Kind of a Guide: How to Bake Your GPU for Fun and for Profit!

[moral hazard]

Yes, replace the battery. It's like 3V or something (most of the time).

[crayonyes]

so it's true you need to take off the cmos battery before you bake the mobo?
-- even if it's soldered one?? --

[mojeeb]

thanks a lot. i believe it was because of some overheating. i think the battery will explode in beyond the 191 C . so be careful if you're baking with the cmos battery still installed. by the way. thanks a lot everyone. great forum here.

[worldww3]

WOW!!!!! you are a freeking genius lol, i just heated my xps1210 mobo that died of gfx card problems and now its running again!!!!!!, even though its a little late, i already ordered a m6500, my fan in xps1210 wont run, i feel the heat sink getting really hot but the fan wont kick in. any ideas why?

[Commander Wolf]

so it's true you need to take off the cmos battery before you bake the mobo?
-- even if it's soldered one?? --

Yes you should take off the CMOS battery before you bake the machine. This is a really good point and I shouldn't have overlooked it. I have a friend who once tried to solder some leads directly onto some of these coin-cell batteries... and, well, it blew up.

WOW!!!!! you are a freeking genius lol, i just heated my xps1210 mobo that died of gfx card problems and now its running again!!!!!!, even though its a little late, i already ordered a m6500, my fan in xps1210 wont run, i feel the heat sink getting really hot but the fan wont kick in. any ideas why?

It's possible you damaged something related to the fan... or just forgotten to plug it in? What're the actual temps that you're getting?

[worldww3]

well just got done heating the mobo, it didnt really put eveything together, just kind took the mobo, connected the hard drive and the vedio card and the rest of the wire back how they would go without actually physicly screwing eveything in just to make sure it works. So the system booted fine into windows, let it run for 15 min, but the fan never kicked it, it is pluged in though.

before it the mobo fried originaly, it would kick the fan in as soon as i turned it on. ( i didnt heat the fan, took it out by the way )

this are the temps so far :

Temperatures:
CPU 58 °C (136 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #1 61 °C (142 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #2 62 °C (144 °F)
Chipset 25 °C (77 °F)
Aux 62 °C (144 °F)
DIMM 54 °C (129 °F)
GPU 68 °C (154 °F)
WDC WD5000BEVT-75ZAT0 39 °C (102 °F)

[JTF2]

Nice thread, when I saw the title I thought it was some kind metaphor/joke, I've never heard of baking your motherboard before.

Knock on wood, if this problem ever happens to me, I might just try it.

[Commander Wolf]

well just got done heating the mobo, it didnt really put eveything together, just kind took the mobo, connected the hard drive and the vedio card and the rest of the wire back how they would go without actually physicly screwing eveything in just to make sure it works. So the system booted fine into windows, let it run for 15 min, but the fan never kicked it, it is pluged in though.

before it the mobo fried originaly, it would kick the fan in as soon as i turned it on. ( i didnt heat the fan, took it out by the way )

this are the temps so far :

Temperatures:
CPU 58 °C (136 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #1 61 °C (142 °F)
CPU #1 / Core #2 62 °C (144 °F)
Chipset 25 °C (77 °F)
Aux 62 °C (144 °F)
DIMM 54 °C (129 °F)
GPU 68 °C (154 °F)
WDC WD5000BEVT-75ZAT0 39 °C (102 °F)

This is indeed a little high. You might have damaged some sensor on the board or something whilst baking You can try using i8kfangui to spin your fan up and down; if that doesn't work, you may have damaged something worse than a sensor... Still, it could also be something simple that I'm overlooking...

[Renee]

There's nothing strange about this repair at all. I doubt the repair is as broad as this one made it to be.

Nvidia has made a bunch of bad gpu's in the material, literally, sense. The solder will move on all LENOVO t61p's, eventually crippling the computer. This is a fix for the soldering that will inevitably fail.
Renee

[GReddy]

There's nothing strange about this repair at all. I doubt the repair is as broad as this one made it to be.

Nvidia has made a bunch of bad gpu's in the material, literally, sense. The solder will move on all LENOVO t61p's, eventually crippling the computer. This is a fix for the soldering that will inevitably fail.
Renee

It may seem strange but it's a common method to repair the RRoD (Red Ring of Death) problem on XBOX 360.

My Asus G2S had the common GPU failure caused by bad heat managment(Send my Asus G2S in twice while warranty lasted, for this reason). It's GeForce 8600mGT failed. It booted but the Display and external Monitor had no signal.

After using exactly this method (baked 7 minutes) my Laptop is up and running. This is a great guide and I really appreciate the effort.