Hello Jow Forums!
The other day I made a thread about a dying HD 7950 which was showing fixed (relative to the image being displayed) horizontal red lines (they were red when over a dark background, when over brigther images they were light blue. Although when over a pure white background they didn't show at all) that did not scroll with the images being displayed (they were fixed) and did NOT show on screen shots. Almost like a screen problem (it wasn't. I tested it with another monitor, cable and video port. Same lines).
They also showed up exactly the same in bios/post (before drivers) and windows wouldn't boot up with the GPU driver installed. But it would work "normaly" without the driver installed, just with the damned lines overlaying everything.
I mentioned that I had disassembled the whole PC and cleaned it and the videocard minuciously and it still gave the same lines. I also said that I tried baking it in the oven without success.
>Well, today I'm proud to inform anyone interested that baking it for 5 minutes more (15 min vs 10 min the first time) and with the oven's gas valve a little more open (Marking ~220°C instead of ~200°C) did the trick!!!
It now works perfectly again, and although it might die definitely in a matter of months (or less), IT IS NOT DEAD YET, to all of you who said it was dead. Thanks goys!! Keep on buying new intel and nvidia stuff!
