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First post, by Marmes

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Hi!
I've just assembled a ss7 system with a FIC PA-2013 with PCB 2.1, I have the JI4333 bios installed, an AMD K6 III+ set at 2V and 550Mhz, 128mb ram PC100. isa SB16 sound card, isa MQ mpu401, Ali USB card, and realtek 100mbps lan card, on PCI.
I also have these cards:
1-voodoo3 3000 AGP
2-Viper 770U tnt2 ultra AGP
3-Matrox G400Max AGP
4-Kyro II AGP
I have some issues that I just can't understand or know how tos solve them.
Hre goes:
1-When I set my pc with fsb at 100mhz, with any multiplier, voodoo3 does not start, but computer starts and nothing happens(black screen, no monitor activity). If I set fsb to 66mhz it starts and does everything normal. I checked the card with PC-Check, memory, etc and all is fine. But at 66mhz fsb cpu won't go beyond 396Mhz. Does anyone have a similiar configuration? How do I set the AGP to 66Mhz and FSB to 100Mhz in these motherboards? Is there any trick or jumper settings that are not documented?
2-All the other cards run well, install drivers well at 100mhz fsb configuration except Riva TNT2U, locks the system when running Unreal. I guess tnt2 must be a driver configuration.
3-Kyro and Matrox just run fine.
Can anyone help me with the voodoo3 situation? I'm getting a bit desperate.
Thanks!

Reply 1 of 23, by kanecvr

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Here's s silly question - did you set the jumper for the AGP multiplier? At 66Mhz fsb it's 1:1, but at 100Mhz it should be 2:3. I'm asking because I had the same exact issue with my Aopen AX59 PRO.

If you did set the AGP multi jumper, then the V3 might have an issue with the FIC's AGP latency. I have a Shuttle HOT 591P board witch displays the exact same behavoiur with some v3 and banshee cards.

Reply 2 of 23, by Marmes

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Thanks kanecvr, I found with pc check that voodoo3 has problems at 1024x768 in any color depth, other resolutions are fine, don't know if it's a property from the v3 or not. So solution for me is g400max, and sli voodoo2.
RivaTNT2 is hard to configure, and image is not as good as matrox or voodoo.

Reply 3 of 23, by brostenen

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Actually.... There is no guarantee that a V3 will work on a FIC PA-2013.
Some of the models have "bad" voltage regulators, hence frying the board when the Voodoo fires up.
If you'r board have good agp regulators (late boards) or not, I can not say.
You just have to counter this in. Investigate before trying the Voodoo again.
I have a revision 2.0 and that has the shitty voltage regulators, so I have used a TNT2 pro previously.

Some time ago, there was someone here on Vogons that fried his 2013 board.
He used a Voodoo3 3000 and something just burned on that board.
I want to give you this advice, so you won't toast the board once the Voodoo begins to draw power.

Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....

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Reply 4 of 23, by Marmes

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my board does not have regulators . Mine is the good version.(v2.1) 3.3V comes directly form psu. I tried a voodoo5, it also worked. So my v3 3000 is busted, I need to find another one for my stock, or a v4 4500 , lets see if I can get them or not 😀
Thanks everyone !

Reply 5 of 23, by brostenen

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Cool.... Is it a homemade mod or is it the last revision that they have fixed?
I can not remember wich revision they fixed it on.

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Reply 6 of 23, by Marmes

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They fixed it on 2.1 (mine), they removed the 3.3V regulator for AGP and connected directly from PSU. AT boards, still need the regulator.

brostenen wrote:

Cool.... Is it a homemade mod or is it the last revision that they have fixed?
I can not remember wich revision they fixed it on.

Reply 7 of 23, by brostenen

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Hmmm.... I think my board is a 2.1 or it could be 2.0 How do I identify if the regulators are there or not?
It is just to be shure if I have them or not, regardless of wich revision is written on the board.

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Reply 8 of 23, by Marmes

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On the corner near isa slot you can see the board revision.It's etched. not painted. If you have some sort of transistor with a heatsink near AGP connector , it's a V2.0,what you can do is this: remove the regulator and put a more powerful one, or remove it and solder a thick wire between 3.3V from ATX connector (pins on bottom) to the output pin of regulator (also on bottom), that will fix the agp voltage situation.

brostenen wrote:

Hmmm.... I think my board is a 2.1 or it could be 2.0 How do I identify if the regulators are there or not?
It is just to be shure if I have them or not, regardless of wich revision is written on the board.

