I just got my first 100SB-4400 from ebay! I really love Quantum3D products, like everybody else here;)
But the seller told me that vga doesn't work. TV outs are perfect, I played already. The card is in a great shape too. So what could be with the vga? Maybe it needs a pass-thru cable to work?
I saw somebody had the same card here with the same problem. Maybe it is the same card also?:)

Menkau_ra wrote on 02.01.10 at 18:21:54:

I just got my first 100SB-4400 from ebay! I really love Quantum3D products, like everybody else here;) But the seller told me that vga doesn't work. TV outs are perfect, I played already. The card is in a great shape too. So what could be with the vga? Maybe it needs a pass-thru cable to work? I saw somebody had the same card here with the same problem. Maybe it is the same card also?:)

Yeah, probably you guessed it

Menkau_ra wrote on 02.01.10 at 18:21:54:

I just got my first 100SB-4400 from ebay! I really love Quantum3D products, like everybody else here;) But the seller told me that vga doesn't work. TV outs are perfect, I played already. The card is in a great shape too. So what could be with the vga? Maybe it needs a pass-thru cable to work? I saw somebody had the same card here with the same problem. Maybe it is the same card also?:)

I think you are referring to 2000lfd's card? That's Gary Donovan, a mod here on Falconfly.

Most likely something is broken on a hardware level. No telling what it can be.

Tim wrote on 03.01.10 at 01:01:51:

I think you are referring to 2000lfd's card? That's Gary Donovan, a mod here on Falconfly. Most likely something is broken on a hardware level. No telling what it can be.

I suspect the card has a custom "firmware" in the xlinx chip so it is limiting it to TV output only, as to why I'm not sure.

I do have the xlinx programmer and documentaion but never got around to tinkering with it, too much on my plate.

That's what I thought! Do you know where I can buy this xlinx programmer? There is nothing on ebay. And where I can find the original firmware?

gdonovan wrote on 03.01.10 at 15:59:14:

I suspect the card has a custom "firmware" in the xlinx chip so it is limiting it to TV output only, as to why I'm not sure. I do have the xlinx programmer and documentaion but never got around to tinkering with it, too much on my plate.

You was right! I can see that some one tried to put a programmer on all chips, xilinx one of them. But why do you think it is xilinx causes the problem? I am thinking to buy a Willem programmer, but will I need to buy a special converter to this chip?

Menkau_ra wrote on 04.01.10 at 00:32:05:

But why do you think it is xilinx causes the problem?

Quantum3D use the xilinx chips to control what the board will and will not do, they also use the chip as a "key" for certain locked programs.

So what programmer I need to buy?

Menkau_ra wrote on 04.01.10 at 02:01:08:

So what programmer I need to buy?

I'll see if I still have mine, it is yours for what it cost me.

gdonovan wrote on 04.01.10 at 02:52:57:

I'll see if I still have mine, it is yours for what it cost me.

And how much did it cost you? :)

Should it be a 44-pin head on a programmer? Or I have to uses a 6-pin connector near the xilinx?

Menkau_ra wrote on 05.01.10 at 16:31:39:

I'll see if I still have mine, it is yours for what it cost me.

so do you still have it?

The two daughterboards for this board, what does they do?

gdonovan,
if you don't have a programmer no more, can you tell me, please, what xilinx programmer exectily I am looking for? There are many different ones on ebay.
I really want to make this card working.

Menkau_ra wrote on 22.01.10 at 18:37:51:

gdonovan, if you don't have a programmer no more, can you tell me, please, what xilinx programmer exectily I am looking for? There are many different ones on ebay. I really want to make this card working.

I do have it but since you have the board on ebay thought you were disinterested.

It's beacause I thought I have no chance to fix it. I don't now much about Quantums, but when I got mine Obsidian2 X-24 the seller said that his didn't have a medusa cable and put a very good price on that. This time I didn't now who was the seller, and I thought it uses the same 26pin medusa cable, the one I have already. If I would know that seller was you, and you are pro in Quantums, I guess I wouldn't put my bid.
My goal is to fix the card and use it. If I can't fix it I'll sell it to somebody who can.