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Voodoo 4 4200
03.02.05 at 18:22:39

Today my V4 4200 comes up Cheesy

i dunno what's the meaning of the Letters written on the RAM Chips ???

If i using the card single the system hangs on startup, no Post screen is shown,BIOS Beeps indicates VGA problems Sad

if i use an additional AGP card, system will bootup on AGP card and detects an unknown PCI device, Windows also finds an PCI card but doesn't show a type or name this time the rest of system works normally Sad

if i reboot the system it hangs up and cannot been bootet (no post screen, no beep) till i reset the CMOS by the Battery Jumper....after that system will boot but some PCI devices (IDE controllers) doesn't work till i unmount the 4200 ???

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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Voodoo 4 4200 Reply #1 - 03.02.05 at 19:05:15 This card is VERY picky about motherboards! The only motherboard that mine will run on is an old P-200MMX TX intel board. All the BX boards and a few others have nothing but problems from no boot up to conflict errors.
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OutOfRange Senior Member Offline Posts: 348 Switzerland Gender:	Re: Voodoo 4 4200 Reply #2 - 03.02.05 at 19:07:26 thanks for informations gary but i have not an other motherboard to test this card but i'm really happy to get one
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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Voodoo 4 4200 Reply #3 - 03.02.05 at 19:26:36 Uhm, so this is a V4-2 4200 16MB?
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OutOfRange Senior Member Offline Posts: 348 Switzerland Gender:	Re: Voodoo 4 4200 Reply #4 - 03.02.05 at 19:37:05 looks like yes.... i see falconfly runs his one by changing something on a voltage regulator ???
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FalconFly YaBB Administrator Offline 3dfx Archivist Posts: 2445 5335N 00745E Gender:	Re: Voodoo 4 4200 Reply #5 - 03.02.05 at 19:51:13 No, that was just a very minor mechanical damage, that caused an electrical anomaly. After bending the affected piece into its correct position again, it started working (to the known, limited extend)
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OutOfRange Senior Member Offline Posts: 348 Switzerland Gender:	Re: Voodoo 4 4200 Reply #6 - 03.02.05 at 19:53:26 thanks for information the board doesn't looks really damaged (only three scratches on the backside, but no circuits are damaged)
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Re: Voodoo 4 4200
Reply #7 - 03.02.05 at 21:38:14

great card you have there.
I've seen some on ebay.
and I think thats the one that gary and many others have a problem with =)
eitherway, glad you got yourself one.

I only had a real shot to buy a dead card.. which.. i chose not to.

Average price was around $300++
this guy MaverickDBZ manage to win it at slightly over $100 for one of the cards that ended at around 5am in the morning. Working one!
I was awake doing my work Sad

and was again on the dry part of the month LOL
i tried my luck at 99.99 and got outbidded. hehe..

pushing my luck too far.

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OutOfRange Senior Member Offline Posts: 348 Switzerland Gender:	Re: Voodoo 4 4200 Reply #8 - 03.02.05 at 21:59:45 i had very luck to get this baby got it from a x86-cpu collector in switzerland... he bought it as a "mistake" cause he searched for a graphic card with pci and dvi and found this baby
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OutOfRange Senior Member Offline Posts: 348 Switzerland Gender:	Re: Voodoo 4 4200 Reply #9 - 03.02.05 at 22:22:34 interesting thing... i'm going to look for this board or an other KT333 based one, hope this will take effect i think the card isn't dead so i have to look for a compatible system additional: i don't know if i should clean the RAM modules for a cleaner look or not, what do you mean ???
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Voodoo 4 4200 Reply #10 - 04.02.05 at 00:37:54 Quote: After "some hours of thought", worked perfectly All the BX boards here would not even BOOT, even with a newer bios which fixed some rendering issues. Brand of BX board made no difference and a few Pentium boards with different chipsets were tried as well. Very much a "beta" card.
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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: Voodoo 4 4200 Reply #11 - 04.02.05 at 01:31:46 Just wondering why no-one has noticed, but on the back of the card it says : - 4600 Is this standard for a Voodoo 4 4200? ???
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Re: Voodoo 4 4200
Reply #12 - 04.02.05 at 03:20:33

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Never tried a cpu AMD ?

At the time I did not own a AMD PC platform and have a functioning Daytona with 32MB that works on everything.

After obtaining an AMD based platform retesting the 16MB Daytona did not occur to me and frankly isn't a high priority considering how much time I have already spent on the item.

It's a problematic piece that at least works on one of my platforms and a board that works on all platforms is available.

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OutOfRange Senior Member Offline Posts: 348 Switzerland Gender:	Re: Voodoo 4 4200 Reply #13 - 04.02.05 at 07:07:07 This moment i wonder why IBM take the cards for their servers ??? what were the sence behind that ? it looks like the boards aren't really a final work and it seems that no driver is able to run the 3d part correctly ???
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Voodoo 4 4200 Reply #14 - 04.02.05 at 15:00:12 Quote: This moment i wonder why IBM take the cards for their servers ??? Who knows if they actually did or not? Even if they did and the platform worked fine there is a chance the server being a server didn't use 3d at all or even any color over 16.
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