Recently reinstalled my voodoo 5500pci into my pc its a mac version with a flashed bios. Installed the amiga merlin drivers along with the v-control panel and noticed im only getting the option of 2xfsaa and the control panel is saying ive a 4500 installed. Is it possible one of the cores has died?
you have flashed it with wrong BIOS.flash it with this one:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/g.stanton/3dfxbios/files/v5_5500/1.18PCIDV5.zip
QuoteOriginally posted by ps47
you have flashed it with wrong BIOS.flash it with this one:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/g.stanton/3dfxbios/files/v5_5500/1.18PCIDV5.zip
Its definately got the right bios, on the bootup it says voodoo 5 5500 etc. Don;t think another bios flash would make any real difference :(
If one of cores died it would crash on any 3D, they do not disable automatically.
Just flash it to bios ps47 noted.
Well this is kind of odd. When i first got the card a few years ago it was preflashed to a 5500 bios, i used to play klingon academy with 4xfsaa so i nkow it was a 5500 at one time. HAsn;t been used in years so when i reinstalled it only one core was being detected like the bios had been reverted to a 4500. I tried the above bios with no luck/ Then i just took the card out and decided to reattach the heatsinks using thermal epoxy instead of the half ton of glue that was holding them on. I cleaned the cores and epoxied the heatsinks to the cores. Put it back into the pc, it gets into windows and installs as a 5500 pci which is now working fine. Somewhat weird to say the least.
very weird, maybe you installed it in different pci slot (this would cause windows driver reinstall)?