You don't need to attach the screws for things to work, but alternately you can get "adapters" that will let cables screw-in on both sides, and just use a male/male cable (you want a female/female adapter). Like this thing: http://www.amazon.com/SVGA-Gender-Changer-Ada … /dp/B000V1PAWQ/

And then a short male/male cable: http://www.amazon.com/Monoprice-Monitor-ferri … /dp/B004C4XIOK/

The screw posts are actually physically in the way, and the cable can't be connected as is. I could rip the metal shield off in order to use it, but that sounds risky.

I've got a few of those gender changers around, and I can find or order a short M-M cable. Didn't want to use a longer one and potentially introduce more distortion.

AidanExamineer wrote:

The screw posts are actually physically in the way, and the cable can't be connected as is. I could rip the metal shield off in order to use it, but that sounds risky.

I've got a few of those gender changers around, and I can find or order a short M-M cable. Didn't want to use a longer one and potentially introduce more distortion.

The posts on the card should unscrew if you need clearance there - you may need pliers to get them started, but otherwise they'll just unscrew. I've done this on my Voodoo2 to hook up to the DMS-59->VGA cable on my Radeon VE in the past. It isn't the most secure thing in the world, but it works.

Alternately, found this on ebay while looking up something else:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/271603678897

Yeah just found that listing. Last one. From China. Rock and roll. 😁

I was worried once the posts on the cards were unscrewed the D-sub socket would come loose, but the VooDoo isn't built like that. So, s'all good. 😀

Can't you simply just use a regular VGA cable? I literally know nothing about voodoo, and as I new owner of one I'm a bit curious about how to use it.

There's a male d-sub on the VooDoo, which needs to be connected to the female d-sub on your 2D graphics card. And then there's a standard female d-sub on the VooDoo as well that connects to your monitor like any other card.

So you need a male-female cable, and the shorter the better, so as not to introduce any signal loss.

Hmmm well I have some of those from an old KVM switch but they are on the longish side. Should do the trick though, what happens when you have signal loss?

AidanExamineer wrote:

Yeah just found that listing. Last one. From China. Rock and roll. 😁

😎

I was worried once the posts on the cards were unscrewed the D-sub socket would come loose, but the VooDoo isn't built like that. So, s'all good. 😀

No the connector isn't anchored with the posts - it's separately anchored. The posts serve to anchor the slot-shield to the board itself; on the Voodoo cards you have two VGA connectors so pulling the posts on one of them won't make that thing fall off. The VGA connectors can actually exist without that shield installed at all, but the card won't sit securely in the case (because there's nothing to attach it to beyond being in the PCI slot).

King_Corduroy wrote:

Can't you simply just use a regular VGA cable? I literally know nothing about voodoo, and as I new owner of one I'm a bit curious about how to use it.

Voodoo and Voodoo2 take a VGA connection from whatever provides 2D, so you take VGA out on the 2D card and feed that to the VGA in on the 3dfx card. That cable needs to be male to female (because all graphics cards will have a female connector for their VGA output, and the Voodoo has a male input connector (to differentiate it from the output afaik)). Then you need to connect your monitor, or whatever, to the Voodoo's output to get both 2D and 3D images.

The pass-through cable is that male to female part. The Voodoo card is designed with posts to screw-in the VGA connector (just like the output connector on the Cirrus, or whatever), to allow the cable to be securely attached to both sides (the ebay link actually shows the kind of cable that would've come with a 3dfx card when it was new).

Generally "regular VGA cable" is male to male, like what most LCDs include to hook up to their female VGA inputs. That can't be plugged into the 3dfx card's input. VGA extension cables, which are male to female, and designed to go between a VGA output (like from your graphics card) and some other VGA cable (like the male end of a monitor's captive input cable) can work, and I've used a 6 ft model for testing my Voodoo2 without any problems. But having a 6 ft loop of thick cable hanging off the back of your computer isn't the most ergonomic thing in the world.

Ok cool! So all systems go 🤣 I should be able to get this thing rocking tomorrow.

I bought one of those startech port saver cables. I ripped out the screw posts from the cable itself and gave it the fastening screws from one of my older cables. The posts are pretty soft, so they should come out easily. Just have to be careful when you rip the posts out. It is easy to bend the metal shielding plate.

Bought two of those cables, the screws don't always some out but even if you lose the shield it is an easy fix.

I've got three original passthrough cables and one 1.8m VGA extension cable I use to protect the cable of my CRT from regular bending. The extension is just as good as the original cables, it's longer yet better shielded. It has male screws on both sides. The extension cables are sold in most computer stores and even some huge supermarkets.

Not cheap but it's new.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/3DFX-VOODOO1-VOODOO2- … e-/271626007732?

squareguy wrote:

Not cheap but it's new.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/3DFX-VOODOO1-VOODOO2- … e-/271626007732?

I actually bought this exact one from that seller for my Voodoo 2 SLI setup. The passthrough cable has no problems and works exactly as it should. (the SLI ribbon looks aged though, compared to the one I got with the cards, but I guess it's nice to have a spare incase something happens)

Agent of the BSoD wrote:

squareguy wrote:

Not cheap but it's new.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/3DFX-VOODOO1-VOODOO2- … e-/271626007732?

I actually bought this exact one from that seller for my Voodoo 2 SLI setup. The passthrough cable has no problems and works exactly as it should. (the SLI ribbon looks aged though, compared to the one I got with the cards, but I guess it's nice to have a spare incase something happens)

It's fairly easy to craft 😉

I ordered this one few days ago, hope it will work. Ebay says they are 7pcs available
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https … %2F293062566981

Update 2019-05-12
So the cable arrived and it works perfectly, its good quality , so I think its a good deal, especially for the price, there are still few in stock.

You can always use a regular monitor cable and a DB-F-f gender changer.

That UK seller looks good though, also fairly good overseas shipping to me, I may grab 2.

I bought two of these off of Amazon and I've tried them - perfect. They're the same length as the above cables, the correct genders on both ends, and the correct screws on both ends. No more gender-change adapters, no more 16-feet of looped cable on the back, no more Y-splitter cables, etc.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CJRRY9M/ … 1?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Keeping the topic alive, this, this or this cable(s) off Ebay could do the trick,
Although from picture quite thin, no ferrites, so lower quality option(s)
This one looks a bit higher quality, although quite long, could be a good option

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