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Title: a b/w Voodoo 5500
Post by dirk81 on 11.10.04 at 12:12:45

Hello!

My Voodoo 5500 is black&wight when booting, or if no graphic driver is installed, and although the bluescreen of 98 ist b&w....

Have anyone a idea? It's on a BX Board. BIOS 1.06??

Title: Re: a b/w Voodoo 5500
Post by paulpsomiadis on 11.10.04 at 12:47:43

Test the card in ANOTHER PC if you have one... ::)

...if the screen is STILL B/W, you have a dead V5500!!! :P

However, if you have a COLOUR screen - then your V5500 doesn't like your BX board! ::)

Fingers crossed and GOOD LUCK! ;)

Title: Re: a b/w Voodoo 5500
Post by dirk81 on 11.10.04 at 14:36:15

no i'm lucky. it was the BIOS of the card. I updated it to version 1.18 (!!) from voodoo alert and tada: Color in the BIOS!

But I can play Klingon Honor Guard, it's too buggy... Hmm. perhaps Win 98 FE must die. but this is another problem....

Title: Re: a b/w Voodoo 5500
Post by paulpsomiadis on 11.10.04 at 16:28:51

Hmm...if Klingon Honour guard uses OpenGL, go and DL the newest Amigamerlin 3.1 drivers from ;): -

http://www.3dfxzone.it

These come WITH the newest MesaFX drivers - use these with OGL games, it 'should' solve your problems... ::)

==EDIT==

Oops! My bad...thanks @Patience! ;)

Indeed, if you are running a Win 9x O.S. - then DL the Amigamerlin Win 9x drivers... ::)

Title: Re: a b/w Voodoo 5500
Post by janskjaer on 15.10.04 at 17:46:53

How did you update the BIOS on the V5500?

What software tool did you use?

Title: Re: a b/w Voodoo 5500
Post by janskjaer on 15.10.04 at 17:54:13

Which of these BIOS'z (from VoodooAlert) would be used on the V5 5500 MAC in order to use the card in an IBM-PC? (i.e a PC V5 with DVI support)

http://www.voodooalert.de/files/bios/V5/v5v118a.zip

OR

http://www.voodooalert.de/files/bios/V5/v5pcivers118dvi.zip

Title: Re: a b/w Voodoo 5500
Post by paulpsomiadis on 17.10.04 at 07:59:03

Now REALLY mate, stay in ONE thread - and PM me next time! ::)

First off, go HERE ;): -

http://welcome.to/3dfxBios

...and DL the following. :D

#From BIOS V5500 section#

1.18 (Digital Output Enabled)

#From UTILS section#

3dfx EEPROM Flasher 2.14

I used these for my V5500! ;D

To find out the syntax for flashing, just run the flash program on it's own (no BIOS name) - it should tell you how to list the commands it accepts. :P

If anything goes pear shaped - gimme a PM... ;)