How To Fix A Dead GPU / Graphics Card Using A Heat Gun | Coke & Dust Edition

in today's video we're gonna be attempting to fix this gtx 970m g1 gaming card from gigabyte it's fellow dust and had problems where it glitches if i remember correctly so before we go ahead and fire it up we're gonna actually go ahead and clean this up with my data vac vacuum and it seems like this is this is terrible this card had some kind of liquid on it i think it was coke or something if i remember correctly it kind of works so there might be a slight chance that we might be able to get it working so let's go ahead and try to clean it up and see if we can do anything about it because this is simply disgusting i'm gonna go ahead and throw this away and take apart the card completely and try to clean it up be back in a sec alright here we go so here is the liquid damage on the outside as you can see there's a ton of coke and again there was still some life left in it but the question is was the coke here for a while and the cause of the glitching was actually from overheating from a badly ventilated computer well we don't know I'm gonna find out I'm just gonna go ahead and start by taking apart the actual cooler hopefully all I need to do is take a lot of four screws there we go here is a look on the inside so in terms of dust it's not terrible I've seen much worse but it is moist dust so it's pretty bad in terms of longevity because eventually something is gonna short out and there goes your GPU that's the cooler the paste is completely dry is just gone so I'm gonna put that aside I'm gonna take a look at the back at this PCB and see how bad it's covered with coke so let's get on with it alright so here's a look on the inside of the back plate the back plate is of course covered with some Gouda coke and as you can see it is pretty bad it's on the VR ends and it's pretty much everywhere here here here and here and about here too and some here some more and now if we go in and take a look at the other side take a look at this area right there you can see that it had a hot spot at one point where it was shorting and you can see that the PCP is kind of warped in this damage so we're gonna see if we can go ahead and clean it up and get any life out of it at all [Applause] [Music] all right so it's 11:30 8 p.m. and madding the video and I realize that I don't even have the footage for what the cheap you look like when I was crashing so I went ahead and made a mock-up of what I remember it looked like it's actually a very very accurate representation of what it looked like so yep what you see here is exactly what I saw and basically there were some glitchy green lines on the top of the BIOS and you couldn't get it to windows everything would freeze and death that's pretty much it so did I fix the GPU hmm I don't know only one way to find out so if there is anything that's missing from the video I'll probably add it and record something like this again so let's get back to it all right so this is how I personally heat up my GPS I don't put them in an oven and just heat the crap out of them until they just completely die I actually use a more of a direct method more of a controlled method I basically use my reworking station that has a heat gun they can control the temperature control the nozzle but more often than not I don't really change the nozzle to a smaller one it's already small enough it's perfect and then at the same time I would have myself a thermal meter that can measure and see what the temperature is as I am doing it it's not gonna be accurate because it is a small dining everything but it will give you a general idea of what's going on so it's really handy to have this so without further ado let me show you guys how I do my GPU repair so I put out around 200 degrees Celsius I like to actually have a platform to elevate my GPU now I shouldn't have actually turned it on because I gotta take out the die here all right so there we go it's nice and shiny it's a nice mirror finish went ahead and cleaned it up yes remove all the thermal paste before you start this process make sure it's perfectly clean and be careful of not breaking any transistors or something so again it's preferred to have a navigator platform like a cargo box just so you don't burn your table your desk whatever you're doing and you can just leave it on there and let it sit so I usually like to start by heating up the actual PCB slowly and I'll just wrap up the speed here and the whole process takes around five to seven minutes or so depending on how things go do the front and the back I like to heat the center of the chip on the backside just for extra heat just in case it does help and I think we are almost good to go just a one more swipe here all right let's get roasty-toasty and heat up the actual chip so at this point I get my thermal meter and I can just check the temperatures as I am doing things now it's really hard because I'm doing it through a camera and they're trying to get the right position here and my armors already getting tired but basically you get the gist of it prefer to turn off the laser mode because it actually gets in the way and you don't actually get exactly where you're pointing at but to someone all up you do this constantly for about five minutes Pera likely checking the temperatures making sure everything is good and at that point you can take it off let it cool at room temperature and they can put it back together give it a quick test and see how things go if it doesn't you can go ahead and try to heat it up once more but usually if you do it right the first time you're pretty much good to go now this actually worked a couple times on bunch of GPUs and a couple laptops I've worked on before one of them was actually using a hairdryer yes you can use the hairdryer but it'll take a long time and you've got to have a really good hairdryer - you got to really get a close heat up everything and make sure everything is nice and toasty and also make sure while you're doing this never touch the die itself with the actual heat gun because you may chip it and there goes your chip it's dead it's gone forget about it and usually it's the edges that encounter that issue now as you'd like to get it around 150 degrees 180 just make sure it's under the melting point of the solder sometimes it's okay if you get past it just be careful because sometimes these transistors will actually just fly off I'm just gonna go ahead and increase the temperature to 300 because this thing doesn't really get the temperature that I'm meeting here now of course I have it on max fan speed so that's why I'm not getting all the temperature so at this point I keep heating the chip here but I also go around and start heating up the vram now why does it help maybe just a bit who knows it doesn't hurt not to and this point I would go ahead and flip the card up upside down and right now my arm is pretty much killing me all right so home run go back one last time and just really super heat it up 172 degrees 