Re: What are some common failure modes for defective Voodoo2 cards?
Posted on 2020-04-04, 14:46
Look at a high res picture online. That way you can determine which caps are the same size/color. Desolder those and measure. Good luck!
Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.
Posted on 2020-04-04, 09:05
I have the same Epox board (and 3 others ss7 from Epox with Via chipset, also have a DFI board, Aopen and a chaintech....maybe more). I would have liked to give it a go but I just don`t have the time or patience right now! My only running ss7 system is based on my favorite P5A, the rest is stored …
Re: Feast of Voodoo2 graphics cards
Posted on 2020-04-04, 08:58
Nice stuff! Collecting for years but didn't know about the 6mb cards or the ones with memory slots
Re: What are some common failure modes for defective Voodoo2 cards?
Posted on 2020-04-04, 08:49
Your problem is on the backside: c151 , c51,c53, c61 are knocked off.... as far as I know the pads should all be populated (not at home and no voodoo at hand now...) It`s fairly common that these get damaged/knocked off by other cards when kept in a bin/box. Had a couple from a recycler that had the …
Re: Voodoo graphics mod 4 to 8mb
Posted on 2020-02-24, 16:58
Okay guys, I finally found a v2 with 12x 1mb (v2 1000). It came from a scrapper and had some terminal damage on the chips (legs) and both vga ports were broken off. Ram chips seemed fine so I had a perfect donor for the mod! Used a heatgun to simply take all the ramchips off both cards and because …
Re: My collection of Late-era AGP cards
Posted on 2020-01-31, 21:27
It's extremely rare, and quite historic as a very famous misstep from nvidia, that they later corrected. What is extremely rare? How many were manufactured? I can think of many things that are old and rare, but not worth much. The fact that you can find 2 on ebay in a 5 second search, at a random …
Re: My collection of Late-era AGP cards
Posted on 2020-01-31, 20:28
But I'm pretty sure I'll trade all of them for a XGI Volari Duo. I woudn't. While it certainly has interesting monetary value, it's practically useless for anything. Horrible chip with horrible drivers. But I do remember the hype buildup until release and the flock of zealots hailing it as the …
Re: ASUS P3BF 1.04 without Free jumper header
Posted on 2020-01-04, 15:46
The jumperfree block sits just above the control panel at the right side. It is marked with [JEN] and there is a blue jumper installed on pin 1 and 2. Move the jumper to pin 2 and 3 for jumperfree mode and adjust the dipswitches in the blue block as indicated bij Meljor. Yup... missed the JEN …
Re: ASUS P3BF 1.04 without Free jumper header
Posted on 2020-01-04, 11:44
My P3BF v. 1.04 dont have the Jumper free/Manual header. Theres other way to enable or just my mobo revision? Tee BIOS vrsion is 1006. How i will set the dip switches for later cpus like pIII 800mhz or 1ghz? The manual at ASUS site only show for p3 600 and below. Jumperfree will be set when ALL …
Re: Voodoo 5 5500 AGP repair values
Posted on 2020-01-02, 11:01
Try contacing Osckhar, he repairs these cards and also does mods to double the memory, replace complete chipsets even on voodoo 6000 etc. etc. He has a good reputation. https://picclick.fr/seller/osckhar Don't know if the link works. Just google his name with 3dfx added and you will find him …
Re: Cyrix 120+ project
Posted on 2020-01-01, 15:55
chrismeyer6 wrote on 2020-01-01, 14:33: If your lucky and it's in a socket you can just replace it with a new one. If not all you have to do is desolder the old one and solder in a new one. Or do the dallas rtc mod, it's not that hard and after that you can simply use a normal battery
Re: Destruction Derby for the Diamond Stealth 3D 2000
Posted on 2019-12-12, 19:42
No you can't convert the DOS version over since it involves pre-converted textures and a different audio track order. You'll have to hunt for the Stealth3D 2000 Descent2/Destruction Derby combo disc. Thank you. That's a real shame... iT'S ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITES. Do you have a picture of the …
Re: Destruction Derby for the Diamond Stealth 3D 2000
Posted on 2019-12-11, 22:20
I have the normal dos version (original cdrom). Can I make it work with s3 acceleration using those .exe file(s)? Or does anyone know where to get a S3 verion cd (or image)?
Re: Voodoo graphics mod 4 to 8mb
Posted on 2019-12-08, 19:08
There is one more option to get 8MB Voodoo Graphics - Skywell Magic 3D Plus https://twitter.com/3Dfx_Aslinger/status/1138107200134701056/photo/1 I have one of these and by default it comes with 4MB only (half of the positions are empty). So it should be possible to just solder the rest and done. …
Re: 3DFX Voodoo Banshee on DOS can't work
Posted on 2019-12-08, 10:36
Banshee needed patches for most glide games to work. Search the web and you might get lucky for some games. Otherwise try v2 patches or v3 or indeed the .ovl files from these cards. A lot of info can be found in this https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=35721 and there are patches for v2 and v3 ( …
Re: K6-2 RAM loadout & voltage - performance differences
Posted on 2019-12-08, 09:51
I believe the 1.06 Asus P5A boards have problems with ANY of the latest cores. So some 500 and 550chips did not behave well and are probably from the same batches as the k6-2+ and k6-3+. The problem is not cache related as the normal k6-3 400/450mhz should work fine on that board (and is the best …
Re: Old software you miss the most
Posted on 2019-12-08, 09:39
I do NOT miss ICQ..... OH-OH! OH-OH! OH-OH! Going on the whole day when receiving messages 😵 Messenger is also not missed for the same reasons...even whatsapp is less intruding 🤣
Re: Voodoo graphics mod 4 to 8mb
Posted on 2019-12-08, 09:17
Thanks @Havli, I have seen these before but was really hoping for some sharp pics to see what pin is what... I guess I have to go trough some documents to find out the pinouts for the ram and the 3dfx chips.. Any pointers where to look for these? The card will get ''ugly'' but I don't care. Just …
Voodoo graphics mod 4 to 8mb
Posted on 2019-12-05, 20:44
I have some defective voodoo1 's laying around (and voodoo 2's) and would like to try some modding. Especially a voodoo1 mod from 4 to 8mb would be nice. Unfortunately I do not a have a voodoo2 1000 or any other 12chip 12mb voodoo2 laying around to give some donor 1mb chips so I would like to try …
Re: Tillamook 266MHz and working L2 cache?
Posted on 2019-11-25, 19:21
Got a Tillamook 266mmx working at a ECS P5SJ-A SiS 5598 motherboard. During post the bios says 512kb cache and also in programs like everest in win98se it says 512kb cache enabled. I also did some benchmarks in everest and compared to my Asus TX97/233mmx setup and the tillamook is indeed faster in …
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