I have an Athlon 2200XP system, ASRock K7VT2 motherboard with 512mb ram and ATI 2d card. Running Windows ME.

I have recently tried to install a 3d Monster II card from my old system and am having NO luck at all. I have tried about half a dozen different drivers and am getting various problems, from the system freezing on start up (with a green line across the top of the desktop) to various errors, not being able to run any games and not being able to access my desktop properties.  Ihave not been able to access the voodoo2 properties within the display properties at any time.

Edit - moved the card from the PCI slot next to the AGP slot to the next one down today and.....

I thought it was working today but the game I was running seemed to slow at random times for no reason (it was a 3 year old game) and the texture mapping seemed to have random textures mapped onto the cars!!!!

Any ideas or am I wasting my time with this old card? I don't need to be able to play the most up to date games, but as long as it works and I can play a reasonable number of relatively recent games I'll be happy!!

Cheers

Hm, check the Card's Temperature.

There is a confirmed Bug in Voodoo2 Cards, that prevent it to run correcty in some of the modern Motherboards.

Problems can vary from erraneous behaviour, black screen, freezes/crashes, Card not being detected at all, upto severe overheating.

Since there's no central place to collect empiric Data in which Motherboards the Voodoo2 runs and where not, it remains a question of luck.

Just note that running the Card in PCI Slot 1 might cause the 'pausing', as the AGP Slot next to it commonly shares an IRQ with it. That might leave the IRQ-less Voodoo2 with insufficient/erraneous Bus time to communicate (that would explain the stuttering, as modern AGP Cards literally hate sharing anything).

Other Bios PCI settings like PCI Latency, PCI 2.1 Latency compilance and PCI Prefetching might affect the Voodoo2 as well. Try working on those as well, might help :)
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I was lucky : My Diamond Monster II ran fine in a A7V-333 Board with an AthlonXP 2400+

Others cannot seem to get it to work at all, or have severe problems.

Just make sure you use a 3rd Party driver that is Athlon compatible when testing. My tests were done with the FastVoodoo2 Win9x V3.0 Driver.

Freezing on bootup can be due to the rundll call.  If there is any reference to Voodoo2 under Start, Run, "msconfig" on the Startup tab then remove it.

Otherwise you are a victim of something that will probably kill off the Voodoo2 in the long run.  And then we're left with legacy boxes or else Glidos or similar.  :(