 Welcome to Resurrection Blog. This is something that I have been planning to do for quite some time with this dead GTX 780 Ti. See? Nothing. Nada. Dead. No signal. Boom. Done. But had my hand forced a little bit by the death of the Intel 750 Series SSD in Personal Rig Update 2015. Yes my friends, while I was affixing this lovely EK water block, or more likely while I was removing the stock heatsink, the 750 Series SSD died. So we are going to use a tried and true, well I definitely tried and hopefully true method of bringing it back to life. The MasterCase 5 by Cooler Master gives you the freedom to truly make your mid-tower PC case your own with a variety of modular parts and accessories. Check out the link in the video description to learn more. Alright, so I know technically you're not supposed to run it with no heatsink. No, that is not how it died. I am only running it for a couple seconds to demonstrate that it is, in fact, not working before we get started here. This is a lot faster than putting the stock heatsink back on it, since I'm going to have to remove that to attempt my resurrection anyway. NVMe configuration, nothing. Also this monitor does that sometimes. Boom. Dead drive. Here we go. So the science behind this resurrection method is actually fairly simple. Whether due to heating and cooling, therefore expending, contracting, or some other type of physical stress, the theory is that some of the solder joints on the board between the chips and the PCB could have become broken over time. And by heating up the component to the melting temperature of that solder, you could allow it to reflow and reconnect, becoming fully functional again. But before we get into all the stuff you'll need to perform this particular little miracle, I want to start with a hefty disclaimer. This will void the crap out of any warranty you may still have. So if your product is covered by the retailer or manufacturer warranty, do not do this. Instead go through the proper warranty channels. In my case, both my video card and my SSD are review samples, with therefore no warranty coverage whatsoever. So we have pretty much nothing to lose at this point, except our time. And if you're going to watch this video, I guess yours as well. So let's run through what we got here. We have ourselves a Wolfgang Puck oven that was generously donated by Luke to Linus Media Group because Linus Media Group's employees made it so filthy and disgusting that he pretty much doesn't want it anymore. So I'll be cleaning this out before trying to repair any video cards in it. It's important to use an oven that can reach 385 degrees Fahrenheit and that you never intend to cook food in ever again. Because as the guide that I'm following on overclockers from like 2009 pointed out, if you are reheating stuff like this in an oven, there can be gases and materials let off that can contaminate future food that you cook inside it. The next thing we'll need is screwdrivers for taking apart our components. Our SSD is conveniently already disassembled, but the video card will need its heat sink removed. Then we will need aluminum foil. This will be to wrap the oven tray as well as to separate the PCB from the oven tray. We'll show you guys how to do this later on. And we will need some replacement thermal compound for our hardware for when we reassemble it, assuming that it survives the baking process. All right. So let's get to cleaning then. Ew. Oh, that's gross. Why don't we have a hose? Cause Yvonne wouldn't let us get one. Ed asked why we don't have a hose. See, she doesn't deny it. That's why, isn't it? I wanted a hose. I also wanted like a utility sink out there. Why did they get the large ones? It's like whoever bought these forgot that I work here. Swimming in there. New one for that. And I take the old one. Here's a funny idea. Anyone who leaves their dishes in the sink unwashed, I'll wash it with this. Look at that. It's like wearing right through the scouring pad. Yeah, I've never used it either. I suspect Brandon and Taryn. Ew, look at this one. There's like a hanger in here. Ew. Gotta be cheese. Ah. Okay, so this is a really short cord, but that's okay because that's why extension cords exist. I'm not a huge fan of running like an oven off an extension cord. But, okay. Okay. Here we go. Standard bake, convection bake, slow cook, roast broil, rotisserie. Let's do standard bake. Temperature. 385 or 375. Does it make a sound when it reaches the... I would think so. Should you beep, beep, beep. So we can use the time while our oven is preheating to strip down our video card. That definitely stinks. That is gross. Oh. It kinda smells like cancer. Yeah, it smells like an oven that hasn't been turned on in a year and that was disgusting the last time it was turned on. Now this is one key difference between stripping down a card for water cooling, for example, and stripping down a card for baking is that you're actually going to want to remove as many of the plastic housings on things like fan or LED connectors as you can. Make sure you note the orientation as you pull them off, otherwise you're gonna have a bad time putting them back together. Don't try to take off stuff