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Re: Finally! Voodoo5PCI mod to 128Mb The Ugly Duckling
Reply #75 - 15.07.13 at 18:58:44

I tested the 128 moded cards with a MSI KT3 Ultra and both moded card are running excellent !
I was amazed !
No black screen when entering in the XP. No problems. No errors. No freezes.
I used Amigamerlin & SFFT drivers without an issue !

Seems that the problem appears with the MSI KT3 Ultra2 Mobos only. I will take the NB cooler down, to see and compare the KT333 chip revisions....I suspect that here is the difference

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Reply #76 - 21.07.13 at 05:51:42

Just noticed that both MSI KT3 Ultra and MSI KT3 Ultra2 have the same BIOS revisions binaries available. Maybe this is a chance narrow down what causes the XP incompatibility of 128Mb modded Voodoo5 cards on some motherboards.
If I understand correctly, you have both motherboards available? On Ultra2 you get loadind XP to black screen and on Ultra you have no problems? What BIOS revisions are you running on each one? If they are different, I would try flashing the Ultra2 with the version that currently runs on Ultra and see if that changes anything.
Hope you'll have soon some time to check on that and share the results.

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m14radu God Member Offline Take your chance ! Posts: 555 Timisoara, Romania Gender:	Re: Finally! Voodoo5PCI mod to 128Mb The Ugly Duckling Reply #77 - 21.07.13 at 06:27:11 Yes, its corect. I use the same bios version. 5.07 on both motherboards, even swap the bios chips With an older bios version there is still the black screen on Ultra2.
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Komponent Senior Member Offline 3dfx modder Posts: 282	Re: Finally! Voodoo5PCI mod to 128Mb The Ugly Duckling Reply #78 - 21.07.13 at 06:40:43 So now Ultra2 also works in XP with modded 128Mb Voodoo5? When you tested back in early June and you got black screen loading XP did it had a different BIOS than now?
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m14radu God Member Offline Take your chance ! Posts: 555 Timisoara, Romania Gender:	Re: Finally! Voodoo5PCI mod to 128Mb The Ugly Duckling Reply #79 - 21.07.13 at 13:17:47 No. Ultra2 still show the black screen. Only with Ultra is working well.
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RaptorZX3 Full Member Offline Canadian 3DFX user Posts: 218 Montreal, Quebec (Canada) Gender:	Re: Finally! Voodoo5PCI mod to 128Mb The Ugly Duckling Reply #80 - 16.08.13 at 23:27:42 i wish i could ask someone to do the mod on the one i'll get soon, but i bet it would be expensive for me. i wouldn't trust my knowledge in electricity and soldering.
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ultima God Member Offline Always searching Posts: 876 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Finally! Voodoo5PCI mod to 128Mb The Ugly Duckling Reply #81 - 24.11.13 at 22:27:05 Have you tried to run the 5500pci on a 66Mhz pci slot instead of a normal one?? Perhaps it can use the extra speed?? The agp is nothing morr then a 66Mhz pci version anyway, so ya never know. I will test this with my card coming week, with an athlon xp 2.4Ghz
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ps47 God Member Offline Keeper of the 3Dfx Helppage Posts: 988 Slovakia,central Europe Gender:	Re: Finally! Voodoo5PCI mod to 128Mb The Ugly Duckling Reply #82 - 17.12.13 at 00:34:11 bit late to this one, but yes, v5 pci will benefit from the 66MHz pci slot, if you can get a mb which has it.
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Re: Finally! Voodoo5PCI mod to 128Mb The Ugly Duckling
Reply #83 - 17.12.13 at 07:46:58

see my thread for details how much the 64MB 5500PCI benefits from using PCI 66Mhz:

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tests are done with cpu at 2.26Ghz and 1GB ram, not quite stable enough yet at 2.38Ghz (40Mhz pci)

3DMark99MAX @ default settings @ PCI33 = 6997 3DMarks
3DMark99MAX @ default settings @ PCI66 = 7447 3DMarks difference = 450 3DMarks

3DMark2000 @ default settings @ PCI33 =4356 3DMarks
3DMark2000 @ default settings @ PCI66 =5052 3DMarks difference = 696 3DMarks

3DMark2001SE @ default settings @ PCI33 = 1976 3DMarks
3DMark2001SE @ default settings @ PCI66 = 3070 3DMarks difference = 1094 3DMarks
3DMark2001SE @ 1600x1200x32 @ PCI66 = 1512 3DMarks

http://www.falconfly.de/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1385394407/15

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3DFX Playrig:

Aerocool Strike-X Air
SuperMicro H8DAE
Dual Opteron 280 @ 2.4Ghz (4 cores)
4 x 1GB PC3200
3DFX Voodoo5 5500MAC PCI
WD 160GB ATA100/133
Diamond MonsterSound MX300
Windows2000 SP4

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anthony YaBB Newbies Offline recent 3dfx enthusiast Posts: 36	Re: Finally! Voodoo5PCI mod to 128Mb The Ugly Duckling Reply #84 - 08.04.16 at 19:26:33 who do you guys never increase lbf allocation size when add more memory? it's very big mistake. only one card, that don't suffer from it, v4 agp
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