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Is my video card die?

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First post, by northernosprey

Posted on 2016-10-17, 16:52

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It was no longer to enjoy vintage computing

I've resurrecting my customized Pentium 1 PC which originally has MS-DOS 7.1 and Windows 3.11, when I turned on the hard drive was dead and I throw them away.

But, after I turned off and tried to turn on again it won't turned on! I've investigated which make it problem, when I tried unplug video card (S3 Trio64V2/DX) it turned on!

So is my video card died? Because it was stored for a long time ago! And I've difficult to find replacement parts as in my country must destroys the old computer because it was a junk

Reply 1 of 1, by skitters

Posted on 2016-10-17, 17:07

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northernosprey wrote:
I've resurrecting my customized Pentium 1 PC which originally has MS-DOS 7.1 and Windows 3.11, when I turned on the hard drive was dead and I throw them away.

I've had as much trouble with ribbon cables going bad as with hard drives.
Too late to check for that though.

But, after I turned off and tried to turn on again it won't turned on! I've investigated which make it problem, when I tried unplug video card (S3 Trio64V2/DX) it turned on!

Look for bulgy or leaky capacitors on the motherboard and the video card.

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