Incredible recovery of this historical GPU from ATI

Owner of this GPU said he used some kind of a metal made scraper to clean old compound and ended up scraping the core.
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[@majordan3517]

Truly amazing work Tony!!! Thank you once again for fixing yet another one of my vintage video cards. There is a little story behind this cut trace damage to the GPU die that Tony did not share in this video. I was scraping off the old hardened thermal paste from the top of the GPU die when I slipped not once but twice with the razor blade that I was using. This card was fully working prior to me performing this process and when I got done with applying the new thermal paste and putting the heat sink back on I went to test the video card using the same AM2 motherboard that I had used to test this video card on previously by running 3dmark 03 but this time it would not even post....no beeps....just a running AMD Athlon X2 6000+ 3.1Ghz CPU & GPU fan with a black screen. Have you ever gotten that sick feeling in your stomach when you start to realize you have just done something very stupid? Yep, after removing the GPU heatsink and placing the video card under my digital microscope I found the impact areas of the razor and saw the exposed areas of the copper traces. OH NO....What an idiot I am...I knew I had just made an expensive mistake. Lesson learned.

[@normahS]

Well, thank you for your mistakes, so we all got to enjoy this video. :-)

[@majordan3517]

Alcohol wont even phase this OEM thermal paste when it is dried out as it is almost as hard as concrete. I remove the bulk of it with a razor then use acetone to remove the rest.@ch-tc4ct

[@agsel]

I'm happy to see you are giving these retro beasts some love. It gives me hope for my non functional 9700 Pro

[@madaknevarski6478]

the ATI 9700 pro is a 2002 card so it's not too surprising that a 2007+ Furmark doesn't work with it. I had the 9800 pro all-in-wonder, a superb card for it's day.

[@yoyoyogames9527]

bruh this a 2002 card and im a 2003 human, crazy

[@aleksandrbmelnikov]

You need some old version of 3-D Mark and a patch to support newer OS.

[@neddy1287]

I'm a 1987 test tube baby God I am old 😅😅😅

[@ruxandy]

@@yoyoyogames9527, young bastard! :-)

[@powerplay074]

You can biosflash 9800pro to 9800xt

[@RelentlessRaccoon]

My father used to have one of these, we probably still have it laying around somewhere in the attic.. great video as usual! ❤

[@northwestrepair]

This thing worth good money today just so you know.

[@RelentlessRaccoon]

@@northwestrepair Oh wow yeah, i’ll definitely go search for it. lets hope it works but otherwise i’ll send it to you, do you have like a discord server??

[@neddy1287]

I have the Powercolor Ati Radeon x1650 pro agp variation with 512mb memory still working last time I used it which it a long time ago and I bought it brand new as it the first graphic card I ever owned

[@gadgestlab]

Miss your videos where you didn’t fast forward through you exhibiting your craft. Its mesmerizing and fascinating watching you do things like fixing traces and reballing. I could watch you do those things for hours.

[@majordan3517]

You can go into settings and turn down the playback speed to 1/4 (.25).

[@northwestrepair]

@@majordan3517 not when it's 6000%speed lol

[@Mandrag0ras]

Agreed. I wanted to say this to Tony. In the beginning I thought he doesn't realize how many people watch these this type of videos because we are mesmerized by the cleaning / soldering / desoldering / digging / stitching and all the pcb/electronics surgery stuff. I believe the vast majority of NRF's viewers are people like this, not technicians or people how want to become technicians, and look how successful he is as a KZbinr now. But then I realized that probably this isn't what Tony wants to do with his KZbin channel, but rather present all the technical stuff and his diagnosing methodology. So I didn't say anything. I'm saying this now because it's all assumptions. No matter what path he wants to follow, I'll still watch his videos.

[@wtrojanow]

Another Nostalgic video. Thanks man :) I like watching you repairing those old cards cause I love retro gaming It always brings me good memories

[@Irilia_neko]

Don't need to be old or have nostalgia, just watching retro channels because you are curious of how the technology have evolved 😉

[@GeorgeNoiseless]

I think Digital Foundry folks discussed getting a nVidia's original NV1 GPU, but only broken ones listed online. What a collab that would be! NV1 is properly ancient though and I suspect not particularly well documented...

