Hello,

To Superbox: i`d like to know which BIOS you finally used for flash you V5 MAC. And I`m interessted if your DVI output really work. `cos after i flashed my V5 Mac, i have DVI option in 3dfx tools but when i attached a flat panel on it doesn`t work.

http://www.forumzone.it/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=9129&FORUM_ID=73&CAT_ID=25&Topic_Title=V5+5500+pci+per+Mac+con+DVI+out&Forum_Title=Supporto+ed+ottimizzazione

AthlonXP 2100+@2700+, 256MB PC266@333 RAM,MSI MS-746F Ultra,
Voodoo5 MAC PCI

Hello vykupitel,

I only received the card about a week ago, and I haven't done a lot with it yet, but I'll try and help you anyway.
I used this bios: http://www.voodooalert.de/files/bios/V5/v5pcivers118dvi.zip

Abuot your question: I'm sorry... I haven't any flat monitor right now to test the DVI output correctly.
I thought I could use the Radeon VGA-DVI connector, but the pins are not placed in the same way as of the Radeon, so I haven't tested it yet.
Further more, I am using Amigamerlin 3.0 and Koolsmoky's V-Control, because the tools caused WinXP to hang at startup (I use the V5 PCI in conjunction with a radeon 9700pro, on the same machine, so this is maybe an IRQ conflict problem). V-Control does not seem to have any option to enable/disable the DVI output.

Apart from this, one thing is obvious: switching to DVI in winxp seems not to be possibile at the moment, so we can guess the DVI output is not correctly detected.
This is a pic that show how the 2 video output of my Radeon are easily detected by the O/S, while the V5 looks like having just one vga output:



I thought we need Amigamerlin or somebody "inside" this card (Hank?) to know if we can find any kind of solution (a windows registry key?) to make Windows detect this output.

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It seems that V5 doesn`t have dualhead support.I think that DVI output is only for flat monitors and the image is the same like pro CRT output.I`ve try to ask Hank about it.It will be nice to have dualhead V5 :-)

AthlonXP 2100+@2700+, 256MB PC266@333 RAM,MSI MS-746F Ultra,
Voodoo5 MAC PCI