I remember reading somewhere that the V3 3k AGP needed some old kind of AGP voltage to work. How do I check the voltage of my AGP slot? I have a mobo originally made for PIIs (slot 1) and an AGP PRO slot (if I remember right).

Thanks

basically,if you can plug the voodoo3 in your agp slot,it will work ;)

Not always...

All current Mainboards with AGP have bars which prevent old cards from being installed but the first Pentium 4-Boards with Intel-chipsets had universal AGP-slots although they only supported AGP4x/1.5 V.

Thanks you all. So I nedd to check my mobo if it says something before right?

No, you need to look at your AGP slot and see if it looks like either A or C in the image Thandor posted.

If you have an Intel motherboard than you must be sure it's A.

These are the only two AGP slots on which your V3 will work. :)

just checked. It is an Intel mobo and the AGP connector looks like the "A". It is a PII-based mobo, will the V3 3k AGP work?

Thanks

wrote on 16.06.05 at 15:32:04:

As far as I know the motherboards with an Intel 440BX chipset are compatible since they have an AGP2x connector.

BX/LX/ZX board won't give you any problems, I have been running them for years.

It's an AL440LX.

:P

Thanks guys, now I'm sure it's gonna work!

;)

I'm bored so I decided to do this screenshot, to kill some time...

http://img39.echo.cx/img39/1218/sanstitre2uk.png

This mobo rocks!

Bear in mind that not all AGP4x cards are compatible with AGP8x.

Some examples of cards that look like an universal AGP4x card but are AGP2x cards in reality :
- ATI Rage Fury Maxx - Rage 128 pro
- Diamond Stealth III s540 Extreme
- Diamond Viper V770, Revision A, NVidia TNT2
- Diamond Viper II z200 Savage 2000
- Elsa Erazor III (100 ohms)
- Hercules 3D Prophet 4500
- Leadtek WinFast 3D S320 II, Revision A, NVidia TNT2
- S3 Savage4 lager revision 3.0 or lower
- SIS 305 32MB
- SiS 6326
- VideoLogic Vivid! XS (Kyro II)

-=[How to find out wheter your card uses 3,3V or 1,5V]=-
Stuff you need to complete this practicum

Multimeter

AGP Grahpics card

Lay the card down with the backside facing upwards.
At that point you're looking at the back of the card.
Set the multimeter to measure Ohm. Also known as resistance.
http://img25.echo.cx/img25/3804/multimeter2lm.jpg
Picture 1, Multimeter set to Ohm. You can see the display shows '1' since the needles aren't connected to each other. This means there is no connection.

Put one needle of the multimeter on Pin A2 of the AGP Card. Pin A2 is the second pin when looking from right to the left.
On 'picture 2' you can see Pin A2, it's colored in red.
http://img267.echo.cx/img267/72/agpcard1gn.jpg
Picture 2, Pin A2 marked in red

Put the other needle on the backplate of the card. On 'picture 3' you can see more details.
The backplate of the card is usually connected with the 'Ground'

http://img267.echo.cx/img267/4185/agpcardground3yu.jpg
Picture 3, the backplate of the card.

If there's no connection between Pin A2 and 'Ground' the multimeter will display '1'. This means we're dealing with an AGP 3,3V card. If the multimeter shows '0' we have an AGP 1,5V card.

Aw gosh that's too technical for me man!

Just want to be sure my V3 can work on this mobo!

^^'''''''''''''''

just a  quick question how you ppl know that the L card of powercolor isnt 1.5v?...

there are alot of tests been made, so that would figure out how hehe. ;D anyway it has been tested on 1.5V boards, and it didn't work the way it should do, the system hangen and so on. That is one of the main things it only works in 3.3volt boards.

wrote on 28.06.05 at 18:00:34:

just a  quick question how you ppl know that the L card of powercolor isnt 1.5v?...

Simple, I tested it.