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Fixing the Fix for a 3dfx Voodoo Card’s Overly Bright Picture

Fixing the Fix for a 3dfx Voodoo Card’s Overly Bright Picture
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After previously fixing an overly bright picture from a Voodoo graphics card with a simple resistor on one of the RAMDAC’s pins to correct its faulty internal Vref, [Bits und Bolts] got called out for not taking component drift into account. Thus in an update video he shows how instead to use an adjustable AMS1117 voltage regulator to hopefully prevent either the original issue or something new and exciting from cropping up later. The basic idea here is to use the external voltage reference (Vre

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