Some good things can come out of scrap lots. If you scour around long enough, they sometimes show up similar to this where if you can get just one thing from them working, then the cost has already been made back, then anything beyond that puts you in the green. It's a shame about the 4 Ti, but it seems a lot of them failed that way, as do the Quadros on the same chips. Suppose it would do no harm if you did decide to oven it or wash it, as it already doesn't work so there's nothing to lose, but I'm doubtful it'll come back. Still, I've had cards come back from the dead merely by giving them a good bath in the sink and rubbing paper over the gold fingers before - albeit, much older cards that were far more robust than 2000s GPUs. Congrats on getting that 286 running, also. I think swapping the PSU guts was the right way to go, because PSUs don't seem to like being repaired or else, they end up with you chasing bubbles in the wallpaper.
That is a really good find again. That Ti 4200 is a nice piece of old tech even if it doesn't work. Maybe some of those memory chips are bad? Those aren't impossible to replace with right tools. Also one of those purple Sanyo caps seems to be tilted, could be that one lead has stripped off from the bottom. But maybe that wouldn't be enough to cause this issue. I also once bought some of those "untested" GeForce cards, there were two Geforce 3's, a GF4 Ti 4200, Ti 4600 and a Ti 4800 SE - all of them were unfunctional. None of them came to life with a heat gun. I think they are from an era before unleaded solder problems.
That 960 might still be bad, could fail on driver installation or under load. Or maybe might just have a bad hdmi port.... But a good start nonetheless. 960s list for silly money still, people selling think they are worth 970 money. Glad you're uploading more often now :)
The reality is that there are those in the world who only see value in raw materials and could care less if something has more value as a working item. Think about what happened to alot of crt monitors. Then those who don't have a clue what things are, or how to test them. The only time I scrap electronics is if parts fail that can't be replaced. I have a fear that if something happened to me the valuable computer parts I have will be given to charity, given to an ignorant scrapper, or treated like obsolete junk and thrown away. Considering what people think they can charge on feebay for obsolete junk then I think I will keep it. It is too bad that I can't become rich by selling some simm's for more than what I paid new in the early nineties. Something is only obsolete to companies that want to keep making money.
It kind of looks like a capacitor is missing on that Ti 4200... I think it's labeled C2301. Maybe that's the way it comes from the factory.. But it might be something to consider.
That's some good luck. But you really don't know if the 960 works until you test it 3D. Though this is a good start...
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Some good things can come out of scrap lots. If you scour around long enough, they sometimes show up similar to this where if you can get just one thing from them working, then the cost has already been made back, then anything beyond that puts you in the green. It's a shame about the 4 Ti, but it seems a lot of them failed that way, as do the Quadros on the same chips. Suppose it would do no harm if you did decide to oven it or wash it, as it already doesn't work so there's nothing to lose, but I'm doubtful it'll come back. Still, I've had cards come back from the dead merely by giving them a good bath in the sink and rubbing paper over the gold fingers before - albeit, much older cards that were far more robust than 2000s GPUs.
Congrats on getting that 286 running, also. I think swapping the PSU guts was the right way to go, because PSUs don't seem to like being repaired or else, they end up with you chasing bubbles in the wallpaper.
You found christmas scrap container.
0:50 I think he works for Sprint now.
The problem with GF4 ti line in general is a GPU package design causing die to fry itself with a stock cooling.
That is a really good find again. That Ti 4200 is a nice piece of old tech even if it doesn't work. Maybe some of those memory chips are bad? Those aren't impossible to replace with right tools. Also one of those purple Sanyo caps seems to be tilted, could be that one lead has stripped off from the bottom. But maybe that wouldn't be enough to cause this issue.
I also once bought some of those "untested" GeForce cards, there were two Geforce 3's, a GF4 Ti 4200, Ti 4600 and a Ti 4800 SE - all of them were unfunctional. None of them came to life with a heat gun. I think they are from an era before unleaded solder problems.
Still at least you got your money's worth and if the 960 does have artifacts its still good for a test card
It seems like it was so far.
That 960 might still be bad, could fail on driver installation or under load. Or maybe might just have a bad hdmi port.... But a good start nonetheless.
960s list for silly money still, people selling think they are worth 970 money.
Glad you're uploading more often now :)
The reality is that there are those in the world who only see value in raw materials and could care less if something has more value as a working item. Think about what happened to alot of crt monitors. Then those who don't have a clue what things are, or how to test them. The only time I scrap electronics is if parts fail that can't be replaced. I have a fear that if something happened to me the valuable computer parts I have will be given to charity, given to an ignorant scrapper, or treated like obsolete junk and thrown away. Considering what people think they can charge on feebay for obsolete junk then I think I will keep it. It is too bad that I can't become rich by selling some simm's for more than what I paid new in the early nineties.
Something is only obsolete to companies that want to keep making money.
I would probably try the ti4200 in a newer motherboard first but it doesn't look good. I have had a couple of those fail as well.
It kind of looks like a capacitor is missing on that Ti 4200... I think it's labeled C2301. Maybe that's the way it comes from the factory.. But it might be something to consider.