The reballing technique. GPU restoration !

Have you ever find yourself into the situation when you go and start up your personal computer and the screen pops up with strange artifacts in the screen? (parallel and vertical lines, dizziness etc. ).

Then you get to the point that you get black screen of death and you cannot see anything?



Possibly this leads to GPU failure. Many laptop and desktop PC s tend to have such issues and no other method can be done but only go and change your GPU.

However, there is an option that might do the trick and sometimes even last a lot or simply temporarily give you a relief and not spend a fortune yet.

It's called the reballing technique or Oven technique !

GPU companies tend to mass produce such components with a possible error rate on soldering parts.So we need a way to re-solder GPU card parts that have not been done correctly.

With reballing technique we can achieve this simply by:

•  unmount our GPUs fan and heat sing, 
• clean out the thermal paste from the chip and heatsink  and generally the board from dust and other dirt
• put the board in the oven in a stick covered with aluminum foil, with the card upside down  for 8 to 10 minutes in 200 C or 385 F and stop the oven after it, leaving the oven door slightly open and let the board cool down for 30 minutes.  
• Put some new thermal paste on the GPU chip
• reinstall assembly and see how it runs

Here is a how to video which tells everything, baking for example an Nvidia 8800 GTX:

We have tested it out and it works! There is nothing to lose if your GPU card is already malfunctioning and your guarantee has expired. Maybe is not a permanent solution in all cases but is simple enough to do and costs only some time and a thermal paste which costs under 10 $ (depends on thermal paste quality).

So if you experience Such Graphic issues, watch the thorough video and give it a try!