Do-it-yourself asus laptop video card repair

This guide will focus on warming up chips at home. This operation often helps in cases when the laptop refuses to turn on or is experiencing other serious problems with the chipset or video card.

This measure serves to diagnose a malfunction with a particular chip. It temporarily allows you to restore the functionality of the chip. To solve the problem, you usually need to replace the chip itself or the entire board.

Problems with the operation of the chipset (the chipset is one or two large microcircuits on the motherboard) are manifested in the malfunctioning of various ports (USB, SATA, etc.) and the laptop's refusal to turn on. Problems with a video card are usually accompanied by image defects, errors after installing drivers from the video chip manufacturer's website, as well as the laptop's refusal to turn on.

Similar problems are very common in laptops with defective video cards. nVidia 8-seriesas well as with chipsets nVidia... This primarily concerns the chipset MCP67which is used in laptops Acer Aspire 4220, 4520, 5220, 5520, 7220 and 7520.

What is the point of warming up? It's actually pretty simple. Often the reason for the malfunctioning of chips is a violation of the contact between the chip and the board. When the chip heats up to 220-250 degrees, the contacts of the chip with the substrate and the substrate with the motherboard are soldered. This allows you to temporarily restore the functionality of the chip. “Temporarily” in this case very much depends on the specific case. It can be days and weeks, or months and years.

This guide is intended for those whose laptop no longer works and, in general, have nothing to lose. If your laptop works, then it is better not to interfere with it and close this manual.

1) The most correct way is to use a soldering station. They are mainly used in service centers. Temperature and airflow can be precisely controlled there. This is how they look:

Since soldering stations at home are extremely rare, you will have to look for other options.

A useful thing, it is inexpensive, you can buy it without any problems. It is also possible to warm up the chips with a construction hairdryer. The main challenge is temperature control. That is why, for the task of warming up the chip, you need to look for a hair dryer with a temperature controller.

3) Warming up the chips in a conventional oven. An extremely dangerous way. It is better not to use this method at all. The danger is that not all components on the board can handle heat well. There is also a high risk of overheating the board. In this case, not only the performance of the components of the board may be disrupted, but they can also be trivially soldered from it and fall off. In these cases, further repairs are meaningless. You need to buy a new board.

This guide will cover heating the chip at home using a hair dryer.

1) Building hair dryer. Requirements for it are low. The most important requirement is the ability to smoothly adjust the outlet air temperature to at least 250 degrees. The thing is that we will need to set the outlet air temperature at the level of 220-250 degrees. In hair dryers with step adjustment, 2 values ​​are often found: 350 and 600 degrees. They don't suit us. 350 degrees is already a lot to warm up, not to mention 600. I used a hair dryer like this:

2) Aluminum foil. It is often used in cooking for baking in the oven.

3) Thermal paste. It is needed to put the cooling system back together.Reuse of old thermal interfaces is not allowed. If the cooling system has already been removed, then when installing it back, the old thermal grease must be removed and a new one applied. What kind of thermal paste to take is discussed here: Laptop cooling. I recommend thermal pastes from ThemalTake, Zalman, Noctua, ArcticCooling and others like Titan Nano Grease. KPT-8 needs to be taken original in a metal tube. It is often faked.

I used Titan nano grease:

4) A set of screwdrivers, napkins and straight arms.

Warning: Chip warm-up is a difficult and dangerous operation. Your actions can change the state of the laptop from “slightly not working” to “not working at all”. Moreover, further repair of a laptop in a service center after such an intervention may be economically impractical. Excessive heat, static electricity, and other similar things can ruin a laptop. It should also be borne in mind that not all components tolerate high heat well. Some of them may even explode.

If you doubt your abilities, then it is better not to take up the heating of the chip and entrust this operation to the service center. Everything that you do in the future, you do at your own peril and risk. The author of this manual does not bear any responsibility for your actions and their results.

