First post, by 386SX
Hello,
After two decades I still have my original (I think named Pixelview or Prolink) Geforce2 MX 32Mb original version MVGA-NVG11A Rev.2B (most around seems Rev.2E), Samsung SDRAM 50ns and without TV-out, pcb summer 2000. Unfortunately this doesn't work edit: no signal no beep sounds. This card did work a lot in the past after being used in other computers eventually ended up not working. I don't know which might be the problem, maybe capacitors even if none seems wrong outside but might be anyway. I was thinking to try flashing its bios if I find it. Do anyone have the bios for this card? edit: bios found but not solved (ram modules have the very old glue I attached useless heatsinks with but ram contacts seems ok anyway, no components missing, while not in great conditions it still should work, I changed thermal paste already and cleaned AGP contacts, I'll remove the glue too)
EDIT: I noticed removing again the heatsink that on the side of the BGA gpu points there was some thermal paste under the chip and I'm trying to clean it with pressured air and something. I'm booting it again still no signal. The gpu seems to warm up a bit without the heatsink but very slowly. That mosfet seems to be even cooler.
EDIT: incredibly I think I've found a still alive website with a supposed to be its bios in a Prolink page: I've tried different nvflash versions and it seems the vbios board firmware wasn't readable and broken. I've uploaded the found version "NV10 reference board" theorically for this card and it find the correct bios chip but even after updating the bios, it still gives no signal at boot. No sound or anything the boot anyways goes on as usual but that happens also with other broken vga. I think the GPU is warming up more now but I was expecting it to boot. I don't know if it might be a eeprom broken or something like it. I should find an empty one to be sure about this.
Thanks