So I went to sleep last night watching a movie. When I woke up and the computer was stuck in boot loop. Removed the 290's and tossed a 7870 in, Worked fine. Then I tested each 290 the bottom one ended up being bad. Fiddled with it and got the computer to post and boot into dos. When I ran atiflash -i it showed normal info about my top card, bottom said something like ID: 6000 ACIS: 0LAND. Figured screw it and cleaned in with everclear, Let it sit for a few hours then computer posted normal. Then I ran kombuster and it died.. back into boot looping. So baked it at 350F for 20 minutes then shut the oven off and let it cool to room temp before removing the card. Now it works fine... Should I be worried? :bang:
Oh men why you put the card in the oven ! ... with that metod you dry the capacitors. Probabibly will work for a while, but if fail again there is nothing u could do.
What should I have done? I couldn't rma it, I got it off ebay with a waterblock installed and the reference cooler in a box. lol
With a Heatgun and a IR Thermometer, trying to follow this temperature curve as much as possible, like if you were doing it with a real reflow machine. I repaired a lot of cards with that metod, some work for years other start failing again after a couple of mouths. If the card come with a waterblock, probably the last owner of the card overclock the crap out of it....
Thanks, I pull it and do that tomorrow morning. Looking back, I shouldn't have drank some of that everclear and toss it in the oven... lol I have a nice heatgun and IR thermometer for forming plexi..
Sorry but if you already put the card in the oven, the BGA is probably damaged. So use the card until it dies, there is nothing u could do
Damn, Time to pick another one up for $120. Thank you AMD for re badging the r9 200 series, 290's go pretty cheap now.
