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Help needed! How to power up my AAlchemy 8164?
03.01.08 at 19:00:03

I need some serious help.
I have an AAlchemy 8164 with an "unknown" powerboard. Gary once said that with this thing i do not need the special PSU. A generic ATX power supply (of course with enough Watts) will be sufficant. But where to connect it?

I made a picture... as you can see one 24pin ATX connector ist taped off. The seller said i do not need to use that one. And there was a 24pin capble included for the Power Supply he says. But this cable has a 24pin ATX MALE connector, so i cannot connect this one to a powersupply!

I can think that noone can help me here so i think i need to contact Hank! can someone send me pls his email adress via PM?

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gamma742 God Member Offline 3Dfx Gamer Posts: 1668 San Diego, CA USA Gender:	Re: Help needed! How to power up my AAlchemy 8164? Reply #1 - 03.01.08 at 21:34:20 That's awesome 8) Have you been to the Quantum3D Web site? My AA5 has the other power board that requires the special power supply. There is no mention of this Power Board in the AA5 Manual
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Reply #2 - 03.01.08 at 22:16:24

yes... and as you can see there is a green wire added on the PCB... maybe its a enigeering sample or something like this?

because all AAlchemys out there, i always spotted them with the other powerboard...

i was at the Q3D Homepage but didnt find anything regarding plugging in a 8164... there is a manual available but that doesnt help.

i think i need the help of Hank! Maybe he knows this special Powerboard...

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gamma742 God Member Offline 3Dfx Gamer Posts: 1668 San Diego, CA USA Gender:	Re: Help needed! How to power up my AAlchemy 8164? Reply #3 - 05.01.08 at 18:31:15 Does anyone else have one of these?
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TM30 God Member Offline Posts: 1108 Germany Gender:	Re: Help needed! How to power up my AAlchemy 8164? Reply #4 - 05.01.08 at 19:05:41 nope i never saw another unit with this powerboard... i searched also on the internet... no pictures or sth like this... i took a look on my aalchemy and it has also added some green wires soldered by hand on the main AAlchemy Board! does other boards have these extra wires also?
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exxe God Member Offline ^^ Posts: 1316 germany	Re: Help needed! How to power up my AAlchemy 8164? Reply #5 - 05.01.08 at 19:26:24 jip my card also have patchworks on it http://www.tdfx.de/ger/aalchemy_8164.shtml there are some new pictures online but now linked jet http://www.tdfx.de/pic/aalchemy8164_21.JPG 22 23 24 http://www.tdfx.de/pic/aalchemy8164_25.JPG all of this pictures show the card i actuelly sell on ebay!
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Re: Help needed! How to power up my AAlchemy 8164?
Reply #6 - 05.01.08 at 21:43:12

That is very interesting. I just finish poking around on the Q3D wed site and can't find anything either. I guess we'll have to wait to hear from Hank. He doesn't post much but I do see him on-line here from time to time.

That is one cool board. Just looking at it makes me want to take mine out of the case and take the cover off of it to get a good look at mine. So far it has taken great restraint to keep me from doing that. This is my first any only complete AAlchemy System and when I loaded the GVS Software and saw it in action, I was too afraid to disassamble the machine... Murphy's Law...

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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Help needed! How to power up my AAlchemy 8164? Reply #7 - 06.01.08 at 13:42:59 Quote: i took a look on my aalchemy and it has also added some green wires soldered by hand on the main AAlchemy Board! does other boards have these extra wires also? Yes, it was don't to fix stability problems rather than throw the boards away.
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TM30 God Member Offline Posts: 1108 Germany Gender:	Re: Help needed! How to power up my AAlchemy 8164? Reply #8 - 06.01.08 at 15:59:44 gary do you have an idea how to power up my aalchemy or maybe you can contact someone? hank didnt answer yet..
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Help needed! How to power up my AAlchemy 8164? Reply #9 - 06.01.08 at 16:15:55 No information.
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TM30 God Member Offline Posts: 1108 Germany Gender:	Re: Help needed! How to power up my AAlchemy 8164? Reply #10 - 06.01.08 at 19:06:58 so for you, this powerboard is also unknown? or did you see or notice somewhere somtething about it?
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Help needed! How to power up my AAlchemy 8164? Reply #11 - 06.01.08 at 20:20:00 Quote: so for you, this powerboard is also unknown? or did you see or notice somewhere somtething about it? Oh there was one on Ebay but the seller pulled the auction and sold it private.
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TM30 God Member Offline Posts: 1108 Germany Gender:	Re: Help needed! How to power up my AAlchemy 8164? Reply #12 - 06.01.08 at 20:26:23 sounds like you think it was me? but i wasn't it, i swear!
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Help needed! How to power up my AAlchemy 8164? Reply #13 - 06.01.08 at 20:56:05 Quote: sounds like you think it was me? but i wasn't it, i swear! Nothing stated nor implied, hardware vanishes off Ebay all the time.
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Re: Help needed! How to power up my AAlchemy 8164?
Reply #14 - 07.01.08 at 09:21:07

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i took a look on my aalchemy and it has also added some green wires soldered by hand on the main AAlchemy Board!

does other boards have these extra wires also?

My board (from 41st week of 2002) has these reworks, too, my other board (from 10th week of 2001, unfortunately the PCI-connector has been cut off) doesn't have them.

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