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I just got a Voodoo 3 PCI card from a friend. He's an Apple Developer Connection member, and knows what he's talking about, and claims that the card will work without any tweaking runnng under OS X 10.1.3. Here's my dilemma:

I securely plugged the card in my PCI slot, attached a VGA monitor, and booted up the G4. I see the standard "happy Mac" on my main ADC Studio Display. Then, right when it would switch to the blue boot window, the spinning color wheel cursor switches over to the Voodoo controlled monitor, leaving the main one gray. The wheel spins and spins while the machine boots up, and contues to spin after it's done. How do I know that it's actually booting up? After the drives stop churning, I can remotely ssh, afp, and http into my machine like I normally do. ...but one screen is still gray, and the other is gray with a spinning cursor. What's up with this? Do I need any special drivers? I mean, I am running 10.1.3, here....

When I boot in single-user mode, the console switches over to the second screen, and I can see some of what's going on, but it never lets me use any commands... things scroll by every few seconds about display interlocking (?) and a failed connection attempt to the loginwindow...I can get these more accurately if they'll help solve it.

Anyone have a clue what could be going on?

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I got my Voodoo 3, 2000 card to work in my B&W G3 running OS X.1.3 with the Studio Display. I had similiar problems at first. I think the card only works with certain resolutions for certain monitors. Try reconnecting your monitor as your main monitor with the regular monitor port and setting your displays to a resolution you know will work (e.g. 640 x 480) at a low hz. Then reconnect the monitor to the voodoo card. If you get it to work then you can work you way up to a max resolution and hz. that does work. I've got mine to around 1024 x 768. Any higher and I get the blue screen of death with the rainbow beachball.

Also, you aren't going to get the extra stuff from the card since there are no drivers. Any kind of video enhancement will have to be done via software. But it does allow you to have a second monitor hooked up.