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Installing a Voodoo3 2000 killed my SB PCI 16?

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First post, by lmttn

Posted on 2019-09-12, 23:50

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First off I just want to say I have no idea if the two things in the title are really related but they did happen in immediate sequence. I got a 3dfx Voodoo3 2000 PCI in the mail yesterday and installed it. The video card and drivers installed fine. However, after rebooting, no sound would play from my speakers, and I checked the Multimedia part of the 98SE control panel to see that it could not detect any playback devices. I uninstalled my sound card driver (of which I could only find one version of, and that one was a pain in the ass to find. The chipset is CT5803. I think it's a Sound Blaster PCI 16.) and reinstalled several times to no avail, and I honestly have no idea what to do or how this madness even began. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Reply 1 of 9, by kolderman

Posted on 2019-09-13, 00:00

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Have you tried removing the voodoo to see if that fixes it?

Reply 2 of 9, by lmttn

Posted on 2019-09-13, 00:25

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I swapped it back to the Geforce 4 MX 4000 that was in it before and while it at least saw the card it asked for a driver CD that I didn't have, and referred to the card as something other than what it used to (AudioPCI as opposed to PCI 16), so now I'm just gonna try a complete format/reinstall. Kinda what I should've tried before even making this thread

Reply 3 of 9, by Kamerat

Posted on 2019-09-13, 02:02

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The CT5803 uses an Ensoniq/Creative ES1373 chipset also used in the Ensoniq AudioPCI,

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Reply 4 of 9, by canthearu

Posted on 2019-09-13, 04:13

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My thoughts are that at least the SB PCI 16 didn't kill the Voodoo 3 PCI card!

Reply 5 of 9, by lmttn

Posted on 2019-09-13, 14:40

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Update: I did a clean reinstall. I installed the sound drivers first, then the video drivers. Afterward, I still had sound. Then, I installed 3dfx Tools. After restarting again, I lost sound. After restarting again again, my monitor decided it couldn't find a video signal. This is a completely unrelated issue, but it was my sign that I should probably go to bed/drink heavily/not touch this computer for a long, long time.

Reply 6 of 9, by Kamerat

Posted on 2019-09-13, 19:02

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Maybe some bad capacitors on your motherboard or in your PSU cause too much ripple when both Voodoo 3 and SB16 PCI are installed?

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Reply 7 of 9, by kolderman

Posted on 2019-09-13, 19:23

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Sounded like you had a working system with the mx400...you can download driver cds over at vogonsdrivers.

Reply 8 of 9, by peklop

Posted on 2019-09-13, 19:44

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You can try different PCI slots. Or manual change PCI IRQ settings in BIOS Setup.

Reply 9 of 9, by dionb

Posted on 2019-09-15, 11:50

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Try different PCI slots, this sounds like a shared interrupt with drivers not playing ball.

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