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First post, by Anayo

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Hi everybody. Lately I got a pair of Voodoo 2's for SLI. The cards both work individually, but when I chain them together they do this:

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In case that uploaded image ever goes away for posterity, it is apparent that the two cards are trying to interlace even and odd pairs of lines into a cohesive image. However, one set of lines is oriented properly, while the other set of lines is flipped, as though rotated 180 degrees. This makes the image look like that scene in Argo where the Iranians are rebuilding shredded documents from the American embassy, but imagine that they alligned the strips of the shredded document incorrectly. That's basically what I'm getting on my monitor in SLI.

The system hangs when I do this, by the way. It just stops responding to my inputs and I have to hard power cycle it to make the PC snap out out of it.

Both cards are STB Black Magic Voodoo 2's, 12 MB version. I've tried these remedial actions but none of them have worked:

- different drivers (FastVoodoo2 4.6 and Voodoo2 Driver kit Version: 3.02.0)
- moving the cards around various PCI slots

My SLI and passthrough cables look like this:

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I have ordered another SLI cable in case that's the culprit. But that hasn't arrived in the mail yet, and the problem could lie elsewhere. I'm also hoping this particular error is recognizable to at least one of you. Thanks in advance for your input.

Reply 1 of 3, by Lostdotfish

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Imgur is blocked in my country....

Use the attachment feature built in to the forum and link the images inline. External image hosts are :puke:

Reply 2 of 3, by Anayo

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Lostdotfish wrote on Today, 15:02:

Imgur is blocked in my country....

Use the attachment feature built in to the forum and link the images inline. External image hosts are :puke:

Thanks. I've attached the photos directly.

Sorry for the inconvenience. When I first got online in my formative years I had it drilled into my head to be conscientious about how I linked images. But that was circa 2002 so things have changed a lot since then.

Reply 3 of 3, by Lostdotfish

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Can you post a clear image of each card so I can see the memory ICs?

Are they they same brand on both cards?