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Title: Problems with bios
Post by: 3dfxfreak on 23 March 2006, 11:27:36
Hi,
I have some problems with my banshee card, I have delte the bios,
now i don't know how to install it again, because I can't see anything
Can somebody tell me how to make it retrogressive.
Same problems I have with my voodoo 3.
Thanks now.
Title: Problems with bios
Post by: bloodworm on 23 March 2006, 14:56:05
you're going to need ANOTHER video card to "boot" with installed at the same time the voodo card is.  any old PCI VGA card will do here.
Title: Problems with bios
Post by: 3dfxfreak on 24 March 2006, 11:45:20
Can it be an onboardgraphiccard? Because my other card is an AGP Card.
Title: Problems with bios
Post by: bloodworm on 24 March 2006, 14:59:16
probably not, since your ONBOARD video card is most likely an AGP card too!  you really need a motherboard with NO onboard video to do a BIOS rewrite properly to an AGP 3dfx card anyways.  try to find a PCI elcheapo card from a friend or something.....
Title: Problems with bios
Post by: Phoenix 2006 on 27 March 2006, 00:53:40
Hello !

For Banshee & Voodoo3
on this web page
http://www.v3info.de/english/html/downloads.shtml
you will find a recovery disk and the EXACT procedure to recover from a failed BIOS Update.

For Banshee only
ftp://ftp.guillemot.com/video/exe/PHX/
This is for Guillemot Maxi Gamer Phoenix, but should work for most Banshee boards because these are generic BIOS & drivers from 3dfx
bgp9x110.exe creates a bootdisk that is able to revive a banshee board, but WARNING : it contains a TSR BIOS for SGRAM (not SDRAM)

latest 3dfx official Banshee ROM BIOS & TSR BIOS
http://www.geocities.com/bansheedrivers/page4.html

TSR BIOS is a Terminate & Stay Resident small DOS program that contains a BIOS image and loads it so that you see the DOS screen again

Best regards
Title: Problems with bios
Post by: 3dfxfreak on 27 March 2006, 15:13:50
Thank's a lot.