🚀 go-pugleaf

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?