Gary, on your 3dfx page i can read  that your V2 6MB Prototype doesnt work? Can you tell me the exact failure? No 3D? Texture Corruption?

and Thandor, is your card working? if not, what failure do you have with that card?

so when garys, thandors and my card doesnt work... is there any V2 6MB out there which works?

I tried my V2 6MB Card today and it locks up when testing direct x7 with "dxdiag"... direct draw works.

my card has had missing a small smd on the backside. i resoldered it (used the same part from another voodoo2) in hope of getting it working but it doesnt help

why?

this is really strange.

i tried some different drivers. some did not even recognize the V2 in dxdiag, others show it. When i want to test it in dxdiag, ddraw is working (i can see a small white square moving fast around) but d3d test locks up immediately...

in other apps like glquake i get the message like this:

" glide2.dll expected voodoo2, detected none" ... or something like this...

what failure do you have? does it lock up immediately in D3D like mine?

have you tried the card under Win98SE as well, since I did have the same problems with my Voodoo5 5000 AGP as well, under 98SE I had a perfect function but under XP Pro and 2000 It only worked in 2D perfectly and created Black screens of Death when 3D was used wiht Both VSA's in use, with one VSA in use there was a 3D image.

this was tested on the following system:

AthlonXP Barton 2600+
ASUS A7V333-R Rev.1.02 Bios 1017
1x 512MB PC2700 Samsung
3dfx Voodoo5 5000 AGP x4 32MB Rev.A0 3700

I used the latest 3dfx WHQL drivers for it to work under 98 SE

What you also could do is test the Voodoo2 6MB in another branded mobo, because in the EPoX EP-8K5A2 my 5000 gave Black Screens Of Death in all OSés 98SE, 2K and XP Pro, and on the ASUS  A7V333-R I had a better succes in Win2KPro SP4 and WinXPPro SP2 with 1 VSA, and 100% Succes under 98SE Unofficial SP2.03.

Maybe you have to test the card in another board with 98SE, and there maybe a very positive chance that your card will work since it has been detected.

hmm I didn't say 2K was crap lol, it is much more stable when under high loads of stress, though 98SE is more crappy than 2K Pro allround, don't forget all of those BSOD's that have occured with 98SE, for old system or new it's the same shit different day.

anyways 98SE is indeed the best OS to test 3dfx cards, but for a short period of time though I never had probs with 2K lol, XP is indeed slower but that's very common with that OS.

hmm have you tried another KT333 board? or an Athlon 64Board who knows my Voodoo2's worked great in the OpteronDP 244 system as well under 2K and XP lol

yippie yippie yeaaaaaah Tomb Raider works under DOS  8) 8) 8) but with some texture corruption  maybe i did not solder the missing smd right? will try to solder it again... pity i cannot solder very good and my soldering iron is very big so i have to be very careful...

lol so it does seem to work, but like I said another board might of been helpfull as it did do for my Voodoo5 5000 AGP prototype the 8K5A2 has KT333 wat thta did nor work with the Voodoo5 5000 AGP the ASUS A7V333-R Has a KT333 chips and that worked fine, so don't say that another board would be a pointless thing, as it did give me the sollution lol

Remember it is a prototype and it does not mean it should work in any board

But it's good to see you got it go'n in Dos , to bad about the corruptions though, so maybe getting a new and smaller slodering Iron might be worth a shot I mean they can't be that expensive lol

do you have a close up shot of your loose chuck? is it fixable?