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Voodoo 4/5 cooling fixes and upgrades

As I've done quite a bit of research into this following successfully repairing my 5500 I thought I'd post my cooling/fan replacement and upgrade findings here and let others contribute as well. Stock Fan/Cooling replacements/fixes The stock AAVID cooler/fan combo seems to work adequately, but by …

Re: Voodoo 5500 AGP repair help/advice

​I actually got it to post tonight! I looked a little more closely at an area that had surface corrosion and tested the via to pad for R38 and realized the trace had somehow been corroded off the top side of the via so it wasn't making a connection. I filled the via w/ solder from the other side of …

Re: Voodoo 5500 AGP repair help/advice

The SK41G this was to go in doesn't have a speaker so hard to tell if it has post beeps. It defaults to the onboard video if there is no AGP card found and I don't have a spare PCI video card anymore unfortunately to test recognition in the OS. Remote troubleshooting with very little parts and …

Re: Voodoo 5500 AGP repair help/advice

Here are a few suggestions to try without measuring equipment: Does the PC beep/complain about not having a graphics card installed when starting with only the Voodoo installed? Try starting the PC with the Voodoo in it plus a PCI video card as primary display adaptor. See wether the Voodoo is …

Re: Voodoo 5500 AGP repair help/advice

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2020-01-18, 03:32: I'd take a good look at the gpu's and the ram chips for any bent and touching legs. I did a pretty close look and didn't see anything of note on the RAM or other chips w/ visible legs. The only chip that looks off is the already mentioned corroded legs on U4. …

Voodoo 5500 AGP repair help/advice

I bought a Voodoo 5 5500 AGP card in a broken state where only the fans would run and no POST/video output in hopes that it would be an easy-ish fix. I received it and on initial examination I noticed that it was missing C540 capacitor which was ripped off the board along with the pads. Thankfully …

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