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Can It Run Tualatin? The MSI BX Master Has a Major Problem...
An MSI BX Master board is tested for Tualatin processor support, but corrosion on the board has to be dealt with first.
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Bits und Bolts
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I Dug a Hole Inside a Pentium III to Fix It!
A broken pad on a Tualatin Celeron 1200 took the core connection with it, so the maker cuts down into the substrate to reach it and rebuild the link.
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Scrapyard find: AMD Athlon and a Jetway 771AS motherboard
Bulging capacitors on a Jetway 771AS Slot A motherboard are swapped out, and the Athlon that came fitted to it is tested afterwards.
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Unique Slot 1 motherboard: Creative Blaster Board M003
This Slot 1 board from EMPAC and Creative, with SoundBlaster Live audio built in, will not POST. Severed traces are suspected after it came out of a scrapyard.
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3Dfx Voodoo legs disconnected - can we fix them?
Bits und Bolts finds that many secondhand Voodoo cards have chip legs lifted from their pads, then sets out to resolder every leg on a card fitted with faster memory.
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Fixing my GeForce 2 MX (black screen) - after 20 years!
A GeForce 2 MX owned since 2001 stopped giving any picture, and chip removal practice later made the damage worse. Bits und Bolts tries to fix it twenty years on.
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Fix common issue of 3dfx Voodoo 3 (black screen)
A Voodoo 3 2000 PCI card with a black screen is revived by Bits und Bolts, who says it may be a very common fault on old video cards.
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Fixing a mouse button: Genius GM-6
BitsUndBolts attempts to bring back a dead button on an old Genius GM-6 mouse, and links a pin-out diagram of the model.
