Re: BIOS - Asus AGP-V7700 TVR 32M AGP NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS
Posted on 2022-08-12, 16:56
Sure does look like a bad card, that is unfortunate.
Re: BIOS - Asus AGP-V7700 TVR 32M AGP NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS
Posted on 2022-08-12, 16:31
Here is a BIOS i dumped from my own GF2 V7700. It is older than the one you have, but you should try flashing it and see if it helps you. Rename extension .h to .ROM.
Re: FX5200 PCI BIOS & compatibility with detonator 45.23 driver
Posted on 2022-08-08, 16:40
I encountered this error too on a K6-2 machine. Seems like nvflash relies on an instruction that isn't present on these processors. I couldn't find any information about it either. I moved the card to a Pentium 4 machine, and Nvflash worked perfectly in that one. The BIOS version displayed during …
Re: FX5200 PCI BIOS & compatibility with detonator 45.23 driver
Posted on 2022-08-07, 22:17
I encountered this error too on a K6-2 machine. Seems like nvflash relies on an instruction that isn't present on these processors. I couldn't find any information about it either.
Re: Different versions of Live Drive?
Posted on 2022-08-07, 16:54
Impressive collection. Never saw the SB0110B. Do you by any chance also have the original "SB1394" cable for connecting the sound card to front panel and getting the front firewire working?
Re: FX5200 PCI BIOS & compatibility with detonator 45.23 driver
Posted on 2022-08-07, 16:50
Much appreciated. Re: Issue with a ti4600 Video Board. Is it fried? In this post linked above someone kindly attached nvflash (nvidia firmware utility) that works. It is a DOS program, so it should be either ran from a DOS floppy or in DOS command prompt.
Re: Windows XP Hardware Monitor?
Posted on 2022-08-06, 01:11
HWMonitor or AIDA64 should do the trick here for hardware monitoring. Latest versions should work on XP, but if not then try going a few versions back. For stress testing, I just go with 3DMark 2000 or 2005, depending on the age of hardware. These seem to reveal eventual problems. For newer hardware …
Re: Help please. Win98SE Radeon 8500
Posted on 2022-08-06, 00:47
For your uses, the MX440 would do nicely. Do not underestimate it just because it is a DX7 card - it is a very strong performer despite this. It is to my knowledge the best win9x graphics card that can run passively in a single slot. GeForce 3 Ti200 can also be acquired cheapily if you look. If you …
FX5200 PCI BIOS & compatibility with detonator 45.23 driver
Posted on 2022-08-06, 00:41
I am in a posession of a couple of FX5200 PCI cards (both 128bit, one of which has severely downclocked memory) that for some mysterious reason do not work with older drivers, like the 45.23. They reliably work with driver 6x.xx and above. Older drivers do detect the cards as FX5200, but upon reboot …
Re: Recommended 2D/3D card for a 233MMX PC
Posted on 2022-04-20, 19:53
In my experience, all these 2D strategy games from turn of millenium period are surprisingly difficult to run on period correct hardware. You are experiencing this with Heroes 3 on MMX, I saw this with a K6-2 on Red Alert 2. With this kind of processor you would be perfectly well served with a TNT1 …
3DNOW! support with Voodoo Banshee
Posted on 2022-04-20, 19:43
I noticed something odd while testing my bundle of 3dfx cards. I have a Ensoniq 3D Blaster AGP, which seems to work for the most part with reference 3dfx drivers (only after i force them via device manager, i can't find any drivers that install out of the box) However there is something that puzzles …
Re: Voodoo 1 with Riva Tnt2 as 2D Card?
Posted on 2022-03-23, 22:01
Sounds like a driver issue for the TNT. Grab the 7.76 detonators and see if that helps.
Re: Voodoo 1 with Riva Tnt2 as 2D Card?
Posted on 2022-03-16, 23:07
Well, above a certain processor speed the voodoo accelerator will be displaying either a blank screen or checkerboard pattern (or other corrupt image) when you will attempt to use it in a 3d application. It is quite interesting because to my knowledge it is the only graphics card that straight up …
Re: Voodoo 1 with Riva Tnt2 as 2D Card?
Posted on 2022-03-16, 19:42
Shouldn't be a problem. You can keep the Voodoo inside and use its passthrough. Voodoo will take over when you run glide applications, and TNT2 will be your main adapter for 2D, opengl and d3d. You might want to disable D3D from voodoo drivers so there won't be any conflicts or if games for some …
Re: Voodoo-series cards overvalued compared to nVidia TNT/TNT2/GeForce cards?
Posted on 2022-03-15, 19:35
Voodoo 5 is the one card i do not understand the appeal of, at all. Simple... V5 in its 2 incernations, is... the fastest 3dfx card you can get. Can v3 do something that v5 cant? No. V2? No... Can v5 do something that other voodoos cant? Yes 32bit color and better performance is hardly what i would …
Re: Voodoo-series cards overvalued compared to nVidia TNT/TNT2/GeForce cards?
Posted on 2022-03-15, 18:55
I am going to go against the crowd here and say that I understand why 3dfx cards are (to me) preferable over contemporary nvidia cards - however I do have to admit that the prices have soured the deal. OG Voodoo is irreplacable in the niche it covers. I won't bother with a 1995-1997 PC that doesn't …
Re: Best version of directx for Windows ME
Posted on 2022-03-09, 23:10
My issue with sticking with DX7.1 is that you have games in 2001 that already force you to install DX8 (Red Faction for example), and I see no reason why would one use WME if one wanted to stick to DX7-era and older games. I see it as a beefed-up (or bloated-up, however one sees it) release of 9x …
Re: Installing DOS drivers on an Audigy2 ZS
Posted on 2022-03-09, 23:02
For Windows ME users - this works completely fine. One small quirk - you gotta delete the "CheckOS.exe" file from the Audigy DOS driver installation folder. It won't let you install the SB16 Emulation driver otherwise. I have tested EAX in NFS4 and SB 2.0 mode in Build engine games - I haven't …
Re: Voodoo 3 3000 LC PCI woes
Posted on 2022-03-09, 22:44
I would experiment with VIA 4in1 drivers and different versions and test the card on a different board for sure. Failing on Direct3D games makes me think that there is something funky going on with rest of the DirectX components... What does dxdiag say about the Voodoo? Have you tried disabling …
Re: Replace fan for Radeon X800 XL?
Posted on 2022-03-09, 22:33
Just keep in mind that these coolers tend to take up 2 slots if not more, and the screws stick out from the back which can cause problems in tight cases. Finding single slot cooling solutions is rather difficult unfortunately.
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