Nvidia Geforce 8600M gpu Reflowing

[boxerulez]

Soo a friend has a Packard Bell Gp2W with the infamous Nvidia defect.

Screen was all garbled... split the array into 6 horisontal copies and was basically unusable.

Got my hands on it... too lazy to strip the whole thing, i removed the fan heatsyncs and ram... removed the processor... shielded everything with tinfoil and proceded to cook the gpu with a heatgun.

3cm clearance off gpu for 120 seconds did the trick.

Allowed board to cool for 10 minutes.

Reassembled and


Voila...



This apparently fixes the Red ring of death on the xbox also.

I know someone posted this similar procesure on a macbook last month. But i think my repair is just easier if you know exactly which component is hassling you.

Anyone else had any success with this?

 

[ginggs]

Anyone else had any success with this?

Yes:
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/450671-Mecer-Xpression-TW7A-Repair-(Nvidia-Reflow)

Need to do it again though. The fix doesn't seem to be permanent.

 

[boxerulez]

Yes:
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/450671-Mecer-Xpression-TW7A-Repair-(Nvidia-Reflow)

Need to do it again though. The fix doesn't seem to be permanent.

Cool man. How long did it last for? I have been keeping an eye on this thing. Am letting it run through the night now to make sure its fixed before I return it to the owner.

 

[ginggs]

Cool man. How long did it last for?

I think it was about a year.

 

[Pada]

I did a reflow of a 8800GTX a couple of years ago - also for a friend - so I'm not sure how long it lasted after that though.

It was pretty awesome to revive a beast of a card back in its day.

 

[heartbroken]

I did a reflow of a 8800GTX a couple of years ago - also for a friend - so I'm not sure how long it lasted after that though.

It was pretty awesome to revive a beast of a card back in its day.

The 8800 was notoriously prone to artifacts. sigh.

Cool man. How long did it last for? I have been keeping an eye on this thing. Am letting it run through the night now to make sure its fixed before I return it to the owner.

As ginggs said about a year, but goes downhill from there, the second reflow lasted a couple of months and then went down to every 2 weeks until it was replaced.