First post, by Erik765
I recently grabbed this Tseng Labs ET4000/W32 for next to nothing from the computer recycler and was stoked out of my mind.
I had it working for a for a couple weeks, but then it seems to have gone bad somehow 🙁
I'm desperately hoping someone can offer a solution as this beast outperforms my other cards by a pretty wide margine (even my CL-5429 vlb).
I have had no luck finding this exact card online- "BCM Advanced Research Inc"? so I have no idea what the jumpers do, but have tried every combination and the system either doesn't boot, I get blank gray screen, or it does this (see video). Image 5 shows the jumper configuration that I obtained it with, but it no longer boots with this configuration.
I've tried this on about 6 different motherboards- same result
Have tried it on 4 different monitors (LCD and CRT)- same result
I'm not one to shy away from replacing components if that's what's needed, but I just have no idea where to even start here.
I've re-seated all the socketed chips.
I can't spot any physical damage anywhere, but maybe I'm missing something?
Anyone else ever seen anything like this, or are able to point me in the right direction for where to begin on a repair?
It only seems to have this issue once you load a program that uses graphics. In other words, Norton Commander and Topbench, etc. look fine.
Images of card: (clickable links to allow for larger images)-
http://eriksplace.com/shared/tseng/1.jpg
http://eriksplace.com/shared/tseng/2.jpg
http://eriksplace.com/shared/tseng/3.jpg
http://eriksplace.com/shared/tseng/4.jpg
http://eriksplace.com/shared/tseng/5.jpg
Video of the issue:
http://eriksplace.com/shared/tseng/1.mp4
Thanks in advance,
E