Reply 10 of 23, by Cga.8086

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love this forum. thanks will try this fix tomorrow

mine is a version 2.0 and with voodoo3 3000 agp after booting, and memory ecc check...it gave jailbars always and hanged.

im sure the voodoo card is fine because i tried it on another motherboard and works perfectly

Reply 11 of 23, by BloodyCactus

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Cga.8086 wrote:

love this forum. thanks will try this fix tomorrow

mine is a version 2.0 and with voodoo3 3000 agp after booting, and memory ecc check...it gave jailbars always and hanged.

im sure the voodoo card is fine because i tried it on another motherboard and works perfectly

your voodoo3 can fry a 2.0 tho because the 2.0 still has the vregs.

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Reply 12 of 23, by Cga.8086

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BloodyCactus wrote:
Cga.8086 wrote:

love this forum. thanks will try this fix tomorrow

mine is a version 2.0 and with voodoo3 3000 agp after booting, and memory ecc check...it gave jailbars always and hanged.

im sure the voodoo card is fine because i tried it on another motherboard and works perfectly

your voodoo3 can fry a 2.0 tho because the 2.0 still has the vregs.

Hey maybe you can help me

I have no clue of what you guys are talking about near the AGP there is a metal voltage regulator. Maybe im blind but, where is it??

so this is the motherboard, i placed an arrow where the revision is, and it says 2.0

the voltage regulators i see are on the upper part near the memory and where the capacitors are, that area gets really hot

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Reply 14 of 23, by Ozzuneoj

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Yeah, you should be okay if there's no chip there next to the AGP slot. Mine has no chip there and I've never had any issues with any cards I've put in there.

I was just looking at my PA2013 system yesterday and was reminded of a rather confusing aspect of this board.

On my board, it says 2.1 right where your yellow arrow is pointing, next to the back of ISA slot 2. However, in between PCI slots 3 and 4 the following is printed on the PCB in white: 2.0 E-0036 . So, here it says 2.0, but on the bottom left corner it says 2.1. I believe the printed number by the ISA slot is what people should look for. As long as there is no chip next to the back of the AGP slot though, the version likely doesn't matter.

Now for some blitting from the back buffer.

Reply 15 of 23, by BloodyCactus

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Cga.8086 wrote:
now i understand from version 1 to version 2 they removed what looked like an IC chip called LM78 […]
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now i understand
from version 1 to version 2 they removed what looked like an IC chip
called LM78

its not on version2 anymore.

the chip in your image you pointed to, is not a voltage regulator. the vregs are 3pin chips, at top of mobo with caps around them.

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Reply 17 of 23, by Ozzuneoj

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Can anyone find any concrete proof that the AGP voltage problem was fixed with version 2.1 of this board? I've been trying to find the articles\comments I read last year and I found this:
http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread.php?2 … A-2013-2-0-mobo

One guy says his 2.1 still had problems. I'll admit I didn't play a lot of later 3D games on this system (since I have faster systems for that), but I never had stability issues with mine running a 500AFX CPU at full speed, and I'm sure I used a Voodoo 3 at some point.

Now for some blitting from the back buffer.

Reply 18 of 23, by gdjacobs

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Cga.8086 wrote:

LM78 looks like some sort of voltage report

http://www.plst.ru/html/techsupport/faqs/faqsgenr.html

It monitors temperature and system voltages and reports them back, usually via the I2C bus.

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Reply 19 of 23, by The Serpent Rider

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After some research I've decided to debunk some myths about revisions.

- Revsion 2.0 and 2.1 have practically identical VRM, so both are AGP friendly.
- Revision 2.1 is the only one with additional "2.0 E-0036" PCB marking and color coded back panel (PC99 standard).
- Revision 2.0 and 2,1 may or may not have LM78 monitoring (usually don't).
- Revision 1.x have different battery and PLL placement, also additional PLL for some reason.
- Revision 1.x usually comes with LM78 monitoring.
- Revsions 1.x VRM can be easily identified by 3 large capacitors at the top left corner (both 2.0 and 2.1 have 4).
- Apparently some or all 2mb cache versions are not very good for overclocking due to worse cache quality (125mhz vs 100mhz).

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