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Re: ECS P5VX-B Rev 1.2 not working.... any ideas please??

Posted on 2023-05-25, 07:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Post card finally arrived so plugged it in and that's what it shows..... It's in PCI slot, no codes, all leds on apart from 3.3 Volts, irdy, frame, reset. No beeps In ISA as you can see. Dead ???? or there is still something I can do or try ? When using the ISA slot you have it plugged in backward …

Re: 3Dfx Voodoo 1 dead ? or I'm doing something wrong???

Posted on 2023-05-25, 07:23

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Mine froze as it had a bad Ram chip attached to the FBI. I could get it working by limiting the ram available to 1MB. In autoexec.bat You can try disabling the TMU or FBI chip and limiting the memory to each to 0, 1, 2MB. i would first try disabling the TMU as tomb raider will work with no …

Re: 3Dfx Voodoo 1 dead ? or I'm doing something wrong???

Posted on 2023-05-25, 07:17

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

The board seem to have had some rough time, so it might be good to check for broken lines where you have scrape marks. Checking for loose pins on the larger chips are also a thing, sometimes one cannot see an open solder pad connection easily. (I sometimes listen for loose pins/pad solder by softly …

Re: 3Dfx Voodoo 1 dead ? or I'm doing something wrong???

Posted on 2023-05-24, 19:56

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Ok, there is no need to try sound card as when it runs with voodoo in it freezes the computer 😒

Re: 3Dfx Voodoo 1 dead ? or I'm doing something wrong???

Posted on 2023-05-24, 19:16

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Another try......this time on old 14 inch crt monitor. Started tomb raider demo under dos and this is the screen I got 😀 Next try will be installing sound card to check if can get any sound from game. Got an old sound blaster 16 vibra or something like that. Maybe in a week time or so.

Re: ECS P5VX-B Rev 1.2 not working.... any ideas please??

Posted on 2023-05-24, 18:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Tried hotflash which was a success but motherboard still doesn't post 🙁

Re: ECS P5VX-B Rev 1.2 not working.... any ideas please??

Posted on 2023-05-20, 15:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Post card finally arrived so plugged it in and that's what it shows..... It's in PCI slot, no codes, all leds on apart from 3.3 Volts, irdy, frame, reset. No beeps In ISA as you can see. Dead ???? or there is still something I can do or try ?

Re: 3Dfx Voodoo 1 dead ? or I'm doing something wrong???

Posted on 2023-05-19, 12:20

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Are you using a pass through or manually changing the VGA cable to the voodoo's VGA-out? Are the games running? For example, do you hear any game noise when you get the blank screen? Does your LCD support the resolution mode of 512x384? That is the lowest default mode voodoo will start with iirc …

Re: 3Dfx Voodoo 1 dead ? or I'm doing something wrong???

Posted on 2023-05-18, 12:25

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Ok, I did a test on Tomb Raider for 3dfx in dos. Instalation went fine. When I started demo my screen went straight into suspend mode. In this case it seems like there I no signal from voodoo to the monitor. I did some voltage measurements on ramdac and ramdac has its 5 Volts on input and crystal …

Re: ECS P5VX-B Rev 1.2 not working.... any ideas please??

Posted on 2023-05-18, 03:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It's for the pc speaker connector on the motherboard. You don't have to use it. I doesn't make sense for me. This card already has buzzer on pcb so why someone would want to connect it to external speaker ? Hmmm maybe for better beep sound quality :-) It has a buzzer on the pcb that is not …

Re: ECS P5VX-B Rev 1.2 not working.... any ideas please??

Posted on 2023-05-18, 00:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not that this will fix your issue, but for older motherboards similar to this style is recommended - https://www.ebay.com/itm/201914181739 (ISA+PCI), that's why you probably didn't get any results of yours on the working board. What is that cable for which comes with this post card ??? It's for the …

Re: 3Dfx Voodoo 1 dead ? or I'm doing something wrong???

Posted on 2023-05-18, 00:24

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Imperious wrote on 2023-05-18, 00:12: I Think You can use the demo version https://archive.org/details/tomb3dem This is the 3dfx version. Thank you !! I will try it when get back home from work 😀

Re: 3Dfx Voodoo 1 dead ? or I'm doing something wrong???

Posted on 2023-05-17, 23:45

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I'm not an expert on mojo.exe but the output looks OK. Detects the FBI, TMU, memory and doesnt hang at any point. Have you tried the DOS tomb raider 3dfx ver? (This could point to a problem with your Windows 3dfx drivers and/or installation) For me it looks completely normal. I haven't tried …

Re: UPDATE! Unique error in 3DFX MOJO.

Posted on 2023-05-17, 22:33

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

A few years ago my Voodo 2 was flooded along with the house and I didn't have access to it until recently. When i got it again, I cleared the oxides, cleaned the contacts, resoldered the oxidized memory of the right TMU, but accidentally poked the soldering iron tip on the legs of the TMU, moreover …

Re: UPDATE! Unique error in 3DFX MOJO.

Posted on 2023-05-17, 22:27

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

A few years ago my Voodo 2 was flooded along with the house and I didn't have access to it until recently. When i got it again, I cleared the oxides, cleaned the contacts, resoldered the oxidized memory of the right TMU, but accidentally poked the soldering iron tip on the legs of the TMU, moreover …

Re: ECS P5VX-B Rev 1.2 not working.... any ideas please??

Posted on 2023-05-17, 21:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

bogdanpaulb wrote on 2023-05-11, 20:51: Not that this will fix your issue, but for older motherboards similar to this style is recommended - https://www.ebay.com/itm/201914181739 (ISA+PCI), that's why you probably didn't get any results of yours on the working board. What is that cable for which …

Re: 3Dfx Voodoo 1 dead ? or I'm doing something wrong???

Posted on 2023-05-17, 21:37

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

So I did run MOJO and that's what I got from it... Screen capture as well from mojo without log and log as you can see underneath. sst1Init Routines: InitCode $Revision: 8 $ sst1InitMapBoard(): BoardsInSystem = 1 sst1InitMapBoard(): vAddr:0xe1000000 pAddr:0xe1000008 Dev:0x14 Board:0 …

Re: ECS P5VX-B Rev 1.2 not working.... any ideas please??

Posted on 2023-05-17, 18:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Never had any situation with dead bios so don't really know how to reflash it :-/ not sure what I might need of want to do it...? Do you have a network card with a vacant ROM socket? This is the easiest way. If not you can 'hotflash' like Windows9566 said. This requires another working system with …

Re: ECS P5VX-B Rev 1.2 not working.... any ideas please??

Posted on 2023-05-17, 18:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

majestyk wrote on 2023-05-17, 06:18: What CPU(s) did you try? Tried pentium 133, 166 non mmx and 200 mmx. Same result.

Re: 3Dfx Voodoo 1 dead ? or I'm doing something wrong???

Posted on 2023-05-17, 01:56

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Imperious wrote on 2023-05-16, 00:31: You really need to test it in Pure Dos mode with Tomb Raider 3DFX executable. Also You can get hold of the 3dfx sdk and run MOJO (in dos) which will help with diagnosis. Will run mojo test soon and see what I will get and will let you know.

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