brostenen wrote:I had somewhat same issues on my first V3-3500. Wich is 100% dead now.
In my quest for fixing it (not worth it anymore, got anot […]
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I had somewhat same issues on my first V3-3500. Wich is 100% dead now.
In my quest for fixing it (not worth it anymore, got another instead) I have come across two possible sollutions or possible things to fix that is.
The first one is of course the GPU, wich need to be reflowed. (baked on oven or heatgun)
The other one is the caps, wich need to be replaced. Possible those around the video-output and not the memchips.
Thing is, there's no artifact whatsoever, and it barely gets warm... You can leave it on for two hours playing a movie or just start the PC up cold, it will do the same - hang after 4-5 minutes in 3D apps with a black screen.
brostenen wrote:
Are you'r card "working" when not giving a output signal?
Don't really understand what you mean by the above, but the whole rig hangs. Sound stutters then cuts out, and if left to it's own devices, the machine may or may not reboot in 2-3 minutes. Sometimes the machine does not hang (sound keeps playing in quake 2) but will monitor will display "input not suported". Alt+Tab and CTRL+ALT+DEL seem to send the machine back to desktop, but I still get input not supported.
swaaye wrote:I have this same Dell Rage 128 Pro Ultra card. I've found it to be picky about what motherboards it will work reliably in. It was probably typically installed on 440BX and i820 motherboards.
Funny thing is, I pulled it out of a HP Vectra VL420 SF 1.7GHz pentium 4. It came with a low-profile bracket, so I swapped that for a normal bracket off another rage 128. Part number seems to point to HP as well, so it's not a dell card. Mine is branded "Rage 128 PRO ULTRA", but part number and drivers identify it as a Rage Fury PRO. Most likely both Dell and HP were served the same OEM version of the card. Dell version also has lower clocked memory (133mhz vs 143 on the HP version).
I'll try it out in a pentium 3 machine next.
