question: baking a videocard [HD 6950]

[Rast]

What to I need to bake a videocard? new vram stripes enough?

 

[thilanliyan]

I haven't heard of anyone having to bake a 6950. Only a solder problem would be solved by that...you sure that's the problem?

 

[Rast]

I haven't heard of anyone having to bake a 6950. Only a solder problem would be solved by that...you sure that's the problem?

got artifacts on that card, but if its running a game then it's gone. but cold boot then I got problems again....

 

[thilanliyan]

Have you flashed/unlocked the card?

If it's gone in a game, maybe the 2d clocks are too low. Have you tried maybe manually upping the clocks with Afterburner while at the desktop?

 

[Rast]

ye back clocked tried everything

 

[thilanliyan]

ye back clocked tried everything

You INCREASED clocks? Or DECREASED clocks?

Either way the card should still be under warranty right?

 

[Rvenger]

If you bake the card, you might as well toss it in the trash. RMA it for crying out loud.

 

[Rast]

nope got it from ebay. can't rma it got no invoice

 

[TemjinGold]

What to I need to bake a videocard? new vram stripes enough?

You need an oven.

 

[Meghan54]

What to I need to bake a videocard?

Well, some would say some decent herb and a pipe or some papers. At least, that's what some would say.........

 

[Borealis7]

baking only worked on the nVidia g92 cards 3-4 years ago.

*jedi wave* these are not the solutions you're looking for.

 

[Zanovar]

Well, some would say some decent herb and a pipe or some papers. At least, that's what some would say.........

 

[Arkadrel]

@Rast

Bakeing cant solve everything, its usually good for the older geforce cards because of "solder problems" nvidia had on their cards.

It is possible to permanently damage a card from heavly overclocking, in which case your just out of luck.
However it could also just be degredation from you overclocking, in which case a little more voltage will solve the issues.

got artifacts on that card, but if its running a game then it's gone. but cold boot then I got problems again....

This sounds weird.... so when you reboot your pc, inside windows on 2D clocks, your haveing artificats but it plays perfectly inside games?

Try getting a BIOS editor and opening it up, then make your 2D clocks abit higher, and give them more voltage.

Maybe the guy you bought it from on Ebay was one of these people that love to "undervolt" cards to save on energy.
And its clocks are simply too low/high?, getting to little power.

Could you try downloading a bios editor and opening the bios (dont change anything) just check what settings its currently at?