VOGONS


First post, by digitaldrifter

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I got an STB Voodoo2 from E-Bay a little while ago, and when I got it I noticed a loose barrel capacitor floating around in the package. When I looked closer it looked like there was another cap missing. Upon further testing, though, it seems to do fine. Quake II has some weird palette issue, but that might be the 3dfxzone driver with the mismatched cards, because other games so far (MW2:Mercs and Unreal Tournament) seem to do just fine.

My question is, will running the card without the caps harm it in the long term, or should I look to get the missing ones replaced?

Reply 2 of 2, by Jorpho

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I ran into something similar a while ago.
Loose or Missing Caps on a Working Motherboard?

It's bizarre! Capacitor plague seems to cause so many subtle problems, and then this board shows up with loose bits rattling around and seems to operate perfectly.