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Voodoo 5 5500 AGP BIOS
13.04.06 at 22:02:10

I found these BIOS files for different Voodoo 5 cards. My Voodoo 5 5500 AGP has v1.06 BIOS. I see there is a v1.18 for it at this site:
http://www.3dfxzone.it/dir/3dfx/voodoo5/bios.htm

Are these official BIOSes? Any benifit to flashing to a higher version? As far as I know, 3DFX made all the Voodoo 4/5 cards, so there shouldn't be different versions of the Voodoo 5 5500 AGP?

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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Voodoo 5 5500 AGP BIOS Reply #1 - 13.04.06 at 22:07:43 Best to leave current BIOS as-is, changes were often made due to what brand of ram was installed on your individual board.
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ps47 God Member Offline Keeper of the 3Dfx Helppage Posts: 988 Slovakia,central Europe Gender:	Re: Voodoo 5 5500 AGP BIOS Reply #2 - 13.04.06 at 22:13:58 the golden rule is: if it aint broke dont fix it
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sanford YaBB Newbies Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 21	Re: Voodoo 5 5500 AGP BIOS Reply #3 - 13.04.06 at 23:29:08 People says: 1)AMD cpu-->1.18 2)INTEL cpu-->1.16 Anyway, for me is the same...
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Chosen_One Senior Member Offline Keeper of the BIOS-files... Posts: 499 Germany Gender:	Re: Voodoo 5 5500 AGP BIOS Reply #4 - 14.04.06 at 02:32:52 @stomp37: listen to ps47's words @sanford: this is completely new to me...
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Re: Voodoo 5 5500 AGP BIOS
Reply #5 - 14.04.06 at 02:51:38

@ Sanford euhm which people to be precise?

kinda hard to believe aka bollocks since that my 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP with Bios 1/18 works flawlessly in Intel as AMD sys setup's.

if a bios works the way it should do, my advice is also like many other's, Just Leave it the way it is, chang'n it might corrupt the card thereby mak'n it unusable unless you like to hang ém up on teh walls ... Lips Sealed

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gamma742 God Member Offline 3Dfx Gamer Posts: 1668 San Diego, CA USA Gender:	Re: Voodoo 5 5500 AGP BIOS Reply #6 - 14.04.06 at 19:24:24 Don't flash unless you are changing the card from MAC to PC or PC to MAC
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: Voodoo 5 5500 AGP BIOS Reply #7 - 15.04.06 at 02:21:33 well even that can be risky Gamma742 though flashing from a MAC bios to a PC Bios is known to be safer and more successfull than from flashing from a PC Bios to a MAC Bios
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mikulaish Full Member Offline Just a chemist... Posts: 120	Re: Voodoo 5 5500 AGP BIOS Reply #8 - 15.04.06 at 07:26:37 The second is impossible. The regular PCI has a resistor that does not allow MAC bios flashing to Pc cards.
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gamma742 God Member Offline 3Dfx Gamer Posts: 1668 San Diego, CA USA Gender:	Re: Voodoo 5 5500 AGP BIOS Reply #9 - 15.04.06 at 19:14:35 Yeah I know. I thought about buying Renner's 5500 PCI card that was available in the market place. I really wanted one but I guess he never got the DVI to work. I suppose they just don't work even when flashed with the PC DVI BIOS
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TM30 God Member Offline Posts: 1108 Germany Gender:	Re: Voodoo 5 5500 AGP BIOS Reply #10 - 18.04.06 at 20:12:47 my 5500 MAC @ PC works perfect with DVI! think others would just do the same...
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ps47 God Member Offline Keeper of the 3Dfx Helppage Posts: 988 Slovakia,central Europe Gender:	Re: Voodoo 5 5500 AGP BIOS Reply #11 - 18.04.06 at 21:26:54 just for the record,which PC BIOS did you use? Triggers?
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Re: Voodoo 5 5500 AGP BIOS
Reply #12 - 19.04.06 at 04:02:11

Here's the one I used on my V5 5500 Mac:

Quote:

First off, go HERE Wink: -

http://welcome.to/3dfxBios

...and DL the following. Cheesy

#From BIOS V5500 section#

1.18 (Digital Output Enabled)

#From UTILS section#

3dfx EEPROM Flasher 2.14

The option for digital output appears correctly in the display properties dialog, but it won't allow me to enable it -- I get a message box saying there's not an appropriate monitor connected.

Now, I only have one LCD monitor to test it on, so I can't discount a problem of some kind with the monitor's connections... it's an HP L2335. I've tried every different setting and configuration I can think of with no joy.

Highly annoying.

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gamma742 God Member Offline 3Dfx Gamer Posts: 1668 San Diego, CA USA Gender:	Re: Voodoo 5 5500 AGP BIOS Reply #13 - 19.04.06 at 04:17:07 Quote: my 5500 MAC @ PC works perfect with DVI! think others would just do the same... Do you have DVI support at boot-up (BIOS) or only in the OS in a multi-monitor configuration
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StANTo YaBB Newbies Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 17 Gender:	Re: Voodoo 5 5500 AGP BIOS Reply #14 - 23.04.07 at 00:29:17 Quote: Best to leave current BIOS as-is, changes were often made due to what brand of ram was installed on your individual board. Not always. (<- click)
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