. I can definitely see how that's logical. I kinda want to think it's the poor man's way of pulling the card apart and soldering everything again.