First post, by nosdio
Hello, around 15 years back i got this Voodoo 4500 AGP with no fan on it.
The card was working fine (i attached a fan) up until a time when a short of the pcb fan pins (i also saw flash) made the card running at only AGP 1x in 3.3V boards only (AGP2X compatible boards) and with artifacts on the screen when running 3dmark (fine on windows). Previously the card could run in agp8x boards as well with 4X agp and no artifacts at 3dmark or games.
I had attached some photos of the card as it stands today. I observe no obvious shorts but yet again I am no so good with electronics. I noticed though two resistors that are named R00 that are shorted (got a tone in multimeter from one end to the other) whereas the others are not. Maybe it supposed to be that way since they are R00. Another thing is that the middle fan pin header is ground and it sounds strange to me as usually this is the 12V rail.
Please let me know if you have any idea of what to look? I believe it can be saved.
Thanks in advance, John