First post, by Half-Saint
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- Oldbie
Hi guys,
last week I bought a couple of Voodoo 2 cards but both seem to be defective. One has two or three broken traces and two missing capacitors (see photo). I tried to repair the traces but the end points are so tiny that I can't solder anything. I tried to use wire from old CD-ROM audio cable but it's too thick and so is the tip of my soldering iron. Had a pointed tip somewhere but can't find it for the life of me. While trying to photograph the damage, I noticed the missing capacitors. Three pins in the top left corner of one of the 3dfx chips are also a bit mangled but appear to be otherwise intact.
The second card looks undamaged and gets picked up by Windows (like the first) but when I run a test or game, the system hangs or produces the famous "glide2x.dll expected Voodoo, none detected" error.
Any hope of saving the cards or did I waste my money?