I bought this Voodoo Banshee off of eBay thinking that it was somehow a rare universal-agp variant but apparently it was due to someone cutting out a notch for the voltage key.
I shudder to think what would happen if this was used in a 1.5v slot. Has anyone seen someone do this before?
I haven't tried this in a any board but it does appear that there are no traces going to the pins that were removed.
Probably none and I think it's dead, at least two traces were damaged.
I shudder to think what would happen if this was used in a 1.5v slot
Nothing will happen.
I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.
There are no traces to the pins that were cut out for the notch.
Best case it works in a 1.5v slot.
Worst case is that it fries the motherboard.
My guess is that somebody either volt modded a board to supply 3.3v and cut the card instead of removing the notch in the AGP slot or they had a motherboard that really supported 3.3v AGP but had a 1.5v style slot.
Or it could even be that that Banshee supports 1.5v but the card was sold as an AGP 3.3v only card.
So much crazy non-standard stuff was done with AGP back in the day.
See here for a case of a board saying it only supported 1.5v AGP cards but worked fine with 3.3v cards.
https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/can-i-us … gp-slot.824983/
A stupid notch is the only thing that prevented me from installing my V5 AGP in a Pentium III board. Chipset supposedly would have been fine with that. I really considered taking drastic measures -- but in my case that would have probably been in the form of replacing the AGP slot with a universal one.
Chickened out and installed it in a PII instead. Stupid AGP.
I had a Voodoo 3 1000 that had a similarly butchered connector. Note I said 'butchered' because the job on my card makes the one on yours look like well executed brain surgery in comparison.
At the time, I didn't think it could possibly ever work, and traded it away.
But now that I see your Banshee, this got me wondering..
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VSA-100 3dfx cards have been altered to 1.5V AGP as well but they require more rework on the pcb than just cutting a notch.
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Kahenraz wrote on 2022-06-16, 12:22:This thread reminds me of a Banshee that I have. I've had it for years, but never actually plugged it in.
Interesting case of someone cutting a voltage notch into an AGP card
ha! that's funny. test it already!
