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Voodoo4500 PCI problems.
13.01.03 at 06:37:42
 
I recently bought a new hp pavilion 521n 2.4ghz AMD Athlon PC for gaming.  It was fairly cheap & came with a lot of nice extras at 450.  Anyways, allow me to get to my problem.

I use my Voodoo4500 PCI for gaming so I figured I could take it out of my old PC & just put it into my new one just as easily as I could with my old one.  WRONG.  Windows XP immediately started acting up & crashing me left & right.  I look up some drivers for my V4500 PCI at voodoofiles.com, I eventually find some XP Voodoo drivers.  I disable my onboard card & get to work....

I install the drivers which work, then I plug in my card to the monitor.  I get odd graphical errors when my Voodoo card is plugged into the monitor like no startbar, background icons are missing, windows that pop up are missing, everything is gone except the background, resolution is super huge or small ect.  I'm forced to go back to the onboard card regardless.

I've tried multiple kinds of drivers for results.  Every one of them gives me the same problem.  It won't let me play any of my games in 3D unless it's off of my onboard card.  It drives me insane. 

Only close explanation I've been given from a friend is Voodoo PCIs are notoious for sucking on voltage from motherboards.  Newer motherboards don't let as much voltage flow to PCI cards which might be why the errors are happening with my card.

If anyone has a solution to the above problem or any other ideas please reply.  I'm pretty broke at the moment to buy a new card that would work & I'd like to get my voodoo working again if possible on my new machine.
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Re: Voodoo4500 PCI problems.
Reply #1 - 13.01.03 at 17:59:39
 
Hm, one thing could be, that you might need to thoroughly uninstall all left-over's from your OnBoard Video.

That includes all System Files, as well as the Registry.

Also make sure, the Bios is setup to max. compatibility for testing (reduce AGP to 1x, Aperture to 32MB or less, Palette Snoop Disabled, Video RAM Cacheable Disabled (Cache Mode = UC), and Fast Writes = Disabled etc...)

After that, if it still doesn't work, I'd check the Card in another System. 3dfx Chips have as well a compatibility issue with modern, fast 133MHz FSB Systems (according to Quantum).

If that also affects the VSA100, I don't know though...
My Voodoo4's are AGP, and 2 are running with a 1800+ and 1900+ without any issues (Win98 and Win98SE).

Really far shot, but maybe a Bios Update could help for the Voodoo4, although I'm not too confident in that possibility.
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