Before starting to warm up the chips, you need to have a clear idea of ​​which chips need to be heated. If you have a problem with a video card, then you need to warm up the video chip, if with a chipset, then the north and / or south bridges (in the case of MCP67 North and South bridges are combined in one microcircuit). The Laptop Repair guide and these forum topics will help you in this matter: Laptop and Video Card Won't Turn On.

When you more or less imagine which chips need to be warmed up, then you can take on the heating itself. It starts with disassembling the laptop. Before disassembling the laptop, be sure to remove the battery and unplug the laptop from the power supply. You can find instructions on how to disassemble your laptop model on the first page of this topic: Instructions for laptops.

This is how the chipset microcircuits and video chips might look like:

In the photo above, the south bridge microcircuit is located at the bottom left, the north bridge microcircuit is located at the top right of the center, the processor connector is located to the left of it.

For example, a laptop motherboard Acer Aspire 5520G:

Here the microcircuits of the north and south bridges are combined in one - MCP67... It is located in the center of the photo, just above the processor socket.

Video cards can be either removable:

So soldered into the motherboard.

Before starting to warm up, it would be nice to take care of the thermal protection of the elements surrounding the chip. After all, they do not all tolerate heating above 200 degrees well. That's what we need foil for.

Warning: Handling foil greatly increases the risk of damage to components from static electricity. This must be remembered. Read more about antistatic protection here

We take a piece of foil and cut a hole in it along the contour:

In the case of warming up video cards in the form of small boards, you can simply put them on foil.

This is already needed more to protect the table from excessive heating. The heated board with the chip must be placed strictly horizontally.

Now you need to set the temperature on the hair dryer to about 220-250 degrees. The option from 300-350 degrees and higher is not suitable since there is a possibility that the solder under the chip will melt strongly and the chip will move under the influence of air currents. In this case, you cannot do without a service center.

It takes several minutes to warm. The hair dryer should be about 10-15 cm away from the chip. This is how this process looks in the video:

Here's another video on warming up with a hairdryer: download / download (warming up the video chip. Everything is shown in detail) download / download and download / download (warming up the video card with household hair dryers)

After such a warm-up, the patient (HP Pavillion dv5) came to life and started working

After warming up, we assemble the laptop and do not forget about replacing the thermal paste with a new one (Replacing the thermal paste in a laptop).

I ask you to state all questions on heating up the chips in this forum thread: Warming up the video card, chipset and other chips. Before asking questions, I urge you to read the topic.

Respectfully yours, the author of the material is Andrey Tonievich. The publication of this material is permitted only with reference to the source and with an indication of the author

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Hello dear blog readers. A powerful laptop usually has a powerful processor and video card.

If you like to play games but forget about cleaning laptop from dust , that is, there is a risk that the video card in the laptop may overheat and fail, later you will have to repair or replace the damaged components with new ones.

Before you start doing something, you need to spend laptop diagnostics , it will allow you to pinpoint the cause of the problem. If during work or play appears video card artifacts , then it is necessary to replace the video card in the laptop.

Alternatively, you can try to repair the laptop video card. We are talking, of course, about a discrete (external) video card. You have two options here:

- Contact a service for repair.

- Make a video card repair yourself.

Regardless of which option you choose, it is advisable to read the information below, it will be useful to both.

Any video card stops working normally mainly due to overheating. Much less often there is a situation when a video card produces artifacts almost immediately after buying a laptop. In this case, the laptop is repaired or replaced under warranty.

The main reason for overheating of the video card and processor is poor laptop care. Think back to the last time you changed your thermal grease and cleaned your laptop from dust. A long time ago? Then you better not delay with this.

If it so happened that overheating has already happened, then the only way to save the video card is to warm it up. Read more about reballing in the article - warming up the video card .

Remember, regardless of the quality of warming up, a video card experiencing thermal loads will still fail.This usually happens 2-3 months after warming up.

You can extend the lifespan of your refurbished video card by installing more reliable cooling that will securely fix the video card chip so that it does not come off.

But this option is problematic since it is not always possible to find suitable cooling for a desktop computer, let alone laptops.

