Voodoo 3 compatibility with gigabyte

[Kubiak]

Has anyone out there found a gigabyte board that will work
fine with the Voodoo 3 chipset <either 2000 or 3000 model>? My BXC
has a fit with it <I know what the problem is> but I'm wondering if
there are any models out there that work fine. BX2000 perhaps?

[si...@my-deja.com]

In article <38627dff...@news.supernews.com>,

running a 3500 on a gigabyte ga-6bxc and haven't had any problems

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[Micky]

My Voodoo 3 2000 is working fine on a GA-5AA

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[John Page]

GA-5ax works fine with both models.

>
> Has anyone out there found a gigabyte board that will work
>fine with the Voodoo 3 chipset <either 2000 or 3000 model>? My BXC
>has a fit with it <I know what the problem is> but I'm wondering if
>there are any models out there that work fine. BX2000 perhaps?

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John

[Jeff Cochrane]

Hi there..
If your BXC mobo is a revision 2.0 board or later, change jumpers JP12 &13
to both ON instead of OFF (which is the defualt).
That will enable Voodoo 3 support for you.
If your mobo doesnt have those jumpers, the board to get is either another
BXC (rev 2.0 or later), A BXE (rev 2.0 or later), A BX2000 (rev 1.1 or
later) or, A BX2000+ (Which is the same as the BX2000 but with the Promise
Technology ATA66 chipset in addittion to the standard BX chipset's IDE
controller) (Any version of the BX2000+ is ok).

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I hope this helps.

Jeff C.

Have a great christmas!!

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[Alex Bridges]

BX200 rev 1.1 works fine (once you change the correct jumper to change
volatge settings for the voodoo3

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[Tommy Kelly]

I'm having games-bombing-to-desktop problems with
a Voodoo3/2000 on a BX2000. I've got the latest
drivers (plus DirectX7) for the voodoo and the
problem is still there.

My next option is updating the BX2000 drivers.
I'll let you know - but so far I'm not amused.

t

Rainer Schumacher wrote in message <38669959...@news.ndh.net>...
>On Thu, 23 Dec 1999 19:56:32 GMT, ske...@spamoff.hotmail.com (Kubiak)
>wrote:

>
>>
>> Has anyone out there found a gigabyte board that will work
>>fine with the Voodoo 3 chipset <either 2000 or 3000 model>? My BXC
>>has a fit with it <I know what the problem is> but I'm wondering if
>>there are any models out there that work fine. BX2000 perhaps?
>

>I'm using a GA 686LX with newest BIOS (1.21 from 12/98) and a V3 3K
>AGP. Never had any problems. Hope it stays that way.
>
>Rainer

[Rainer Schumacher]

[Tommy Kelly]

Just checked - I already have the latest motherboard
BIOS.
And its a 1.1 board, with the voodoo support jumper
JP20/21 shorted as per the manual.

The thing is still goosed, but now I don't
know whether to blame the voodoo or the
motherboard :-(

t

Tommy Kelly wrote in message <846666$2ei$1...@news6.svr.pol.co.uk>...

>I'm having games-bombing-to-desktop problems with
>a Voodoo3/2000 on a BX2000. I've got the latest
>drivers (plus DirectX7) for the voodoo and the
>problem is still there.
>
>My next option is updating the BX2000 drivers.
>I'll let you know - but so far I'm not amused.
>
>t
>
>
>Rainer Schumacher wrote in message <38669959...@news.ndh.net>...

[Paul Lower]

Hi Rainer
My Gygabyte BX2000 works fine with a VoodooIII 3000 but only after changing
two jumpers on the motherboard. JP20 and JP21 are shorted to increase the
voltage to the AGP slot. There are two types of BX2000 boards however and
the earlier type does not have these jumpers. The revision 2 board can be
identified by the coloured serial parallel sockets.
Regards
Paul
Rainer Schumacher <rainer.s...@ndh.net> wrote in message
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[Rainer Schumacher]

On Sun, 26 Dec 1999 21:32:14 -0000, "Paul Lower"
<pa...@lowerp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

My Board is an LX-Board, not an BX-Board. It's much older than yours
(I suppose). I'm just running a PII-333 on it. I don't have any
jumpers to change the AGP-Voltage. According to the impression I've
got by reading so many threads about this subject (not only here, but
also on 3dfxgamers) it shouldn't run with an V3 AGP, but it does. I've
just played 3 hours of Freespace2 (3dfx, very high detail): no
crashes, no glitches or whatsoever. Last week I played several hours
UT over a LAN and no crashes and so on ...
So now I have a question: Why does my old board accept the V3? The
Gigabyte-FAQ says, we should EXPECT Mobos, which support V3AGP. Well,
out of experience, I'd say, they have at least one (mine), which
supports the card. Why? While following all those threads, I was
always thinking: NOW my system will crash; NOW my monitor will show
strange, psychedelic pictures ... Nothing. The only problems I had so
far, since installing the V3, were with older games like FF7, but
even those problems turned out not to be V3 related
And to those, who are experiencing problems with their V3 AGP: Isn't
it possible in your countries to change the AGP-Version for a PCI?
Since the V3 doesn't support AGP-Texturing, there shouldn't be any
difference.

