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The GPU in one of my machines died last week – vertical red tears in the image and BSODs all over the display stack. I googled the behaviour to see whether it was a common issue and to my surprise a number of people were proposing a bizzare fix…

Baking a graphics card? I never would have thought of it but you can see how it might just work. Heat the card up to the point where the solder reaches melting point and then let it cool down again – repairing micro-fissures that may exist in connections that could be causing a problem.

Well it worked for me and lots of others so why not you? It’s using the same principles of a manufacturing process called reflow – read how after the break!

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