If such prospects for repairing a laptop video card do not suit you, then the best option would be to replace the video chip in the laptop with a new one.
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After purchasing a new video card for a laptop, we proceed to replace it. The principle of this procedure is that it is necessary to disassemble the laptop in order to get to the compartment with the video card. Remove the old one and install the new one. Before starting, be sure to remove the battery from the laptop.

After the laptop cover is removed, the laptop motherboard will appear in front of us. The video card and processor usually come under cooling in the form of a cooler with a heatsink. We remove the cooler and then the video card itself. Or the video card itself, if it is over cooling.

We remove the dried-up thermal paste from the radiator.

We apply a thin layer of thermal paste to the chip of the new video card. The most important thing is to make the layer evenly thin over the entire die area of ​​the new video card.

Install the video card back and assemble the laptop. That's essentially all.

Thus, you yourself can fix your laptop without the help of a service center. Well, in order to extend the life of a new video card, change the thermal paste at least once a year and clean the laptop from dust. Finally, I recommend that you read an article about laptop stand ... In summer it is especially important, besides, you can do it yourself.

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Have you ever experienced your graphics card stopped working? God grant, of course, that this never happens, but still! What to do, for example, if you hear that the computer is booting, but there is no image on the monitor (black screen)?

What we usually do in such cases: substitute a known working video card (or switch to integrated video) and make sure that the problems are with the graphics adapter. But what to do in this case? Can we provide video card repair ourselves?

The good news is yes: DIY video card repair is quite possible! The bad thing is that after such a repair there is no guarantee that the video card restored in this way will work for a long time. Also, the repair itself may end unsuccessfully if we do not follow certain rules. But let's talk about everything in order! 🙂

So, we have a non-working video card from Nvidia, the GeForce 9500 GT model. Like this:

What's the problem? The video card worked for a long time in harsh temperature conditions, which led to its overheating. As a result of this, a fairly typical (in such cases) thing happened: the "dump" of the BGA chip of the video card.

Don't be scared by the word “dump”, nothing has fallen off there 🙂 This is just how the people call the electrical contact of the BGA balls array with the printed circuit board of the card that occurs as a result of prolonged overheating.Usually, this phenomenon occurs as a result of the presence of a small section of cold soldering, which is subjected to prolonged and strong heating.

This is not to say that this is a 100% marriage of the manufacturer: there can be quite a lot of tin balls in the array and the violation (or oxidation) of the contact of even one of them can lead to a complete (or partial) loss of the card's performance. So overheating, be it a video card or a central processor, is a very unpleasant thing. Try to avoid it in every possible way!

And in this situation, we have no choice but to try to repair the video card with our own hands, on our own. So, first of all, we need to take care to remove all plastic plugs on the card, stickers (stickers) located on the back side from the card. Anything in the area of ​​the graphics chip can melt.

Yes Yes! You heard right: to melt. After all, we will repair the video card by heating it and all the “unnecessary” must be removed, just for every fireman. Of course, perhaps nothing like this will happen, but just make it a habit - it will come in handy 🙂

We will also need to remove the fan and cooling system. We do this with whatever is more convenient for us. Personally, I use this screwdriver with interchangeable nozzles:

We unscrew the screws securing the fan, remove the metal cover and get the following picture:

As you can see, the cooling system requires thorough cleaning, and the fan itself needs preventive maintenance, since its efficiency has decreased due to lime adhered to the blades and dust crammed into the bearing.

The next step is to remove the GPU heatsink. It would seem: what is so difficult here? But, as one movie hero said in a film about various evil spirits: "There is a catch everywhere!" Here it lies in the fact that often (especially if the chip was operated in a severe temperature regime), when dry, the thermal paste tightly glues the crystal and the heatsink together.

It is categorically not recommended, in this case, to use heroic force and pull this matter upon yourself, or, as experience erroneously suggests, to pick something up! This can damage the crystal! There is a simpler and more elegant solution: we take a regular household hair dryer and slowly warm up the clutch area.

