First post, by mmmark84
Hi!
I have been playing with a voodoo 5 5500 AGP since last week on a P3 system with a Asus CUSL2-C motherboard and 512MB ram. The card worked great in that system, but I wanted a more powerfull system 😀
So I received a nice A7V333 motherboard today with a athlon XP 3000+ barton CPU, as I understand the KT333 chipset is one of the last ones that supported a universal AGP slot.
At first, I was trying to make sure a 3,3V card worked in that motherboard cause it was not totaly clear to me and I was scared of bricking the voodoo, so I tried an other old ATI card with AGP 2x capabilities.
Everything worked great and I installed win98 with that card and tried the system a bit for stability.
Once I was satisfied, I swapped the ATI card with my working voodoo 5 5500 AGP and installed the same voodooo drivers I used on the P3 system.
Everytyhing installed great and nothing seemed wrong.
However, when I launched 3dmark99, I just got a blank screen and the PC hang.
I then tried Quake 3 and I heard a ping from win98 and also a blank screen and hang.
I was worried that my card was not working anymore, so I put it back in the P3 system. There it worked fine again, launching the same apps without a problem.
I then decided I would try to flash the bios of the voodoo, thinking it would be a compatibility issue with the Kt333 chipset.
It had 1.06 and I flashed it succesfully with 1.18, using the program and instructions from this site: https://3dfxbios.stantoworld.co.uk/
From then on out, I got the following output from the voodoo card, and havent been able te fix it since:
I tried to flash back the original bios (the one FLASH.EXE makes when flashing a card) but the result was the same.
I then tried 1.06 from the site, but same result. I tried the modified 1.18 (mentioned here: Voodoo 5 Troubleshooting Adventures) but also same result.
I tried to put it back in the P3 system, but same result.
As a last resort, I ordered the caps needed to recap the card as mentioned here: Voodoo 5 5500 AGP Compatibility Problem
I am not realy confident the recapping will solve this, anything else I can try?