First post, by Jan3Sobieski
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So I had this thing for a while. Bought it off of ebay ages ago and never got around to playing with it. The only problem is, it doesn't work. It's dead, like dead dead. I only paid a couple of bucks so no big loss, but still.
It's really sad because the pcb looks brand new, no scratches anywhere, the photo doesn't do it justice.
- Caps look good and I don't see any burned resistors.
- when the card is plugged in and comp turned on, the chip does heat up and so does the transistor in the corner
- memory chips do not heat up (they probably shouldn't anyways)
I've had a bunch of messed up video cards over the years but it always seemed to be something obvious, blown caps, scratched traces on the pcb, it would run but BSOD, it would run with artifacts. This one looks perfect.
I tried different motherboards, no beef. Nothing, it's as if the chip gets voltage to it but the card's bios won't let it initialize. I dunno.
I can change/resolder pretty much anything on it (except the main chip of course) but is there a point? Is it even possible to bring it back to life?
