I Need Help! My V5500 only works with MS drivers!

Started by dmoser, 14 March 2006, 19:18:18

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dmoser

Hello everybody!

I've a problem: my Voodoo5 5500 PCI only works with de Windows XP SP2 built-in driver.
(My BIOS version is the 1.18, took from this site.)
I've tried many driver: SFFT-Alpha35, AMIGAMERLIN3.1, VoodooXtreme_1.07.01... When one of these drivers are instaled, when I open any program that uses OpenGl ou D3D (Dx) the computer stops! And I have to restart manually...
I realized one interesting thing: all drivers show 64MB of video memory in my card, less the windows' driver, that show 32MB of memory.
I think the problem is related to the 33-64MB memory chip. Can this be possible? How can I use my Voodoo5 5500 only with 32MB?
Any help are welcome!
Thanks!
Daniel Moser
dmoser at pop.com.br
 

Raff3DC

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Hm ... maybe one GPU is dead ... I don't know any details, but probably the windows default driver uses single-chip mode ... it should just give basic compatibility. One chip uses 32 MiB of VRAM.

Did you try to force single-chip via V.Control? While using the SFFT. :) If it works then, your second VSA has died ...

Greetings from Germany,
Raff
The biggest Voodoo5 6000 test ever: http://3dcenter.de/artikel/voodoo5-6000/

ps47

I had this problem once.turned up to be a screwed up xp install..

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dmoser

Probably my second chip is dead. Because if I disable it using the V.Control, if works perfectly.
I think it doesn't is XP problem.
I'm using a Asus A8N-E.
Thanks for the Help!
 

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OS Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2 CPU Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz with HT (Northwood)
Motherboard ASUS P4P800 Deluxe RAM 1 GB Kingston DDR400 3-3-3-8 Dual Channel
Video NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT AGP 256 MB Audio SoundMAX Digital Audio

OS Microsoft Windows ME CPU Intel Pentium III 1.0 GHz (Coppermine)
Motherboard ASUS P3V4X RAM 256 MB Kingston PC133 2-2-2-6
Video 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP 64 MB Audio Creative Sound Blaster Live!