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Stuart Patterson wrote in message <3697140E.8DD4976D@worldnet.att.net>...
>first of all thanks for all the people offering help with these bloody
>edge
>
>components that the support-less mega companies want us to figure out! i
>just
>
>spent the last 22 hours of my life in 3dFX hell and a newsgroup posting
>saved my
>
>sanity. i installed a 550 in an AGP slot that a i740 was fat dumb and
>happy in
>
>and i couldn't get anything other than the standard 16 color VGA driver
>to stay
>
>installed no matter what i did. i flashed my Matsonic 7016S with their
>latest
>
>BIOS upgrade because it addressed some AGP/MEM issue that might of had
>something
>
>to do with my problem, installed the USB supplement to Win95B and
>applied a new
>
>PIIX Bus Master (&secondary) drivers like the diamond instructions
>called for
>
>all with no change so i started to troll the appropriate news groups,
>because
>
>the diamond site has no info on their new 550 yet (SURPRISE!), any ways
>that's
>
>where i get all my tech support, from other USERS. well i found one
>posting that
>
>mentioned that the USB upgrade seemed to cause their 550 card not to
>work, so i
>
>uninstalled USB, but no difference. i found another posting that
>mentioned that
>
>in the BIOS "Allocate IRQ to PCI VGA" should be set to "YES" and that
>got me
>
>thinking because my i740 was made by intel for the intel based AGP slot,
>but the
>
>Viper 95 installed the same driver for both PCI and AGP, so could the
>AGP board
>
>be fooling the driver that it was in a PCI slot? and i remember staring
>at that
>
>BIOS setting convincing myself that it could have nothing to do with mt
>AGP
>
>card, after all it was set to "NO" for my i740 right! WRONG!!! i set
>"Allocate
>
>IRQ to PCI VGA" to "YES" and boom, problem solved. then i experimented
>with the
>
>USB settings, and with my setup i didn't matter if the USB was
>installed,
>
>upgraded or even "ENABLED" in the BIOS, my 550 still worked with or
>without it.
>
>i reinstalled the USB supplement to Win95B just to have the setup
>diamond
>
>specified (performance?). i hope everyone realizes we have become the
>usertest
>
>group for all these companies rushing their latest crap to market,
>thanks to
>
>everybody willing to share their experience, and i hope this helps
>someone else.
>
>
>   - rowdy
>
> aka:  Stu patterson   stupatterson@worldnet.att.net
>       http://home.att.net./~stupatterson/home.htm
>       Matsonic 7016S w/pentium II pro, 300mhz, 64mb, soundblaster
>AWE64...
>       and now a viper 550, anybody want to buy my generic i740 cheap?