like the PCI card or the the like the PCI express power connector housings. Those will survive the bake just fine. Oh, shoot. Oh, I'm an idiot. Oh, wow. Oh, that smoke. That is so gross. Okay, well, I have to pull the tray out because you're supposed to wrap it. Okay. Damn it. Oh, weird. It's like curling. Can you not do that, Mr. Trey? Thank you. Okay. So this, yeah, this is cool enough now. So let's wrap this baby up. Now the guide doesn't say shiny side out or shiny side in, but that looks like the shiny side out. It's amazing how many like non-baking people will not realize that aluminum has a reflective side and a matte side for not reflecting as much. Yep. You'll learn something every day. Every day that you watch this show, which should be every day. You have videos every day. Now the next step is to create little aluminum balls. Just like that. We're gonna use these to keep the PCB of our SSD or graphics card off of the tray itself. It's important not to position them on top of one of the components that we want to re-solder. So you want this just touching the bare PCB, which might make it a little tricky. Just be careful and go slow. I think this side is probably my best bet, but then this is probably the side I think was most likely damaged by removing it. So maybe I won't. Okay. So if I went like this, kinda wish I had smaller balls, aluminum balls. So let's make sure we're not making contact with anything we shouldn't be. Any surface mount components or anything like that. Looks like we're good. It's at 385, standard bake. Okay. Let's get baked. Ah. Okay. Timer. Start, start, start timer. I don't know. Well, okay. It's 433. So at 441, we pull it out and hope for the best. You should never just pull it out and hope for the best. That's why you only need one glove because it can do up to five at a time. Although that might be a bit of a bottleneck. I'm pretty sure it's working. It's hot. Gentle now. Okay. This is a terrible, terrible situation because, oh no. Wait, wait, no, maybe it's okay. Okay. I need it to come out a little bit further. I don't want it to shift on those balls though. Okay. Here we go. I gotta be dexterous with this glove. Okay. Now we let it cool to room temperature. It's very cold in here. Maybe I'll cool it to a room temperature near the oven or on top of the oven or well, okay. That seems like a bad idea. Yeah, I don't wanna put it down. I don't know what to do with that. I'm gonna hold it the whole time. Okay, well, I wanna start baking the video card here at some point. Can you reuse the molds? Yeah. No, it's okay. I'll just hold it actually. I think I can probably do this without. Yeah, there's like nothing on it here. So I'll just put one there. Ew, ow, ew. Okay. This will tell. I had the glove canned. Okay, I forgive you. All right. Okay, so the video card is done now too. Definitely warm. Ouch. I'm just gonna put this here for now. Let's try the SSD. Come on. Well, there's lights on on it. I don't remember if it had those before. Oh, I don't see it in the boot priority thing. I don't know if it works. Crap. Well, I guess I might as well try baking it one more time. Don't have anything to lose. Maybe I'll try flipping it the other way this time. The black like under part of the sticker is still there. It's like sticky, but the barcode is completely gone. By contrast, our sticker that we put on it is just fine. It's not the outcome I wanted, but if the GTX 780 Ti works, then at least this is for something because I can use this for a new render server concept that I have that I'll be building out pretty soon. With that said, I'm not gonna count my chickens at this stage in the game anyway, but we'll see how it goes. All right, come on, baby. Let's get something out of this exercise. I'm pretty sure we should have a display by now. Wait, wait. Hey. All right. So the video card is back from the dead. Rock on. That's fantastic. All right, let's take another crack at the SSD then. Oh crap, I don't know how long this has been done. Well, what are we gonna do? Kill it more at this point? Shut up, Brandon. Oh wow, we overcooked it. It looks dark. I can't tell. I thought I saw steam rising. Oh, you know what it's probably from. I actually, oh my goodness. Oh my goodness, ow, ow, my fingers. No, I think the steam is like, I accidentally spat a bit. I think it like, well, okay, I'm not trying to just spit all over it. Just shut up. Everyone just shut up. One of the tricky things is that different boards will use different soldering techniques and different solder materials. So just because something works well on a graphics card made by Nvidia doesn't mean that it works well on an SSD made by Intel. Unfortunately, I don't have like special guidelines for 750 series SSDs. Oh, well, you should use this temperature for this long. So we just have to kind of hope for the best here. The good news is our 780 Ti is running the heaven benchmark with no issues whatsoever. So yeah. Let's take another crack at it, eh? Speaking of which, Massdrop. If you guys haven't heard of Massdrop, well, I'm sorry that you live in a hole because it is pretty freaking cool. 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