First post, by Pickle
This is a sad day, ive been running my voodoo 3 in my compaq 5000 and today i did a reshuffle of the cards to try to give the v3 some more room. I was planning to add a fan to it and wanted to maximize its space.
Everything as working fine and i wanted to try redguard to see it performance. I had been running other glide game like red baron and carnivores 2 in previous days.
I started RGFX and it got to book menu and then seemed to freeze, a blue screen, and then corrupt block lines appeared.
Reset the machine and its black the bios no longer shows.
I put it in 2 other machines with PCI and getting beeps (looks like this the bios cant find the video card).
Tried it in parallel with one of the PC and it does get detected a VGA card, but this is win98 so it complained about not supporting 2 cards.
I measured the voltages on the top regulator and top pin as about 5V, middle 3.3 V, and last was ground.
I did a visual inspection with my magnification glasses and saw nothing wrong. No smells or smoke.
The only thing i can think to do is replace the electrolytic caps as they are original.
This is really disappointing as i dont think i can afford another PCI card at current prices. I only had this one since it was a original purchase from the late 90's.
If anyone has some other recommendations it would be nice.