Silly me - I hadn't fully cleaned the PCI contacts. I haven't put it into my current Windows 7 machine yet (it's a full size ATX system, and I don't feel like trying to install the Voodoo card alongside my Radeon HD 5750).

But I grabbed a cheap Socket 7 motherboard with an AMD K6-2! It boots with the Voodoo card, now I just need to figure out how to install a Windows OS without an IDE CD drive or floppy drive.

The card is still alive, at least!

They put the article on GeForce.com here. In the context of the joke, 233 VSA-100 chips match the GTX 590.  

Quote"Hey, kick ass, old school graphics needs some juice. We are taking a brute force approach to rendering. We have a few power issues to sort out, but it's mostly done."

I can't believe no one's brought it up on these forums yet!

It makes me think that some 3dfx branding mods for NVidia cards might be amusing. NVidia could have made a GTX 590 reference card with orange PCB and a four-fan cooler (I don't think you'd want to actually run the card, except in an open workbench where you could show it off, anyways), maybe held a photo contest for people to show off their old cards and Glide game collection - the prize being the "Voodoo 590".

Hello, folks! I recently snatched up a Voodoo4 4500 PCI card. It's mostly because I wanted to collect it, but it would be nice if I could get it working for some tests, too.

I installed the latest SFFT drivers and adjusted some BIOS settings (including returning my FSB to its stable default, and of course setting VGA to check for PCI graphics first).

I had read that on LCD screens the BIOS POST won't appear, but even Windows 7 (64-bit) isn't recognizing the card, not even as an Unknown Device. (It's like there's nothing in the PCI slot - and I know the slot works with other cards.) The fan on the card spins, so it's getting power, but that's all I know.

I'll be setting up a Linux partition later in the week, at which point I'll also try the card again. Any hints, tips, or suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks in advance. Oh, and here's a picture: Link for full size


The card is almost too long for my mini-case, about a centimeter from touching the power supply, less if you consider that the wires are too stiff to move out of the way.

And I know, I need to clean it up!