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Flashing a Voodoo 5 5500 MAC PCI to PC version
12.03.08 at 04:29:47
 
Hi

I am trying to flash my MAC 5500 to a PC bios with DVI.  I've seen some ROMS and BINS and tried flashing the card....

However I get the error,
ERROR:  A 3dfx Banshee or Voodoo 3 was not found in the system.

So, I'm not sure what to do.  I've been using a floppy and booting to dos with a Windows XP boot disk, then running the flash.exe on the bios bin/rom file. 

Please help!
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Re: Flashing a Voodoo 5 5500 MAC PCI to PC version
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Re: Flashing a Voodoo 5 5500 MAC PCI to PC version
Reply #2 - 12.03.08 at 06:30:34
 
Thanks, I  was there, but I realized I didn't connect the Molex power....

Now I see the card, but I get the error before flashing that, "there is no build information for the selected hardware.  Continue?  Y or N"

I continued, the program saved the MAC bios to save.rom and erased the bios chip, but didn't load anything as there was nothing to load???

I only put DOS4GW, Flash.exe & the Bios File  (I've tried flashing with two different version 1.18 PC DVI bioses.  What does it mean by build information?  What should be on the floppy?

Thanks
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Re: Flashing a Voodoo 5 5500 MAC PCI to PC version
Reply #3 - 12.03.08 at 08:11:39
 
OK, figured it out!

Just continue, even though the message states "there is no build information for the selected hardware.  Continue?  Y or N"

Press Y

After that it I rebooted into the mobo bios and changed to vid card bootup to PCI from AGP.  *rebooted*  Voila!  A Voodoo 5 5500 PC PCI.

Life is good!   Cheesy

NOTE:  I used the bios named 55k118.rom, but I forgot where I got it,  right now.
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