Ahhh oh okay I see, many thanks for telling me that, I really never heard of it haha 
Also i wish you all the best on fixing them drivers, let's just hope the hardware is good enough to function under improved Bios & drivers.
An other interesting thing is all them 7 or 8 jumpers the Rampage has, were you able to find out why 3dfx placed so many on this card?
These critters I mean:
[Blockierte Grafik: http://www.abload.de/img/jumpersrampy92s2p.jpg]
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An other interesting thing is all them 7 or 8 jumpers the Rampage has, were you able to find out why 3dfx placed so many on this card?
No idea but I'm not going to screw with them till I talk to Hank, bad things could happen.
Obi,
One of them modify memory timing.
Regards,
Oscar.
Obi,
One of them modify memory timing.Regards,
Oscar.
Hmm okay, yet I wonder what all them others do, FSB, GPU Clock timing, GPU core speed settings or Ram speed and such, maybe they added these so they could hardware set things instead doing it via the card's Bios constantly, it would seem rather logic, anyways if any of you Rampage owners could find more about all the other jumpers, it might be interesting to make a note of these somewhere, in this topic perhaps or as additional information for Gary's 3dfx Rampage page.
Main problem is HW engineers worked on rampage project do not remember since it does 13 years ago. I am requesting info about those test jumpers.
Yes, once we have more info Gary will update his Rampage page section.
Regards,
Oscar.
What would be extremely handy is to obtain the official Blue Prints of the Rampage cards, I know there are white papers out there also, but a Blue Print would certainly reveal everything of it.
I am glad to see that the testing still makes a least some progress. Really love the video where one can see Rampage running the PC Gamer Bench. Keep up the good work!
Q3 looks really nice on Rampage.
Anyway I am a litte bit sad. Thought Rampage would do more games without crashing or even refusing to work.
I am glad to see that the testing still makes a least some progress. Really love the video where one can see Rampage running the PC Gamer Bench. Keep up the good work!
Q3 looks really nice on Rampage.
Anyway I am a litte bit sad. Thought Rampage would do more games without crashing or even refusing to work.
Have patience, I'm working on that still.
Edit- I'm in the process of looking for other motherboards from the year 2000 timeframe. I'm working under the assumption that the 3dfx engineers would have fixed the crashes I'm encountering fairly quickly as they needed to develop the drivers and show the progress to any investors. So, the BIOS and drivers MAY be tuned to what ever motherboard and OS they were using at the time and they would worry about compatibly later. So far using the Final Reality benchmark as a guide, the best OS has been Windows 98SE. The board seems to prefer VIA chipsets so I'm focusing my search on motherboards with VIA chipsets and I'd like to try a AMD Irongate 750 Athlon board as well as the Athlon was the most powerful PC at the time.
Here is a list of motherboards I'm looking for.
Athlon boards as of March 2000 (Anand)
http://www.anandtech.com/show/517
AOpen AK72
ASUS K7M, ASUS K7V-RM
EPoX 7KXA
FIC SD-11
Gigabyte GA-7IX, Gigabyte GA-7VM
Microstar MS-6167, Microstar MS-6195 K7Pro
Soyo SY-K7AIA
Tyan Trinity K7 S2380
Intel Boards, Socket 370, May 2000
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...oards,196.html
Asus CUV4X-M
Azza 694TX
Biostar M6VCG
Elitegroup P6VAP-A+
Gigabyte GA-6VX7-4X
Gigabyte GA-6VX7-1394
IWill VD133 Pro
Lucky Star 6VA694
MSI MS-6309
QDI Advance 10
Soltek SL-65KV
Soyo SY-7VCA
