Presario CDS 520

Posted on 2011-04-15, 23:28

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by rick12373

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This recently came in to my possession. It has the monitor and speakers built in to the same box as as the motherboard. It has a 486 processor in it and I would love to use it as a retro rig as it just looks so cool. But, the monitor has a bad color gun or something. The screen is tinged pinkish …

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Re: Anybody Know Anything About this Graphics Card?

Posted on 2011-04-14, 23:17

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Yeah, I don't think I will be trying it out in any of my systems. It doesn't sound like a very good card. A little bit rare maybe but not worth opening one of my cases for. If anybody wants it I will mail it to them for the cost of shipping 😀

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Re: Anybody Know Anything About this Graphics Card?

Posted on 2011-04-13, 20:10

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One of my machines at work used to have one of these, but I don't know too much about it other than maybe that its 3D capabilities are very shoddy at best (i.e. Rage I/II, ViRGE). And I've never seen such a product in Diamond's product lineup either, must have probably been OEM-only. Some resources …

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Anybody Know Anything About this Graphics Card?

Posted on 2011-04-13, 19:07

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by rick12373

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I just found this card in an old machine somebody brought me. It is a Trident 3D Image 9750. It has the year 1997 on the card. One thing that surprised me is that it has an S-Video out connector as well as an RCA TV-out. Anybody know what this card is good at etc? Are they common?

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Re: Game Suggestion to Test Voodoo 1

Posted on 2011-03-01, 20:53

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by rick12373

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Thanks for the help. I think I will try Tomb Raider first.

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Re: Game Suggestion to Test Voodoo 1

Posted on 2011-03-01, 04:59

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I have Tomb Raider on there but I didn't see any options for Voodoo. Is there a patch? I thought it was Tomb Raider 2 that had Voodoo support. Is 2 for Windows only? I don't have Windows on the 486 though.

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Game Suggestion to Test Voodoo 1

Posted on 2011-03-01, 04:25

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by rick12373

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I recently had a thread where I was trying to see if my Voodoo 1 card was working. I had it installed in my P2 system and it seemed to be behaving strangely. So I decided to put it in my 486 DX4 100 machine. This won't get the best out of the card but for testing purposes it might show me if the …

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Re: Confused by Voodoo!

Posted on 2011-02-06, 18:05

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by rick12373

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Re: Driver Cleaner. Not sure. It says Win 95 and freeware, so it's worth a go! Tetrium, does this link seem good to you? Re: Voodoo 1 Graphics driver. The link description says "Voodoo Graphics Windows 9x Reference Drivers Driver Kit includes: Direct 3D, Glide 2.x/3.x and OpenGL(r) v1.1 dll - …

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Re: Confused by Voodoo!

Posted on 2011-02-06, 17:28

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Sorry, my bad. I wonder if it's the Matrox PowerDesk software that's causing problems? Do you have any old hardware you could use as a test rig, in an attempt to isolate this problem, rather than uninstall software/Windows on your main rig? Well I have my 486 and I also have other old graphics …

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Re: Confused by Voodoo!

Posted on 2011-02-06, 17:13

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I have never had a Voodoo 2 if that is what you mean. The matrox is just a normal 2D card isn't it? Sorry, my bad. I wonder if it's the Matrox PowerDesk software that's causing problems? Do you have any old hardware you could use as a test rig, in an attempt to isolate this problem, rather than …

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Re: Confused by Voodoo!

Posted on 2011-02-06, 01:20

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by rick12373

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Am I correct in assuming that you are trying to get a V1 card working in a system that once had a V2 in it? If this correct, then I feel more strongly now that you have driver issues. If I were you, and I mean that literally, then I would do a clean install of Win9x, on any old test HDD, and just …

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Re: Confused by Voodoo!

Posted on 2011-02-06, 00:24

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rick12373, I just read another one of your recent Voodoo related posts, and you said: "When I got home I checked out my Pentium II 300 MHz. It has a Matrox Millennium II in it. The system is working so well that I decided to use this system for a Voodoo 1. Will that Matrox work with it? Or should I …

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Re: Confused by Voodoo!

Posted on 2011-02-05, 20:04

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I tried reinstalling the driver again and this time when I hit test it says it is going to test at 640 x 480 60hz and when I click ok my monitor goes crazy with lots of wavy lines. If I hit escape it stops testing and I get the screen back. Not sure why it does this. Also, I can't see a way to tell …

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Re: Confused by Voodoo!

Posted on 2011-02-04, 19:21

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Go to Control Panel, and then I think it's Display, and then I think you can then see extra options for the Diamond card there. What happens if you try the test button? I know there's a test button for that card, after you install that Diamond driver. I am not at home at the moment. But I did click …

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Re: Confused by Voodoo!

Posted on 2011-02-04, 19:12

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by rick12373

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Uninstall the Monster3D driver and install the latest reference driver from the site. To play 3dfx enabled games in DOS you must have glide2x.ovl and I think another file, on the folder of the game. This file can be found with your drivers. No need for any TSRs and such during boot :D Actually, the …

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Re: Confused by Voodoo!

Posted on 2011-02-04, 18:21

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is the link cable of as some of the older cables are a bit garbage .just having a play with my voodoo 1 machine now specs of mine are intel pentium mmx @233mhz / 384mb ram / ati xpert 98 agp 2x 8mb / voodoo 1 4mb / 6.4gb hd / awe 64 runs most things ok but if i need a bit of extra grunt ive got my …

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Re: Confused by Voodoo!

Posted on 2011-02-04, 18:01

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yes i get the splash screen on some games such as rollcage .i also use tombraider2 and interstate 76 nitro riders to test them and i think hitman code 47 has glide support will have a look later have u had a look at this list for games http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=534 Thanks for that lost. …

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Re: Confused by Voodoo!

Posted on 2011-02-04, 17:59

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ratfink wrote: Not sure what a Voodoo 1 is capable of but I think it should at least run nice at 640. I hope so! I wish I didn't have to be at work right now. 😢

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Re: Confused by Voodoo!

Posted on 2011-02-04, 17:53

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Presumably you are running a version of quake that can use glide. glquake for example, though i think there are later ones. In the driver you can sometimes set a splash screen to appear, eg. a full-screen 3dfx symbol or spinning logo to announce the voodoo card kicking in. Yeah it is glquake. I …

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Re: Confused by Voodoo!

Posted on 2011-02-04, 17:36

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this is the driver i use for my orchid rightous 3d voodoo 1 http://www.falconfly.de/downloads/voodoo1-30100.zip seems to work for me i know when the voodoos working because i hear the relays click I will try that one when I get home. So does DOS need a driver loaded? Which games would you suggest …

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