u/artlastfirst

I got this really incredible card and I hope I'm missing something to get it working.

Physically the card seems great, basically like new, no swollen caps or missing smd components, dvi connectors both look good, checking the agp connector with a multimeter shows no shorts, there are no shorts on the molex external power connector either.

Plugging the card into the computer the PC boots and loads into windows, but there is no display, the screen is black. Touching the card I can feel the core getting hot. Switching to integrated graphics with the GPU plugged in I get into windows and the card is shown as a vga device. I've tried several different drivers for it (I'm on windows xp 32 bit). I've tried several different drivers but none of them have gotten the card working. But I figure since it's giving a black screen while in BIOS it's not a driver issue? Sorry if I'm missing something, I'm quite a novice at this.

I got this really incredible card and I hope I'm missing something to get it working.

Physically the card seems great, basically like new, no swollen caps or missing smd components, dvi connectors both look good, checking the agp connector with a multimeter shows no shorts, there are no shorts on the molex external power connector either.

Plugging the card into the computer the PC boots and loads into windows, but there is no display, the screen is black. Touching the card I can feel the core getting hot. Switching to integrated graphics with the GPU plugged in I get into windows and the card is shown as a vga device. I've tried several different drivers for it (I'm on windows xp 32 bit). I've tried several different drivers but none of them have gotten the card working. But I figure since it's giving a black screen while in BIOS it's not a driver issue? Sorry if I'm missing something, I'm quite a novice at this.

Checking the pins with a multimeter there are no shorts. When plugged into a motherboard the core and bridge get warm, but there is no display and the computer doesn't post, and there are no beeps from the speaker, the cpu fan just spins up and stays like that. All the missing/damaged components are on the back of the card, the front of the card doesnt have anything missing and all the big capacitors are fine. the back of the board however has a ton of missing stuff that I tried my best to document.

I ordered another one of these broken cards and plan to transplant on the missing parts, what are the chances it will work after that? Also does anyone have any advice? this is my first time doing this lmao.

edit: okay guys sorry for not doing a better job checking, pins 2 and 3 which are both +5v are both shorted.