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Re: A Dream Come True- V6K/AA5 Style
Reply #120 - 01.05.11 at 02:51:07

Black and White BIOS Screen?

To be honest I havent payed full attention to the BIOS screen since I got my 2600A2 card functioning. From what I noticed today, the BIOS screen is intermittently either color like it should be, or black and white (monochrome). (I would say its B/W 90% of the time) The card works with color everywhere else, such as the Windows loading screen and Windows itself. My other V6K's obivously don't do this, so I am curious if anyone has heard of this behavior before with any other cards? I am not worried about it as the card still outperforms my 3700A's and runs like a dream. Tongue

Ideas?

Color: note the Award Bios ribbon color

B/W:

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Re: A Dream Come True- V6K/AA5 Style
Reply #121 - 04.05.11 at 11:10:29

WOw thats asick machine!!!!! Cheesy

Where the hell do u guys get all this 'impossible' (eBay but they rarely ever show up) to find hardware!!!!!! I've seena broke V5 6K go for $800. it stated at 99 cents Shocked

That cards got some SICK fans on it.

Oh BTW where'd u get the case made it looks sick i might need one for my V2 Rig xD

P.S About the B&W problem, it may be the cable, as i would sometimes get this with my GF2MX (Everything would be black and white, even windows)

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Rolo01 Full Member Offline Posts: 191	Re: A Dream Come True- V6K/AA5 Style Reply #122 - 04.05.11 at 13:16:49 My V5-6K 2600A2 behaves exactly the same, so it seems to be related to that revision of the card.
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Re: A Dream Come True- V6K/AA5 Style
Reply #123 - 04.05.11 at 16:04:16

Rolo01 wrote on 04.05.11 at 13:16:49:

My V5-6K 2600A2 behaves exactly the same, so it seems to be related to that revision of the card.

Thank you for the reply! I figured it might be a common trait with the 2600A2's as I can't think of any hardware/firmware defect that would cause such an occurance. (maybe also other early revisions?) It makes me feel better knowing that other 2600A2's (if not all) also behave like this. A fun little quirk of this rare revision.

On a side note I just recieved my 5x spare HiNT HB1-SE66 chips.

If I am going to have 3x (or more) V6k's for the rest of my life I better be prepared for anything. (I also have 4x spare Epox 8K3A+ boards as that is the only board I will ever use, along with a few spare AXDA3200DKV4D cpus, the fastest cpu for that board)

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elfuego Senior Member Offline Searching for V5 6k... Posts: 420 Aachen, Deutschland Gender:	Re: A Dream Come True- V6K/AA5 Style Reply #124 - 04.05.11 at 22:17:55 Since you're playing with V5 6k anyway, would you mind doing a little test for me? Here is what needs be done: http://www.falconfly.de/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1304255863 Thanks!
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Re: A Dream Come True- V6K/AA5 Style
Reply #125 - 04.05.11 at 22:54:41

rottentreats wrote on 04.05.11 at 16:04:16:

Rolo01 wrote on 04.05.11 at 13:16:49:

My V5-6K 2600A2 behaves exactly the same, so it seems to be related to that revision of the card.

Thank you for the reply! I figured it might be a common trait with the 2600A2's as I can't think of any hardware/firmware defect that would cause such an occurance. (maybe also other early revisions?) It makes me feel better knowing that other 2600A2's (if not all) also behave like this. A fun little quirk of this rare revision.

You guys made me curious as I did not remember my 2600A2 showing a black & white image at boot-up. I have tried it now on a Tyan MPX and a Gigabyte GA-60XT and in both cases I have color at boot-up and in the BIOS screen. So might be something different with my card physically with the reworks it has as the vga BIOS version is the same 1.11
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Rolo01 Full Member Offline Posts: 191	Re: A Dream Come True- V6K/AA5 Style Reply #126 - 05.05.11 at 10:07:56 It is not like my card boots every time in black/white, lets say in 9 of 10 cases it boots up with full colors.
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G1nX Senior Member Offline Running NSK Guardian Posts: 466 Romania Gender:	Re: A Dream Come True- V6K/AA5 Style Reply #127 - 05.05.11 at 22:14:16 Rolo01 wrote on 05.05.11 at 10:07:56: It is not like my card boots every time in black/white, lets say in 9 of 10 cases it boots up with full colors. Well still I have full colors in more than 30 boot-ups with my card even after stessing the card in some glide games. None the less I'm happy with it as it is
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Re: A Dream Come True- V6K/AA5 Style
Reply #128 - 28.06.11 at 21:31:24

I did it again Cheesy

A virgin V6K (unmodified,no reworks, completely and fully stable/functional 3700A) The card even comes with extra capacitors C15/C17. (very uncommon) It is a pretty interesting card to use, mainly because it does not have the internal power hookups, so I use the Voodoo Volts! It also has 1.18 bios which is unlike many V6K's. (still running @ 166mhz, but with more aggressive memory timings)

Things just seem to work out sometimes..

The card above just happened to come with a late voodoo volts backplate, so naturally I took that off and put it on my 2600A2.

Note: the V6K that sparked this topic was sold however, mainly because I already had a 3700A w/ the PCI rework, internal power and didn't feel the need to have two of the same exact thing) So I sold that and put the money towards this beauty. Cool

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oldskool Senior Member Offline I Love 3dfx Posts: 398 uk Gender:	Re: A Dream Come True- V6K/AA5 Style Reply #129 - 29.06.11 at 21:36:31 Very nice
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Tim God Member Offline Posts: 1065 Gender:	Re: A Dream Come True- V6K/AA5 Style Reply #130 - 02.07.11 at 21:16:57 Very nice, congratulations.
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val_parthen YaBB Newbies Offline I Love YaBB 2.4! Posts: 25 Longmont, CO Gender:	Re: A Dream Come True- V6K/AA5 Style Reply #131 - 19.08.11 at 02:30:25 What an awesome and epic repair! Congrats dude!
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Re: A Dream Come True- V6K/AA5 Style
Reply #132 - 07.09.11 at 05:45:47

rottentreats wrote on 16.02.10 at 01:44:00:

The V6K arrived today from Edmund's eBay auction. Grin

First thing I did was stick it in my V6K rig and fire it up... half a decade later and SHE'S ALIVE!!! Tested and stable at 2x/4x/8x AA levels. [still looping UT99 intro @ 4x AA going on for about 30 minutes]

Edmund also provided a support bracket/handle that has been with the card nearly it's entire life. That teamed up with a backplate from a V5 5500 AGP, this thing is now ready to be enjoyed even more.

Bonus shot. Perfectly alligned aavid fans.

This card is now for sale, it is a 3700A card with the internal power hookup and PCI rework. Perfect card in perfect working order in all anti-aliasing levels. If you are intereseted drop me a line at v6ksale@gmail.com. Make me an offer. (I am expecting $3,000+ as that is the going rate these days)

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goriath God Member Offline Ruggedized Retro Gamer Posts: 599 Italy/Slovenija Gender:	Re: A Dream Come True- V6K/AA5 Style Reply #133 - 07.09.11 at 13:56:09 You have sold it.
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Re: A Dream Come True- V6K/AA5 Style
Reply #134 - 07.09.11 at 15:59:54

goriath wrote on 07.09.11 at 13:56:09:

You have sold it.

Not yet... I sold a different card a few months ago. (you must be thinking of that one)

This is the card for sale. (I have since added my own toe-tag and cable management "zip wrap")

http://rottentreats.com/V6KSale/front.jpg
http://rottentreats.com/V6KSale/rear.jpg

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