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welcome to resurrection blog this is something that I have been planning to do for quite some time with this dead gtx 780 Ti II see nothing not a dead no signal boom done but had my hand forced a little bit by the death of the intel 750 series SSD in personal rig update 2015 yes my friends while I was fixing this lovely ek waterblock or more likely while I was removing the stock heatsink the 750 series SSD died so we are going to use a tried-and-true well that definitely tried and hopefully true method of bringing it back to life the mastercase 5 by Coolermaster gives you the freedom to truly make your mid-tower pc case your own with a variety of modular parts and accessories check out the link in the video description to learn more alright so I know technically you're not supposed to run it with no heatsink no that is not how it died I am only running it for a couple seconds to demonstrate that it is in fact not working before we get started here this is a lot faster than putting the stock heatsink back on it since I'm going to have to remove that to attempt my resurrection anyway and give me configuration nothing also this monitor does that sometimes boom dead drive here we go so the science behind this resurrection method is actually fairly simple whether due to heating and cooling therefore expanding contracting or some other type of physical stress the theory is that some of the solder joints on the board between the chips and the PCB could have become broken over time and by heating up the component to the melting temperature of that solder you could allow it to reflow and reconnect becoming fully functional again but before we get into all the stuff you'll need to perform this particular little miracle I want to start with a hefty disclaimer this will void the crap out of any warranty you may still have so if your product is covered by the retailer or manufacturer warranty do not do this instead go through the proper warranty channels in my case both my video card and my SSD are review samples with therefore no warranty coverage whatsoever so we have pretty much nothing to lose at this point except our time and if you're going to watch this video I guess yours as well so let's run through we got here we have ourselves a Wolfgang Puck oven that was generously donated by Luc to Linus media group because Linus Media Group's employees made it so filthy and disgusting that he pretty much doesn't want it anymore so I'll be cleaning this out before trying to repair any video cards in it it's important to use an oven that can reach three hundred and eighty-five degrees tight-end that you never intend to cook food in ever again because as the guide that I'm following on overclockers from like 2009 pointed out if you are reheating stuff like this in an oven there can be gases and materials LED off that can contaminate future food that to cook inside it the next thing we'll need is screwdrivers for taking apart our components our SSD is conveniently already disassembled but the video card will need its heatsink removed then we will need aluminum foil this will be to wrap the oven tray as well as to separate the PCB from the oven tray we'll show you guys how to do this later on and we will need some replacement thermal compound for our hardware for when we reassemble it assuming that it survives the baking process alright so let's get to cleaning then you oh that's gross all right we haven't those ah cuz Yvan wouldn't let us get one and asked why we don't have a hose see she doesn't deny it that's why isn't it I wanted a hose I also wanted like a utility sink out there I don't think it the large ones it's like whoever bought these forgot that I work here swimming in there one for that and I take good one here's a funny idea anyone who leads their dishes in the sink on washed I'll wash it with this look at that it's like wearing right through the scouring pad yeah I've never used it either I suspect Brandon and Terry you look at this one there's like a hanger in here oh gotta be cheese okay so this is a really short cord but that's okay because that's why extension cords exist they're not a huge fan of running like an oven off an extension cord okay here we go standard baked convection bake slow cook roast royal patisserie was - standard bake temperature 385 or 375 it doesn't make a sound when it reaches the I would think so should go deep so we can use the time while our oven is preheating to strip down our video card that definitely stinks that is gross oh and it smells like cancer yeah it smells like an oven that hasn't been turned on any year and that was disgusting the last time it was turned on now this is one key difference between stripping down a card for water cooling for example and stripping down a card for baking is that you're actually going to want to remove as many of the plastic housings on things like fan or LED connectors as you can make sure you note the orientation as you pull them off otherwise you're going to have a bad time putting them back together don't try to take off stuff like the PCI Express power connector housings those will survive the bake just fine oh