GRex PCI + Voodoo 3 3000 16 MB + LAN + Sound

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@lordspider:

Thanks for the advice.
It's probably best for me to try using just Voodoo 3 in the 5th slot (without anything else connected to Grex), until I iron out the bugs.

I'll report back in here after I finish my second test. :-)
I am anxious to try it again as I've obtained new info, so I'll probably mess around with it tonight, after I return home from work. ;-)

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@thread:

No go. This BPPC rev. 0 definitely doesn't work with Grex. I've tried using Voodoo 3 in every PCI slot, and the results were always the same. CGXMODE doesn't run, and there's no video output through Voodoo 3 when in early boot menu, or when in BPPC boot menu.

I've even made sure that the motherboard gets extra power through the floppy power connector, as well as the PPC card itself (+5V through the fan connector). P8 and P9 connectors are inserted directly to the Grex.

:-(

Back to mediator for me. :-) I'm not going to fool around with this anymore, as flashing the PPC card with different firmware back and forth ain't healty. I was curious to see if rev. 0 would really work, however it seems that it won't (at least not my card).

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I'm using a BVision now with the same BlizzardPPC card and it works great. I can see the early-boot-menu and PPC boot menu just fine.

Grex 1200 is another story. :-(

I think that my rev. 0 card simply requires too much power in order to "trick" Grex into working. So far everyone that says that a particular rev. 0 card worked seems to be talking about a no-SCSI version. My BPPC is an 060/240/SCSI version, and I think that unless upgraded to rev. 2, its power management is simply not good enough for such a major attachment (an entire busboard).

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@lordspider:

I don't know what to think anymore. :-)

- Maybe your Grex was tolerant of BPPC rev 0. cards more than mine is?
- Maybe your tested rev. 0 cards were all tolerant of Grex, unlike mine?
- Maybe my Grex busboard is faulty (it worked before with a rev. 2 card, but who knows...)?

Anyway, I don't think it's worth the trouble messing around with making my Grex work anymore. It's simply too demanding as far as requirements go for it to work.