"Baking" a HP Jetdirect card

[Gibbo]

While mooching through a box of spares on Friday I came across an old Jetdirect card that failed in 2007.

 

I'd been recently reading a site which talked about sticking them in the oven to fix the dry joint which is usually the problem.

 

And hey presto, it only went and worked! Half an hour in the electric oven at 175 degrees and it works perfectly!

[pete]

*looks at shelf*

*wonders if he can sneak into food tech without being detected*

[Gibbo]

Just one thing, remove the white plastic front from it first:

 

http://www.ezcopier.com/image/j3111a.jpg

 

I didn't and it melted!

[BenABF]

Have done the same thing on a hp 2015 formatter board about a year ago and still going strong in our office

[sidewinder]

We've done this with at least 5 from 2015's. All have been fine apart from one that was left in too long

 

Shows the usual supreme quality of HP Printers

[BenABF]

I did read about someone having a go at repairing an old graphics card but he had the board upside down so the chip fell off as it got heated up lol

[tech_guy]

Heck, we've got this issue. Gonna give it a try now! Hey Chef, get those pies out of the oven I'm coming in!

[K.C.Leblanc]

Heck, we've got this issue. Gonna give it a try now! Hey Chef, get those pies out of the oven I'm coming in!

 

You're just on a pie mission aren't you?

 

I don't have access to the canteen here and our DT block is a long way away. How long do you guys think they need in the microwave?

[kevbaz]

this is also reported as a way to fix 360's and ps3's with rrod and ylod

[MK-2]

You're just on a pie mission aren't you?

 

I don't have access to the canteen here and our DT block is a long way away. How long do you guys think they need in the microwave?

 

Well I usually do my CDs in the microwave at 10 seconds, so for a unit like the jetdirect, I'd say at least 4 minutes.

 

 

 

 

 

BTW this was a joke post, just in case someone actually tries to microwave theirs, I am joking and not responsible for you and your microwave going fizzbang!!

[plexer]

600N and 615N had reported widespread issues and the HP replacement scheme on the 615N's has recently ended I believe.

 

Rather than bake them I spend £20 a piece on some 620N's of ebay which was good compared to the £275 cost of them new.

 

Ben

[joe90bass]

Well I usually do my CDs in the microwave at 10 seconds, so for a unit like the jetdirect, I'd say at least 4 minutes.

 

 

 

 

 

BTW this was a joke post, just in case someone actually tries to microwave theirs, I am joking and not responsible for you and your microwave going fizzbang!!

 

Whilst I was 99.9% sure it was a joke, or you'd just lost the plot!! I did google it - it seems people do microwave CDs for entertainment purposes.... personally I'm going to give it a miss!

[tech_guy]

When I was a student (so long ago most of you were still ovum in your Mum's ovaries), we put one of these http://www.old-phones.com/Application/Images/Teleph/ivory-bakelite-md.jpg in a microwave to see what would happen. It wasn't pretty. Bakelite is very fussy when it comes to microwaves.

[ZeroHour]

Just one thing, remove the white plastic front from it first:

 

http://www.ezcopier.com/image/j3111a.jpg

 

I didn't and it melted!

 

Pic of the result plz

[featured_spectre]

Interesting one for you, if you cover the plastic in silicon sealer, it wont melt!

[BJG]

Never heard of this idea. That's great!

[CyberNerd]

I can also confirm that this works. We came across the same site in the summer and tried it with the same HP card

[Marci]

Done this on the mainboards in several HP3005's without issue... got told to by our local printer repair company who felt guilty charging us to fix when that's exactly what they would have done once they got hold of `em.

[john]

I've done it with a Dell Laptop with VGA issues, got a HP Tablet to fix at some point but need more time to attack the casing and bits of it, but can also vouch it works, the oven does get a strange smell for a while and the smoke that comes out of it when you open the door is rather worrying as well, set the smoke alarm off at home when I did it here! Think I'll use the Catering room at work next time

[MatthewL]

I've got one of them Jet Direct cards if anyone needs one, its sat here in a box collecting dust!

[EduTech]

I have 2 broken xbox360's as they have been sat here for like ages now and i just cba to get the parts to fix it, might just cook them for a bit and see what happens aha! LOL!

[kevbaz]

I have 2 broken xbox360's as they have been sat here for like ages now and i just cba to get the parts to fix it, might just cook them for a bit and see what happens aha! LOL!

 

seriously give it a go, its one of the reported ways to fix them, ive never tried but used a heat gun with positive results, bunging it in the oven might be easier

[Greenbeast]

this is interesting, i have 3 ibm thinkpads at home that have a comment vga dry joint problem.

The solution i read was to heat the vga chip up gradually with a heat gun and then cool it back down again.

 

This could be an alternative, still means i've got to strip the things down though