I sincerely hope, that GA finds a solution to this problem without
telling people to buy a new board. Otherwise this new board could be
an ASUS .... ; )

Rainer

[horationelson]

Of course Voodoo 3's run fine in all brands of motherboard. There are
several problems the idiot user (me included) can generate for
him/herself when installing a Voodoo 3.

No. 1 - with AMD processors. You must set Write allocate to ENABLE in
the BIOS

No. 2 - conflicts with sound card. Poor quality cards, out of date
drivers, etc etc.

No. 3 - no available IRQ. V3 cards need an IRQ, and one that isn't
shared.

No. 4 - Old video card drivers, especially those for the Voodoo 2, must
be de-installed, preferably first!

If you put a V3 in a new build computer it is (almost) never a problem.

As for voltage issues - well, there must be some hardware problems in
the world.

The Voodoo 3 uses the AGP slot as a fast PCI bus ONLY. Since nothing is
limited by the capacity of the bus, the PCI versions, which have fewer
install problems in my experience, and are also cheaper, are a better
buy. However, baby AT and micro ATX format motherboards have a real
shortage of PCI slots....

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[Mister X]

Seems from other posts that there were definitely some major probs with
earlier gigabyte boards.
Most of the boards seem to have been changed on new revisions and include
jumpers which must be set for voodoo3 cards.
X

[nightowl]

I have a Voodoo3 2000 working perfectly on my revsion 1.9 Gigabyte 6BXE
Motherboard

Nightowl

"Jeff Cochrane" <som...@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> Hi there..
> If your BXC mobo is a revision 2.0 board or later, change jumpers JP12 &13
> to both ON instead of OFF (which is the defualt).
> That will enable Voodoo 3 support for you.
> If your mobo doesnt have those jumpers, the board to get is either another
> BXC (rev 2.0 or later), A BXE (rev 2.0 or later), A BX2000 (rev 1.1 or
> later) or, A BX2000+ (Which is the same as the BX2000 but with the Promise
> Technology ATA66 chipset in addittion to the standard BX chipset's IDE
> controller) (Any version of the BX2000+ is ok).
>
> --
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Jeff C.
>
> Have a great christmas!!
>
> "Kubiak" <ske...@spamoff.hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:38627dff...@news.supernews.com...
> >

[Francis Chui]

There is an interesting page on how to modify an ABIT LX-6 to support the
Voodoo
3000 found at http://hem.fyristorg.com/redtop/ looks like what they do is
connect the ATX
3.3V to the AGP Voltage regulator so more current can be supplied. I wonder
if this is
possible with the GABXC/BXE/BX2000's that have this current problem.

It also looks like Abit is willing to modify any warranty motherboards free
of charge (you
probably have to pay for postage) I wish Gigabyte would offer to do the
same...

Francis

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> In article <38627dff...@news.supernews.com>,
> ske...@spamoff.hotmail.com (Kubiak) wrote:
> >

> > Has anyone out there found a gigabyte board that will work
> > fine with the Voodoo 3 chipset <either 2000 or 3000 model>? My BXC
> > has a fit with it <I know what the problem is> but I'm wondering if
> > there are any models out there that work fine. BX2000 perhaps?
> >

[Michael Tappenden]

I have A voodoo3 3000 set up nearly perfectly on a 5AX

Mister X <X...@x.com> wrote in message news:s72k08...@corp.supernews.com...

[Ray J]

have a BX2000 and V3 2000 AGP and zip probs.

Ray

Paul Lower wrote:
>
> Hi Rainer
> My Gygabyte BX2000 works fine with a VoodooIII 3000 but only after changing
> two jumpers on the motherboard. JP20 and JP21 are shorted to increase the
> voltage to the AGP slot. There are two types of BX2000 boards however and
> the earlier type does not have these jumpers. The revision 2 board can be
> identified by the coloured serial parallel sockets.
> Regards
> Paul
> Rainer Schumacher <rainer.s...@ndh.net> wrote in message
> news:38669959...@news.ndh.net...

> > On Thu, 23 Dec 1999 19:56:32 GMT, ske...@spamoff.hotmail.com (Kubiak)

> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Has anyone out there found a gigabyte board that will work
> > >fine with the Voodoo 3 chipset <either 2000 or 3000 model>? My BXC
> > >has a fit with it <I know what the problem is> but I'm wondering if
> > >there are any models out there that work fine. BX2000 perhaps?
> >

> > I'm using a GA 686LX with newest BIOS (1.21 from 12/98) and a V3 3K
> > AGP. Never had any problems. Hope it stays that way.
> >
> > Rainer

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