3dfx Voodoo 2 - The Four Musketeers

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3dfx Voodoo 2 - The Four Musketeers

Athos - Creative 8MB                                   Porthos - Creative 12MB
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Aramis - Magic3D II 12MB                          D'Artagnan - Magic3D II 12MB U2
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Hello everyone,
today's menu includes four Voodoo 2 cards to repair.

They were sent to me by a 3dfx enthusiast to try to create two working SLI configurations.

All those pins, SMD capacitors/resistors, the RAMDAC to check, plus the 3dfx chips, broken tracks, etc., etc...

In the meantime, let's see if we can save one of them.

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Today I will talk about one of the four musketeers:

ATHOS - Creative 8MB
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A Creative Voodoo 2 8 MB card in very poor condition.
Missing SMD capacitors; bent and/or destroyed TMU and FBI pins; short circuits on the 5v and 3v lines; broken tracks, etc.

After aligning/re-soldering all the bent and/or short-circuited pins, the card started working again, but with only one TMU.
The other TMU had destroyed pins and was disconnected from the chip.
But before completely desoldering it, I wanted to try a repair that I had already performed several times with good results.

A reconstruction of the missing pins:
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Once the restoration/reconstruction work was complete, the video card was working perfectly again.

Finally, I upgraded the RAM from 8 MB to 12 MB:
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Considering the starting point, I must say that the result is excellent:
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The first repair/upgrade was a complete success.   

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