[@arbez.nation]

I remember those cards. They were super common way back when. We used to flash them with 9800 Pro bios & get a lot more performance out of them. Ruined a few 9700 Pro's, but the ones that worked, worked great. I'm pretty sure I still have one of those modded cards hiding somewhere. Good memories...

[@nikotinko]

mine was artefacting in dx9 mode, otherwise softmod worked perfectly. I still remember you had to have a card with L vram modules. 2x performance for free!

[@1SaG]

Not sure about the 9800 flash... I'm *very* sure you could mod certain 9500s into 9700s/9700 Pros, because I was using a pre-modded 9500 -> 9700 at the time. The bump in performance was quite incredible - as was the overall performance/bang-per-buck for the time. Of course, after a while they started cutting those four additional pixel-pipes at the factory that the mod would re-activate. But if you could get a mod-able 9500, that card was the obvious choice back then. Especially since Nvidia had kinda, sorta dropped the ball with their competing gen of Geforce.

[@cybercat1531]

Yeah flashing to 9800 Pro is not possible. Someone is misremembering Only 9500 Pro -> 9700 Pro was possible.

[@diegosandoval6131]

Brother, you are an example to follow, I hope you continue to grow a lot since your content is worth gold, greetings from Argentina, sorry for my English, I used Google translator haha

[@BrokeDad1]

Old... I still have some of my original ISA video cards and all of my Voodoo cards. Pretty sure I have a 9700 and 9800 around too. Nice job !!

[@xnrg1968]

Gracias for the content Masterful work

[@MiriadCalibrumAstar]

Holy, the music slaps. Keygen vibes.

[@tonict2302]

Awesome video

[@bjn714]

Tony: digs for hours through a cracked 16 layer PCB, reballs the RAM and core, and the GPU works, but isn't NEARLY as excited as fixing a few (admittedly very tiny) straight wires in the top layer of the core substrate of a 22 year old card and having it work at the end! You remind me of myself before I sold my shop and retired a few years ago. The unique or rare parts were always my favorite, _especially_ if I managed to succeed.

[@DanielCardei]

Awesome fix👍

[@nickschmitz841]

Amazing work ! I have my Sapphire 9550 SE that was used to play Doom 3 back in the early 2000s. It was the first GPU I bought with my own money. Looking back now, I could have afforded a 9700 Pro but coming from a Geforce 2, even that little 9550 was a game changer.

[@sylwesterirla9246]

thank you

[@exaltedb]

I still have an old Radeon 7200 DDR in my retro windows 98 computer. Really love these old Radeons

[@drumboy02]

wow great job!

[@GAMMAXII]

Glad to see you were able to repair that 9700 Pro.

[@XPbIM3]

yes! another retro pc stuff! We DO like that type of content!

[@kepler104]

That was really microscopic, great work

[@chincemagnet]

ATI tool would be the software I’d try with that, it’s the oldest one I can think of

[@rate733]

lol wow a video where you arent boxing the ears off of AMD. My older RX 580 still kicks butt in linux under proton and i consider it a workhorse. Ive always had great reliability from ati over the past 15 years. Thanks for sharing this great tear down and repair man. Have a great day.

[@ovalwingnut]

A "blast from the past" that was hanging on by a thread. Feel free to take Thursday off for some gobble gobble gobble. But be back Friday. You RoCk (but don't let it go to your head)

[@rubenbernal1405]

Wow increible que haya funcionado luego de esos daños tan pequeños, yo tuve una 9600XT y funcionaba perfectamente en Windows 7 con drivers oficiales ATI catalyst

[@zaadworks]

I have two GTX 690 that have missing components, IF I had a way to send it over to you I would already done it (blame Brazil export/import laws and taxes), these old cards deserve some love

[@MyAngelMahiru]

My brain when i heard scratches: “With deeper grooves at lvl.7”

[@GabrielRodrigues-fg6ex]

Doom 3 still seems recent to me... feeling kinda old now

[@zodiacfml]

wow the legendary 9700 Pro back in the day. I've seen and read reviews from magazines! Kids not even born when this came out. Surprising it still looks good and clean despite the age. Wish I have not sold my Gainward graphics card that is nearly as old as this but then, I think remember the reason selling it for almost nothing because iGPUs were already as fast.

