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Because Im thinking of upgrading my 9800 pro to a 6800GT or a x800 i decided to try (my first time ever) a VGPU mod using a variable resistor with my card... dont have much to loose if i screw up... except being tied to a 16mb PCI card i have laying around in the time i order a newer card.
This is going to be kinda long... i need to vent, its a semi confession of my stupidity.
Solder skills? Nope... god didnt bless me with such skills...it was messy, but i managed to clean all the pins i joined in the mess.. took a good 30 mins just to clean everything, but i never managed to attach the resistor to the pins.
Then i decided i was going to try the pencil mod... did it... took a voltage reading... 1.7v... nothing at all. Sad... wrong pencil? tried again... 1.71v...
Then i had this idea... i dont need to solder the resistor... ill do it super ghetto style.
Because i did managed to solder 2 cables that i took from a floopy cable to the resistor i just removed all the little wires but two from tip of the cable, rolled them up with my fingers and pushed the small cables under the pins used a thin piece of metal to pull the cable and tied each cable to its corresponding pin, then taped everything so it doesnt make contact...and there i go.
Crazy? not that crazy..... But, after all i made the poor card go thru with the butchery i make of soldering, i was a little scared it might not work at all.
I had no way to test if the card was working or not, because the computer at my office doesnt like newer AGP cards at all, and doesnt even boots with a 8500LE...
Here is where it REALLY went very very bad. When i turned the PC on, i had the 10k resistor set to the lowest resistance... uh? whats that? yes, 3.0v to the GPU!
I froze for about 5 seconds just staring at the voltimeter, and instead of pulling the plug, or pressing the PS switch i just pressed the shut down button.. that took 4 more seconds, yes, im a complete idiot. Then i moved the resistor all the way to the highest resistance turned the pc on and slowly set VGPU to 1.8v, but still i had no way of knowing if the card worked or not.
I had very little hopes of the card working at all, so when i got home, about 2 hours ago, slapped the card back in my computer... turned the thing on with an expectation of watching a POST screen looking like a trip on acid or at worse a blank screen, but it posted just just fine, and went in windows just fine, i couldnt belive that it was working right...so tried atitool for about 45 mins, max GPU is 426mhz (from max 400mhz before), ran Americas Army, no issues.
Amazing little card...
This is going to be kinda long... i need to vent, its a semi confession of my stupidity.
Solder skills? Nope... god didnt bless me with such skills...it was messy, but i managed to clean all the pins i joined in the mess.. took a good 30 mins just to clean everything, but i never managed to attach the resistor to the pins.
Then i decided i was going to try the pencil mod... did it... took a voltage reading... 1.7v... nothing at all. Sad... wrong pencil? tried again... 1.71v...
Then i had this idea... i dont need to solder the resistor... ill do it super ghetto style.
Because i did managed to solder 2 cables that i took from a floopy cable to the resistor i just removed all the little wires but two from tip of the cable, rolled them up with my fingers and pushed the small cables under the pins used a thin piece of metal to pull the cable and tied each cable to its corresponding pin, then taped everything so it doesnt make contact...and there i go.
Crazy? not that crazy..... But, after all i made the poor card go thru with the butchery i make of soldering, i was a little scared it might not work at all.
I had no way to test if the card was working or not, because the computer at my office doesnt like newer AGP cards at all, and doesnt even boots with a 8500LE...
Here is where it REALLY went very very bad. When i turned the PC on, i had the 10k resistor set to the lowest resistance... uh? whats that? yes, 3.0v to the GPU!
I froze for about 5 seconds just staring at the voltimeter, and instead of pulling the plug, or pressing the PS switch i just pressed the shut down button.. that took 4 more seconds, yes, im a complete idiot. Then i moved the resistor all the way to the highest resistance turned the pc on and slowly set VGPU to 1.8v, but still i had no way of knowing if the card worked or not.
I had very little hopes of the card working at all, so when i got home, about 2 hours ago, slapped the card back in my computer... turned the thing on with an expectation of watching a POST screen looking like a trip on acid or at worse a blank screen, but it posted just just fine, and went in windows just fine, i couldnt belive that it was working right...so tried atitool for about 45 mins, max GPU is 426mhz (from max 400mhz before), ran Americas Army, no issues.
Amazing little card...
