I love these old Gainward Powerpack "kabuki mask" cards. I've got two nice examples: a GeForce 4 Ti 4600 and a GeForce FX 5700. They are so hefty and well constructed, and just look cool!
Nice video! I handle my working AGP cards like delicate fine china because I do not have the skill and tenacity to do what you did to revive this card. Kudos! I hope your channel get more views and subscribers!
Great video. Awesome job getting this beast working 👍I kinda want to get into repairing my own stuff and I learned a few helpful tips from this video 😊 Funny enough I also have a Gainward GeForce4 Ti (it's a 4400 though) that artifacts like a mf, too scared to try and repair it though 😬 Also, I have an X1950 XTX that might need a memory reflow as well, it crashes to artifacts a lot when cold but is completely stable when it warms up. Sorry if this may be a stupid question, but how exactly did you go about reflowing the memory on this card? Might try it myself.
X1950 XTX should be lead free solder allready so forget about reflowing stuff, needs proper reball lots of early lead free cards have really bad soldering job all over the place... It working depending on temperature seems more like FCBGA to me though, x1950XTX is same architecture as xbox360 gpu and that thing was notorious for FCBGA issues so if that's the issue it's not really permanently fixable just sorta a fix for one or 2 sessions and run card hard without feeling bad for killing it deal :D On this card reflow was just with hot air @380°C and some flux, but it only worked on some chips and didn't work on the core, that needed full reball.
@@taggxoc Thanks for replying! Shame they used lead free solder by that point, guess I can forget about an easy repair on that card 😅With that I might do the squeeze test on my Ti 4400 to see if there's anything that could be reflowed, that would be the best I could do with that card at this point.
@@SPNG Squeeze test sounds like a good first step, you can allso check the artifacting paterns, i shared them under my mem diagnosis guide like 2-3 videos back, then you know which channels are your problem, allso squeeze test your core as the mem channels are connected to the balls around the corners of the GPU, reflow works reasonably well on leaded solder unless pads got ripped off on mem IC / PCB itself :)
@@taggxoc Quick update, I was able to narrow down the problematic memory modules and gave them a quick reflow with flux, the card stopped artifacting and it does 3D just fine again! I can even get it up to Ti 4600 speeds without any trouble. Thanks for the tips, I never thought to try fixing that card!! 😁 One more thing, is it possible to flash a 4600 vBIOS on a 4400? The Gainward cards seem to share the same PCB between those two models
Nicely done on the repair, id probably put on a zalman vf1000 cooler on the gpu just to have a bit overkill gpu cooling on the core & less noise, if you find a used card with the zalman vf1050 like a msi 8800 gt zilent, gts 250, gigabyte hd 6850 etc... Its the same exact cooler except not copper & anodized aluminium instead, should work great on the card still though.
I have an ASUS card with similar artifacts, but mine are not so bad I can go windows in 640x480 256 colors and only a few lines show on screen, but after I switch to other resolution it switches off... can you help me ? I'm in Portugal Oh and my ASUS (with VGA and TV out) inductrors are 4.7 mH
A pretty crazy job. I didn't think you would go all the way and replace all mem chips. All I can say is: More! MORE!
I love these old Gainward Powerpack "kabuki mask" cards. I've got two nice examples: a GeForce 4 Ti 4600 and a GeForce FX 5700. They are so hefty and well constructed, and just look cool!
So many videos lately ❤
Fantastic video
I recently fixed same model card(some missing elements + bad caps) and I would really recommend testing/replacing all the purple Sanyo capacitors...
Nice video! I handle my working AGP cards like delicate fine china because I do not have the skill and tenacity to do what you did to revive this card. Kudos! I hope your channel get more views and subscribers!
Great video. Awesome job getting this beast working 👍I kinda want to get into repairing my own stuff and I learned a few helpful tips from this video 😊 Funny enough I also have a Gainward GeForce4 Ti (it's a 4400 though) that artifacts like a mf, too scared to try and repair it though 😬 Also, I have an X1950 XTX that might need a memory reflow as well, it crashes to artifacts a lot when cold but is completely stable when it warms up. Sorry if this may be a stupid question, but how exactly did you go about reflowing the memory on this card? Might try it myself.
X1950 XTX should be lead free solder allready so forget about reflowing stuff, needs proper reball lots of early lead free cards have really bad soldering job all over the place... It working depending on temperature seems more like FCBGA to me though, x1950XTX is same architecture as xbox360 gpu and that thing was notorious for FCBGA issues so if that's the issue it's not really permanently fixable just sorta a fix for one or 2 sessions and run card hard without feeling bad for killing it deal :D
On this card reflow was just with hot air @380°C and some flux, but it only worked on some chips and didn't work on the core, that needed full reball.
@@taggxoc Thanks for replying! Shame they used lead free solder by that point, guess I can forget about an easy repair on that card 😅With that I might do the squeeze test on my Ti 4400 to see if there's anything that could be reflowed, that would be the best I could do with that card at this point.
@@SPNG Squeeze test sounds like a good first step, you can allso check the artifacting paterns, i shared them under my mem diagnosis guide like 2-3 videos back, then you know which channels are your problem, allso squeeze test your core as the mem channels are connected to the balls around the corners of the GPU, reflow works reasonably well on leaded solder unless pads got ripped off on mem IC / PCB itself :)
@@taggxoc Quick update, I was able to narrow down the problematic memory modules and gave them a quick reflow with flux, the card stopped artifacting and it does 3D just fine again! I can even get it up to Ti 4600 speeds without any trouble. Thanks for the tips, I never thought to try fixing that card!! 😁 One more thing, is it possible to flash a 4600 vBIOS on a 4400? The Gainward cards seem to share the same PCB between those two models
Nicely done on the repair, id probably put on a zalman vf1000 cooler on the gpu just to have a bit overkill gpu cooling on the core & less noise, if you find a used card with the zalman vf1050 like a msi 8800 gt zilent, gts 250, gigabyte hd 6850 etc...
Its the same exact cooler except not copper & anodized aluminium instead, should work great on the card still though.
I have an ASUS card with similar artifacts, but mine are not so bad I can go windows in 640x480 256 colors and only a few lines show on screen, but after I switch to other resolution it switches off... can you help me ? I'm in Portugal
Oh and my ASUS (with VGA and TV out) inductrors are 4.7 mH
What type of paint thinner did you use to remove the epoxy of the memory heatsinks? (I fear paint thinner means a different thing in my country!)
It's called renovo universalverdünnung, i hope you'll manage to find somethign similar in your country :)