Ask HN: Need some help with an S3 Chrome 460 prototype

I own one of (to my knowledge, two) S3 Chrome 460 ESV cards known to exist. It is a never-released mid-range card from S3's Chrome 400 series that has a number of odd quirks surroundings its existence.

However, at the moment, it is completely unusable. The card registers as enough of a dead short between VCORE and GND that the power supply enters OCP mode. I have a number of loose chips as well, acquired likely through the Centaur auction before being further sold on to me. Through some light reverse-engineering in coordination with the repair/modding youtuber DosDude1 over email, we were able to figure out which pads on the chip's footprint correspond to VCORE and which correspond to GND.

The issue that we are both currently stumped on is that every Chrome 460 die, save for one, in our collective possession reads 1 Ohm or less between VCORE and GND.

I've received conflicting information from asking around that this may be okay for graphics processors to have such low resistances, while others have said that it is very likely that every one of the 10+ chips are toast.

It would help tremendously if somebody more knowledgeable about this chip could lend a helping hand. I know that this post is by far a long-shot, and chances are nobody that sees this will have such connections, but it's worth a shot, and I'd really appreciate any help that anyone can provide.

I'm not very familiar with Y Combinator or Hacker News, but I think titling this post as an "Ask HN" post is correct based on the guidelines.