First post, by kinetix
hi guys,
I have a S3 Virge DX card, a PT-75 from AOpen. I don't remember where I got it from years ago, I had never test it before, until some weeks back.
After cleaning and visual inspection it appeared to be mostly fine. Just a slightly bent pin (but not making contact with another) on the main chip, which I straightened and checked it was well soldered. It had a capacitor, the one you can see to the left of the PCI connector (attached image), almost unsoldered, but in good condition (checked), so I fixed it. I saw it has space for another capacitor on the opposite side of the PCI (right), but it didn't bring any. Initially I thought it was like this from the factory.
The problem is as follow.
Initially it did not give video signal, but the monitor responded. Latter it began to show the information of the VBIOS at boot, then nothing, that's all. The chip seemed to me that it was starting to get warmer than it should be, without doing any work, so I always turn off the PC just in case, I don't know how much warm/hot it gets.
After searching for images of the card, I saw that where a capacitor was missing, it was actually missing. No image shows its numbers but it seems to be the same as the other. So I put one just like it in that place.
But the card remains the same, it only shows the VBIOS info, then nothing.
Any idea about it?
How hot does the chip on these S3 get moments after booting up? It's for reference
May the the chip be damaged?