Hi, 

Another one more... V4 4200 

Regards,
Oscar

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thanks for the tip

I may hope nevertheless which we one driver find.
that perfectly functions...

sorry my english is so bad

Best Regards

Yeah, he ignored 3 Mails from me by now, so he's definitely not 'quite' the supportive kinda guy

Anyway, maybe he can be arsed to finally share 'his precious' knowledge with us, after the "Ring of Profits" evil powers wear off 

btw, IBM plays 'hide & seek' as well, since I didn't get even an automated reply after a week now.

I only have all those numbers that I already posted.

None of these were usable in the IBM search Database.

The Serial No. is IMHO used only for complete Systems, e.g. finding Support for a Server, but there's no such number existing on the Card itself (which IMHO only carries the combined Part/Serial No. 09P1049, which does not turn out any Results).

PS.
I do pray to god I never have to rely on IBM Support pages in my lifetime, since this is by a fair margin the most painful Website I ever saw, trying to find any useful Information.
They really have to clean up their act, and get this mess of Products Pages mixed with totally irrelevant advertising Pages sorted out. Useful Information (if available at all) is at best buried somewhere after 10 Links of unessential to totally misleading Pages

Finding a DirectX3 SDK from the MicroSoft Download Center seems an easier Task than getting a plain Driver from IBM
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The Seller finally answered to my inquiries :

However, he said they pulled the Cards from IBM AS/400 and RS6000 Servers.

Beats me, but if true, there might be AIX- and Unix-Drivers available somewhere, albeit not useful for us

There seem to be no useful Server specifications that also list the Video Options on IBM's Labyrinth of Product pages.
Heck, I couldn't even find the default Operating Systems those shipped with.
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IMHO , it is the best to continue testing the latest available 3dfx Win9x/Win2k (WinNT?) Driver Files, since at least the Win9x Driver is good enough to at least run the Card within certain limitations.

I'll scan through my offline Archive and do a search for the DeviceID, maybe there's something useful hidden in those unevaluated Files.

Little hint :

If you have kids and want to keep them busy :
Tell them to find a Driver on IBM's Support Page

(remember to feed and water them frequently, they'll be gone for weeks and may need professional help after the experience)

What bugs me the most :
If it ever existed, they probably have the Driver...
...somewhere buried in their Software Archives...

We'd just need to take vacation and set out a Team of "the Fellowship" to find it.
(so we just need an Elf, a few Hobbits, a Dwarf and a few courageous humans)

*ugh*

Well, I'm in the progress of searching my entire Offline File Pool right now for "VEN_121A&DEV_000B" , as it should appear in the Driver's .inf File (if it claims to support the Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI).

So far, it turned up to exist in the following Drivers/Standalone File (which surprised me) :

3dHQ 1.09 Beta 5 Win2k/XP
3dfx Win9x 1.04.00
3dfx Win9x 1.04.01beta
3dfxvs2k.inf (unknown)

I'm still searching (lots of Files), but at least the Win9x Drivers have proven to at least work to some extend.

The Win2k ones I obviously never used or tested myself, so they're basically just candidates (but promising).

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Okidok, those are the ones found from already extracted Files.

I'll now unpack all 3dHQ Drivers I have and see in which others the String appears as well, and check out the actual Core Files used with them.

Follow-up findings :
3dHQ Beta 4 Win9x
3dHQ Beta 4 Win2k
3dHQ Beta 4 WinXP

(edit)
Since this Yabb Forum doesn't take attachments :
http://www.falconfly.de/temp/Inf.zip
(the unknown inf, seems to be modded and belong to the 3dfx V1.04.00 Win2k Driver)

I think all 3dHQ Drivers from Beta4 upwards should have the String in their .inf as well.

Odd...

He certainly won't get alot of money if he cancels those Auctions over and over (although possible someone made him an offer he couldn't resist)

I think that the  attitude of the seller, is for rise the price of the ITEM!

Regards,
Oscar