Original Voodoo² question...

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Dark Prodigy

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Messed around and found one of my old systems in my garage (IBM Aptiva from 98) and decided to clean it up and fire it up to possible fold with it. Cleaned it up a little bit and reseated everything. I fire it up and I get no video. Now I know I haven't fired this thing up in YEARS but it was working perfectly when I left it and built newer and better systems.

Everything cuts on and it seems to boot up fine, however, no video. I dig up my old card installation kit with the disc still in it (I tend to keep all my PC accesories) and I remember that I need the pass-through cable that connects from the motherboard VGA connector to the card. The problem is that I lost the damn cable :mad: I turned my garage upside down and still find nothing. I even found my other Diamond Monster 3D II card, but I lost the damn SLI (MegaMonster) bridge too :mad: .

I'm wondering if there is any way to get around this. I connect the monitor to the motherboard VGA port and still nothing. I more than likely disabled the onboard video. Anyone remember these cards and can offer a possible solution? Maybe someone is selling old parts....

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The soundcard is an old Creative Soundblaster AWE64 ISA card if anyone was wondering.



 
till you can find the passthrough, just clear cmos and remove the voodoo card and use the primary vga output
 
These both seem like viable solutions. I can definately pick up that cable to see if it works for me or not, and if all else fails then simply clear the CMOS, but I'm not sure if I remember how to do it on this PC, if its simply removing the battery to reset the BIOS then its all good.





 
Since you appear to have just the one voodoo2 card, you will not need an SLI cable. You will only need the VGA passthrough, which was just a very short Male to Female VGA cable.
 
Mark_Warner said:
Since you appear to have just the one voodoo2 card, you will not need an SLI cable. You will only need the VGA passthrough, which was just a very short Male to Female VGA cable.
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I found my other Voodoo² card in a box of PC parts I put up in my garage a while back. I originally had it in the PC in the pic in SLI but later put it in another PC I was running at the time so it can be 3D accelerated too. I got rid of the PC (Acer) but saved the card. Never hooked it back up, so now I lost the SLI bridge and the pass-through cable. But right now all I need is the pass through if I want the card to work.



 
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