Voodoo2 was my first 3d Accelerator. My father never saw the need for one until my brother showed him Quake II on an original Voodoo. 3DFX changed gaming forever for us.

An absolute BEAST in its day. I am fortunate to be old enough to remember the birth of 3d acceleration in PC's. Excellent nostalgic content.

I remember The Game Turok with a Vodoo card back in the 90's...Mindblowing for the time

Awesome work. Nice to see a beautiful 3dfx get fixed instead of ending up in a landfill.

wow, thats fantastic. The industry I'm in used some of those cards in production level arcade games. Many of those cards are failing now and NO ONE will touch them. I now have a new weapon in my arsenal thanks to your video!.

Happy ending! That is the exact card I had for Quake 2 along with a pentium 200mmx. Happy memories from those days. 👍

i bought one 12mb 6 months ago that was damaged, fixed it and i felt in love with it, its my 1st ever voodoo card, i cant believe how well it runs on my pentium od 180 mmx, gta2 and tomb raider 2 is smooth as butter, much better than the playstation ports

I really appreciate how repairable old electronics seem to be! You get debug tools, schematics, relatively simple board components, just fantastic.

I worked for an importer of Voodoo cards in 1997/8. I will never forget seeing Quake running for the first time via the Voodoo on a 60MHz Pentium so smoothly and how much better the graphics were - the Pentium MMX 166 without the card was an absolute dog in comparison! It was a great year and a half there testing every possible hardware config with all the latest games. I had friends buy the cards and "report bugs" with games that I wanted to be paid to play! I do remember having to change out some caps and resistors on the boards due to some issue - 25 years later I can't recall specifically where or why... I'm glad this popped up in my feed and brought back some memories. Thanks!

Nice repair. I would never suspect low power resistor to fail like that.

playing starsiege tribes on a 3dfx voodoo graphics card. take me back man, this current era is absolute balls.

I had a rough day and needed a good video like this. Thank you and keep'em coming! =)

So my dad bought me a Voodoo 2 8MB back when they first came out. A creative Blaster model and it arrived DOA brand new. This makes me wonder if the 8MB cards in particular had some sort of manufacturing defects. I was beyond gutted. At that time the mail order place we got it from sent out a replacement next day and it was a 12MB as way of an appology. If you weren't there back then words can not describe how mind-blowing a step forward it was for PC gaming back then. Still have a boxed and working 12MB card and the nostalgia feels for it are off the charts for me.

Awsome video. I think I still have my old Diamond Voodoo 2 lying somewhere in the adict. Remember borrowing a friends Creative card and they worked right of the bat together in sli. if I remember right it could run Everquest in 1024x768 in 80Hz with 2 cards in sli. Was pretty awsome on my Phillips 21" CRT that needed half of the desk size, tugged all the way in the corner to have room for mouse and keyboard... those things was HUGE compared to todays flat screens. 😊Was a big fan of Diamond cards back then. Remember having a rather pricy Diamond Viper 2Mb 2d Card because of the high quality Ramdac's used. Not completely sure why those things ment so much for the quality of the picture back then. Today you never hear about Ramdac's anymore.

Still can't believe I sold my boxed Diamond Monster Voodoo 2, luckily saved my Voodoo 3 and using it to this day

Its great another VooDoo 2 card is alive

That was my first 3d card used with S3 Virge. Quake, UT, Turok and Tomb Rider on Voodoo2 if I remeber, then Riva TNT, good old memorys :)

I really need one of those microscopes. This video shows just how accessible fine repairs like this are to any of us if we have the kit, the confidence, and the information needed to investigate. Great job finding the fault and truly amazing that we have such a great community to help with such things. Huge congrats!

11:17 for a quick test you can "strum" the pins a dodgy solder joint will sound different.

looking forward to seeing the fix on the train wreck one, glad this one was such an easy fix

one of the best troubleshooting video I've ever seen

Thanx so much Remeber the day playing outlaws with the voodoo 2

Very cool. Voodoo 2 live again

I remeber advert : Diamon Monster x2 = Mega Monster :) Yes, it brings memories, but S3 Virge 3D is "the one" for me. P60 + S3 Virge in MDK benchmark faster than P200 MMX O.o Monster truck madness + Descent... mind blowing graphics and frame rates xD

Great video. That was the first accelerator I bought. Still have the card, the games and the IBM Stealth. Thank you.

Whoa! that made me super excited. I have a non working Voodoo 2 by diamond sitting on the top of my shelf for at least 22(+ 2 years). And i just watched this, as a hobby solder skills made me think i can look up the problem maybe with your videos dude! Awesome! Thanks! :)

Awesome video, it's so satisfying to narrow down and fix a problem like this. I love the Voodoo 2, such a legendary card.

This video helped me repair a dead A-Trend Voodoo2 12MB! Thank you!

Awesome troubleshooting and amazing explanation and detail of the process. Loved the cable through the hole.

