I have an old Radeon X300 which has what is considered a classic sign of bad VRAM; lines down the screen.
I'm thinking of replacing its RAM chips, but wonder if this is actually likely to fix it?
Has anyone done so, and if so, did it work?
Could it be simply bad solder joints, or that one of the several ceramic capacitors next to the RAM chips has gone shorted? Or something else?
Does anyone have experience with repairing RAM faults, and knows the most common cause?
Just about everything I find is about GPU reflow, nobody seems to mention RAM.
I'm thinking of replacing its RAM chips, but wonder if this is actually likely to fix it?
Has anyone done so, and if so, did it work?
Could it be simply bad solder joints, or that one of the several ceramic capacitors next to the RAM chips has gone shorted? Or something else?
Does anyone have experience with repairing RAM faults, and knows the most common cause?
Just about everything I find is about GPU reflow, nobody seems to mention RAM.
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