Recent content by JTJB

Well, just over 24 hours and it started garbling again dammit! Started all by itself while I was D/L with Utorrent. Will bake again only this time longer. Nothing to lose at this point. Sorry I spoke too soon. This card would NEVER have run before I baked it without garbled images except at...

I baked mine GPU side up on a perforated aluminum pizza pan. Don't worry about the chippery on the bottom falling off when the solder reaches melting point as there is a meniscus layer with solder similar to water which will keep it bonded to the card.

This was a used, defective card given too me from my brother in law. These things are dated to 2005, no RMA available. He built a new system, and could not be bothered with trouble shooting the old 9800 card. I being inquisitive, played with it a couple of times in the last year by fiddling...

One more note to those who are considering this solution: YOU MUST remove the heatsink/fan assembly BEFORE placing it in the oven. This is NOT an option! The pressure exerted by the fasteners holding the heatsink to the GPU would pull the GPU to the board as soon as the solder melted...

If one is skeptical, simply dig an old card whether it is a PCI video, modem, network, etc, out of your component junk drawer with some plastic connectors on it and try it first if you are nervous. Look, if you are reading a forum like this for hardware solutions you are not some guy who...

Good Question Lava, There was absolutely ZERO deviation of the plastics physical properties.

Hello all, I fixed the ATI 9800 garbled screen problem tonight. This problem has plagued me for quite sometime as I could run the card flawlessly at boot up most times, but it seemed that if I even breathed on the card or brushed it in the slightest, the screen would get garbled. I grabbed...