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First post, by kixs

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Hi,

a few days ago I tested all my Voodoo2 cards and one was a bit flaky. I remember a few years ago one had screen corruption but when I tested them now all seemed to work fine. When I repeated my tests with SLI setup one combo showed some glitches when running for a few minutes. I tested each card separately and one was bad - as I remembered.

Here are some photos from NFS3. What is going on and can it be repaired?

In between there wasn't much corruption but in the end, after ~2min, it was really bad. Otherwise chips don't get too hot.

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Photo of the card - Creative Voodoo2 8MB CT6670:
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When I got the card it was in a computer in pretty bad shape. It looked like it was in a basement with high moisture for quite some time. I cleaned everything but this card has problems 😢

Thanks

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Reply 1 of 8, by chrismeyer6

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I would carefully inspect each chip to make sure that none of the legs are touching each other causing a short. It seems to be a common issue with these cards

Reply 3 of 8, by CkRtech

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In my opinion, it looks like a RAM issue.

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Reply 5 of 8, by Cyrix200+

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Also, if you use the FastVoodoo drivers check the memory frequency. Those drivers overclock that in their standard configuration (95MHz instead of 90MHz)! That caused issues with one of my Voodoo2 cards!

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Reply 7 of 8, by kixs

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Tested it again. FastVoodoo sets the frequency at 93MHz. I set it to default but the corruption remained. Then I inspected the card again and there are two SMDs missing at the back: C128 and C89. I guess it might be recoverable if someone know what it goes there and has the means to repair it.

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Reply 8 of 8, by firage

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Probably the same capacitors as C118. Google knows at least one example of this board that's also unpopulated there, but the components seem to be present on most of them.

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