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Hi,
  Bought a Diamond Monster 3D II card on Monday. It was a so-called
"OEM version", which meant that I just got the card, the interconnect
cable and a CDR with Diamond and 3dfx reference drivers on it.
  I plugged the card into my machine and booted win98. Installed
the Diamond drivers (latest 16/12/98) and then DirectX 6.1. I
already had Populous III installed on my hard disk, so I ran
that and selected "Direct 3D - hardware accelerated" at start-up.
Nice rendered 3D graphics. Excellent.
  I'd downloaded a few demos from 3dfxmania, so I tried a few
screensavers. 3dtidalforces just hangs when Preview is selected.
Task Manager shows it as "not responding" and it has to be 
Ended. A couple of others did the same. However, Stars3d works 
fine. Tried Half life demo, it hung. Tried Fifa99, no problems at
all. Resident evil 2. Started, but screen was a mess.
  Tried installing the 3dfx reference drivers off the CD (same
16/12/98). No improvement.
  Thought it maybe win98 had got itself into a mess or maybe
DirectX 6.1 was the culprit, as I'd seen people complain about this.
  Formatted my hard drive and installed win98, with the V2 card in.
Selected the card and installed the latest 3dfx reference driver
(dated sometime in Jan this year). Installed DirectX 6. Installed
Populous III again. Worked fine. Tried the screensavers. Again only
stars 3d would work. All others just hung. Installed Quake2.
Came up in software rendering. Selected "3dfx opengl". Okay. 
Selected 800x600. It hung. Upgraded it to 3.20. Now it hangs all
the time. Will startup in compatibility mode. It will work using
3dfx opnegl in 640x480, but will hang in 800x600.
  Tried running the DirectX DXDIAG, but that too hangs with "not
responding". DXTOOL shows everything at DirectX 6 except DirectInput
and DirectSound, which are at 5.
  About 6 months ago I had a Voodoo1 on the same hardware running
perfectly. 
  This is an all SCSI system. Adaptec 2940, Ati RAGE Pro IIc PCI,
Pentium 233MMX, 64MB SDRAM. 
  This sounds like a fault V2 card? However, I'm not sure why
it works fine for populous III or stars 3d.
  Hope someone can shed some light on this or confirm my conclusion
that the V2 card is faulty?
Cheers.
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Mark Powell - System Administrator (UNIX) - Clifford Whitworth Building
A.I.S., University of Salford, Salford, Manchester, UK.
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M.S.Powell@ais.salfrd.ac.uk (spell salford correctly to reply to me)