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First post, by kitten.may.cry

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Long time no see!

Today, I got this card in the mail, with hopes to flash it for PC.

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At the moment, I'm using WinXP, but will install 2K, if necessary.

I know very little about hi-end 3dfx things, any help is very welcome.

EDIT: initially posted in the wrong section, sorry about that.

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Reply 1 of 49, by Doornkaat

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1. Aquire the VGA BIOS you want to use and the flash tool.
2. Put the V4500 PCI in an x86 system with a non-3dfx AGP card that is configured to initialise AGP video first.
3. Boot into OS and use the flash tool for the 3dfx card.
4. Remove the AGP card, plug video into the V4500 PCI and start the PC to verify the V4500 PCI is now working with your x86 PC.

It's really pretty straightforward.😎
Good luck!

Reply 3 of 49, by kitten.may.cry

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Doornkaat wrote on 2022-05-19, 14:14:

Addendum:
VGA BIOS for V4500 Make sure to select a BIOS for PCI cards with DVI support. Flash tools are avaliable on the same website.

I will be back with the results soon.

Reply 6 of 49, by Doornkaat

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kitten.may.cry wrote on 2022-05-19, 14:24:
Doornkaat wrote on 2022-05-19, 14:14:

Addendum:
VGA BIOS for V4500 Make sure to select a BIOS for PCI cards with DVI support. Flash tools are avaliable on the same website.

I will be back with the results soon.

Fingers crossed!

Reply 7 of 49, by kitten.may.cry

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Doornkaat wrote on 2022-05-19, 14:43:
kitten.may.cry wrote on 2022-05-19, 14:24:
Doornkaat wrote on 2022-05-19, 14:14:

Addendum:
VGA BIOS for V4500 Make sure to select a BIOS for PCI cards with DVI support. Flash tools are avaliable on the same website.

I will be back with the results soon.

Fingers crossed!

Check your messages, please.

Reply 9 of 49, by kitten.may.cry

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Doornkaat wrote on 2022-05-19, 14:53:

I think I used this tool before. It's good practice to boot into DOS to flash VGA BIOS I believe.

Does that actually mean I need to install Windows 98 first?

Windows 2000 doesn't have a DOS mode, per se.

Reply 10 of 49, by Doornkaat

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kitten.may.cry wrote on 2022-05-19, 15:03:
Doornkaat wrote on 2022-05-19, 14:53:

I think I used this tool before. It's good practice to boot into DOS to flash VGA BIOS I believe.

Does that actually mean I need to install Windows 98 first?

Windows 2000 doesn't have a DOS mode, per se.

A DOS boot floppy or booting from the Win98 CD into DOS should be fine.
Edit: But you can try from Win2k as well. I don't think you're likely to break anything since the card you're flashing isn't the primary video adaptor.

Reply 12 of 49, by Doornkaat

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kitten.may.cry wrote on 2022-05-19, 15:07:

I can't select which card I'm flashing, cue NVFLASH.

This is confusing.

I'm a little lost here. The tool should only allow 3dfx cards to be flashed. Hence my recommendation to use a non-3dfx AGP card as primary video adaptor.

Reply 13 of 49, by kitten.may.cry

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Doornkaat wrote on 2022-05-19, 15:09:
kitten.may.cry wrote on 2022-05-19, 15:07:

I can't select which card I'm flashing, cue NVFLASH.

This is confusing.

I'm a little lost here. The tool should only allow 3dfx cards to be flashed. Hence my recommendation to use a non-3dfx AGP card as primary video adaptor.

Yes, my primary videocard is TNT.

Hopefully, it isn't Voodoo4 being dead.

Reply 14 of 49, by kitten.may.cry

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Just to clarify:
I put the Voodoo4 in the board, plug VGA in it, get nothing, assuming the MAC bios doesn't like that, try to flash PC BIOS.

Extra sorry for confusion I didn't mean to create.

EDIT: found my Windows 98 SE installation disk.

Will try to flash the card that way.

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Reply 15 of 49, by Doornkaat

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Sorry, I don't think I'm not following.
You're supposed to use an AGP non-3dfx card for video output when flashing the PCI V4500. The VGA does not get connected to the V4500 until after you flashed the video BIOS.

If you use the tool I linked to in this thread under Win2k, what happens?

Reply 16 of 49, by kitten.may.cry

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Doornkaat wrote on 2022-05-19, 15:15:

Sorry, I don't think I'm not following.
You're supposed to use an AGP non-3dfx card for video output when flashing the PCI V4500. The VGA does not get connected to the V4500 until after you flashed the video BIOS.

If you use the tool I linked to in this thread under Win2k, what happens?

Yes, I use TNT for video output.

Yet to try the tool you've linked.

Reply 17 of 49, by Doornkaat

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Ok! Try the tool I linked please. It probably won't matter you're running Win2k.
And to clarify: Both video cards are installed in the system at the time of flashing.
VGA is only connected to the AGP non-3dfx card.
The V4500 PCI with Mac BIOS will not output any video on a PC.

Reply 18 of 49, by kitten.may.cry

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Doornkaat wrote on 2022-05-19, 15:19:
Ok! Try the tool I linked please. It probably won't matter you're running Win2k. And to clarify: Both video cards are installed […]
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Ok! Try the tool I linked please. It probably won't matter you're running Win2k.
And to clarify: Both video cards are installed in the system at the time of flashing.
VGA is only connected to the AGP non-3dfx card.
The V4500 PCI with Mac BIOS will not output any video on a PC.

Yeah.

Can I even use the flashtool from cmd?

Start Menu -> Accessories -> Command line ->cd flash tool folder -> flash 4500dvi.rom

Reply 19 of 49, by kitten.may.cry

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Same error, when I used your tool: No Banshee or Voodoo3 is detected.

Am I missing something? flash /? yields nothing, pretty bare tool, nvflash is magnitudes more developed.

Trying to boot from 98SE CD, flashtool + rom is on my floppy disk.