My first ever PC had this card and i will always remember it. I spent so much time playing Unreal and UT99 on it, it was great. Voodoo 2 gave me a proper taste of 3D gaming, all i had before was Sega Genesis.

Perfect fault detection and fix. 👌

Awesome stuff! Very satisfying. Thanks for taking the time to make a video for the repair.

This is good news. Been trying to get a hold of a decent voodoo 2 card for my win98 pc, without paying for it in blood. I may attempt a repair on a broken one instead for cheap.

Great video, very nostagic. OMG you have all the greatest Glide games on the PC!!

it's really nice to see people still care about this nice old legacy hardware!

Awesome work! I bought a pair of Voodoo 2 cards on a forum in the late 2000's, they were well outdated but I just liked the idea of two video cards 😅. A friend had to help with drivers and such to get them working. A couple years back I tried them again and only one of them was working. I spent some time making sure the tiny pins weren't shorted on the chips, they had a rough life in storage and some did look bent. Maybe the PC bug will bite again and I'll make another attempt. It was awesome to follow along with the repair, great job on the video! Best of luck with the train wreck version 😀

Loved the Voodoo2, I had a 12MB Creative Labs version and I wish I'd never gotten rid of it.

Excellent outcome, well done!

3dfx videos are my the best !

Great video! I bought one of these off eBay back in high school that behaved exactly like the one you have. If only I was more knowledgeable at the time...went back and forth with the seller, spent days troubleshooting drivers, etc. And to think it could have been just a pesky DOA resistor...

One word -. Suscribed. Thanks youtube algorithm.

Great video. Love to see success like that and thanks for going through the voodoo sdk tools and how you worked through it.

+1 for the sticker under the screen :)). Also, very nice troubleshooting job with the card

I ran 2 voodoo2 in SLI mode (in combo with an ATI Mach32) on my 486DX2-66. The combo allowed my old 486 to outperform Pentiums for years.

Awesome repair! While I never owned a V2 I did have a Voodoo Banshee which was awesome in both 2D and 3D back in the day! Also, I always love to see the original Unreal intro. Brings back good memories! I've been playing Digital Extreme's current game Warframe for over 7 years now!

Very nice! Yeah, those thin-film resistors do have failure-modes like that. If thermal cycles build up mechanical stress, the ceramic can get microcracks, cutting the conductive film in the process.

So Great.I love Voodoo2

Thanks very much for these informative repair videos. It gave me the info I needed to have a crack at solving the problem my faulty Diamond Monster voodoo 1 has got. I've so far narrowed it down to bad ram attached to the FBI chip as reducing it to 1MB got Tomb raider Dos working although with occasional glitching. I have put a post on Vogons in the video section.

Another valuable video, thanks!

Really good detective work and a lot of useful info here that might come in handy for me in the future, and definitely for others.

I miss my Voodoo.

Thank you. Today I got an InnoVision Voodoo 2 with perfect looking condition behaving the same way (not detected after driver install). I hope I can narrow down the source of failure and having something similar fixable issue. One day I will report back but I am glad I found your video. :)

Welcome back, buddy. Keep that memory upgrade promise, yeah?

So satisfying

Very nice job there!!! So rewarding my friend, that voodoo2 still working! Mine also makes some glitches, so I will use all the info you provided. Thanks a lot!

Superb investigation and fix, Always nice to see anything regardless of what it is been brought back to life and full working order, Subbed :)

Well thanks to you, I figured out that my "arcade" Obsidian2 90-2440 reports framebuffer = 0 MB when I put it in a Win98 machine. Since it's a weird 10MB card, I believe I have also identified which are the framebuffer RAM chips: the ones without memory on the back. The 2 other memory banks are doubled from the back so 4 512K chips on each side = 4MB each. Chips on only one side = the missing 2 MB of framebuffer. On the arcade, the output is inverted and mirrored, displaying only text in orange. also, I tested for a monster 2 8MB and the game does work, but is missing 2MB so there are some grfx artefacts. Not wanting to boost the memory card count to 12 MB yet, since your video talks about checking the microscopic resistor arrays, I'm looking into buying a microscope for soldering now. I think I am ready and at that stage! Hopefully I'll be as lucky as you and find something bad...

Fantastic video, what a great job you did on the repair! I learned something too, now I know what resistor arrays are. 👍👍

Great job. Really think the problem solving is super cool. Wish I had the patience for doing that.

Lovely video, looking forward to see how train wreck goes, good luck!

Beautiful work Mike!

Thank you, this is exactly what I needed. I've got a Voodoo2 that detects correctly but displays Black and blue bars. I'm going to try that mojo tool. Excellent info.

Great video, the trouble shooting was very informative.

Great video! Great cards! I have three of them, I love them!

Excellent video!!

Very interesting video, like!

