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    Going to bake motherboard in oven

    Discussion in 'Notebook Cosmetic Modifications and Custom Builds' started by Atk-Pasi, Jul 17, 2013.

  1. Atk-Pasi

    Atk-Pasi Notebook Guru

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    I have thinking that I could but my motherboard in oven. Since nothing else what I have tried hasnt worked.
    So this is my last "change" to get laptop running again. Laptop has black screen when starting it and
    thats everything what happens when booting. And people says "buy new motherboard" or they are like :confused:

    Anyway I have checked few videos and read text where people have done this. Common recipe look like this
    bake 8 minutes in middle oven 385 degrees ~ 200 celcius.

    Anyway when I get out of hospital Im going to try this out. Does anyone have tried this? results?
    But like I said when I get back to home I gonna be master chiieff69 :thumbsup:
     
  2. Qing Dao

    Qing Dao Notebook Deity

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    I am a fan of putting things in the oven, but I wouldn't do that in your situation. A laptop turning on but failing to boot can have many causes. Have you tried connecting your laptop to an external display? Have you reseated the processor, ram, wireless card, etc?
     
  3. ajkula66

    ajkula66 Courage and Consequence

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    Which laptop are we discussing here to begin with?
     
  4. Atk-Pasi

    Atk-Pasi Notebook Guru

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    Got out hospital today =). 10 cm cut in stomach anyway. Yea I have tried to do everything to get laptop work but nothing. Tried to plug tv but no response. Took all hdd rams and everything out but still not response so, I will just but it in oven and let see what happen.
     
  5. georgimz

    georgimz Newbie

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    I don't think that this is reasonable but wen you wan't to try it.
     
  6. jotm

    jotm Notebook Evangelist

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    Just don't place it with the North Bridge chip facing downwards...
     
  7. LTBonham

    LTBonham Notebook Evangelist

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    Good luck. I have baked a mobo before. Limited success, but it was fun anyway. If it is fried anyway, might as well.

    Like jotm said, orientation is important. I had to try 3 times before it worked for me.

    Sent from my Amazon Kindle Fire using Tapatalk 4 Beta
     
  8. Inches

    Inches Notebook Enthusiast

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    As ajkula66 said what type of laptop is it?? I recently had to bake my PS3 mobo for a YLO after 5 yrs of trusty use. Worked great and now I can finish out the last few exclusive of this gen, but..

    Back to topic what laptop??
     
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    menghao Notebook Guru

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    Saved my friend's GPU by using gas stove ( laptop )
    high risk but unable to get any oven since we're in university :D
     
  10. Jobine

    Jobine Notebook Prophet

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    Cooking with Intel!
     
  11. edwardamin13

    edwardamin13 Notebook Consultant

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    How does baking system board fix stuff?
     
  12. ajkula66

    ajkula66 Courage and Consequence

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    It works - at least temporarily - on units that develop a BGA solder joint problem, such as some of the old ThinkPads (A3x, T4x, R5x), since the re-heating makes the solder balls reconnect to the motherboard again...people have done this with failed nVidia GPUs as well (HP, Dell, Lenovo...), although the issue there is quite different, and the "fix" is even more of a temporary one.

     
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    I think 3 out of 6 worked.
     
  14. Atk-Pasi

    Atk-Pasi Notebook Guru

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    I baked it and somehow like miracle it worked now :)
     
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  15. Marecki_clf

    Marecki_clf Homo laptopicus

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    I managed to bring my friend's laptop GPU back from the dead by baking it in the oven, but I have never heard about successful revival of an entire laptop motherboard. Congratulations! :thumbsup:
     
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    nforce4max Notebook Consultant

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    I have done a few my self, one expensive mxm 2.1 he card then a heap of latitude d620/630 boards along with one pre-uni MBP. Can't complain about a $80 (2008) MBP :)
     
  17. oechikr

    oechikr Notebook Geek

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    Don't over do it or it will just simply not function. I've re-flowed the pcb's on iphones to fix wifi and it worked for a couple days then I tried it a couple more times and the wifi eventually just greyed out because it was fried.