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First post, by Nemo1985

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Hello, I recently bought this video card sold cheap because it gives no video signal, I noticed that it is missing the quartz in Y200 position.
Geforce 4 ti4600 layout: https://vgamuseum.ru/wp-content/gallery/albat … f4_ti4600_f.jpg
My card: https://imgur.com/a/CSfEuBi
Donor card: https://imgur.com/a/YPviUdf

I never messed with quartz, so i'm wondering could this one work fine?
Also since those are smd components and my skill with soldering are very bad, will it be difficult to desolder and solder it?
Last question, does it has a polarity or it doesn't matter?

Thanks

Last edited by Nemo1985 on 2020-06-01, 15:55. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 1 of 9, by Tiido

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It'll probably be a 27MHz one and any you can find will most probably work just fine. There's no polarity on them. Ideally you also transplant the two little ceramics capacitors connecting to the two ends of the crystal since they are specfic to a particular crystal. Test can be done just with crystal, if things work the caps can be transplanted too.

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Reply 2 of 9, by Nemo1985

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Thank you Tiido, can you please mark which capacitors I should transplant too?
for now I desoldered the crystal, what can happen if I use the card with the older ceramics capacitors what can go wrong?

Reply 3 of 9, by Tiido

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The capacitors are on the back, C211 and C212 on the card that misses a crystal. On the donor they seem to be the small ones between crystal and e-caps.
The frequency will be very minutely wrong (probably unlikely to affect operation) with the wrong caps.

T-04YBSC, a new YMF71x based sound card & Official VOGONS thread about it
Newly made 4MB 60ns 30pin SIMMs ~
mida sa loed ? nagunii aru ei saa 😜

Reply 5 of 9, by Tiido

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Very nice ~

T-04YBSC, a new YMF71x based sound card & Official VOGONS thread about it
Newly made 4MB 60ns 30pin SIMMs ~
mida sa loed ? nagunii aru ei saa 😜