Baking your video card

I just found this article on Engadget. This guy baked his broken 8800 gtx in his oven, at 425 degrees, and it fixed it!

http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/30/nvidia-gpu-resurrected-after-10-minutes-at-425-f/

Lol. Id say its pretty feasable after fixing dry joints on old commadore amiga modulators with a paint stripping gun years ago

It's a very feasible option if the cause of the problem is a broken solder joint.

In fact, motherboard and video card PCBs are often pre-heated to remove contaminants that may prevent a proper solder joint from forming, as well as to activate the flux that has been sprayed beforehand onto the side of the PCB to which the solder is going to be applied.

Time to remove the heatsink from my gpu and let the little fella get toasty i think! prevention is better than cure or so they say

This has inspired me to boil my PSU!

Maybe i should throw my whole computer in the oven and see how it does after 45m

Couldn't hurt anything if your GPU is dead anyways. Makes logical sense to me with the solder joints losing connectivity. Lol at the Amiga, my dad loved that old PC, it was good for it's time.