Interesting, this corresponds with what I've seen with trace damage as well. I've seen trace damage that I was sure was causing problems, but continuity was fine and the problem turned out to be something else. I think traces are much harder to damage than most people think.

Just a recurring question in my mind that won't go away. I've fortunately been able to acquire a few Voodoo 5 5500s recently and it seems that Hyundai chips are the most common, but one uses Samsung (the Voodoo 5500 PCI), and I've seen images of others with Toshiba chips. Is there a story here? Were …

To update everyone, the issue was in fact the VSA-100 chip, not the memory. It has been sent off for repairs.

Ok I did some research on reflowing, and I’m not going to do it at this time (thanks bloodem). My procedure through this whole process is to try minimal risk solutions first. I’ll post updates as I have more to share, currently I’m waiting for better tools to come in. Thanks all.

Ok, what would you recommend? I plan on trying reflowing the primary VSA100 first. I STRONGLY advise against that if you don't have the experience or the proper tools. Reflowing is much more complicated than some people think it is. If you don't do it properly, you actually risk bricking your card.

Thanks all for your input. I'm now waiting for more tools to arrive. I plan on trying reflowing the primary VSA100 first. If that doesn't do the trick, I'll have to consider replacing the VSA100 (which I am not comfortable with at the moment, I'll have to research it). I'm also tempted to try …

I think that I can narrow this down quite a bit now: The primary VSA100 is bad or has a bad solder connection One of the primary memory chips is bad

Note: just found this thread where a similar issue with "horizontal lines" was reported. In his case, replacing the secondary memory chips fixed his problem. Need help reviving a V5 5500...

Well, unfortunately, that did not fix the issue, even though I feel better knowing it has new caps. I've narrowed my testing after the recap and found these observations, using the newest Voodoo5 Widescreen Driver: Downclocking to 150mhz makes the issue go away entirely, something can't keep up, …

Thanks, I saw that, cleaned with 70% IPA, seemed to clean up ok. I was able to decap the whole board, was actually easier than I I thought. Next is recapping. I already have the parts, thanks to the thread posted by AkBKukU. He even made a mouser cart with all of the caps. https://www.vogons.org/ …

Thanks all, I plan on doing some recapping this weekend and we will see what happens. Here are some screenshots at various resolutions, interesting to see the internal sli at work.

Ok I used the new widescreen drivers and I am getting a few more fps in UT99 (maybe 5-10 more), so it appears to be a faster driver. Unfortunately the stripes are still there in UT99, and are now appearing in other glide apps, so it appears the new driver is making it worse. I rolled back to the …

Ok I underclocked it, the bands gradually go away the lower I go. At 137 they are completely gone. It seems that UT99 with the 3dfx driver stresses the card more / uses the card differently than other titles. I have no issues in Quake III arena for example, or if I run UT99 in D3D. Does this …

Ok I just did more testing, changed drivers back to the last official beta ones, and the banding is gone from every glide game except Unreal Tournament 99. At this point I think your are correct Maestro, it appears to be some issue with the glide implementation in Unreal Tournament 99, as I can no …

Funny thing is, I have a Voodoo 4 4500 as well. If I use that in the same exact system there is no banding. I do have an alternate system I think I could test the Voodoo 5 in, I might try testing it one more time in that one.

Hello guys. I've got a standard Voodoo 5 AGP that is showing horizontal banding when in 3dfx rendering. I first noticed it in Unreal Tournament (UT99) in 3dfx mode (3dfx mode only, DirectX mode is fine). I also started noticing it in other glide titles (ex. Need For Speed II SE). Knowing something …