[@ElShotte]

That headset though.... 🤣 Reminds me of something I would do. Necessity is the mother of all invention.

[@Phoenix_Enterprises]

I have a whole box full of stuff like that and older...lol I'm just not going to ever try to repair something that small. NWR saves another one from the scrappers. Thanks for sharing.

[@Rmm1722]

Awesome 😎👍

[@makinjica]

this remindes me @ times with this card and using ati tray tools ..

[@AlexandreDuarte]

hi. i hand a 9500 non pro and modded to perform like a 9700. that was o good and fun point of my life. thanks

[@genuz]

I had a modded 9700 pro back in the day and played Doom 3 on it. Pure nostalgia.

[@kevinbernal5068]

I remember buying one of these brand new (all in wonder 9800) brand new from Fry's electronics. Remember it like it was yesterday.

[@Ahmad-ut6ic]

Please don't speed up the process and I enjoy listening to you explaining the repair instead of music.

[@majordan3517]

You can go into settings and turn down the playback speed to 1/4 (.25).

[@formbi]

GJ, that looks very hard

[@TMacGamer]

Some retro love!!

[@PaulHigginbothamSr]

In the mid 90's I had 2 voodoo cards and was surprised I could run Red Baron on both since it offloaded enough processing to run it on two monitors. Then the bigger cards came along for higher processing above 720p.

[@pauldame9925]

I used to have the All-In-Wonder 9700 Pro, great card for the time.

[@pottsydog3622]

quality retro action

[@romanstingler435]

This one is brand new :) I had the ATI Rage 128 ATI Radeon 8500 ATI Radeon 9000 PRO ATI Radeon 9600 Geforce 2 GTS Geforce 4 4600TI Damn good old times Great repair. Love your love for hardware :)

[@AsgardsGlory]

[@neddy1287]

I have Powercolor ATI Radeon X1650 pro 512mb agp first graphic card I own then later got the BFG 8600 GTS 256MB both of these still working the last I checked it

[@loonywalker6729]

Glory to Ukraine ! 💙💛 Nice to meet you here ) I am also had many ATI cards back there, 9000 series was beast ! Also i have HD4870 with 1gb of vram but in recent years it started overheating and showing visual artifacts, i think some memory chips are dying.

[@romanstingler435]

@@loonywalker6729Слава Україні. Greeting from Austria. That is sad. Stay safe

[@zenithtb]

That was my first dedicated GPU! (Previously had 2d / 3d as separate cards).

[@barbarianzg8826]

proud owner of GT 760 ti..my first gpu from 2y ago..

[@yanekdrzazga7529]

Someone very loves this gpu 🙂

[@custume]

yeah, that card was really good, you can OC it a lot

[@billchildress9756]

Very Nice work!!! I have a 8800 GTX With artifacting issues that I need to send to you someday

[@northwestrepair]

I'd love to take a look.

[@billchildress9756]

@@northwestrepair I have more than one card that would needs your attention and some that you can have for parts. When my money situation improves I will be in touch with you. Thank you for your response I really enjoy your videos.

[@markvietti]

That card plays battlefield 1942 really well..0n windows 98

[@Mueller3D]

Flux is great for keeping solder in its place, but that's actually not always what you want, such as when you want to make solder bridges across cut traces. I wonder if using no flux (after initially tinning the traces, that is) would help, or if it would just make a mess.

[@northwestrepair]

It would if traces were not so tiny. It was impossible to bridge them otherwise. If I had a thinner wire, I may have done a cleaner job.

[@gummansgubbe6225]

Nice touch to have a switch for the power on... Better than a pizza stained fork.

[@powerplay074]

This was THE gpu back in the day. Xbox 1 was eqully powerful

[@lemagreengreen]

Blast from the past. Seeing the lack of sensors is nostalgic! but also man, how did we even monitor our computers back then... I remember the first motherboard I bought that even had a 'package' temperature sensor, it was literally a little thermocouple that stuck out the middle of the CPU socket and touched the bottom of the chip 😂

[@darien_SR8373]

Es prácticamente un cirujano. 👏👏👏💯

[@beardedgaming3741]

i expected farcry to load up. this and the 9800 were required to play that game when i came out. i remember using a X800 Vivo edition for doom 3. back then the vivo was the same board as higher cards, just missing a solder trace and bios. so i used a solder pencil and new arctic cooling heatsink. turned it into an X850XTPE and saved like 500.00.... that was a killer card.

