First post, by sdz
Someone kindly gave me this card some time ago, and since I got the 5500 PCI working, I thought to give this one a shot.
It looks bad, but the PCB is in quite good shape:
First step is to give it a proper wash (IPA followed by soapy water) and see what we're working with:
Not that bad, next step is to clean any solder short (right VSA),add the missing 14.318MHz crystal for the master VSA, replace that "aftermarket" inductor, and add the missing RAM for the master VSA (the existing bottom one also needs resoldering as someone attempted to remove it at some point), add missing Q5/Q6, the two ceramic caps underneath the PMIC and various missing resistors on the card.