After a while (5-10 seconds), we begin to slightly shake the radiator from side to side, as in the photo above. Thermal paste, softening under the influence of temperature, will allow us to do this. Warming up this thing a little more, we can easily separate our radiator from the crystal:

Try as completely and as carefully as possible to clean both the "base" of the radiator and the crystal itself from the remnants of the old dried thermal paste. At the same time, try not to scratch the metal surface of the radiator (this will reduce its heat transfer coefficient). Do not scrape, it is better to warm up separately and wipe off the old paste.

With the crystal it is also as careful as possible: if it was not possible to remove some part of the paste (like mine, for example), then it is better to leave it. Anything that is erased - be sure to delete! Otherwise, the thermal paste, under the influence of temperature, will, as they say, “bake” and then it will be very difficult to remove it without damaging (chipping) the core itself.

Before we start repairing a video card with our own hands, let's take a closer look at the graphics chip.

Why did I highlight some of the areas in the photo above? See, the larger area is the graphics card chip itself, and the smaller area is the GPU die (GPU - graphics processing unit). Along the perimeter of the crystal, we see a white sealant (compound) that performs several functions: protects the crystal from dust getting under it and fixes it to the substrate.

What is the "trick" here and why repairing a video card with your own hands can end unsuccessfully, no matter what efforts we make? The area (array) of BGA solder balls is not only between the chip itself and the PCB textolite, but also between the crystal and the substrate graphics card!

Do you feel where I'm going? The harsh reality is that we can repair the video card ourselves (if we are still lucky) only if there is a violation of the contacts of the balls directly between the PCB and the substrate.If the “dump” occurred under the crystal, then we can hardly do anything about it. Even such an operation as reballing (complete replacement of an array of balls using a stencil) will not save in this case, since this procedure is performed only for the “bottom” of the entire chip, but not for the crystal!

So, I hope we have learned the necessary minimum of theory? Moving on! To repair a video card at home, we need a flux and a disposable syringe. I use the usual GFR (alcohol-canin), which is called “GFR-flux”.

We collect the substance in a syringe (about one cube). If it remains, it will be possible to drain back.

Note: You can use any other inactive (ideally neutral) flux. For example, "F1" or "F3". The original LTI-120 is also suitable. Although, with LTI, not everything is so simple: leave it as a last resort 🙂

We carefully apply the tip of the needle to the edge of the substrate, tilting it so that the flux we squeeze out of the syringe is under the chip. After pumping it, if necessary, tilt the card slightly so that it spreads well between the balls. Ideally, we want to achieve an effect where the liquid appears a little from all sides.

Advice: after use, rinse the syringe (just take several times of water from the tap and squeeze out through the needle). If this is not done, the rosin in the needle will dry out and clog it. It will take a long time to clean or throw away.

Now we can be sure that when heated, the flux will fulfill its function. Why fluxes are needed, what they are and how to use them correctly, we considered in a separate article, so we will not repeat ourselves.

After that, we can proceed directly to the repair of the video card with our own hands! To do this, we place it in such a way that we have free access to the GPU from above and below and, using a soldering station, we begin to heat the substrate around the perimeter.

Note: under no circumstances heat the crystal itself! It can fail!

How I do it, I’d better show you in video format, since you cannot clearly illustrate with photographs alone.

Now let's comment on this video a little. When you warm up the video card from below (under the chip), try to keep the hair dryer perpendicular to the plane of the PCB, otherwise I didn't manage to shoot and warm it at the same time. Also, be careful not to flare the small card components located on the back side (they can be easily shifted, given the heated solder underneath).

In the video above, I did not show the whole procedure, as you understand. The bottom must be heated long enough (3-5 minutes) so that the smoke from the flux, which you may have noticed, began to rise quite intensively above the board (this is evidence that the board has warmed up well). The first stage will be “boiling” and bubbling of the flux - this is normal.

Also, do not hesitate to warm up the place under the crystal itself (you can do this through the board). The main thing: do not hold the hair dryer in one place - smoothly move it over the area (to exclude places of local overheating of the surface). Keep the funnel of the hair dryer at a distance of 2-3 centimeters from the surface to be treated. I personally set the air flow to an average value, the temperature that the soldering station shows at the same time is 420-450 degrees Celsius. The second value is the limit for my "Ya Xun 880D".

