Trying to get this card to work on Windows ME, but there are no official drivers. Anything out there to get it to work? THANKS

Put in a 400W PS with same results, actually froze and rebooted. Desktop graphics are fine (2D) but as soon as you run something in 3D (games, dxdiag) freezing.

That was the first thing I did which made me believe the card was dead, was play a game (Star Wars Rogue Squadron, Croc). I swapped the PSU with a 400W, same problem. I'm trying to dig up another computer to try it in that.

I definately think it's the card, but I've never seen a card work and only have problems when playing 3D games. They are either dead or graphics are corrupt. That's why this whole thing is so strange???

It's an old Gateway PC
AMD Athlon 1gig
384mb ram
250W PS
I've tried different drivers, reference and unofficial, the only difference is when and how it freezes, crashes or reboots.
Tried XP, ME...
I'm hesitant to pull out the 250W PS and replace with another. After all, did they even make anything over a 250W when this card came out? Could it have lost power over the years, it is an old PS & PC?
But why no problems with the Radeon?

Wattage is 250 and I did a fresh install on both XP & ME to try to get this to work.
It's definately the Voodoo 5 5500 AGP
I put in a Nvidia Vanta LT AGP, Voodoo 3 AGP & now a ATI Radeon X1650 AGP (which uses a floppy power wire).
All work!
When using dxdiag Test Direct 3D to test the Voodoo5, the spinning box would spin very slow, lock up, or reboot, depending on the drivers. But when testing the ATI Radeon X1600AGP which is a more demanding board (512mb), it works fine, as do the others.
ODD!

I've been running a Voodoo 4 PCI in this rig using Windows XP and all was fine. I wanted a Voodoo 5 because it had an AGP slot and it's 64mb compared to 32 on the Voodoo 4.
It's definately the Voodoo 5 5500 AGP
I put in a Nvidia Vanta LT AGP, Voodoo 3 AGP & now a ATI Radeon X1650 AGP (which uses a floppy power wire).
All work!
When using dxdiag Test Direct 3D to test the Voodoo5, the spinning box would spin very slow, lock up, or reboot, depending on the drivers. But when testing the ATI Radeon X1600AGP which is a more demanding board (512mb), it works fine, as do the others.
It's a 250 watt power supply, and I've used reference drivers in both XP & ME as well as unofficial and all do the same.

Recently purchased a 3DFX Voodoo 5 AGP on ebay for $50. Installed it and it booted and ran fine, until... I tried to play a game. Nothing, just black screen. I rebooted and entered dxdiag. Ran a test on Direct 3D and same thing, freezing directx box. Installed Windows ME with 1.04 reference drivers. Same thing, rotating box in dxdiag would freeze. Does a Voodoo 5 require a certain amount of wattage from the PSU because of the power plug? Usually cards just die? Any other suggestions? THANKS!

Recently purchased a 3DFX Voodoo 5 AGP on ebay for $50. Installed it and it booted and ran fine, until... I tried to play a game. Nothing, just black screen. I rebooted and entered dxdiag. Ran a test on Direct 3D and same thing, freezing directx box. Installed Windows ME with 1.04 reference drivers. Same thing, rotating box in dxdiag would freeze. Does a Voodoo 5 require a certain amount of wattage from the PSU because of the power plug? Usually cards just die? Any other suggestions? THANKS!

Your drivers worked GREAT PS47. The 3Dfx logo even appeared before playing games where they didn't before. Rogue Squadron playe at all resolutions. Once again... THANKS!

Why are the glide file versions in the 1.03 reference drivers newer than in 1.04. The version numbers are higher in 1.03 (2.60.0.659 vs. 2.60.0.658 for glide2 & 3.10.0.659 vs. 3.10.0.658 for glide3).

I am unable to run this game at any higher resolution than 480x640. Anything higher crashes to desktop or restarts machine (odd!). Using compatability mode slows down the menus to a crawl. I'm using the 3dfx reference 1.04 win2000 drivers but replaced glide 2 & 3 with the ones fron the latest SFFT release. All games work great except for this resolution problem?

THANKS! Got it to work. What in your opinion is the best way to run 3dfx games in XP? Is it hit or miss? I mean I'd love to have the 3dfx logo appear before a game starts. This is only a secondary machine I want to dedicate to 3dfx and Voodoo but hate running 98 or ME. I wish there was some tutorial out there considering I got 3 3dfx cards lying around and 2 old computers (Banshee PCI, Voodoo 3 AGP, Voodoo 4500 PCI & a 500 mhz Compaq, 1 gig Gateway). Any help would be appreciated.

Whenever I try to start Star Wars Rogue Squadron, I get the error message, "Could Not Initialize Hal". I am using the Alpha SFFT drivers with a Voodoo 4500 PCI on XP SP2. Older machine of Pentium 951 with 354 RAM. Same message when I chose Voodoo Glide or D3D on video setup. Is there a way to fix this or other driver to reccomend. THANKS