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m14radu God Member Offline Take your chance ! Posts: 555 Timisoara, Romania Gender:	Re: 3dfx Specter 1000 AGP TEST SOCKET Rev.A0 Reply #15 - 12.07.13 at 17:41:45 Osckhar, you have this bare card ?
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osckhar God Member Offline www.3Dfx.es Posts: 812 SPAIN Gender:	Re: 3dfx Specter 1000 AGP TEST SOCKET Rev.A0 Reply #16 - 12.07.13 at 20:22:17 m14radu wrote on 12.07.13 at 17:41:45: Osckhar, you have this bare card ? Yes, it is mine!
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val_parthen YaBB Newbies Offline I Love YaBB 2.4! Posts: 25 Longmont, CO Gender:	Re: 3dfx Specter 1000 AGP TEST SOCKET Rev.A0 Reply #17 - 12.07.13 at 21:05:12 osckhar wrote on 12.07.13 at 13:51:09: If anyone is interested to see the bare rampage layout rev. A0. Here some nice sshots. Regards, Oscar. !!! That's amazing! I never expected to see one of those! I had a blank V3 PCB, but Varus got it when he bought my engineering V4.
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: 3dfx Specter 1000 AGP TEST SOCKET Rev.A0 Reply #18 - 12.07.13 at 21:13:44 val_parthen wrote on 12.07.13 at 21:05:12: I had a blank V3 PCB, but Varus got it when he bought my engineering V4. The little v4 with SDRAM? I was hunting that for years. I had the blank V3 PCB, let it go a few years back.
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osckhar God Member Offline www.3Dfx.es Posts: 812 SPAIN Gender:	Re: 3dfx Specter 1000 AGP TEST SOCKET Rev.A0 Reply #19 - 12.07.13 at 21:38:10 Well, I also have bare PCB for V4 prototype L-shape, and V3 black PCB. Gary, I think he means the V4 beta copper, not the daytona.
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Re: 3dfx Specter 1000 AGP TEST SOCKET Rev.A0
Reply #20 - 12.07.13 at 23:07:57

gdonovan wrote on 12.07.13 at 21:13:44:

val_parthen wrote on 12.07.13 at 21:05:12:

I had a blank V3 PCB, but Varus got it when he bought my engineering V4.

The little v4 with SDRAM? I was hunting that for years.

I had the blank V3 PCB, let it go a few years back.

osckhar wrote on 12.07.13 at 21:38:10:

Well, I also have bare PCB for V4 prototype L-shape, and V3 black PCB.

Gary, I think he means the V4 beta copper, not the daytona.

Osckhar's on the money -- it was one of the copper V4's:

I also scanned my blank V3 back in the day -- paid $15 on eBay when I bought it.

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It's interesting to me that the blank Rampage board's contacts are all gold versus the silver in my V3, but tha'ts probably more due to the engineering type stuff they were doing at the time.

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Reply #21 - 13.07.13 at 17:37:49

Hi,

Some news:

1) According to ex owner,

The two wires on the rearside are for probing with an oscilloscope. They should not touch each other or anything else during normal operation.

All the 3dfx Rampage engineers received the cards in November of 2000.

2) Yesterday, the Rampage A0 was shipped to my home.

Regards,
Trevor.

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trevormacro God Member Offline Voodoo5k6 Gold SE, Legend & Mystical Edition Posts: 622 Gender:	Re: 3dfx Specter 1000 AGP TEST SOCKET Rev.A0 Reply #22 - 16.07.13 at 13:37:44 Package is at my home. Rampy A0 perfect received without any damages. It's a beauty
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m14radu God Member Offline Take your chance ! Posts: 555 Timisoara, Romania Gender:	Re: 3dfx Specter 1000 AGP TEST SOCKET Rev.A0 Reply #23 - 16.07.13 at 15:45:23 Plug your Rampage chip in the board. It should work
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Reply #24 - 16.07.13 at 16:39:07

m14radu wrote on 16.07.13 at 15:45:23:

Plug your Rampage chip in the board.
It should work Wink

Oscar need to unsold it from my rampy A1 pcb.

My website is updated with some news pictures.

If you look more closer the test socket you will see there are 8 golds contacts missing. All the corners are connected to ground. Anyway the chip will work.

On the rearside we can see 4600 for the date.

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News 18 High Resolution Pictures added on my website.

Regards,
Trevor.

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osckhar God Member Offline www.3Dfx.es Posts: 812 SPAIN Gender:	Re: 3dfx Specter 1000 AGP TEST SOCKET Rev.A0 Reply #25 - 25.07.13 at 11:37:52 Since Michel needs a rampage chip for checking if his A0 boots up. I sent my Rampage chip him. Not time here for reballing his chip yet. A0 will boot up? My guess is not- What I understood this card was alive and engineers were to able to read register but nothing more. - Oscar.
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trevormacro God Member Offline Voodoo5k6 Gold SE, Legend & Mystical Edition Posts: 622 Gender:	Re: 3dfx Specter 1000 AGP TEST SOCKET Rev.A0 Reply #26 - 31.07.13 at 12:44:36 I have the oscar's chip. I put in the rampy A0 but no boot and the temperature up on the cooler and more fastly if I put a sheet of aluminium. Perhaps the jumpers on sdrams and bios can get the card boot in the right position. Is it dangerous to change their positions? anyone have an idea?
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Reply #27 - 31.07.13 at 13:03:27

I dont think to move the jumpers can be dangerous.

What I interpret checking pics from jumpers on memory.

Only will work the jumper-test on right and left. The middle has not connection.

Jumpers is taking voltage from condensator and each jumper is connected to one resistence and each resistence is connected another resistence. Possibly this jumper-test want to check what behaviour has the card upping the voltage in some point but difficult to say.

NOTE- BE WARE changing the position from vertical to horitzontal on the jumpers . Then you will have short circuit. The only position on the memory test jumper is vertical. Ok?

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Reply #28 - 31.07.13 at 13:31:15

Michel,

Be ware moving the test-jumper from onto chip bios. I cant see how it works and such jumper if can damage totally the Ramapage card.

My guess is such test-jumper is used to enable some VGA set mode for working developing on the card. For example in multimedia vga mode.

So dont play with this jumper until we have more info about it.

- Oscar.

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trevormacro God Member Offline Voodoo5k6 Gold SE, Legend & Mystical Edition Posts: 622 Gender:	Re: 3dfx Specter 1000 AGP TEST SOCKET Rev.A0 Reply #29 - 31.07.13 at 14:59:24 Sure I will wait. Here is the picture of the cooler temperature 30s after the boot: Here are the Bios and Memory jumpers including red wires: Regards, Trevor.
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