First post, by Totempole
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I received this Geforce 2 MX card in the mail yesterday, and was very disappointed to see that it was missing a contact on the AGP connector. Nevertheless, I decided to give the card a whirl, and it seems to be working okay. I then decided to try and find out the exact purpose of the missing contact, but didn't find anything useful. From what I could find, it looks like the missing contact could simply be cosmetic as there are numerous Geforce 2 cards which did not include that particular contact. So did I get lucky, or is the missing contact going to be an issue?
Pics:
The card in question:
Closeup of damaged contact:
Other GF2 cards with the same contact omitted:
So can I safely assume that the missing contact isn't required for this card? If I look closely at the PCB, the small piece of contact that still exists doesn't seem to be linked to anything, but I can't say for sure. I'm hoping I got lucky and the missing contact is purely cosmetic.
My Retro Gaming PC:
Pentium III 450MHz Katmai Slot 1
Transcend 256MB PC133
Gigabyte GA-6BXC
MSI Geforce 2 MX400 AGP
Ensoniq ES1371 PCI
Sound Blaster AWE64 ISA