🚀 go-pugleaf

It is very very very fast.  Excellent 2d/3d image quality, better than V 2
it seems.  I had a lot of problems getting mine to work properly too.
Initially, they were due to my ignorance of AGP and some bad/incompatible
DIMMs.  If you gather all the latest drivers/patches together before you
start and do a fresh install of Win9x, you shouldn't have any probs. Buy one
of each and it's moot. ;)

olssonovich1 wrote in message <36a000a1.0@news.blarg.net>...
>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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