[@Knebebelmeyer]

back in the days, i brought a 9600 (i guess, not 100% sure) and modify it to a 9700 non pro! it was nearly 40% more performance only but using bios mod and connect to pins on the gpu!

[@MrTwigzz]

I bought this card brand new from Newegg in 2002. 350$. Top of the line at the time. It was a game changer lol

[@danielhulan3058]

Gosh a tiny scratch does that much damage!

[@BigMoTheBlackDragon]

Back in the 1990s, there was a cheap & fast gpu benchmark for any card. I can't remember the name of the game, but it had a built in benchmarking mode to let you know what settings you could use to balance quality of the visuals vs speed/performance of the game. If the game ran, it could benchmark. I want to say late 90s (post 97). I had it until 2008 when my last computer died. Maybe Descent 2? Or was it one of the MechWarrior titles?

[@sullytrny]

Lol, nice one... My intro to computers was a 386 running dos 6 & windows 3.1 - it ran doom on 32mb of system ram

[@mimeanalytics4331]

Gosh, I know there was a time lap, but I couldn't even watch that because of the wobbling picture.

[@majordan3517]

You can go into the KZbin settings and turn down the playback speed to 1/4 (.25).

[@mimeanalytics4331]

@@majordan3517 very funny

[@majordan3517]

It will take out enough of the wobbling effect that you can focus on the repair. @@mimeanalytics4331

[@Stangbanger1]

Nice work on that 9700 Tony, I have one Im working on that needs the same repair and one of the caps on the carrier/substrate next the die/flipchip needs replacing too. If you dont mind me asking, what guage wire are you using to repair those traces? l got excited along with you to see it come alive. I lol ed when you tried to run FurMark on it tho Hahaha. Open GL was in it's infancy at the time so that cards driver control center didnt supprt it. As a matter of fact stress testing and performance diagnostic software like Furmark, GPUZ, etc. Were in response to the performance modification friendly GPU's like this card was and subsequent GPU's that followed it's trend setting legend...great video once again

[@northwestrepair]

0.02mm But for this application I need something much smaller. Maybe 0.005 but where to get it at a reasonable price

[@Stangbanger1]

@@northwestrepair Agreed... Thanx man!

[@Azureskies01]

324mhz OF PURE AGP POWER

[@xLordMarshallx]

I have a RX9550 SE and RX9600L only for memorys ... good old times 😁

[@wstd7417]

i have 3 agp cards that needed to repair. 6800gt, 7600gs and 5500, all NVIDIA. only the 6800gt had diagnosed the cause, the MOSFET but it must be ordered from ali. huhuuhu

[@oussamathedjfreeman]

Make tutorial explaning how to repair gpus and how to make diagnostic in details

[@bloodbath10010]

*claps hands*

[@cat81702]

nah. teh next game for ~20 years retirement guys should be the Prehistoric2, sir.

[@legy0n3]

Im just here to multiply the effect.

[@sublime2craig]

Again love watching your work! Not to be weird or offensive, but are you originally from the U.S.? I swear I hear an accent and I'm just generally curious. You really do have one of those voices made for radio, movies, voice overs, etc...

[@northwestrepair]

No am not from here Am from another planet as a matter of fact 😀 Had an official "alien 👽" status for 10 years or so.

[@sublime2craig]

@@northwestrepair 😆 Ill take that as "I should mind my own business"! N•W R hailing from the planet called NoVideo.

[@TheAcadianGuy]

Retire in 20 years? I can only wish

[@scottstamm7022]

Hmm, 9700 Pro being legendary?! "X" However, the 9800 Pro....that was the bad dog! Glad I got my 9800 XT! Also, HIGHLY recommend you try "Infernal" that game is fun, and I'm surprised it didn't get that much recognition for the time, graphics wise. I believe it uses Nvidia's hairworks. ALSO: it's awesome seeing someone fix older GPU's!

[@billv4987]

A friend of mine had a 9800XT while I had my Ti 4200 128 - I was jealous, haha.

[@scottstamm7022]

@@billv4987 I think I had a 9600 (Pro maybe) 128MB and before that, a Radeon 64M DDR ViVo.

