Hi everyone,
You may remember my problems flashing a Voodoo 5 5500 PCI card recently only to find it was DEAD!
Well, I have another one with a totally different error message.
Everytime I go to flash it with the PC BIOS it says:
"ERROR: Unknown flash EEPROM manufacturer. (Man. ID: AAH, Dev ID. CEH)"
Does anyone know about this error and what I can do to overcome the problem??
Thanks!
OK, I've found the problem (sort of)
I put it into a PII 333 LX mainboard now it's flashing:)
Weird, I thought my PC CHIPS SIS chipset mainboard would of been fine....maybe it was because I didn't have it in pci slot 1...who knows.
the SIS chipsets have always been the SLOWEST chipsets for the PII and PIII that I have EVER come across...... get yourself a really stable Intel BX or BX2 motherboard for rocksolid compatability of the older voodoo products...... PCI OR AGP.....
True, but this SIS chipset is on a Super Socket 7 board with an AMD K6-2 500 on it - when it comes to the K6-2 family, theres not much choice in terms of chipsets! :D
I actually prefer Intel, but don't mind SIS especially if you compare it to VIA[V] (I have 4 PC's with all these different chipsets)
I installed the latest Amigamerlin and after running MDK2, Counter Strike 1.5, and Unreal Tournament I found no significant increase in frames-per-second compared to my Voodoo 2 SLI configuration...except that now I can increase the colour depth and the texture quality:) and of course my 2D preformance was awesome as well!
I do plan in the long run to upgrade the mobo to a P-III Intel Chipset - that will be very sweet with the V5!