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First post, by bearking

Posted on 2020-10-30, 18:32

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Hi guys,

I recently bought this Voodoo3 2000 and realized that two capacitors are missing. C95 and C101 from the right side of the card. See the photo below. I think these are 10 microfarad, 16 volt capacitors, judging by the third one still present on the card.
The card is working just fine. I have it in a PII@450 based system running Windows 98SE. I've used the system 3-4 hours a day for a few days and everything seems to be ok.
Should I use the card as is, or I should replace the missing caps?
Thanks!

Reply 1 of 10, by texterted

Posted on 2020-10-30, 21:30

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Look at pictures of other cards that are the same brand and model. Do they have capacitors where yours are missing?

If so replace them.

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Reply 2 of 10, by konc

Posted on 2020-10-31, 10:06

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On my card C95 and C101 are populated and they are indeed 10μF/16V

Reply 3 of 10, by Joseph_Joestar

Posted on 2020-10-31, 10:54

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Both of those spots are populated on my card as well.

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Reply 4 of 10, by psychz

Posted on 2020-10-31, 11:04

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Yep, the three edge caps are notorious for falling off easily when the V3 cards are in storage/being pushed around by other items due to their position, I've had to solder new ones in lots of them.

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Reply 5 of 10, by kixs

Posted on 2020-10-31, 12:33

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Had one with missing all three... worked fine non the less 🤣

Requests are also possible... /msg kixs

Reply 6 of 10, by Baoran

Posted on 2020-10-31, 21:47

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Strangely not all of the cards seem to use same kind of capacitors. I have otherwise same card but many of the capacitors are square black capacitors 10-16 K6 written on them

Reply 7 of 10, by konc

Posted on 2020-11-01, 14:17

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Baoran wrote on 2020-10-31, 21:47:

Strangely not all of the cards seem to use same kind of capacitors. I have otherwise same card but many of the capacitors are square black capacitors 10-16 K6 written on them

Yes and even worse sometimes they are mixed, a row of those rectangle ones and an aluminum electrolytic in the middle. Just like C51 on OP's card.

Reply 8 of 10, by bearking

Posted on 2020-11-07, 23:00

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I replaced the missing caps with two 10 uF 35V. Couldn't find any 16V caps. They are a little bit larger but it's not an issue.
The card still runs the same, no change at all. I don't know for what are those caps...
Thank you all for your replies.
Here is the card with the new caps.

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Reply 9 of 10, by frudi

Posted on 2020-11-10, 00:15

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I have a V3 2000 that also had two of those caps missing when I got it, in my case it was C95 and C98. Except my card refused to boot at all in that shape, I'd get the one long and two or three short error beeps when trying to boot up. After I soldered on a pair of ceramic smd caps (16V, 10uF), that I scavenged from other defective cards, the card started working normally.

So seems not all V3s can work without those caps. Or at least not in all builds. Maybe it also depends on other components, such as motherboard or power supply.

Reply 10 of 10, by konc

Posted on 2020-11-10, 09:49

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bearking wrote on 2020-11-07, 23:00:

The card still runs the same, no change at all. I don't know for what are those caps...

What were you expecting since the card was already working fine? 😁
I think you did well soldering these back, the card might have been working but they were there for a reason and it's an easy fix

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