First post, by Kizmo
Hi all and greetings from Finland!
I have retail version of V5 5500 AGP, it has physical damage under the edge of slave VSA-100 chip. Someone (=me 15 years ago..) tried to pry off the heatsink and tool (small flat head) got accidentally between pcb and the slave ic which killed the card. Recently I found it from my junk box and gave it a test it few days ago, it boots up fine, drivers install, 2D works at high res and 32bit color. Single chip 3D works fin, dual chip 3D crashes instantly with green bars.
The chip itself looks ever so slightly bent/cracked so its safe to assume its no good anymore. I can see there are some broken traces on the PCB. There is no other damage to be seen under microscope.
Trace repair will require pulling the VSA-100 off from the board and i may have to run some jumpers under the BGA ic which is always fun task. 😠
But the question is, where to get a VSA-100 replacement, i can see there are some on AliExpress but who knows if they are any good or even VSA-100 at all.
3DFX - Gone but never forgotten