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Title: Voodoo 2 vertical lines
Post by cobra30689 on 22.12.06 at 05:01:31

Got a question for all you V2 gurus....I inherited a V2 from my g/f's dad...built a machine to play all my old games(600 P3,192MB RAM,440BX chipset,Vanta LT 2D card looped through a V2,Win98SE). Roughly 6 or so minutes into playing a game, six identically spaced vertical lines form in the raster that can be seen anywhere there is a light shade rendered. I heard somewhere that it could be a heat related issue, as they only go away once the machine has been off for awhile. Any ideas?

Title: Re: Voodoo 2 vertical lines
Post by gdonovan on 22.12.06 at 05:22:11

Try a case fan over the boards to see if the problem goes away?

Title: Re: Voodoo 2 vertical lines
Post by elfuego on 22.12.06 at 08:15:43

Or try to get any memory cooling kit's from a local store, since it looks like memory issue. You could also get a cooling for the GPUs but they aren't the main problem.

Title: Re: Voodoo 2 vertical lines
Post by paulpsomiadis on 22.12.06 at 18:21:17

Yah, it sounds like cooling! ::)

Voodoo 2's are notorious for overheating (at least early production models - later ones aren't as bad) ;)

Get some heatsinks / ramsinks and your problems should go away. :D

May also need a large 'quiet' fan over the cards (or a blower for sideways airflow - your choice) :)