🚀 go-pugleaf

I had the same problem with the Viper V550with Win95 R2. Couldn't change
to 32 colors....always defaulted back to 16.
The Diamond tech support finally figured out the problem. It's a
software bug. I del these 2 files and it now works.       _dmsettn.loc
and  dmsettng.dll

good luck

BigDog wrote:

> Tom,
>
> I have had the same problem on two NT 4.0 Workstations
> running SP4. Once you try and change the video card, it
> keeps defaulting back to the 16 color VGA driver. I spent
> 1.5 hrs on the phone with Microsoft Tech support to no
> avail. They gave me an open case #, and are going to
> investigate. On one of the systems, I was going from the
> onboard video to an ATI Rage II+, and had the exact same
> symptoms you described. Finally resorted to formating the
> drive and re-installing (drastic, but it cured the problem
> <g>). The second system had a Trident AGP card, and I was
> putting in a Diamond Stealth 2000 Pro (PCI). Once again I
> had the same problem. I called MS and jumped through the
> hoops for them ;-), and they finally came up with a
> sugestion, that I have not tried yet. They suggested doing a
> paralel installation (preferably on a different partition,
> but not necessary), installing SP4, setting up the video
> card (it should work), and then copying over the system
> hive. However, there is a "minor" <g> problem... if you do
> this, you will end up reinstalling all your apps, and there
> are probably other "minor" side effects <g>
>
> Anyway, I still have not been able to fix the second
> machine, and I don't want to do a reinstall so I guess I'm
> kind of stuck for the moment.
> If I hear anything, I will post it.
>
> Piers Gisle
>
> Tom Neff <tneff@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
> news:220838B757D6E419.C1B46F7B428C5EAC.8B187A814F21B516@libr
> ary-proxy.airnews.net...
> >[ I *hate* trying to read and answer questions that get
> word wrapped
> >into unreadability, don't you!  Of course that's how my AGP
> question
> >came out, so let me try it again. ]
> >
> >I have a perplexing problem getting a new Diamond Viper 550
> AGP (16MB)
> >to be recognized and come up under NT 4.0 with Service Pack
> 4 installed.
> >This is on a Micron Millennia XI desktop with 400MHz
> Pentium II, 128MB
> >of RAM, Phoenix BIOS 4.0 release 6.0.  The AGP itself has
> BIOS level
> >1.94C.
> >
> >The symptom is that after following all the instructions,
> removing all
> >previous drivers, booting it to VGA, changing the display
> type (either
> >via running X:\START.EXE from the driver CD or via "Have
> Disk..." from
> >the display applet), all software apparently installing OK,
> and
> >rebooting, it STILL comes up in 16 color VGA mode and the
> "Invalid
> >Display Settings" popup appears.  Nothing I can change or
> set or do
> >changes this.  NT Diagnostics shows the driver installed,
> but VGA Save
> >is the active video.  I reinstalled the Service Pack and
> everything else
> >I could think of, to no avail.
> >
> >The BIOS on the Millennia is set up with Plug+play OFF.  I
> am told in
> >some postings that I should reserve an IRQ for the graphics
> card, but
> >supposedly it likes IRQ15 by itself and the BIOS SETUP
> interface doesn't
> >offer 15
> >in the list of IRQ's to reserve under "Peripheral
> Configuration."
> >
> >This machine has Windows 98 on another partition, and the
> AGP came up
> >immediately for Win98 and works like a charm in all modes
> (except I
> >don't get textures in the Descent 3 Demo, but that could
> just be the
> >demo).  Under
> >98 it takes IRQ 10.  Under NT that IRQ goes to the on-board
> Crystal
> >audio.
> >
> >Has anyone seen any of this and does anyone have any
> suggestions?  I'm
> >about ready to start pounding my forehead, which usually
> hurts me more
> >than the problem. :)
> >
> >Happy holidays!