Freshly baked...

[BJG]

...HP2015 motherboards. Mmm, smell the solder.

 

 

Leave to cool, reinstall, and...

 

 

Bingo.

[mac_shinobi]

What temperature ( in degrees C ) and how long for ?

[synaesthesia]

Ah, my favourite trick 170 degrees, 8 minutes but depends on oven. Keep a close eye, ensure all plastics covered.

Brilliant for laptops and graphics cards too.

[MatthewL]

Never known anyone to successfully do it.

 

We had to scrap several hundred of these when I was in the NHS because of the fault and wasn't allowed to bake them to fix it.

[mac_shinobi]

Solder Re Flow , something like this then : https://forums.ebuyer.com/showthread.php/73485-*Graphics-card-failure-repair-guide*

[synaesthesia]

Indeed. I do it very often (wel, not as much as I used to, too busy for private work).

Started with the faulty nvidia 8800 graphics cards (both laptop and desktop variants), that carried on through the ranges. Couple of Macbooks (or Cookbooks as I called them at the time), mostly Toshiba laptops. A colleague recently spent a LOT of money getting his powerpc Mac running again (barely), I'd have loved to have a go at that. Being one of the older huge silver boxes that weighed a ton with quite hefty mainboards I'm not sure my oven would be big enough. Also I now have a gas oven, I'm not so confident with that

[LosOjos]

Surely it's much safer to just reflow the solder points than shoveing the whole thing in the oven?! Yeah your way is quicker but a couple of minutes too long and you're up the creek...

[synaesthesia]

It is, but not many people have the proper equipment. You won't be re-flowing any of the affected parts with a soldering iron because you can't get at them. I've heard of it being done with heatguns and what not but that's far less predictable..