The temperature spread here is due to the fact that its sensor itself is located directly in the handle of the hot air gun, and the air temperature at the outlet of the hot air gun is already different (lower). Plus, here you can add the inevitable heat loss due to the ability to absorb and dissipate heat by the treated surface itself, the temperature in the room, the proximity of the hair dryer to the heated area, the power of the air flow, etc.That is why only empirically it will be possible to select the exact value of the operating temperature (thermal profile) for a particular soldering station.

To what state should you warm up? Here, again, there are indirect signs by which we can navigate. The whole procedure takes approximately 5-8 minutes. The spread of time is due to the factors listed above. It also depends on the quality of the flux used, the type of solder from which the BGA array is made on a substrate (lead or lead-free). In the process of strong heating, the flux should evaporate (smoke) fairly decently.

Another important marker is the visual detection of the melting of the solder on the elements located on the chip around the die (usually a series of small SMD capacitors). When the solder "shines" on them, it is a sure sign that the balls of the substrate have reached their melting point, which is exactly what we need! For greater confidence, you can take tweezers in your free hand and try to slightly move the chip itself: gently push it (literally by a millimeter) to the side and you will see how it “wobbles” and, due to the forces of surface tension of the molten balls from below, will snap into place. After that, the heating can be safely stopped!

Note: some craftsmen, instead of a station, use a regular building hair dryer or repair the video card with their own hands, “baking” it in a household oven, after wrapping it in foil! Frankly, I am not a fan of such radical methods of "repair", although (if the guys succeed in everything), then why not? 🙂

During the heating procedure, you can monitor the surface temperature with a thermocouple or pyrometer (infrared thermometer). This will help in the future to better navigate in the selection of the correct thermoprofile.

Note: when cooling the video card (and any other element), do not use forced airflow - fan, etc. Let the part cool naturally, no need to "fit" it. We don't need the microcircuit to receive a thermal shock (shock), do we?

This is how you repair a video card with your own hands! Whether they were successful or not, we have yet to verify. To do this, we need to do a few mandatory things. Out of habit, I clean (where possible) the board from the flux residues. In this case, it is the rosin remaining after the evaporation of the alcoholic component. The rosin is neutral (it does not interact with the components of the board) and, in theory, it may not be necessary to wash it off, but, for the sake of order, let's go over it thoroughly with a brush and a cleaner.

We washed more or less (the rosin dissolved), let it dry and apply fresh thermal paste to the crystal (“KPT”, “AlSil” or “Zalman” - I respect):

Now we put the whole "constructor" back together (we attach the heatsink, fasten the cooler, connect it to the connector on the board).

Before installing the card into the system unit, let's go (just in case) with an elastic band over the contacts of the Pci Express connector and that's it - can you install a component on the motherboard to check what we've got?

But it turned out, as we can see, everything is not even bad. There is an image on the monitor! Do-it-yourself video card repair is possible! Of course, to be completely sure, we need to install the operating system (it was not at hand), install the video card driver and, ideally, run some kind of stress test for stability, which will show us, in the end, we managed to repair the video card ourselves or No?

Note: The free and easy-to-use tool "FurMark" can work very well for this test.

Otherwise anything can happen: the video card seems to work, but the driver is not installed or does not pass the stability test. Also, as you understand, we cannot give any guarantee for this type of "repair" and we do not know how long the device will work? But, as they say, on the other hand, we “pumped over the skill” of repairing video cards at home, and the client received a temporarily working computer. We did what we could, and then there will be what should happen!

As always, I am waiting for your comments, feedback, constructive criticism below under the article 🙂

Not every laptop has the ability to replace a video card, equipment that is cheaper is equipped with a chipset built into the processor or motherboard. If you purchased a gaming model of an Asus laptop for yourself, there is certainly a possibility of replacement on it, however, it will be quite difficult for an unprepared person to cope with such a task. In this article I will tell you how to change the video chipset yourself and what is needed for this.

