Re: Help needed with Gainward Voodoo 2 issues

Posted on 2020-12-24, 06:43

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I. will. kill him. :D We are actually two very, very, very different people :D and we're not using multiple accounts (err... or we shouldn't). He is a colleague from work to whom I recommended this community, since we share the same passion. Our workflow involves sometimes using the same VM (with …

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Re: Help needed with Gainward Voodoo 2 issues

Posted on 2020-12-23, 17:55

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That's actually great advice! Thanks a lot! I will first try your suggestion of heating the TMUs individually. If I don't see any difference, I'll then try heating up the RAM ICs in groups of four and see if I can at least pinpoint where the faulty module is :) I don't think it's worth trying it on …

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Re: [Solved]Fixing BIOS error on a socket 3 motherboard

Posted on 2020-12-21, 15:04

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Glad it's working for you now! It's a great board, enjoy it 😀

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Re: Are my PPro 200Mhz, Voodoo2 SLI, Quake 2 benchmark results OK?

Posted on 2020-12-19, 19:06

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by bloodem

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Interesting... My overclocked Pentium MMX233 @ 266 MHz with a Voodoo Banshee gets pretty close to these results (with sound, I got 45 FPS in Quake 2 demo1.dm2 and 87 FPS in GLQuake). I would have expected the Pentium Pro to be much faster in Quake 2.

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Re: Celeron 400 for DOS?

Posted on 2020-12-19, 18:24

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by bloodem

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Slot 1 / socket 370 is generally not suitable for DOS gaming, but, as always, it really depends on what games you want to play. I just finished messing around with a Slot 1 Celeron Mendocino 300A (overclocked to 450 MHz) on an EPOX EP-BX3 (Intel 440BX) motherboard. A very decent CPU in Windows 98, …

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Re: Need Help Booting Windows 2000 from an SSD

Posted on 2020-12-18, 18:00

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ Software

Error "0x0000007B" means inaccessible boot device. Access the BIOS, go to the IDE Configuration section and switch the Onboard IDE operation mode from "Enhanced Mode" to "Compatible mode". Then try the installation again.

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Re: Help finding the correct SRAM chips for Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4 motherboard

Posted on 2020-12-15, 20:01

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You're welcome, keep us posted 😀

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Re: Help finding the correct SRAM chips for Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4 motherboard

Posted on 2020-12-14, 18:44

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Have you tried running some benchmarks like 3DBench 1.0c (with and without L2 'external' cache enabled in the BIOS) and see if there's any difference? Also, did you run any benchmarks prior to adding the extra 256 KB of cache? Technically, you should have seen a small difference after increasing the …

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Re: Looking for Pentium 3 1GHz for ASUS P3B-F, need guidance on what to get for Slot 1 to S370 adapter

Posted on 2020-12-13, 18:43

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My recommendation is to get a real slot 1 CPU, and my favorite when considering price/performance is the 700 MHz Coppermine, which can be easily overclocked to 933 MHz (and it will actually be faster than a 1 GHz/100 MHz FSB CPU). Also, you have such a nice board, so why do you want to keep the FSB …

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Re: Voodoo card(s) with K6-III+ or PIII

Posted on 2020-12-12, 17:37

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No argument here, dude. I'm not making a case for the absolute need of a Voodoo 5500. I think I'm just looking at the matter from a different perspective: My argument is that when I use my V5500 I want the most performance out of it. (And you'd probably say I'm wasting a fast system on it.) At the …

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Re: Voodoo card(s) with K6-III+ or PIII

Posted on 2020-12-12, 15:21

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sorry to hear that. Sounds like very bad luck to me. I have more than twenty 3dfx cards and only two have (had) problems, both contact issues due to mechanical damage. One is already repaired, the other is still waiting for reflowing. The transistor on PCI V3s gets scorchingly hot though. In my …

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Re: Voodoo card(s) with K6-III+ or PIII

Posted on 2020-12-12, 07:41

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nice! I'm always in favor of using big, quiet fans instead of the tiny yet obnoxiously loud ones that were commonly used on late '90s and early 2000s graphics cards and motherboards. The smaller the fan the more annoying the noise that it produces, especially after several years of use. I prefer …

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Re: Voodoo card(s) with K6-III+ or PIII

Posted on 2020-12-12, 06:58

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Agree to disagree on the feebleness of Voodoos. Give them decent airflow and they're fine, that's my opinion. VSA100 cards have VRM circuitry that often needs some tending to by now, the main chips especially on the AGP cards seem pretty sturdy to me though. Yeah, who knows, I might have been very …

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Re: Voodoo card(s) with K6-III+ or PIII

Posted on 2020-12-11, 21:11

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A CPU bottleneck is easy to detect - just run a test/benchmark at multiple resolutions (640x480 / 800x600 / 1024x768 / 1280x1024 / 1600x1200). If the FPS is more or less the same at most resolutions, then you are CPU bound. And if you are wondering, yes, the P3 (even a Tualatin) will bottleneck a …

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Re: Help finding the correct SRAM chips for Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4 motherboard

Posted on 2020-12-11, 20:57

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Did you also make the jumper adjustments for the new L2 cache size as written in the manual (page 4-5)?

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Re: Voodoo 5 with K6-III+ or PIII

Posted on 2020-12-11, 20:37

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah, but a fast P3 really shines with a GeForce 2 GTS / PRO / Ti or even a GeForce 3. Not to mention that you can also add a Voodoo 2, which would be more than enough for the older Glide only games. I would not use a Voodoo 3 on anything faster than a P3 / Athlon 700... but that’s just me :) …

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Re: Voodoo 5 with K6-III+ or PIII

Posted on 2020-12-11, 18:55

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Interesting reply... I will think about... Would a voodoo 2 sli combo be a better choice? In cooperation with the K6 of course... I have a brand new geforce 2 gts also lying around here. Oh, definitely! Even though 2 x Voodoo 2 in SLI will scale well beyond what a K6 can do, it will still be a very …

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Re: Voodoo 5 with K6-III+ or PIII

Posted on 2020-12-11, 18:43

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by bloodem

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I mentioned this before in other threads: (Super) Socket 7 systems will severely bottleneck a Voodoo 5. On the other hand, a Pentium 3 Tualatin is already deep into GeForce 3 / 4 territory. The Voodoo 5 is a very strange card, which is why - in my case - it's been sitting on a shelf for the past 5 …

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Re: Yet another 486 DX4-100 build

Posted on 2020-12-11, 14:04

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thank you chinny22 and OzzFan for the suggestions. I will try them on another socket 3 build whenever I get the chance! Yes, I do have other socket 3 builds as I mentioned in a previous post, one of them actually has a Sound Blaster Pro 2 and the other one an Aztech Multimedia Pro 16 IIB-3D. If/when …

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Re: Yet another 486 DX4-100 build

Posted on 2020-12-11, 09:30

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by bloodem

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I finally gave up on the SB16 IDE connector. No matter what I tried, it didn't work and the CD ROM driver would freeze during loading (I tried two different SB16 sound cards, same issue). So I just moved the CD-ROM drive on the lower bay and used one IDE cable to connect both the SD-to-IDE adapter ( …

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