Not so common to see a fault like that. I think SMD resistors and caps on lower-current data lines maybe tend to fail more due to physical stress of the PCB bending etc. But I guess even the thermal stress over the years of the card getting warmer and colder many many times could cause this, too. Good to know it's something to look out for, and another nice repair job. ;)

Dude i wached your channel a couple days ago because i wanted to see if you made any more gpu repairs. Thank god i did that becuase youtube realised i like these and put this in my reccomended.

In Quake 2 and 3 engine games if you press ~ you can see how many TMUs are working / active. Most probably you already know that :). Excellent video!

Very good material I also invite you to compare Voodoo 2 8MB vs 12MB vs SLI (English subtitles)

Nice fix! Enjoyed the video :)

Great video

Amazing work! Now I have some ideas for repairing my own Voodoo2 cards!

I seem to remember people upgrading these to the 12 MB version. I had 2x Diamond Monster 3D 2's 12mb in SLI back in the days... :)

Great video and great repair! Absolutely love it!

Superb work well done!

Bloody love your content. Brings back the nostalgia of when I built my First system. Love to see you using some of the components I had in my collection when I was cutting my teeth in pc building/gaming. Keep it up mate

Great vid. Lots of useful info here.

Nice work Mike, those debugging variables for the 3Dfx are good to know, thanks. You are a wizard at this now btw, your troubleshooting skills with this old tech are fantastic, great video again. Putting in the time on amazing resources like VOGONS is how the craft is mastered, and you have put your time in sir. If only we had all these resources back then.

Nice fix! valuable information too, every little fix that people share on KZfaq undoubtedly helps others. Important to keep these cards going so good job! sad I lost all my old hardware long ago, would have liked to play with some of that stuff again.

Good job, that was entertaining!

Really useful video! I have a pair of 12mb Voodoo 2's that I never had any luck getting working, this gives some great places to start.

Great fault finding and fix as usual, I like that you show your process, it goes to show patience, determination and good knowledge and research and we can fix anything (well almost😁), really enjoy your videos, keep em coming. 👍

I really enjoyed the video. I particularly liked the in depth repair and soldering. I would like to learn to solder like that! I might pick up some of the flux you mentioned.

Excellent repair! I have recently picked up a 12MB Monster 3D II that's not working, so will be an interesting troubleshoot I think! Thanks for highlighting Phil's Voodoo2 benchmarks in your previous video as well - I was originally thinking of pairing it with a P233 MMX but now I might shoot a bit higher!

nice!!! i just wish i knew how to use my multimeter LOL. i have 2 voodoo 2s that i got a few years ago hoping to repair because i could see some bent legs on the fbis, but i ended up breaking some pins on one, but the other has a very similar set of symptoms - shows as a device but gets the same windows errors. i'll definitely have to try out the debug tool and maybe i can bring one of mine back to life too :) thanks again for the great info

I have the exact same problem with my first ever true 3d graphic card, the famous voodoo 2. Now, the light is made, on this problematic. wow.

good job

I haven't used VOODOO2 card since my Pentium 1 days. The difference in graphics was night and day.

I’m going to need to test my Voodoo 2 cards from Creative Labs soon. I have 4 12MB cards, plus an Obsidian 24x that uses just one pci slot

you will see the tuning they did to get it to work without what I just said and be amazed how fixed architectures do get faster or slower with correct tuning

I didnt even know about these debug tools. Enjoyed watching your voodoo-ing so a sub from me~

Spent its life in the RMA bin, my guess . Looked like a hairline crack to me, fairly common in production that can pass testing. Good job on fixing it.

Just finished watching this one and the trainwreck repair, good work! I have a slightly sick STB Systems Voodoo 2 I'll be looking at over the next few days. It runs but there's noise/flicker in some of the textures, it changes and sometimes goes away with a tap of a finger on the card. Pretty sure all of the SMT electrolytics need replaced, one fell off when I removed the card for PCI connector cleaning and has the characteristic white crust under it -- not much, so I suspect they're just starting to go. Figure it's worth hacking on, it was a $1 MIT Flea find from a decade ago :P

I have 2 of the exact same card stored in a closet. One of them works, the other doesn't. I don't think I still own hardware that I can stick them in to see if they are still working. Any way, my intention is to frame those cards and having them decorate my gaming room. I still remember the shock when I saw quake 2 running with colored lighting and bilinear filtering in 640x480 at 60hz. Going from software 320x240 to that was such a jump in quality that you had to be there yo understand it.

Remember i bought a EEPROM SST written on it

When you become huge... which you will, remember me when I subscribed at 3k OK?

I had 2 Voodoo II 12 mb cards, (Diamond). I overclocked them. After years, one of them only worked after I underclocked it to 65mhz...

I had to pull out my cards. I bought one ( banshee creative), one from working (I think it was voodoo) and Lab work in banshee. And they were dirty 🤣

Powr Comms Ramm on those old styles. capacitors. resistors or diodes.