VOGONS


First post, by Danger Manfred

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Just leaving this here as a reminder to myself, since I got this moving box full of stuff that could more or less easily be fixed if I didn't have a literal disability preventing me from soldering:

3x ATI FireGL X1 - 256: Bought them as working, but they give out nothing but artifacts most of the time. If you're extremely lucky, they will just boot up and work without any flaws, but most of the time they don't, and they're pressure sensitive, so it must be some cold solder joint.

2x Gigabyte Nvidia Geforce 6800 GT: the rare specimen where the cooler is routed to the back of the card, where a tiny blue fan spins like crazy to cool it. Looks really cool, but one of them produces artifacts in text mode, then shows a flawless image for a few seconds in Windows XP or higher, then force reboots. The other one shows even more glitches in 2D mode and even in Windows, probably because a small SMD is missing in the bottom left corner of the "front" of the PCB.

2x Cirrus Logic CL-GD5428 1MB: none of them give out a picture, I suspect that one might have GPU pins touching each other while the other has a very improvised-looking nest of resistors in a corner, doesn't look very professional.

Nvidia Quadro FX 1300 - this one works but by moving 2 resistors, this can be hardmodded to a Geforce PCX 5900. I do know which ones to move, I do own the correct BIOS for flashing afterwards, it's just the shaky hands.

Nvidia Geforce FX 5700 Ultra - bought as working, of course producing artifacts, it's the RAM.

Club3D Nvidia Geforce 6600GT AGP - this is my personal card from 2004, and a few caps have gone bad. Should be working again if recapped.

Creative CT1920 "Goldfinch": works, but needs an additional line out so it can be used without an SB 16 card.

AMD Interwave GUS clone: works, but but needs to have 2 memory chips from a donor card soldered on top of each other and 1 cable from the memory to the Interwave chip, then it can be flashed to a GUS PnP (although it will never be able to carry more than 1MB RAM).

ASUS Nvidia Geforce 4 Ti 4800 SE : faulty RAM leads to artifacts

WavetablePi: I spent several days attempting to solder this but in the end it didn't work. Probably just shabby soldering, but it won't improve just because I wish for it.

ThrottleBlaster: I had already bought these when I saw how completely impossible solderwork is for me. I have enough parts for 4, but only need 2.

Gigabyte GA-486AM - was sometimes freezing during boot but working fine if not. I never found the cause. When I last tried, it wouldn't POST any more. It's far too cool to throw away, one of the very few 486 boards that can run 66 MHz FSB!

ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 - needs recap, otherwise fine

Kontron 886LCD-M/Flex - needs recap, otherwise fine

SEGA GameGear - needs recap at the very least

MSI MS-6156 (BX7) - first it had a missing BIOS chip, then when I got one it booted a few times until I possibly accidentally moved a PCI card while booting, now now longer POSTing.

That should be it for now, but I'll append the list when more stuff appears.

My pile of defective hardware that I'll fix if one day my hands stop shaking

Reply 2 of 2, by chinny22

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Also known as the "future projects I know I'll never really do" list.
I sold all mine when moving overseas 2 years back, it felt really good to unclutter.
I've already got a small list growing again 🙁