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before we start this vlog off the heat gun method can indeed work and it does work in my opinion a lot better than the oven method so if you guys want to do this then I've got the two thousand watt heat gun here it's got two variable speeds and I set this to about two-thirds of the way up on the dial and that ensures that it's not putting out too much heat to actually cause permanent damage to your PCB in the graphics card but it does put out enough heat to potentially bring a faulty GPU back to life and now in this vlog I have brought one of those GPUs back to life using this method and of course there is some science behind it there is another youtuber who I looked at before this video who has a pretty detailed guide he uses temp senses and does pretty specific times in how he uses the heat gun but for me I found the only card that I got back to life 100% I used the Luke Skywalker method and that is I was just using the force and then I stopped after about five minutes so if you want to use this the temperatures that I've got here two-thirds of the way up on a 2001 heat gun and I did it for about five minutes by circling the heat gun clockwise and yeah the card came back to life with that aside let's get back to the vlog here on the desk we have seven gravis cards and these ones starting from the right to the left we've got a 7970 a seventy nine fifty seventy eight seventy an RX five seventy and a GTX 650 but these two on the end we're gonna talk about these a little bit later because there's sort of like a thing going on where I think that the the BIOS update on these cards may have been the reason while they both died and this is the weird thing one of them got techie assed loving the other has not got tackiest loving and they died in the exact same fashion in that I was running him in a PC and after about a day was like pew and then the whole PC went off and the cod was essentially not giving out a signal after that but regardless I have heard of a solution and he's right here the heat gun now people are saying this is a much better method to repair graphics cards if they can be repaired via this method as opposed to putting them in the oven safer answers now in the past I have had success with the oven method but keep in mind it wasn't that big of a hit ratio like if anything I'd say around in my experience is maybe 20% or so but as opposed to this people say this method is better not just because you can direct the heat to the section where the GPU D is but also you won't be stinking out your whole house with fumes and that's one area where I will definitely agree that putting these things in the oven and especially if you're gonna eat in that oven after you're done with these cards is not a good thing I mean some of these things will have chemicals on them solder mask whatnot you just do not want to be breathing that stuff in let alone eating it so what we're gonna do here is we're gonna give these ones a quick phase one tech s love and that's where we get some alcohol wipes clean them down see if we can get a quick signal out of them before we attempt to put the heat gun on them and then if they don't work after that I'm pretty much going to just put them aside if someone out in the audience wants to grab them locally I'll be happy to give these things away but keep in mind that I recently did a video put the link up here where I took these things over to Taiwan some graphics cards that were faulty that's a GTX tents also temperature TA and the gtx 960 and I got them all fixed but in the case of the msi 960 since it was out of warranty i had to pay $25 for that and so you can see with some of these cards here especially a GTX 650 I would not even bother paying $25 to fix this thing lit alone put it in a suitcase take it all the way to Taiwan and then bring it back for that price so we're starting to venture up I think the 7970 would be starting to venture up into that area if it would be worth it same with the rx 570 but whether or not these would be fixable especially in the case of this one since it's a no-name branded RX 570 from a Chinese OEM that I don't even know the name like I literally don't even know the name of this card guess that some of the repair centers wouldn't take these in and in the case of this one right on the end here this is a sapphire I believe and I don't even know where the repair center for that is in Taiwan there we go let's see I'll begin so the 7970 that actually gives out a signal it looks like it's working absolutely fine so I'm really shocked but the phase one tech is lovin that's just the alcohol wipes we did notice like right around here and I'll pull up the conspiracy cam for you guys did this thermal paste was like weed there was like some thermal paste stock over this area here and so we cleaned that off and if that was capacitive or conductive that definitely could have caused the problem so our first candidate here the 7950 this was actually booting after we put the heat gun on it but it has a problem that I've never seen before and that is when we get to Windows Windows just literally starts locking up and freezing so although we have it to boot it just doesn't function properly with inside windows and we tried this a couple of times we've got another graphics card installed at the moment windows working absolutely fine so this one's a bizarre fix at the moment and after doing this once my curiosity is aroused to the point where we're gonna keep going through the rest of them and seeing what magic can happen so this one here it's still completely gone not giving out a signal so that's kind of two for two where we've got all kind of one and a half for two because this one kind of half came back to life so we're now gonna try this one next this is a gtx 1650 a little bit simpler but maybe a little bit of an easier fix so now this GTX 650 is a success it is now with us in spirit and body so this one got a new form of tech yes loving and it's working absolutely fine problem is we took this outside to film-like cuz it stunk the studio up I'm filming like right out here now I'll just quickly get the light on there so I'm doing this whole thing outside now because yeah it just reeks in here so yeah we're doing the whole heat gun thing outside and I'm sort of like working on my technique still so that is I'm gonna probably try and redo these after I try a couple of these out but this is a legit success story I'm glad about that this one here is the Sapphire card which we're gonna have to talk about after I'd give it a smoking session because I think this one like these two Sapphire cards I just think they've gone is that's all that needs a drummer thing Oh oh that's not a good sound I said how's your computer that was not a good sound holy that's not a good sound for computer part to make that was that how's that how's the audience is the audio monitor oh I guess I just