Ebay Auction:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=300131728657

Testing brick in current Mercury system:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGduCYU8HRs

New brick installed in "short case"

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/24388-1/minimerc_1.jpg
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/24392-1/minimerc_2.jpg

The case was obtained off Ebay several months ago, it is identical to the cases used by Quantum3D except it is a few inches shorter! You can see the difference in the fan spacing up front.

I was able to obtain a Q3D fan grill several months ago from a friend at Q3D, and the correct backpanel with Mercury connector knockouts is upstairs in the attic (I'll install it later after I get some stuff sorted out)

The GX motherboard was a spare along with the ECC ram and P3-500's... The Power Supply is a correct 425 watt unit from PC power and cooling (grabbed several months ago off ebay) the only thing left I have to dig up is a blockoff plate for the hard drive, a black cd rom drive and a black 2.5" bay adapter for the black floppy drive.

I'm missing a PCB for the medusa connector but have several leads on obtaining one or I'll just make one from a dead 200SBi board.

System is up and running with a full NT4 install, all updated.

The cables are all still a mess, I'll get that neat and tidy after settling the drives.

WHOA! Just how many Merc. systems you got now @Gary! :o

(I bet you could build a small house with your Q3D stuff!) ;)

LOL! ;D

wrote on 04.08.07 at 20:52:05:

WHOA! Just how many Merc. systems you got now @Gary! :o

2 functioning Merc systems, one from Quantum3D, the other shown assembling here.

Update-

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/24404-1/minimerc_wiring.jpg
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/24398-1/minimerc_drives.jpg
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/24401-1/minimerc_ps.jpg
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/24395-1/minimerc_back.jpg

Moving along nice... decals and some other odds and ends this week. Have to make the swaplock cables and have a few leads on the Medusa PCB.

wrote on 05.08.07 at 23:32:09:

Update- Moving along nice... decals and some other odds and ends this week. Have to make the swaplock cables and have a few leads on the Medusa PCB.

I guess I need to make another Medusa PCB eliminator cable. And a medusa cable as well :-[

[quote author=gamma742 link=1186247497/0#4 date=1186374800]

I guess I need to make another Medusa PCB eliminator cable. And a medusa cable as well :-[/quote]

You could just go direct to VGA and run 2 monitors.

Yah. I'll just make me another one like this...

http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/4131/picture038oj1.th.jpg

I'm still kicking myself for letting Patience have these when I sold her my first Mercury System.

http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/6839/picture076yc8.th.jpg


But at the time, I had no shortage of Q3D cables...

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/9652/picture082uy2.th.jpg


Now I'm cable-less :'(

Cable adapter made, pics soon!

See pinout here-

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24831&g2_serialNumber=1

Note in the picture above- DB-15 VGA pin numbers 5, 6, 7, 8 & 10 are all grounded together via the Mercury I/O PCB! Doing the pin check with a Ohm meter, Medsua cable, floppy cable and my I/O PCB this was confirmed.

Take the wiring from the FLOPPY CONNECTOR pins 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33 and just join them together. Then hook the combined ground wiring to VGA CONNECTOR pins 5, 6, 7, 8 & 10.

It will take two monitors to use the system like AAlchemy or you could simply use a monitor switcher when using the sytem.

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24832&g2_serialNumber=1
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24836&g2_serialNumber=2
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24839&g2_serialNumber=1
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24840&g2_serialNumber=1

System has been running for several hours like this with no problems.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQm7Z6n0WQk

For you guys watching the You Tube. Remember the image quality cannot be reproduced by You Tube. To actually see these demos on a Mercury System is something to behold.

I need to get off my butt and get started on mine :-/

wrote on 19.08.07 at 21:59:04:

For you guys watching the You Tube. Remember the image quality cannot be reproduced by You Tube. To actually see these demos on a Mercury System is something to behold.

Not to mention shot with a digital still camera in Quicktime format off the LCD, converted to MPG to get the file size down to something Youtube will take (the original was 170 mb) and then converted to flash movie.

you can try www.veoh.com ,it doesnt scale the clips as drastically..

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24848&g2_serialNumber=2

2 functioning Mercury systems and a brick.

[quote author=gamma742 link=1186247497/0#4 date=1186374800]

I guess I need to make another Medusa PCB eliminator cable. And a medusa cable as well :-[/quote]

Bob you want to use the adapter I made? I'm thinking of making another with in->out connectors from a voodoo II board and I could just send you the one shown here.

Yes 8)

It would be useful in testing to say the least. I don't even know if my Brick is functional :-/

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24886&g2_serialNumber=1

New VGA connector being assembled with pass-thorugh, the connectors and backplate were robbed from a dead STB Voodoo II. I have everything pinned out and should have it tested in an hour or two.

No Medusa cable required, just a plain old Voodoo I/II cable  ;D

have this stb 1024kb memorc chips?

if yes please solder it to a working one
a 24MB v2 will be very nice ;D
8MB framebuffer is enoth for 1600x1200

a little bid like a 64mb v4

wrote on 01.09.07 at 13:17:17:

have this stb 1024kb memorc chips?

It did and they were removed a year or two ago.

The Frame buffer only supports 4 MB (see spec sheet) but the TMU's support 8 each... so I do have a VII with 20 MB of ram upstairs but it had rendering errors and the ram size was mis-reported in Windows.

I think some strapping options have to be set but do not have that information.

okay

you have pm ::)

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24890&g2_serialNumber=1

New completed assembly!

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24893&g2_serialNumber=1

Installed with everything hooked up, much neater.

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24896&g2_serialNumber=1

Inside shot, everything works perfect  ;D

New diagram in a few days, busy weekend ahead...

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24903&g2_serialNumber=1

Updated connector pinout.

Gary

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=26646&g2_serialNumber=1

What I made up (which certainly isn't bad)

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=26649&g2_serialNumber=1

What's there now..

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=26652&g2_serialNumber=1

Mercury I/O connector PCB.

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=26643&g2_serialNumber=1

Looking good, looking good.. thanks to Exxe!

Page finally added-

http://www.thedodgegarage.com/3dfx/q3d_minimercury_system.htm

I'm always open to pages you would like to see suggestions BTW.

The Mini-Merc looks great.

If you hadn't told us, probably nobody would have noticed the case was 2" shorter.


Nice Job ;)