177 and that would be the nozzle itself sometimes you get the nozzle sometimes to get the chip so for example if I do the chip here the maximum temperature I'd be getting is around 116 while the nozzle itself is are hitting around 170 something 200 degrees all right we can let go right now and let it cool and we'll be back in about five to ten minutes put it back together and see if it runs all right so it's been about 10 minutes now it's definitely cool it can't feel any heat so let's go ahead and put this back on and power it up so part one is done cleaning the GPU part two is done heating up the GPU and part three is right now finding out if all that work was worth it either way let's go ahead and find out what's gonna happen all right so it's posting all right so we are actually getting further than before and we are in so as you guys can see right now we're inside the desktop now you may think we're are through and we have succeeded by fixing the GPU maybe that's partially true but currently we are actually running on the Microsoft basic display driver and usually what that means is that you are going to be able to run the GPU but as soon as you install the Nvidia drivers everything was just gonna crash you're gonna have graphic legal shoes everywhere the GP is gonna go black and that point you'll be disappointed but do not lose hope so far we have something now we can't really use Windows so I'm gonna go ahead and force restart hopefully I'll get it through so something is very weird happening right now I've never had this issue before basically we are having a really slow window startup so we are a couple of minutes in and finally the icons are starting to low it in we are still not even there yet in fact the time is stuck at 11:20 a.m. went 1122 all right so here is my mini PC I've installed the card and I've taken out my old GTX 970 card so we're replacing a 970 with a 917 it's the hundred million dition it's got a backplate it's green and looks pretty cool and I absolutely love this card so now we have it installed let's just go ahead and power it up and hope that this works and yes this does have an SSD as well so here we go and what in fact was just disabled these hard drives just for extra measures you see all the fans are spinning oh we're in way faster this time so it could be a Windows issue so off to a good start we can actually drag we can open up the menu and right-click and everything it booted pretty quickly as it should like an SSD should so can see that the Nvidia drivers aren't installed automatically and the screen is gonna flash and here we are the GPU is fully working what do you know so we're inside windows great that's a big step up from nothing to sorta something to actually being able to run at full resolution without having any choppy graphics the drivers are been installed it shows up as GTX 970 now if we go ahead and open up msi afterburner we should be able to control the fan like we should here we are now we put on our percent and there we are the fans are all spinning at a hundred percent so pretty good start temperatures look pretty good we have made a nice application I was actually gonna put something better but I think this might do for the thermal to some cheap Coolermaster from an h2 12 cooler now you got heaven benchmark let's open it up Derick x10 ultra setting extreme tessellation and enchanting is set to times eight here we go all right so we just saw a graphic glitch maybe that just cleared up right away so here we are around 57 FPS GTX 970 1500 megahertz 3500 megahertz for the vram and we're running around 50 degrees Celsius and the thing is still running without any hiccups so there we go a big step up from having a GPU that had cope spilled on it gooey coke and had a bunch of dust and now it is a working beauty of a card so there we go the card is working and we have fixed it now will this work on any card maybe it depends on your case but I knew that there was a possibility of fixing this card because it actually had some life in it when I showed up on a display if it was a black screen completely very low chance but it did work right here most likely what killed this card was probably the heat from all the dust in the bad ventilation in the original PC that the owner hand of this card pretty much cooked the chip until it had micro bumps inside the die itself and now after we heating it up it fixed the chip at least for now so realistically will this process work on any card well not really it's gonna depend on every situation on your card issue your graphical issues where this card has been the history of it and what kind of glitches you're having on the screen so cards like this where it actually shows up the windows logo and then it just glitch is out that has a 50/50 chance of it working after heating it up now you would expect this car to be dead because of the coke syrup but apparently it didn't somehow this car survived because it's been sitting around and instead it actually died because of the dust instead of the syrup it's I know it's crazy but it did end up working and how long will this card last well it's all gonna depend on how much you use it and when you use it and what your situation is in my experience if you actually don't use the card it will actually go back and break again if you don't have any load on it every now and then if you leave it in the storage is going to go bad again and you'll have to heat up to fix it all over again so make sure you use the card every now and then to keep it running and that is pretty much it for this video so I really hope you guys have enjoyed this video and found it helpful because I've actually got more videos like these coming up I do have another card that has ran through about a year of usage that I have fixed and we're gonna go in and fix it again real quick and show you guys what's up and what it's like after a year of usage so that is pretty much it hopefully this footage wasn't too shaky with that said if you guys want to see an SLI video of these two cards the fixed card and the working card let me know in the comment section below and we'll maybe do it in a future video with that said if you're someone who's subscribed for the e GPU series I'm working on it these cards are gonna be included in that series and we're gonna be playing around with some SLI stuff with these GPUs and many more on laptops so yeah let me know you guys would think of this video if you have enjoyed this let me know and yeah thank you all for watching if you guys have enjoyed spending half full if you did hit the like button and subscribe like this and I'll see you guys in the next one check everyone

Channel: Total Kommando

Views: 75,625

Keywords: How To Fix Dead GPU, How To Fix Dead Graphics Card, Graphics Card Screen Glitch Fix, GTX 970, Liquid Damage Graphics Card, How To Fix Laptop Black Screen Issue, Louis Rossmann, GPU Reballing Nopes, Total Kommando

Id: QyMIVc54rO0

Length: 19min 20sec (1160 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 29 2018