3dfx Archive - IBM Voodoo 4 4200?

paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: IBM Voodoo 4 4200? Reply #225 - 19.10.04 at 05:02:34 I presume that this 'other' card is one you've ALREADY tested and found to NOT work? ??? Of course, if it's a "supplied AS-IS, use at your own risk due to being untested" type of card... ...I bagsy first pick! 8)
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: IBM Voodoo 4 4200? Reply #226 - 19.10.04 at 15:39:58 Card does not function, has slight damage to back of PCB. I was going to send it out and see if it could be fixed but was cheaper to just try and buy another card. Someone beat you to "first dibs" by several hours, if we cannot come to an arrangement I'll drop you a note.
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janskjaer Ex Member	Re: IBM Voodoo 4 4200? Reply #227 - 19.10.04 at 19:27:26 This 'bob' character is still selling these cards now, which he claimed to have none left. $49.99 Buy It Now.
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: IBM Voodoo 4 4200? Reply #228 - 19.10.04 at 22:13:52 The guy is a dirtbag, said it once and I'll say it again.
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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: IBM Voodoo 4 4200? Reply #229 - 19.10.04 at 22:47:07 Is he still selling them? Where? NitroX infinity is absolutely interested.
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: IBM Voodoo 4 4200? Reply #230 - 20.10.04 at 00:07:53 Sure, no shipping outside of US or third party purchasing though and all cards are sold non-functional.
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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: IBM Voodoo 4 4200? Reply #231 - 20.10.04 at 07:14:59 That's two reasons to curse I wonder if there are more of these IBM systems out in the world. Would be nice if we could find them
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janskjaer Ex Member	Re: IBM Voodoo 4 4200? Reply #232 - 20.10.04 at 10:19:33 Seriously doubt it. This guy got lucky stumbling upon these, but he has milked the situation and rubbed a lot of the 3dfx community the wrong way by the sounds of things.
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Reply #233 - 09.11.04 at 19:17:03

Without a doubt one of the most annoying video cards made by 3dfx. It's pissy about platform used, cranky about chipset and downright unstable.

Run on a P-Pro 200? forget it, even after wiping the hard drive twice, distorted text in windows. Boot on my PII-BX based boards? Still no go even after flashing the bios.

I finally got a card working somewhat by flashing the bios, using the bin file from my 32 mb card. Card is up and running on a P-200 TX based board.

This fixed a number of problems (like not being able to boot into windows no matter what driver was used) but some other problems remain...

GLQuake works perfect but without the minidriver. With the minidriver some textures are broken and the game locks up after a few seconds. Without the minidriver it runs for hours with no problem.

Turok works perfect.

Unreal locks up while launching.

I'm thinking the problems are related to the incorrectly reported memory size.

I'll keep everyone updated.

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LuxKiller65 God Member Offline Posts: 680 Luxembourg Gender:	Re: IBM Voodoo 4 4200? Reply #234 - 09.11.04 at 21:05:10 Wadda hell?! Our webmaster got this card for 551 $?! Men, are you rich?
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FalconFly YaBB Administrator Offline 3dfx Archivist Posts: 2445 5335N 00745E Gender:	Re: IBM Voodoo 4 4200? Reply #235 - 09.11.04 at 21:33:09 No, I just wanted a Card with a good chance of getting it to work. At least under Win9x, I had it up & running in the end, something probably not many Voodoo4-2 owners can claim to date Guess that was worth the money.
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Re: IBM Voodoo 4 4200?
Reply #236 - 09.11.04 at 21:54:14

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At least under Win9x, I had it up & running in the end, something probably not many Voodoo4-2 owners can claim to date Wink

Heck it took me 4 tries Wink

Card still running flawless under GLQuake/Win98.

I'm waiting to hear back from someone who can modify the bios so the correct memory size is reported and test the other programs again.

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Re: IBM Voodoo 4 4200?
Reply #237 - 09.11.04 at 22:05:17

Just a note to make something perfectly clear- I do NOT endorse flashing video card bios' if it can be avoided.

In this case I had two Daytona cards with the only real difference between the two being the ram size. The original bios was backed up and standing by in case the new bios didn't program AND another non-3dfx PCI video card was standing by in case I had to restart the machine with a dead 3dfx card and reflash it.

Flashing your card with the wrong bios (sgram vs sdram for example) will ruin your whole day and just might earn you a dead card. When in doubt, leave it be.

I even use non-interruptible power supplies and line conditioner just in case the power company is having a bad day too.

Just a thought.

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FalconFly YaBB Administrator Offline 3dfx Archivist Posts: 2445 5335N 00745E Gender:	Re: IBM Voodoo 4 4200? Reply #238 - 09.11.04 at 22:09:06 Have you tried that russian TDFX Bios Editor ? I didn't check in a while, but they have English ReadMe pages as well now.
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: IBM Voodoo 4 4200? Reply #239 - 09.11.04 at 22:13:38 Quote: Have you tried that russian TDFX Bios Editor ? No, just compared them with a hex editor. Major differences between the two, the 32 MB card might actually have a more refined bios. (it came from HS and works flawless)
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