Today I’ll be troubleshooting and attempting to repair an 8MB Diamond Monster 3D II. Join me as I explore some of the debugging tools available to help narrow down the problem and break out the soldering iron to get this legendary card up and running again.

My previous retrospective on the 3Dfx Voodoo 2:
   • The 3Dfx Voodoo 2 - Taking 3D to the Next ...  

A list of 3Dfx Voodoo/Voodoo 2 environment variables:
www.mdgx.com/3dfx.htm

The 3dfx Glide2 SDK for DOS/Win32 V2.43 (for debugging purposes):
falconfly.3dfx.pl/reference.htm

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00:00 Introduction
01:47 The Diamond Monster 3D II
04:08 Initial Testing
05:41 DOS Debugging
09:46 Strategy
11:48 What’s Next?
13:27 Problem Identified
15:26 The Repair!
18:01 Success!
19:49 Conclusion