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Repairing Geforce3 - Elsa Gladiac 920 Black Edition

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Hello,

i need some help by repairing the ELSA Gladiac.
On the model that i got are some resistors and capacitors missing. The card doesnt post and keeps cool (after 2 minutes). The Fan is running.

The following parts (on the PCBs backside) are missing:
Near the front of AGP connector: C102, R258, R260
Near the top left edge of the GPU area: C229

for the capacitors i placed a 10 µF (6V) and for the resistors 0 Ohm, but the Card still not responding.

By the fact, ELSA used nVidia reference disign, somone can help me and give me the exact values of the components.

Thanks a lot and best regards
Lutz

Epox 7KXA Slot A / Athlon 950MHz / Voodoo 5 5500 / PowerVR / 512 MB / AWE32 / SCSI - Windows 98SE

Reply 2 of 3, by wiretap

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Use a needle syringe to put some liquid flux under the BGA and reflow it with a hot air pencil. (if it still isn't responding after you replace the missing components with the proper values)

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Reply 3 of 3, by PC-Engineer

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Thanks for your advice!

Considering, that the capacitors mostly are used for filtering, the 10µF should work.

@Thirst
It would be helpful, if you could read the values on top of the resistors R258 and R260 on your TI500.

Thanks and best regards!
Lutz

Epox 7KXA Slot A / Athlon 950MHz / Voodoo 5 5500 / PowerVR / 512 MB / AWE32 / SCSI - Windows 98SE

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