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Need Repair Info On Video Card!

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Von Ribbentrop

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I've got a 12Mb Voodoo2 that's broken. I actually have two and was comparing the two, when I noticed that there are 3 connections that are broken. I'm not sure what to call them but they look like bridges that connect circuits. Since there are quite a few of these and some are different sizes and colors, I didn't know if I could just solder them back together or am I screwed.

Thanks!
 
Let's see if anyone agrees with me. Try to solder down a layer of copper braid (or stranded wire if you don't have any) on top of the trace when you solder it so that it won't crack apart at the same place again. Remember something caused it to break there in the 1st place, probably the stress of pushing the card into the slot.
 
or you could get one v3 2000 and get better performance. I think the 1000 (the same thing as the v2 12m) dirt cheap these days. Go ahead and try the solder fix. if it doesn't work, fork out another $50-75 and get a new one. 😉
 
Thanks for the info. I'm not really good at soldering, specially something this small. I think it got damaged while it was stored with a lot of other stuff. It worked fine before that. I'll see if I can find someone that can solder it for me.
 
There are pens to repair broken traces. Or you could always try a #2 pencil, Duron style...
 
If those interconnections are tiny cubes, they're either resistors or capacitors and come in various sizes, as indicated by the tiny numbers on them. But if the interconnections just seem to be copper traces, they can be repaired by soldering bare #26-#28 solid wire to them. I wouldn't use braid for this.

I think you should show pictures of what your two video cards look like around the damage.
 
jamarno They are tiny cubes that were broken off. They are tan in color I don't have access to a digital camera, so no pics. Can these be replaced.
 
Those are definitely either resistors or capacitors, and while they can be replaced, you'll need to know their values, which are written in tiny numbers. The board itself may be marked with the letter "C" for "capacitor" or "R" for resistor. Very likely any capacitors are just power supply filters in the range of 0.05 to 0.10 uF, and any resistors are terminators or pull-ups from 1,000 to 10,000 ohms, but sometimes they go in series with the signals and are from 10-100 ohms.

Try measuring the cubes from the good card with a digital ohm meter/capacitance meter. Do this with the card unplugged from the computer while it's placed on a piece of pink anti-static foam plastic.
 
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