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Re: Voodoo 5 5500 AGP freezes PC

Hi guys, I have a Voodoo 5 5500 AGP videocard which I haven't used for a couple of years. Back then, I got it from eBay and it never worked properly so I got another one which works. However, after this time I thought I'd look into it's problems again, so maybe someone of you can help me. The card …

Re: Voodoo 5 Troubleshooting Adventures

Just wanted to provide an update on this. So far, none of the flipping of BIOS switches has helped. This is all a big doo-doo mess. Also got another nice Socket 7 board off Craigslist that also spat out the three disappointing beeps. However, through my Googling I (of course) found a VOGONS thread …

Re: Voodoo 5 Troubleshooting Adventures

Hey man did you check if Video BIOS Shadow and/or C8000 - CFFFF Shadow / D0000 - DFFFF Shadow were enabled? If so, turn em off and try again, otherwise it looks like the EEPROM of your card maybe might need replacing. Yeah, to be extra sure I booted it up, made sure everything was off, then tried …

Re: Voodoo 5 Troubleshooting Adventures

I was able to download and transfer the required flash.exe and ROM image to my machine. Loaded up the DOS prompt and tried to run the tool. "ERROR: Unknown flash EEPROM manufacturer. (Man. ID: 1Fh, Dev. ID: 00h)" Tried it in a command prompt from within Windows and got the same result. Should I …

Re: Voodoo5 Pure DOS VESA/VBE 3.0 Issues

I played Duke Nukem 3D in 640x480 a long time ago in pure DOS without issues. Some games like 7th Guest have vertical lines and other garbage across the screen though, but never had a black screen or anything in other games. Can't think of any more games to try right now, if you want me to test …

Re: Voodoo 5 Troubleshooting Adventures

Hey everyone, I've got an update on this. I'm still thinking there's something wrong with the BIOS on the card. I was going to try and flash it last night, but I couldn't find the exact right tool, it was late, I had to clean up, etc. Any recommendations about where I should go from here? Did 3dfx …

Re: Voodoo 5 Troubleshooting Adventures

Hey everyone, I've got an update on this. I ordered a PCI Radeon 9250 off good ol' eBay. Brand new and CompUSA-branded for good measure. I installed it on its own in the GA-5AX successfully. Whether the BIOS is set to boot from AGP or PCI, it will find it and load the machine. Windows sees it, …

Re: Voodoo5 Pure DOS VESA/VBE 3.0 Issues

AAAAAAAAND FIXED! Running GAREPORT.EXE from SciTech SNAP does the same thing HWINFO does apparently, nothing is loaded in memory, it's some weird initialisation issue I think maybe caused by my motherboards BIOS perhaps? If anyone else here has a Voodoo5 try it in normal DOS and reply back and tell …

Voodoo5 Pure DOS VESA/VBE 3.0 Issues

Hey guys, long time lurker on these here forums here to pick your brains in my first post, if anyone knows the answer to this it's you fellas! I've been playing around with a Voodoo5 5500 PCI I acquired some time ago and had massive issues in a pure DOS boot with anything that requires more than …

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