First post, by TatooineSky
Hi, I'm new to the board, with a Voodoo 3 problem.
I just purchased a Voodoo 3 3000 off ebay, and the seller assures me he tested it and it works 100%. However, when I put it in my AGP slot and turned on the computer absolutely nothing happens. Just a blank screen, no beeps, no nothing. All that happens is the computer fan turns on. When I put back in my original AGP card (an AMIC A276308A-70 card) the computer boots normally.
My system is as follows:
Windows 98SE
AuthenticAMD
Socket 7 board (not supper socket 7)
CPU: AMD-k6(tm)-3D+
CPU Clock: 333 MHZ
Base Memory: 640k
Extended Memory: 130048k
Cache Memory: 1024K
RAM: 384MB
AGP 2X
Has one AGP slot.
I would assume that if this card works something would at least happen. When I boot the system with no card at all in the slot, the system starts booting but then shuts down, but with the Voodoo card in it fully locks up. I can't even go into the bios, because the computer doesn't event boot that up (again, the computer only turns on the fan, no other boot sounds).
I am not an expert on computers or graphic cards. The seller has offered to take it back and refund my money. But if the card works, and it's just my system that is incomparable, I would keep the card and just eventually revise my system. Unfortunately, I currently don't have another computer to test the card on, except for possibly my HP Envy, h8-1414 PC, AMD Six-Core FX-6120. But I'm a bit concerned testing the card out on a more modern system
Could the problem have to do with how I have my jumpers set on the motherboard? Just grasping here.
Thanks,
PIC PA-2013 rev 2.1, SS7, VIA, AMD-K6-3D+, 333Mhz, Voodoo3 3000, CT4520, 98SE