Can the Voodoo 5-5500 MAC (PCI/DVI) work on a PC?

[Chips]

Hi there,

I have spotted a Voodoo5 5500 PCI card for the MAC for sale, but I don't have (and dont want) a MAC.

Do the XP drivers on this site work with this card?

Cheers,

Chips.

[Rolo01]

First you have to flash a new Bios to the card.
This is quite easy, a bios with DVI enabled can be downloaded at http://welcome.to/3dfxbios
After that the XP drivers work fine.

[Chips]

Sweet!  Thanks.

This means I can move my SLI Voodoo2 cards into my AMD K6-2 550 with the geforceMX 400 and shove this card into my M590 (disabline onboard AGP of course!)

[Chips]

Originally posted by Rolo01

First you have to flash a new Bios to the card.
This is quite easy, a bios with DVI enabled can be downloaded at http://welcome.to/3dfxbios
After that the XP drivers work fine.

OK, but can I flash it on my PC or do I need to do the flash on a MAC or an EEPROM programmer?  i.e.  will the PC still be able to talk to the PCI card with the MAC bios?

Thanks again!

[secretfj]

seems you can flash the card in a normal PC

[Rolo01]

Yes, you can flash it in a normal PC.
I did this to a MAC V4-4500 and it worked without problems.
Maybe you have to try several times when then flashing program reports something like "No 3dfx card found".

[bloodworm]

You will also need another video card to be running to see anything to flash......  the onboard one should do nicely!  disable it AFTER flashing......

[Chips]

Thanks for all the help guys.

I'm going to have some fun I think because my M590's onboard AGP is automatically disabled when you add a PCI card:D

Thats OK, I got 3 other desktops here.

I'll post back here when it's done....first I've got to get the Voodoo5 lol[8D]

[Chips]

Hmmm, I just purchased 2 PCI MAC versions of the Voodoo5 5500.

The first was located in the US at http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5200032154 which was totalled US$66 including shipping.

But the other one located in my home country of Australia at http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5199063096 was a huge US$108 including shipping!

Go figure!

Anyway, both my brother and I have one of these legendery pieces of hardware (Man, I always wanted one of these)

I'll post back here once I am done flashing the BIOS with info/benchmarks and screenies of some of my favourite games.

[Chips]

Originally posted by Rolo01

Yes, you can flash it in a normal PC.
I did this to a MAC V4-4500 and it worked without problems.
Maybe you have to try several times when then flashing program reports something like "No 3dfx card found".

OK, I got the card but I got a big problem trying to flash it.  Seems that the program keeps reporting "ERROR: No 3dfx banshee or voodoo 3 card found" - similar to what you said.  How many times do you have to retry?  I spent hours trying different things. I'm using flash utility 2.14 - maybe I should try the older version??

Does the mainboard chipset matter?  Does it matter what PCI slot I put the card in?  I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong here!


Can you help me out??

[bytesaber]

Chips.  What was your outcome?  I want to do this too and considering buying one.

[ps47]

you are replying to a 5 year old topic..anyway,the working v5dvi BIOSes can be found here: http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4254

[bytesaber]

I sure did >: )

Anyhow, thanks!  I didn't know someone made nice ones with logos.  Was just using some others that turned up on google.

Now if I could just get my DVI working as a secondary monitor properly.  Don't suppose you have any random guesses to another post that i've been hoping a response on.
http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=16825

Thanks!