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3DFX Voodoo 2 - The Four Musketeers X
Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan.

ATHOS
A Creative Voodoo 2 8MB 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 bent and/or shorted pins, the card started working again but with only one TMU, because the other TMU had destroyed/broken pins and was disconnected from the chip.
So the second TMU had to be replaced.

But before desoldering it, I wanted to try a restoration that I had performed other times with good results.
A reconstruction of the missing pins.

Once the restoration/reconstruction work was complete, which I will have to finish aesthetically, the video card started working perfectly again.
Finally, I upgraded the RAM from 8MB to 12MB.

I must say that the result is good.
Once I've finished it aesthetically, it will be even better.

Another 3dfx brought back to life!


The test platform:
Asus TUSL2-C
Intel PIII-S Tualatin [email protected] 1.45v FSB 100mhz
Ram 2x256Mb PC133 C2.2.2 T5
Creative Voodoo2 8MB @ 12MB
Sound Blaster Pci
DVD-Rom LG Ide
HDD Maxtor Ide
Windows 98SE - DirectX8.1


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Sound Track:
The Three Musketeers - All the music by Paul Haslinger
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Track one - Get Me One Of Those!

Track two - The Venice Heist

Track three - Only Four Men