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So is the Viper 550 really worth all the trouble...I guess what I'm asking
is...is it as good as they say it is or is it a worthless upgrade...need
info t make educated purchase...thanx
RAY BARRON <raysylvia@sprynet.com> wrote in message
news:77onpt$qg7$1@juliana.sprynet.com...
>i want to buy it?
>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?
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