Ok folks, this is what i am trying to find:
BX chipset with slot 1 for P2 underclock and P3 800 support
bios settings for underclock (x2, fsb 66 or less)
L1 & L2 Cache off in bios
1x (better 2x) ISA
ability to sustain a V5 5500 AGP
Would an Asus p3b-f rev. 1.04 fill the bill?
Yes, it can do all that.
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Said board (2x ISA) arrived. Unfortunately, I can't get it to run my V5 5500. 🙁
The V5 will run on a single chip, but crashes completely when run on both.
I have also tried my V3 3000@200MHz, which worked nicely. Any ideas?
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I used that same motherboard with a PIII-800 and a Voodoo3 for quite along time. It worked very well. With a 5500 it might not be able to give the card enough power? I don't remember if the 5500's had external power hookup or not. It might also be suffering from dried out caps, and they might need replaced.
Other ideas could be drivers, both video and chipset.
V3 & P3 800 work fine. V5 5500 works fine on one leg, but not on both. Does that sound like drivers? Maybe I should install intel chipset drivers instead of win98se?
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V5 has an external power connector. It does not really use AGP capabilities, so it works on any AGP board. It's more likely that the card is toast.
It has an external power connector, but that only supplements the AGP power connection, it does not replace it.
The card is toast? I don't think it is that simple. When I put the V5 into my Kinetiz 7E, the thing works just fine. It benches with every setting and doesn't crash. With the same NT, but a hungry Athlon 1400 instead of a humble P3 800.
But this is just the next BX board that proves unable to power my V5. I wonder what I am doing wrong.
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Yes you should always install the latest chipset drivers, being intel. Try different voodoo drivers too, there is a site dedicated to them, but I forgot the url atm.
If you hooked up the external power connection, I don't see power being the issue... hmmm...
I have had a number of boards with BX chipset which all showed hostility towards 3dfx. My long gone Gigabyte 6BA, my Aopen MX 6B EZ and my former SNI all refused to run my Voodoo3 3000 AGP but could handle a V3 2000 AGP. Other boards run it at 200 MHz without even sweating. None of these boards could bear a Voodoo5. I have also tried an Asus CUV4x-cme, which won't run it either. Now I am slowly running out of options. I tried to raise the IO Voltage on the P3B-F, but that didn't help either.
EDIT: DISABLE Spread spectrum does the trick. Unfortunately, the P3B-F does not have the option explicitly. Deviating from standard fsb does help though.
