Hi all, Been crossfiring 7970's. Unfortunately one has been damaged during a move. Unfortunate, but I'd love to know if it's broken beyond repair. Here is the damage: Is that irreversible, or perhaps mendable? Thanks in advance.
Really? Possible for the average user or pay to get it done? If it's salvageable it'd save me a lot of headaches.
Good luck doing that by hand. You'd have to have a very small soldering iron and exceptionally steady hands.
another guy on this site had the same thing happen and he fixed it himself. Can't remember his username.
Yes, this can be fixed easily, I could do that for free in 5 to 10 minutes of relaxed "job", but you're not living close... Don't get me wrong but if you ask like that if you can do repair yourself I think you don't enough skill and knowledge to do that by yourself. Find some friend who is skilled enough in reparing electronics and he will do that easily in minutes. Bring him few beers and graphic card and save yourself money...
Thing is where I'm from hardware shops are extremely rare and not really specialists. I'm probably the most knowledgeable in my group of friends regarding hardware and thats not saying much. Hmm. I could search for someone in the UK I suppose. Bit of a pain in the ass.
Do a search for Voodoo5 fans and check the OP's other threads. He fixed his broken transistor or whatever it was that broke on another card.
Do you mean this guy? http://forums.guru3d.com/search.php?searchid=6073683 The closest I found to my problem was something said here: http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=379485
2 months on so maybe you have fixed it by now but here goes. Looks fixable but being tiny looking 0402 sized packages makes them a challenge, looks like 3 filtering capcitors wiped out, 4 of the 6 solderpads look fine 2 possibly damaged but hard to tell from the picture. If confident at soldering smd components and you have a very low wattage iron/temp controller iron you can fix it yourself. Not something to practice on, its so easy to apply heat for too long and lift the pads or tear them off even with experience it happens especially if they have had some mechanical force damage them in the first place. You would have to check pcie specs to find out what voltage is present on the pin each of those capacitors would connect to to figure out what value to replace with. (capacitance isnt that important but voltage IS) Or bodge it and just wire jumper link the pads but theres a risk of instablility if theres noise or ripple coming through from your motherboard and/or psu. im in the midlands uk if you happen to be somewhere local and cant fix it yourself i could help.
