@outlaw: Why specially a board with a nforce2 chipset ?
It could be done i think also for a VIA K8T800 or Nforce3 chipset, because the AGP specifications are the same..... or im wrong ?
Any ideas about this possibility  ?

Btw., without bios, there are not many chances..better you get another board.

And again, the scores is very very low for such a machine.
I have tryed yesterday my XP-Mobile @2500 with a Voodoo4 and the score is very near to the score from this dude ( about 1900 points )
Br.
Radu.

Take a look here, whats happend with an intel board:

http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5095&whichpage=2

Icefire tried this mod...

So, take care !

I have here a K8T800 board, an 3500+ CPU, a Voodoo5 ( my only one ) and also the will to try it.
If something goes wrong, what will be burned ? Motherboard alone, or also the voodoo card.

Regards.
Radu.

Well, the sistem should boot fine with the from bios increased voltage ( 1.75 Volt ).
I will be happy if it will start at the default voltage... i don't want to burnd something..especialy my voodoo card  
Afterthat if it's instable at this voltage, i think about rising the voltage tot 3.3V.

If the card must just be inserted in the AGP Slot, then the moding is only to remove agp plastic restricts. So my question is why the Voodoo5 5500 AGP4x prototipes ( which are fitting in the Slot without to be cut ) didn't work in a AGP4x/8X Mobo ?
@ Voodoo5 5500 AGP4x owners: did somebody try to start such a card in a Nforce2 Mobo ?

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Nice try, Radu, but, do not get upset at me, nice but futile...
First, a statement that there is no doubt about its truth: it does not matter if you are able to select 4x or even 8x mode for AGP in BIOS. A Voodoo5 will allways default to PCI66 mode. It is just the way those cards were built.
Now... the state of the A2 pin is questioned almost only into AGP universal 2.0 slot powered mainboards. With very few exceptions, the 1.5V-only boards assume that only 1.5V/0.8V video cards could be inserted into the keyed slot and after all, have no possibility to provide 3.3V signaling if such a card would ever be fitted into so there is no point to check for a grounded A2 pin for AGP 8x motherboards.
With AGP universal 2.0 mainboards the TYPEDET value is examined at power-up and the video card do negociate with the motherboard's chipset for a common compatible signaling mode. In your special case, in this pre-boot sequence the 8k5a2 MB finds that a 1.5V video card in inserted (due to the state of the modded TYPEDET) and selects 1.5V signaling to use to comunicate to the GPU(s). Allthough VSA100 is capable of this mode, on the Voodoo5 PCB it is hardwired for 3.3V only and the 1.5V signals sent by the MB are not able to cross the treshhold required by the GPU. Therefor the mainboard concludes that it is not able to "talk" to the video card and returns a 2Dh error code, as expected.
Again, friends, do not get confused about the AGP mode and the signaling value apparent link. A video card if built compatible, should be able to opperate correctly in AGP 2x mode with 1.5V signaling with no problem. the trouble is the other way: it should not be possible for a video card to run at AGP 4x or 8X mode with 3.3V signaling (ofcourse, we do not care about that since our Voodoo5 cards will default to PCI66 mode anyway, but I was just stating the facts).

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... but I will try... maybe soon...

Radu, you know from the e-mails that I sent you in the past what is my oppinion. If you strap the GPU's TYPEDET pin you will have to provide a treshold for the 1.5V signaling.