Making a long story short ... If anybody has successfully brought a laptop back to life by baking the motherboard, how long has it lasted?
OK, here's the long story...I have a Dell Vostro 1400 laptop with the NVidia Geforce 8400M GS video and a cuople weeks ago it started freezing a couple times, and eventually just gave me a backlit blank screen when powering on.
i figured out that the video chip was the problem, and after doing some searching, i saw that NVidia lost a class action suit for he 8400M and that Dell was replacing the motherboards (NVidia chip is on the MB). Good news...except that the deadline for filing a claim was 03/16...Bad news.
I was looking into replacing the motherboard with one that has the intel graphics instead of Nvidia, and i saw a post where somebody said to bake the bad one in the oven. i already had the mb pulled out, and when you have nothing you have nothing to lose, so i stuck it in the oven at 385 for 8 minutes.
Put the laptop back together, hit the power button, and what to my wondering eyes should appear but a perfectly working Vostro 1400. for how long, though? it's been 3 days so far.
So...back to the question, if you have baked a motherboard or video card, how long has it lasted?
OK, here's the long story...I have a Dell Vostro 1400 laptop with the NVidia Geforce 8400M GS video and a cuople weeks ago it started freezing a couple times, and eventually just gave me a backlit blank screen when powering on.
i figured out that the video chip was the problem, and after doing some searching, i saw that NVidia lost a class action suit for he 8400M and that Dell was replacing the motherboards (NVidia chip is on the MB). Good news...except that the deadline for filing a claim was 03/16...Bad news.
I was looking into replacing the motherboard with one that has the intel graphics instead of Nvidia, and i saw a post where somebody said to bake the bad one in the oven. i already had the mb pulled out, and when you have nothing you have nothing to lose, so i stuck it in the oven at 385 for 8 minutes.
Put the laptop back together, hit the power button, and what to my wondering eyes should appear but a perfectly working Vostro 1400. for how long, though? it's been 3 days so far.
So...back to the question, if you have baked a motherboard or video card, how long has it lasted?