Reply 25020 of 27612, by andre_6
Thermalwrong wrote on 2023-08-22, 15:38:They're from probably early in the lead-free soldering era with a high pin count, lots of electronics from ~2003 broke because o […]
TheAbandonwareGuy wrote on 2023-08-22, 12:53:Well the 3rd 9700 Pro arrived, same story as the others, massive artifacting. Refunded.
I give up, I actually don't think there are any working 9700 Pro cards left in the wild. Unless I find a fellow enthusiast selling one, this is clearly a waste of time.
They're from probably early in the lead-free soldering era with a high pin count, lots of electronics from ~2003 broke because of that. They'll maybe work with the GPU & RAM reballed. 😀
But then again, it was a decent enough graphics card that people would've used it til the day it stopped working, so who knows. I do think it's solder + hot components though. Probably 100% of them will eventually need re-work.I was testing out my ISA VGA card collection which I didn't realise had so many items in it at this point! The Oak OTI087 result really surprised me, I thought it was a really slow card and had it paired with my 386SX-40 computer, but that's a waste of it. Tempted to try putting the extra 512KB of RAM on it now.
QuakeBenchmarks-ISA-VGA.pngGood thing I did this too, I found a load of corrosion on the Trident 8900CL-B card's RAMDAC that caused the display to go all crazy. It turns out this is also a fast ISA card once the 0-wait states setting is enabled, pretty good for a VGA card that can do 8-bit too.
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Hello, could you please specify the jumper you changed to enable 0-wait states on the card? I have a Trident Quadtel TVGA8900CL 1MB 16-bit ISA but didn't find a jumper for that option in the manual. Thanks!