Ebay Auction:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=300131728657

Testing brick in current Mercury system:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGduCYU8HRs

New brick installed in "short case"




The case was obtained off Ebay several months ago, it is identical to the cases used by Quantum3D except it is a few inches shorter! You can see the difference in the fan spacing up front.

I was able to obtain a Q3D fan grill several months ago from a friend at Q3D, and the correct backpanel with Mercury connector knockouts is upstairs in the attic (I'll install it later after I get some stuff sorted out)

The GX motherboard was a spare along with the ECC ram and P3-500's... The Power Supply is a correct 425 watt unit from PC power and cooling (grabbed several months ago off ebay) the only thing left I have to dig up is a blockoff plate for the hard drive, a black cd rom drive and a black 2.5" bay adapter for the black floppy drive.

I'm missing a PCB for the medusa connector but have several leads on obtaining one or I'll just make one from a dead 200SBi board.

System is up and running with a full NT4 install, all updated.

The cables are all still a mess, I'll get that neat and tidy after settling the drives.

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2 functioning Merc systems, one from Quantum3D, the other shown assembling here.

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I guess I need to make another Medusa PCB eliminator cable. And a medusa cable as well

Yah. I'll just make me another one like this...



I'm still kicking myself for letting Patience have these when I sold her my first Mercury System.




But at the time, I had no shortage of Q3D cables...




Now I'm cable-less

See pinout here-

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/main.phpg2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24831&g2_...

Note in the picture above- DB-15 VGA pin numbers 5, 6, 7, 8 & 10 are all grounded together via the Mercury I/O PCB! Doing the pin check with a Ohm meter, Medsua cable, floppy cable and my I/O PCB this was confirmed.

Take the wiring from the FLOPPY CONNECTOR pins 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33 and just join them together. Then hook the combined ground wiring to VGA CONNECTOR pins 5, 6, 7, 8 & 10.

It will take two monitors to use the system like AAlchemy or you could simply use a monitor switcher when using the sytem.

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/main.phpg2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24832&g2_...
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/main.phpg2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24836&g2_...
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/main.phpg2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24839&g2_...
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/main.phpg2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=24840&g2_...

System has been running for several hours like this with no problems.

For you guys watching the You Tube. Remember the image quality cannot be reproduced by You Tube. To actually see these demos on a Mercury System is something to behold.

I need to get off my butt and get started on mine

you can try www.veoh.com ,it doesnt scale the clips as drastically..

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Bob you want to use the adapter I made? I'm thinking of making another with in->out connectors from a voodoo II board and I could just send you the one shown here.