voodoo4 4800 and voodoo 3 4000

[sloomy]

you also , the e mail was emtpy, please try to send it again.

i will do my best

cheers

[sloomy]

Here is the picture from recoton's cards. The card is a engineering sample, a beta version of a Voodoo4 4500 card. My theorie is maybe right, so they should just have  tested their drivers on this card, before flashing it to a Voodoo5 6000.



Can everyone see the picture, because i have had some problems with that webspaceprovider.

cheers

[Nightbird]

no picture

[sloomy]

ok

I try it so, the card is the same as that card. Do someone has any information about the card ?



Cheers

PS @recoton, sorry dude, but your picture don't allow to post themselfes  ?

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

Originally posted by sloomy

ok

I try it so, the card is the same as that card. Do someone has any information about the card ?



Cheers

PS @recoton, sorry dude, but your picture don't allow to post themselfes  ?

Well I do know what that is, it's a 3dfx Voodoo4 4500 PCI 32MB Prototype also known as an enginering sample of that type.

[Rolo01]

I thought that card was a V4-4000, but if it has 32 MB it is a V4-4500...

[recoton]

it does look like my card a guy on x3dfx has 1 similar but a different bios and im pretty sure mine doesnt have vsa 100 chip.
thanks for the help and information.

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

Originally posted by Rolo01

I thought that card was a V4-4000, but if it has 32 MB it is a V4-4500...

well on the other hand you may be right I  compared the photo of that strange Voodoo4 PCI card:

and the layout of my Voodoo4 4500 PCI 32MB does have similair looks, like the layout of the ram is the same the placement of those five chips above the PCI foot is the same only the VSA-100 it's self of this prototype is place abit more backward instead of the original Voodoo4 4500 PCI 32MB. And What also is noticable is it has entirely different condisators than the original 3dfx Voodoo4 4500 PCI 32MB Rev 3700 card I have.:



The CRT out put on this card is placed morely upper position than right at the bottom as where the CRT-Out is placed on the Original 4500 PCI's.

So this could be the only sample of the 3dfx Voodoo4 4000 PCI 16MB , but don't let is confuse you, because it may also be just an enginering sample of a 4500 PCI 32MB, just because they were trying to find out what the best layout was for this type of card.

[Rampage]

It would be really cool if it is the Voodoo 4 4000 16 MB. But i'm afraid it isn't there has never been a picture of it before, so I doubt it. Also, there is a possibility that it is just a prototype of the Voodoo 4 4500 32 MB. Does anybody knows where this picture is from, or who owns the card? That should give any clearance. However, I do hope just as everybody here, it is an Voodoo 4 4000 16 MB...

[lecram25]

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

That's a beauty Lecram25! is it yours? if so I would like a little more info on  what it really is .

A. Is it a 3dfx Voodoo4 4500 PCI 32MB Enginering Sample

of

B. Is it a 3dfx Voodoo4 4000 PCI 16MB Enginering Sample

If it is "A." it must be extreemly reae and it would be nice to own.

If it is "B." You must feel extreemly lucky to be the only owner in the world to have one of those, and yeah maybe a few benches would be nice and I would like to know what the Rev number and PCB number s too.

And hey if it isn't where did you get that photo of it, I am very intrested in this card like everyone else would be .

[Val_Parthen]

Actually, that's my card. It's a Voodoo 4 Engineering sample, with 32 megs of ram onboard. The Bios, on boot, says that it's a "Voodoo 5 6000 rev 0.28" I got it for about $50 on ebay over a year ago.

The card runs, but with graphical artifacts. I tried flashing it with a V4 4500 Bios at one point, but that made things worse, so I re-flashed it to the bios it had onboard.

Here are two more pictures:





I still have it... it sits in a drawer, along with my blank Voodoo 3 PCB.

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Edit:// Having just read through the rest of this thread, perhaps these lines from the 3dfx Source Code for BIOS stuff can help:
Sorry for the large size. The headers are as following:


Assy # | DWG # | Bus | RAM | Speed | TV | LCD | Product Name | BIOS Name | vgabios_opt = (Old build option scheme) | vgabios_opt=
(New build option scheme) | PCI Subsystem | DEVICE ID (PCI2C[31:16])   

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

Wow that's a real beauty Val Parthen! Please handle with care!

what's the Rev number? and PCB number:

an example, your Voodoo5 5500 PCI is a Rev 2900 A1

Rev A1 is readable on the top of the card just under the second VSA-100 en 2900 can be found some where on the back of the card which is printed in the PCB.

Would be nice to know the Rev Number of your Voodoo4 4500 PCI Prototype!

[lecram25]

He knows how to read card revisions

[Val_Parthen]

haha, it's a pretty neat thing to have around.

Looks like I've got this on the card: 210-0389-01-A1

And the ram, in case you were wondering, is 6ns hyundai ram: HY57V653220B

On the chip itself is:
500-0030-00
60467 SS
0001 20005
TAIWAN 18101

And in pencil, on the chip itself, it says "F51".

Enough #'s for ya?