thx for the research bloody, i'll focus on my mb for now and try to get the latest/best biosupdate/settings for the voodoo.
someone else got my mb and faced similar problems?

Kyon_CoraeL, bios is 1.18 as stated above, and yes it's an updated one.

i know how to install the drivers on xp. i tried to set the voodoo up on my win98se partition first. then tried on xp to have some reference, if maybe the os is cause of the problem.
.. obviously it's not the os..:/

that sweety is running on a abit kt7a. thought of latest chipset drivers too. i will restart working with her soon, i think. atm i lack the time and the nerves (of steel ).
the bios settings are ok. did check them before even putting her on my mb.

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weird thing to notice: with the xp default drivers the card can do 3d3 without any problems. I don't know if they use single chip rendering by default; just wondered.....</edit>

ok, i replaced the fans on the coolers with some decent papst i borrowed, found an old AT power supply and ran the voodoo on her own 250W power supply and still she freezes on glide or d3d.
btw, i don't think it's a heat problem, for the card runs absolutely stable in non-hardware accel. mode and the freeze is on switching to the accellerated mode (distorted picture + freeze).
is it possible, that some hardware damage is the cause?

i did. same problem with all drivers i tested (these were the most common, i think).

300W noname
and no the card is not overclocked.

hiho,
I bought myself a voodoo 5 5500 lately and am now trying to set her up properly.
I managed to set up the drivers (correctly, imho) and was starting to test glide/direct3d. on testing the card displays a fuzzy blurr of colors (looks like the distorted desktopscreen) and my system freezes.
I limited the rendering to single chip rendering for d3d and d3d works fine now (althou i'm not happy limiting my card). glide still causes the distorted screen and locks my system..
anyone encountered a similar problem, or can give me a hint what is wrong with my voodoo/system/setup?

my systems specs:
duron 800 @ win98SE
Voodoo 5 5500 Agp with 1.18 bios,
Amigamerlin 2.5 drivers
Directx 9.0c

i tested compability for d3d with dxdiag and glide with the diablo2 d2vidtst.

thx in advance...

E.