Hello,
I am currently repairing a heavily damaged Voodoo 2 card (ST-6630). It has been quite a journey, but - after replacing traces, reflowing, resoldering and headscratching - I am getting somewhere. Now the Voodoo passes all the tests in Witchery up until the memory check. The "front" chips on the card mostly work (all of them except U6), but the rest doesn't. To a point witchery even suggest they are not soldered. 😁 I rechecked all the address and data connections (and control signals) with a multimeter for a direct or indirect connection to FBI. All of those check out OK including the resistor arrays.

However I noticed Witchery tells me the expect strap configuration is not quite what it should be. In witchery it shows the R52 as missing while the card has it soldered on (as it should). I noticed that while one side is connected to the +5V rail the other seems to not connect anywhere. I am expecting the via got broken by corrosion (wouldn't be the first one on this trainwreck of a card 😀 ) and thus the connection is missing.

Could somebody please measure their Voodoo 2 and tell me where my connection should go? Does anybody have an experience with similar type of a fault (ram not working despite the connections being there).

Thank you so much for any help. 😀