[@billv4987]

@@scottstamm7022 9600 was a nice card too! It supported DX9 which still put it ahead of my Ti 4200 :)

[@majordan3517]

It is legendary because it put Nvidia on its head for the very first time and held them their for quite sometime. This marked the first time ever that Nvidia was not the top dog. Finally Nvidia climbed back to the top spot with the release of the GeForce 6600 series of video cards.

[@AsgardsGlory]

It's not old enough for me. that videocard has BGA memory chips. i remember older TSOP things

[@lemagreengreen]

Yeah anything after 2000 is 'modern' era for me too!

[@tylercoombs1]

Yeah that card is not going to run FurMark, the fuzzy donut is too OP

[@santiagocastro6701]

is that monitor an LG 27MK430H? it just looks amazing

[@timmienorrie]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@SurrendeRMaS]

you need old good ATi Tools to test overclocking with that hairy moving cube, maybe it will perform as good as 9800 Pro :)

[@Canis_Vulpes]

Hi sir! the algorithm just showed me one of your videos telling that an Air duster damaged a GPU, I just ordered an air duster on Amazon for Black Friday lmao, is there any way to clean safely the GPU without risking it for a damage? I don't want to open it, just to blow some air to clean the dust (it was repaired for a physical damage and got its thermal paste changed in August so I don't want or need to apply new thermal paste)

[@northwestrepair]

Don'tet the fans spin.

[@BenderTheOffender]

I bet this guy switches off the light with a sledgehammer.

[@chincemagnet]

Who would pay to have this card repaired? They’ve got to be a dime a dozen from the e waste recycling center

[@lemagreengreen]

Get some older benchmark/stress test software for cards this age :) I think there are Radeon 9700 drivers that support OpenGL 2.0 so FurMark *should* work, older versions maybe but... not sure. Better to test using 3DMark or something from that era :)

[@Rose_Butterfly98]

Heh ATI. I don't remember which card it was that my friend had. Either way, it caught fire or something and that's why I don't use AMD stuff. That and another friend's card also caught fire, along with someone's AMD processor. Should've been newer than that one though

[@johnwick7175]

I had one of these. It was broken from the moment i bought it and the store didn't let me return it 😂

[@theSnapcaseLIVE]

Are you still accepting repair items? I have a 2080ti that keeps shutting down around 1 minute into gaming.. sometimes a directx error and then windows stutters after until double restart. Another motherboard made it have an error where the game just closed and then it went to the reset and showed fragmentation as the operating system opened. But here I am using it right now to type on youtube about to go and test some more, maybe redo the thermal paste... ?? I am lost.. Where do I send this?

[@slkslk9324]

🥳🥳🥳🥳

[@SFearox]

I had both the 9800 pro, 9800 xt. You could play half life 2 on it.

[@ajayaYtube]

🙏👏👏👏🙏

[@angushades2jz]

What music is this from?

[@jonsmith5087]

just run 3dmark 03 and 05 to test it

[@SianaGearz]

Very nice. I can't even imagine what gauge those copper strands are. The one classic ATI videocard family i absolutely didn't like at the time was the aptly yet unfortunately named Rage series. We used them at an NVidia-sponsored party for a video card distance throwing competition. Though if you wanted to throw an fx5200 64-bit or an mx200 yeah that was permitted as well, not sure if anyone did.

[@chincemagnet]

Historical GPU? 😢 now I’m feeling old 👴 I used to have one, might actually still have it in the closet somewhere

[@MrPuddinJones]

:( i couldnt watch this one, the timelapse repair and camera shake was giving me motion sickness. i had to fast forward.

[@majordan3517]

You can go into settings and turn down the playback speed to 1/4 (.25).

[@XantheFIN]

Yo man you newborn forgot ATitool fur cube stress tester?

[@nellox8178]

i mean is AMD

[@danytoob]

We know ... better than ******* !!

[@muramusan]

How much did this cost because why would anyone wanna repair this old relic?

[@nopenope7088]

i almost had a seizure watching this!

[@northwestrepair]

Lol yeah it's shaky because it's zoomed in a lot to see. I can't help it. I'll try not to speed up too much next time. I have to balance the view time also. That's why.

[@matz1991]

Could just be driver bullshit. Maybe try a game or different 9700 or 9800?