I have read in several post on the EVGA forums describing how to return a GPU to use after overheating damage if the damage is not to severe.In my case a few months back NVIDIA aparently released a driver that caused GPU's to overheat (noted in the NVIDIA forum). I believe this happened to my GPU's and before I could shut the system down the temps climbed to around 95 degrees celsius. Temp max for my GPU's are at 90 degrees celsius with an operational range of 70C to 90C.Now one of the GPU's will not boot standalone (my system sees it as being in the wrong PCIe slot) and can only be used with another GPU in QUAD SLI mode where it loads and shows to be working properly. In addition I have been experiencing numerous crashes (black screens or frozen images) which sometimes recover and allow the PC functionality but they never recover completely to continue game play without shutting down and restarting the game.After the issue with the temps I installed a different driver which resolved the high temperature issue. Aparently some damage had occured and I am thinking of trying some of the suggestions I have read about on the EVGA forum, specifically oven baking the GPU's to allow reflow of the solder connections.I am wondering if anyone here has tried baking a GPU, how it was done, and what the results of the process were? I am at a point where I am tired of the crashes, interruptions to the games, loss of game position and time in game, and would like to avoid the cost of new GPU's which could be damaged by a bad driver anyway.My hope is to build enough confidence so I can attempt this recovery method (or another). What are your thoughts and suggestions on this? I have not ruled out completely that there may not be another problem (note: everything was fine prior to the bad driver) please do not hesitate to share your experiance if you have had issues of GPU's crashing in game.I am running 2 GeForce 9800 GX2 GPU's in Quad SLI mode on a 790i ULTRA motherboard. For those not familiar with these cards each card has 2 graphics processors and allows them (by design) to run in QUAD SLI mode. EDIT: As an aside any link to a technical or engineering forum dealing with correction of board overheating could be a real plus in finding an answer. I am aware of the Global Sources engineering forums and will post there also.

go to www.overclock.net and in the Nvidia section I believe I saw a thread sometime back where someone did bake their GPU. You could do a site search at overclock.net for bake and see what pops up.

go to www.overclock.net and in the Nvidia section I believe I saw a thread sometime back where someone did bake their GPU. You could do a site search at overclock.net for bake and see what pops up.

Great suggestion and I will do this. Since this is a home based task user attempts at this are essential.I also am trying to get information from a few PCB engineering sites. Today I did find one such site that appears to have a great deal of experiance with PCB boards and solder reflow work. When they get back to me I may have the answer I am looking for between the technical site data and user input like you suggested. Then I can post it here for others to view and consider for use when needed.I had one person mention using a heat gun (not a hair dryer) which is hot enough to melt solder. I have used those before and would be concerned they may cause the solder to cross channel between components on the surface mount PCB board due to air pressure. Cross channeling of solder could not be reversed easily and would be difficult to detect. I have found several post from users on this topic but the missing piece is the highly specific technical information from those who work in this field.

So you feel the best solution is by "baking" your card, which is more likely to fry additional components.... Have you really thought this through?

Considering that these cards were manufactured by EVGA, have you tried to go through their RMA process about this already?

I'd love to see the face of their support people when they get the call:"My video card is fried. It was initially caused by a faulty driver but then I tried to solve the problem by putting the card in my oven at 250° C. However, the problem still exists. Can you send me a replacement under warranty?" :smile:Cheers,Allard.