The first thing that needs to be done is, of course, to disassemble the device, for this take a Phillips screwdriver and a thin plastic spatula.

First, put the laptop upside down and remove the battery, you can do this by pressing the special buttons with arrows. Now remove all the bolts that secure the bottom of the housing. So far, you won't be able to remove the cover, there are still a few screws left, they are located on top of the keyboard and are hidden under a plastic strip. The bar can be pry off with a spatula or other similar tool.

The screws themselves are in most cases for a Phillips screwdriver, it will not be difficult to unscrew them. Now you can remove the keyboard, be careful not to damage the cable. Move the part to the side of the screen by seven centimeters and slightly raise it, so it will be much easier to get to the loop.

The video card in a laptop is not like those that we are used to seeing in personal computers, here it is just a board with a chip in the middle. To get to the board, you will have to remove the cooling system, this is a cooler and copper pipes, they block access to the part. When this is done, unscrew the four screws securing the video card and remove it from the port without damaging the adjacent parts.

Be sure to clean the cooler from dust, especially if the laptop is not the first year, it will not be superfluous to also lubricate it. Now you can install a new chipset, connect it to the port and tighten all the bolts in their original places. Apply a layer of thermal paste, a small drop is enough.

At the end of these works, put the entire cooling system and other components in place, in other words, follow all the previous steps in the reverse order. Do not forget to install the drivers, a disc with them must be supplied with your graphics card.

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Visual artifacts are called out of nowhere stripes and nodules on the screen, cubic blotches that break the integrity of the picture and other defects. The appearance of such artifacts may be due to the presence of a malfunction in the graphics substation of the computer. In such situations, it may be necessary to repair the video card.

It is sometimes quite difficult to do this on your own. But sometimes, as practice shows, performing such a procedure can be quite useful. In the process of repairing a video card, much of what was previously incomprehensible to the user becomes clear. So, if you want to understand all the intricacies of video card recovery, you definitely need to familiarize yourself with the information presented in this review.

Before embarking on an incredible project called DIY Video Card Repair, you need to figure out the cause of the breakdown. Most likely, the reader will not be surprised by the fact that any malfunction of computer equipment can refer either to the hardware or software part of the computing device. In this case, we will consider the first type of breakdown. Advanced users also call this action "digging for hardware". Let's get down to this procedure.

From simple to complex

The user's worries about the cardinally changing image on the monitor screen in certain situations can be completely in vain. Does this surprise you? In addition, repairing a video card with your own hands, of course, can involve fairly simple manipulations. You just need to be attentive and you will succeed.

If the computer you are using has a discrete graphics adapter, then the "iron problem" could very likely appear as a result of dust pollution. To eliminate this problem, you need to turn off the device and remove the video card from the motherboard slot. You can use an alcohol solution or a regular eraser to clean the contact pad of the video card module. As you can see, everything is pretty simple.

If the BIOS does not recognize the installed graphics adapter, then first of all it is necessary to perform this kind of maintenance only if there is no positive result. After that, you should proceed to further operations.

Repair of video cards from Asus and other manufacturers

It would probably be correct to start with the fact that malfunctions in the operation of graphic systems are often associated with improper functioning of the cooling system. As a result of such a malfunction, the GPU microprocessor and other components of the video card may be exposed to critical temperatures. It is for this reason that a game scenario that unfolds at the onset of a climax can turn into a jerky simulator. This situation can be corrected as follows.

First of all, you need to dismantle the video card from the computer case. The cooler and the radiator grille located next to it must be cleaned of dust deposits. In some cases, the axis of rotation can be lubricated with ordinary machine oil or special silicone. If all of the above does not allow you to achieve the desired effect, you can try to replace the cooling element, namely the cooler.

Integrated graphics: hot solutions

As you know, the prices for discrete-type graphic substations can sometimes alienate ordinary users due to their high cost. This is especially true when it comes to gaming video cards. When buying a computing device, a novice user, as a rule, relies on the capabilities of his personal computer. But in such cases, when the integrated microprocessor GPU is operating, there may be troubles associated with the heating of the device.