crashed and played a solid time yeah which is if it does boot up again I mean dependence so this RX 570 here it lasted all of two minutes before it made a really weird sound and just crashed out with a blue screen so I'm not entirely sure what part of this GPU is faulty but it doesn't want to reboot back up so yeah this was probably one of the shortest relived graphics cards I've ever seen actually I think it is the shortest real live graphics card but well that said we do have this car which I'm going to give another session to and then we'll talk about the heat gun method but also the BIOS trolls and what happened to these Sapphire cards so now we're at the conclusion here the next day and the GTX 650 that came back to life that's looking like it's going to have a bit of life left in it I will be testing it though in a gaming rig if I do decide to sell it and make sure that it's running stress tests absolutely fine of course if you do sell something like this you do want to guarantee the PC making sure that person who buys it doesn't get hosed in any way shape or form but now we've got the 7970 here and this just needed some tech yes loving him that came back to life I was really surprised that's a really good win out of this whole situation but then we got the RX 570 this one came back to life momentarily I was kind of hoping that it would stay alive but nope I got that on camera too it pretty much just gave a blue screen cut out and then we had the 7950 doing the same thing where it gave out a signal but then it pretty much froze the computer and those were two chances at reviving but it didn't work out and then this one here just gave out absolutely no signal whatsoever beforehand and then after it did the exact same thing so something is seriously faulty on that card these Sapphire cards we're going to move over now to a conclusion and talk about the V biased rolls which is the reason why I think these two are x5 70s I had here are now not working anymore but basically the heat gun it can work it's a lot better than the oven method in my opinion because of course you're not going to ruin your oven with all these bad smells and you've got a bit more control over the time it takes to do it and you can quickly do it with ease as opposed to the oven you've got to put things inside and it just it really is tedious compared to the heat gun method and it'd be honest my hit ratio is about the same as the oven but anyway what happened with these our x5 70s from sapphire I got two of these from a massive mining deal in the past and there are the only two cards that I've flashed with av BIOS and then they've died in the exact same fashion over pretty much the same time period now I used this one in a build where I gave it some tech yest loving everything was working really good the temperatures were good but after I did that build I started stress testing it because that's what I do before I sell a computer and the computers cut off like I was in the room at the time and it just cut off and then I decided okay maybe I'd messed up like maybe something happened when I was putting the card back together because there are a lot of screws it is a different design and the back plate is kind of reliant upon having the cooler stuck to it and getting forced that way but no sure enough I decided to give the next card just a quick data vac and not change any of the thermal paste over and then I updated the boss from the previous mining boss and it just died in the exact same fashion a day later so I knew something was up with the V bios that I used after the second card had died in the exact same way and that was this one I'll stress testing the card it just cut the whole machine off and then the card wouldn't work after that so one thing that came out of this was if manufacturers could upload the original V bios to their websites that would be amazing because yeah getting a mining card like this and then going on techpowerup they just provide pretty much a service of reuploading the V biases from other individual users and so in this case I believe someone may have programmed the V files in a way that spiked a particular voltage and that caused the component to pretty much hit the hay and never come back but then of course there's the incentive for the original manufacturers not to upload the original V bios since these are mining cards and when they're resold on the used market there's pretty much no profit going to sapphire for example and in fact it's probably costing them a sale so it might not be in their best interest to upload the original v bosse but it's just something that would give me peace of mind when i'm flashing some of these cards back from those previous mining biases where the person hasn't saved the original v bios but no guys in closing out the heat gun it can work really well as I said in the intro I'm just doing the Luke Skywalker method just get that thing at a certain temperature make sure it's not too hot to the point where it'll sizzle a PCB where over in Japan I did put one in the oven way back in the day it was a real old potato that was my first time doing the oven bake method and I pretty much had that PCB like it was put it on that hot so if you do get the temperatures too hot you can fry the PCB and are permanently damaged the components but that was actually a really funny experience I did take some b-roll of it but I'm not sure if I still have that on hand other than that I've got some gratis cards that are now working again so I'm pretty happy and this method is definitely a lot easier to the point where I'll start collecting dead GPUs and then put them in a stack and maybe update and do these videos every so often for you guys just to overtime get a proper hit rate on the actual percentages of these GPUs that are coming back to life but in the meantime I can recommend this method it is a last resort of course what have you got to lose not a whole lot and in the case of the GPUs here if I wanted to I could stash them and bring them back to Taiwan but keep in mind does cost about 25 USD over there to get them fixed so you want to have cards that are worth that 25 USD to get repaired but it does kind of suck that the GTX 650 the cheapest GPU and the stack here was the one that came back to life I would have liked the 79 50 or maybe the rx 5 70 or something like that to be working again but that's just sometimes the way it goes but with that aside I hope you guys enjoyed today's video if you did be sure to hit that like button also let us know in the comments section below have you fixed the GPU in a similar fashion do you like the oven method or do you like a heat gun method better love reading your thoughts and opinions as always and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye I know I know you guys are probably thinking there's another reason he got a heat gun and you're right on the money and as always if you want to just have a crack