Reply 18840 of 27595, by ultra_code
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So I went ahead a month or two ago and sent my Vooodoo4 and not-working-3D V5 to the German forum VoodooAlert's user Backfire (Stephan Kleeman, who you can contact here: http://www.pct-server.de/~stephan/~hpage4/3dfx/) who works on 3dfx cards in his spare time, and I just got mine back. There's an issue with VSA-100 GPUs - their onboard PSUs will eventually fail in spectacular displays of fire (scary stuff). In addition to repairing my V5 (had bad memory for the second GPU, which he replaced with new modules), he replaced the PSUs for both my V4 and V5. He also cleaned both cards better than I can, recapped the V4, and touched-up my first attempt at SMD soldering on my V5.
All the work + shipping back to the US cost me around 200 Euros if you're curious.
I have the V5 back in my PIII-S rig, and it runs without issue. 😀