C90S screen wont turn on

The screen on my c90s wont turn on anymore. It was working fine one day and then the next day it didn't want to turn on. Everything else seems to work fine and i didn't do anything to it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Your GPU will have fried, meaning the laptop can't and won't even post. You will have either to
1) grab yourself a 8600M GT DDR3 card from asus e-store for around $150

2) upgrade to a 9600M GT DDR3 card for maximum performance (see details here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=316079)

3) or try to bring your GPU back to life by baking it in the oven. Put on an oven tray propped up on balls of aluminium foil (make sure no circuits are touching metal or foil. Then preheat oven to about 200C and cook the card for 10 minutes. Leave it to cool for about 30 mins, before snapping it back in.

 

Thanks, but how would baking the card bring it back to life?

 

re-sets the solder that has cracks through it.

 

Thanks dude i baked the card and now my C90 is totally working. Again thanks for your help.

 

Excellent. Glad it worked for you, saves you a few bucks thats for sure.

 

I just wanna say that whoever figured out that baking the video card could fix it is freaking amazing. My c90's video card died on me last spring, and I saw this thread with the baking idea, tried it, and it freaking fixed my computer. You guys are amazing and definitely just saved me at least $150.

 

When I first read this, I couldnt believe cooking a card could actually help in restoring it... so
Should I try to cook my 260M GTX? I am able to boot, but I have "snowing" ,lines etc all over the place which clearly means my card is dying? Could cooking solve my cards issue?

 

Before even trying to bake the card (as it still lives lol) have you checked your temps using HWmonitor? If your temps are sky high than you must check for blocked air vents and possibly change your themal compound on the GPU. Snowy lines is quite a common overheating side effect.

 

I was as monitoring 98% of the time the temps and after my mod they never exceeded 85C when gaming. Now I cant even boot into Windows (only safe mode works). Actually even after 10mins in safe mode I get lines all voer the place which makes it very hard to use.

So I have 2 options:
1. Make a 260M GTX meal
2. Garbage it

Im just worried that after the cooking it can damage the Mobo etc.