Two card is pearl. ELSA Winner 1000 ISA with S3 805i and ATI Mach32 ISA
But ROM is missed.
ELSA works again, with S3 801 ROM, but it is wrong... (freezed in graphics mode, because GenDac and DAC is not same. )
Thanks
matt
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Last edited by Madao on 2022-10-21, 15:42. Edited 2 times in total.
Congrat to your repair. How did the S3 chip pin was bad? Was it bent/pulled from PCB pad by mechanical crash or just bad contact without any visible mechanical distortion?
Sometimes TQFP chips soldering went broken, probably due to PCB bend that cause pin lift above PCB pad a littel bit. I repaired friend's Matrox Millennium II that had bad joint on WRAM chip (I resolder all pins) that caused artifacts in VESA modes and memory errors was reported VMT test program...
Congrat to your repair. How did the S3 chip pin was bad? Was it bent/pulled from PCB pad by mechanical crash or just bad contact without any visible mechanical distortion?
Sometimes TQFP chips soldering went broken, probably due to PCB bend that cause pin lift above PCB pad a littel bit. I repaired friend's Matrox Millennium II that had bad joint on WRAM chip (I resolder all pins) that caused artifacts in VESA modes and memory errors was reported VMT test program...
yes, just a bad solder joint.
Not very rare failure on ELSA card..
I have fixing few ELSA card with resoldering on TQFP IC
How did i find failure: I have pressing on S3 805i and grahpics artifacts is gone.