This was a $25 ebay gamble. Seller said 'a capacitor is missing' and the card does not work.....well the card arrives, I discover 5 caps missing and 3 inductors missing. Poor handling at its finest!
This is a comparison to a known good identical card, the top one is the good one, the bottom one was the gamble subject:
Now to find the missing parts from junk..... The missing lytics were found in a faulty Matrox G450 card. The card had severe artifacting issues and wasn't worth messing with.....but tech haorder me just didn't trash it....it ended up in the junk bin....and lo & behold, it has the exact caps needed. Since the card didn't work, I tested the caps upon removal with my LC102, just to make sure they weren't the reason the card didn't work. The caps were spot-on.
Now for the inductors.... I didn't have a clue what their Henry rating should be without desoldering the originals from the known good card and testing them with my inductor meter....I wasn't doing that, so I just decided to wing it and see what I could find. Well, it was a Dell GX520 motherboard that had them, right by the +12v ATV connector.
Preparing for surgery!
Donor parts harvested!
Installed.
POST tested and burn-in tested in an Abit VL6 with some Tualatin mods....I tested it in this not-very-valuable board, just incase something went *POOF*, I wasn't going to risk releasing the magic smoke from a good/valuable board.
Since nothing went poof and the card seems to be working fine, it's now time for the real test! I installed it in the system that the working card came from, the S2DGU build from THIS THREAD. Since this system is already configured for this card, it'll make testing easy....
Booted up to the desktop, no prob.....
...and the final test, nothing better than a little GLQuake!!
This gamble paid off!! I have a build in mind for this little girl!!
This is a comparison to a known good identical card, the top one is the good one, the bottom one was the gamble subject:
Now to find the missing parts from junk..... The missing lytics were found in a faulty Matrox G450 card. The card had severe artifacting issues and wasn't worth messing with.....but tech haorder me just didn't trash it....it ended up in the junk bin....and lo & behold, it has the exact caps needed. Since the card didn't work, I tested the caps upon removal with my LC102, just to make sure they weren't the reason the card didn't work. The caps were spot-on.
Now for the inductors.... I didn't have a clue what their Henry rating should be without desoldering the originals from the known good card and testing them with my inductor meter....I wasn't doing that, so I just decided to wing it and see what I could find. Well, it was a Dell GX520 motherboard that had them, right by the +12v ATV connector.
Preparing for surgery!
Donor parts harvested!
Installed.
POST tested and burn-in tested in an Abit VL6 with some Tualatin mods....I tested it in this not-very-valuable board, just incase something went *POOF*, I wasn't going to risk releasing the magic smoke from a good/valuable board.
Since nothing went poof and the card seems to be working fine, it's now time for the real test! I installed it in the system that the working card came from, the S2DGU build from THIS THREAD. Since this system is already configured for this card, it'll make testing easy....
Booted up to the desktop, no prob.....
...and the final test, nothing better than a little GLQuake!!
This gamble paid off!! I have a build in mind for this little girl!!
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