It should be noted that the procedure described for restoring the thermal mode of a discrete video adapter can only partially be applied to the built-in graphics engines. This is due to the fact that the cooling system of integrated GPUs does not have a mechanical element - a cooler designed to remove heat. Therefore, the order of actions that must be performed to restore the functionality of the integrated video card will be somewhat different. However, despite this, it can be used for independent graphics modules.

Warranty inconvenience

If you decide to repair a video card from NVIDIA on your own, then it's time to think about the expediency of this procedure. If the warranty provided by the manufacturer has not yet lost its relevance, then it would be wiser to take the device to one of the service centers for servicing the products of this manufacturer. If you are completely confident in your own abilities or you have no other way to return the GPU processor to work, then you can try to apply the recommendations below in practice.

Replacing the Thermal Paste Layer

Thermal paste is a special substance that is applied to a GPU microchip in order to increase the level of heat transfer between contacting elements of the cooling system, such as a radiator-microcircuit. When carrying out a comprehensive repair of video cards from the manufacturer Asus or a graphics chip from any other manufacturer, the specialist will definitely replace the layer of thermal paste. The process of applying this substance is quite simple. You can see for yourself. First, you need to carefully remove the cooling system elements from the graphics adapter board. After that, with a clean cloth, you need to wipe off the remnants of the hardened substance from the radiator side adjacent to the microcircuit, as well as from the GPU microcircuit itself. After that, on both planes it is necessary to apply a thin even layer of thermal paste. You can then reverse-mount the graphics module.

Rebuilding Portable GPU Modules

For video cards used in laptops, the repair procedure will be exactly the same as for stationary computers. To restore the laptop's graphics adapter to work, you need to follow the same sequence of steps. However, due to some technological features of laptops, for certain models, access to the video card can be very difficult. And if you take into account that in such extremely cramped circumstances the user will have to perform technical maintenance of two graphics adapters, then this lesson turns into a rather laborious process.

It will be extremely difficult for a beginner to cope with this task. It would be better to entrust this operation to professionals. Things are quite different if the user can independently get full access to the video card and cooling system. In this case, the user has every chance of successfully completing the repair of the video card.

Overheating GPU

Let's try to fix the hottest problem that can arise with a video card with our own hands. This is GPU overheating. After exposure to critical temperatures, it is quite possible to repair the GPU with your own hands. However, one should not trust too much the advice of various experimenters, who unanimously assert that household appliances such as an oven or an iron can easily be used as a technical device designed to restore "floated BGA balls".

We hasten to assure you that if one of the soldering points of the GPU processor has moved away, then painlessly it will be possible to restore contact only with the help of specialized equipment, or, more precisely, a soldering station. Sometimes an industrial hair dryer or a hot air gun can be used as an alternative. However, in this case, you need to remember about some microelectronic nuances. So how can you repair your video card at home?

The gun should be equipped with an adjustable discharge temperature indicator. All plastic parts such as the cooler, latches and fixing elements must be removed from the video adapter board. It is necessary to prepare a piece of foil in advance, in which it is necessary to cut out a window corresponding in size to the size of the GPU chip. The rest of the graphics adapter area should be covered with this material for protection. The video card must be fixed on a flat surface that is not afraid of exposure to high temperatures.

Now on the thermo gun you need to set the temperature to 150 degrees and warm up the surface of the graphics module for 3-5 minutes. After that, you need to move the hair dryer regulator to the 300 degree position. Using a pre-prepared foil template, it is necessary to warm up the graphics chip for a couple of minutes. Now all that remains is to wait until the video card has completely cooled down and check the performance of the visual effects module. In most cases, video cards last a long time after repair.After this procedure, be sure to inspect the graphics card for punctured or swollen capacitors. These are definitely subject to replacement.

Now you know how you can restore the performance of your video card. In the case of a successful technological service, the prices for repairs will now scare you. Although, to be completely honest, it is better to repair an expensive video card in a specialized service.

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