Glad it worked out so well! Image Restoration fixed the most significant issues on my G520, but I had another monitor nearby that was calibrated and could really see the color difference. That drove me to end up following that whole procedure in the HardForum white balance post. I had to use WinXP …

I just used this RS232 to TTL adapter: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01JYNHNW6/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 If your computer doesn't have a Serial port then this should work just as well: https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Serial-Converter-Development-Projects/dp/B075N82CDL Don't …

Yes, it's rather daunting the first time you read through it. Took me a while to gather everything then dedicate a couple dark hours to calibrate the monitor. Hardware wise you'll need: a USB or RS232 to TTL adapter/cable a spare floppy power cable to use as the connector to the monitor(the pins on …

Try letting the monitor warm up for 30min then going into the menu then color options. Use the "Image Restoration" feature. If that doesn't work I'd recommend the WinDAS guide over at HardForum. Even if Image Restoration fixes most of your issues I'd still advocate a WinDAS calibration if you can as …

As I've done quite a bit of research into this following successfully repairing my 5500 I thought I'd post my cooling/fan replacement and upgrade findings here and let others contribute as well. Stock Fan/Cooling replacements/fixes The stock AAVID cooler/fan combo seems to work adequately, but by …

​I actually got it to post tonight! I looked a little more closely at an area that had surface corrosion and tested the via to pad for R38 and realized the trace had somehow been corroded off the top side of the via so it wasn't making a connection. I filled the via w/ solder from the other side of …

The SK41G this was to go in doesn't have a speaker so hard to tell if it has post beeps. It defaults to the onboard video if there is no AGP card found and I don't have a spare PCI video card anymore unfortunately to test recognition in the OS. Remote troubleshooting with very little parts and …

Here are a few suggestions to try without measuring equipment: Does the PC beep/complain about not having a graphics card installed when starting with only the Voodoo installed? Try starting the PC with the Voodoo in it plus a PCI video card as primary display adaptor. See wether the Voodoo is …

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2020-01-18, 03:32: I'd take a good look at the gpu's and the ram chips for any bent and touching legs. I did a pretty close look and didn't see anything of note on the RAM or other chips w/ visible legs. The only chip that looks off is the already mentioned corroded legs on U4. …

Here are some full res shots of the card taken with my phone. Yes, I know I nicked the Molex plug with my iron. 😳 Front: https://i.imgur.com/zm6tIhT.jpg Rear: https://i.imgur.com/PhekAap.jpg

I bought a Voodoo 5 5500 AGP card in a broken state where only the fans would run and no POST/video output in hopes that it would be an easy-ish fix. I received it and on initial examination I noticed that it was missing C540 capacitor which was ripped off the board along with the pads. Thankfully …