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Dead Kyro, any hope?

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First post, by buff

Posted on 2020-04-22, 19:50

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I have a Hercules 3D Prophet 4000XT AGP that won't post. It had 3 bulging caps to I replaced them, no change. I cleaned the card and can see no damage.

Booting with a PCI graphics card shows that Windows does actually detect the Kryo. I installed drivers and after rebooting Windows 98 tells me that it cannot initialize the card.

Any other suggestions? I am assuming the core is dead.

Reply 1 of 5, by darry

Posted on 2020-04-22, 21:04

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Maybe replace all the electrolytic caps. The non bulging ones may be bad too .

Reply 2 of 5, by buff

Posted on 2020-04-22, 21:11

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It has 9x tiny 10v 22uF caps. I suppose I can try and replace those.

Reply 3 of 5, by Martes

Posted on 2024-09-05, 04:32

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Hi, any progress? I have a card with very similar behaviour.

Reply 4 of 5, by riplin

Posted on 2024-09-06, 04:50

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Did you try reflashing the BIOS?

Reply 5 of 5, by darry

Posted on 2024-09-06, 08:12

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To all the friends of Mister Kyro

This thread is has been dormant for over 4 years and the OP has not visited Vogons since 2022. While it would be nice to get some degree of closure on this, I doubt it will happen.

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