Dell XPS m1730 gaming laptop - video card dead, Oven reflow?

[ben15dc]

Hello I have a Dell XPS M1730 with either a 8800 GTX or 9800 GTX with a Phys-x card. It is a common problem for this card, Ive seen many fixing it by reflowing it with
a special heating tool. I was wondering if anyone has any ideas I can do at home. Throwing it in the oven? Im absolute sure the card is the problem and is dead and tried every other fix.

Thanks

[|darc|]

You could try to use a heatgun (these aren't that expensive), but I'm guessing you probably aren't wanting a heatgun for anything else and thus don't want to spend the money on it just for a dead card.

You could put it in the oven, I did this with an RRoD Xbox 360 with great results. I covered all of the components I didn't want to be heated with 2 layers of clear tape, 1 layer of electrical tape, 1 layer of foil tape, and them molded aluminum foil around them. I placed it on a pizza tray with bolts in the screwholes to keep the motherboard spaced off of the tray, then slowly ramped up the temperature as directed by a tutorial I found. My 360 has never RRoDed since, but I don't really play it either so..

[ben15dc]

Haha sounds funny placing it on the pizza tray and cooking. Thanks man im willing to try anything. Will post results after a while.