Prometheus Board with Voodoo 3 problem

[enstz]

I recently bought a prometheus board, voodoo 3 and a realtek 8029as from a guy off ebay.

Everything was great, came in original matay prometheus box.
the prometheus board was wrapped up very nicely and secure.

I installed it fine and got the realtek card working in os3.9 perfectly. running completely fine no crashes or sudden drops.

However i got my voodoo 3 working with the prometheus, but only just, the problem is that I get "lines" going vertically from each on screen "sprite" like when i move a window or the mouse, there are residual lines on the right of the mouse pointer etc.

In the case of the mouse pointer these lines move with the mouse as if it is part of the cursor, in case of the windows the lines are 'pasted' onscreen and remain.

I've tried literally everything to get it working, i've tinkered with all values i could find, even the tool types, and have reinstalled and upgraded/downgraded drivers numerous times to get it working.

Each time it works, but i still get the same problem and other people with the exact same configuration have no problems whatsoever.

Is this a hardware issue? I'm thinking about finding the drivers and testing to see if it's a problem with the card by sticking it in a windows box.

[enstz]

well I tried multiple different versions of the prometheus / picasso drivers starting with the lowest.

after a while i gave up trying and put it into a windows xp box to have a look at it. Same problem, those damn lines. The exact same kind as i described on my amiga.

I once tried a voodoo 3 that was very similar in the winxp box and it was fine. This indicates a hardware problem to me. unfortunately i no longer have that working voodoo 3 as I gave it away some time ago.

The reason i got the voodoo 3 was because it was pretty much guarenteed to work. Does anybody know how to get other supposedly supported cards working in the prometheus like the S3 Virge or S3 Ultra64, prometheus supposedly supports it but it won't pick it up when i put it in and check the prefs on the 'attach to board' menu.

I'm so close yet so far.
:-?

[enstz]

redrumloa is sending me out a voodoo 3 to replace my broken one, the nice fellow :-)

Thanks for all the help guys.