OEM (G5) 9800 Pro card blown Fuse |
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Can't say as I'd ever seen this before but maybe some readers have. Late Christmas eve (Monday) I received an email from a reader (Steve) with a note his G5 Tower (2003 model) OEM 9800 Pro card had failed (Fan failed/card overheated he said). After removing the card he noticed a blown fuse (F1) and also that a trace near some adjacent diodes appears to have gotten hot enough to cook off the soldermask. He asked for a pix of an (undamaged) card to try and locate a replacement fuse for a repair, so I dug up my OEM 9800 Pro I had used for awhile with my 2003 G5 Tower and sent him a pix of my OEM 9800 card's F1 Fuse. (Not a great pix - rushed taking it as it was Christmas day and I wasn't supposed to be 'working'.) I didn't get a reply back from him so posting this here in case my email was flagged as spam.
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