Soldered manually, with lot of rosin(is it right word for flux?).
All board contain smd only components, so all soldered by robot, and only header required manual soldering.

easy_john wrote:

Soldered manually, with lot of rosin(is it right word for flux?).
All board contain smd only components, so all soldered by robot, and only header required manual soldering.

Yeah rosin is correct (its made from pine tree sap), but the word flux is the best word to use for most chemicals used to work with molted metal. I buy good old rosin based flux by the pint and use it in large amounts, but I always clean well after I'm done. I guess that's what it looks like after not being cleaned for 20+ years. Since it acts like an acid, it might be best to wash that area down with some IPA and elbow grease.

hard1k wrote:

Kodai wrote:

Why do the back of the header pins look burnt?

That's the question I always asked myself looking at every XR385 I came across...

This is not my card, just a similar. There is no burnt pin on mine. Unfortunatelly I dont have currently such a soundcard which can use this. I have a generic ESS card with wave table connector and an SB16 clone but it cant handle such a big extension. I should get another sound card for testing.

You can buy ribbon cable, two 26-pin connectors (male and female) fix them on cable and connect DB to WBH.
Just ensure, that cable not very long (less 15 sm) and board don't touch anything.

Thanks for the idea. I'll after such a cable.

Suitable ready-made cables are available on eBay, search for gpio extender.

sliderider wrote:

RacoonRider wrote:

Callahan wrote:

look at pcb on other side, it has a dvi section and behind second section for vga.
Simply, it can be vga conn here or dvi. Nothing less, nothing more.

But Matrox has 2 long connectors and only 1 optional DVI. Aesthetics? Mine is exaclty the same on the other side btw.

The Matrox is a dual head card.

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/le … /g_series/g450/

They use two long connectors, why not a short one and a long one?

Bought a Voodoo 1 for my K5 box.

Does anyone know what manufacturer this is?

I believe that is an A-Trend card. Love me some Voodoos!

Just picked up these today.

Really? I couldn't find any pics with this layout online, regardless of brand. The A-Trend cards look like they use the reference design.

And congrats on the SLI setup!

Pretty sure. Can you read out the full ATC-24xx number on the back? A-Trend made a lot of Voodoo cards with the part number ATC-24xx.

It hasn't arrived yet, pics are from the seller.

Pretty sure it's ATC-2465.

Here you go:

http://www.falconfly.de/identify-3dfx.htm

392-0465-BOAR10
ATC-2465 (Sticker)

ColorMaster

VoodooMania
Voodoo Dragon

http://www.falconfly.de/identify/ColorMaster_ … nia_Voodoo1.jpg

Might be made by ATC but rebranded, but maybe not!

Wow, thank you!

That's interesting because I already have a ColorMaster VoodooMania II in another system, seeking a second one. It should work with an A-Trend Helios 3D Voodoo2 in SLI, right? Since the ColorMaster seems to be a rebranded A-Trend.

With the last drivers any V2 card can work in SLI.

oerk wrote:

Wow, thank you!

That's interesting because I already have a ColorMaster VoodooMania II in another system, seeking a second one. It should work with an A-Trend Helios 3D Voodoo2 in SLI, right? Since the ColorMaster seems to be a rebranded A-Trend.

You bought a Voodoo 1, did you not? ATC-2465 are Voodoo 1s anyway, and I'm pretty sure you can't SLI up Voodoo 1s with Voodoo 2s.

kixs wrote:

With the last drivers any V2 card can work in SLI.

I don't think this is true, according to my experience. I have six Voodoo 2's (all 12MB), two Diamond Monsters, a STB, a Creative and two other types. Apart from the two identical Diamond Monsters, only one combination works in SLI, although they work 100% correctly while alone. I tried both original and new drivers (Windows 98 and Windows 95).

Lukeno94 wrote:

oerk wrote:

Wow, thank you!

That's interesting because I already have a ColorMaster VoodooMania II in another system, seeking a second one. It should work with an A-Trend Helios 3D Voodoo2 in SLI, right? Since the ColorMaster seems to be a rebranded A-Trend.

You bought a Voodoo 1, did you not? ATC-2465 are Voodoo 1s anyway, and I'm pretty sure you can't SLI up Voodoo 1s with Voodoo 2s.

My question was about Voodoo 2s, namely A-Trend vs. Colormania.

I know I bought a V1 😀

tayyare wrote:

kixs wrote:

With the last drivers any V2 card can work in SLI.

I don't think this is true, according to my experience. I have six Voodoo 2's (all 12MB), two Diamond Monsters, a STB, a Creative and two other types. Apart from the two identical Diamond Monsters, only one combination works in SLI, although they work 100% correctly while alone. I tried both original and new drivers (Windows 98 and Windows 95).

Try with this drivers:
http://www.3dfxzone.it/dir/news/3dfx/fastvoodoo2_4.6/

This release does possible running games on Voodoo2 SLI configurations done by mismatched cards: we remember mismatched means two no same manufacturer boards go to make up your Voodoo2 SLI setup: for example one arrives from Creative and one from Diamond.

kixs wrote:

tayyare wrote:

kixs wrote:

With the last drivers any V2 card can work in SLI.

I don't think this is true, according to my experience. I have six Voodoo 2's (all 12MB), two Diamond Monsters, a STB, a Creative and two other types. Apart from the two identical Diamond Monsters, only one combination works in SLI, although they work 100% correctly while alone. I tried both original and new drivers (Windows 98 and Windows 95).

Try with this drivers:
http://www.3dfxzone.it/dir/news/3dfx/fastvoodoo2_4.6/

These drivers were one of the drivers that I tried, but downloaded from here:

http://www.falconfly.de/voodoo2.htm