shoot oh I'm an idiot oh wow oh that smoke that is so gross okay well I have to pull the tray out because you're supposed to wrap it okay damnit Oh weird it's like curling can you not do that mr. Trey thank you so this yeah this is cool enough now so let's wrap this baby up now the guy doesn't say shiny side out or shiny side in but that looks like the shiny side out it's amazing how how many like non baking people will not realize that aluminum has a reflective side and on that side for not reflecting as much yep you'll learn something every day every day that you watch this show it should be every day you have videos every day now the next step is to create little aluminum balls just like that we're going to use these to keep the PCB of our SSD or graphics card off of the tray itself it's important not to position them on top of one of the components that we want to resolder so you want this just touching the bare PCB which might make it a little tricky just be careful and go slow I think this side is probably my best bet but then this is probably the side I think was most likely damaged by removing it so maybe I want hmm okay I went like this I wish I had smaller balls aluminum balls so let's make sure we're not making contact with anything we shouldn't be any surface mount components or anything like that looks like we're good that's at 385 standard bake okay let's get baked okay timer start start start timer I don't know well okay it's 4:33 so at 4:41 we pull it out and hope for the best we should never for that hope for the best that's why you only need one glove because it can do up to five at a time although that might be a bit of a bottleneck I'm pretty sure it's working it's hot until now okay this is a terrible terrible situation because oh no wait wait you don't mean it's okay ah okay I need it to come out a little bit further I don't want it to shift on those balls valve okay here we go I got to be dexterous with this glove okay now we let it cool to room temperature it's very cold in here maybe I'll cool it to room temperature near the oven or on top of the oven or well okay yeah I don't want to put it down I don't to do is I don't want to hold it the whole time okay well I want to start baking the video card here at some point yeah no it's okay I'll just hold it actually I think I can probably I can probably do this without yeah there's like nothing on in here so I'll just put one there you out you okay fulfill peril I had a gloved hand okay I forgive you all right okay so the video card is done now to definitely warm ouch I'm just going to put this here for now let's try the SSD come on well there's lights on on it I don't remember if it had those before oh I don't see it in the boot priority thing I don't know if it works crap well I guess I might as well try baking it one more time I don't have anything to lose maybe I'll try flipping it the other way this time the black like under part of the sticker is still there it's like the key but the barcode is completely done by contrast our stick there that we put in it is just fine it's not the outcome I wanted but if the GTX 780 Ti works then at least this is for something because I can use this for a new render server concept that I have that I'll be building out pretty soon with that sad I'm not going to count my chickens at this stage in the game anyway but let's see how it goes come on baby let's get something out of this exercise I'm pretty sure we should have a display by now wait wait hey all right so the video card is back from the dead rock on that's fantastic alright let's take another crack at the SS Steven oh crap I don't know how long this has been done well what are we going to do kill it more at this point shut up Brandon oh wow we overcooked it it looks dark I can't tell I thought I saw steam rising oh you know what is probably from actually oh my goodness ow oh my fingers no I think this team is like accidentally spat a bit I think it like well okay I'm not trying to just spit all of it shut up everyone just shut up one of the tricky things is that different boards will use different soldering techniques and different solder materials so just because something works well on a graphics card made by Nvidia doesn't mean that it works well on an SSD made by Intel unfortunately I don't have like special guidelines for 750 series SSDs oh well you should use this temperature for this long so we just have to kind of hope for the best here the good news is our 780 Ti is running the heav'n benchmark with no issues whatsoever so yeah take another crack at it eh speaking of which mass drop if you guys haven't heard of mass drop well I'm sorry that you live in a hole because it is pretty freakin cool all you got to do is head over to master opcom sign up and they've got all kinds of great deals whether it's on audio products or like you know cool knives or keyboards or computer parts or whatever I mean they've got you've got like a bunch of camping stuff now like ultra light stuff super cool and basically the way that it works is they rely heavily on their community to find them the products that they really want to 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