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In <3q6see$luc@bubba.ucc.okstate.edu>, colinh@okstate.edu writes:
>>
>>Whatever you do, don't buy an ATI video card of any type.  I have
>>had nothing but problems with my ATI Graphics Ultra Pro, and a
>>friend has had problems with another type of ATI card.  I plan 
>>on removing the ATI card in the near future an replacing it with 
>>a Diamond Steath-64 PCI (another friend has one and loves it).
>
>As I've done TS for two years, I'm shocked by some of your recommendations
>Mike.  Diamond is infamous for crappy drivers and I've had 0, that's zero,
>problems with my MACH64 card.  I think it's great.

I have an ATI Graphics Ultra Pro (Mach32) and it is pure shit.  Two
of my friends have purchesed other ATI boards, and have also had
a slew of problems.  On the other hand, two of my associated have
used Diamond Stealth products and have reported no problems.  That is
the basis of my opinion.  I paind several hundred dollars for the
EISA version of this card, and I have spend even more in phone
bills to the ATI tech support line (a long distand call to Ontario,
Canada) trying to get it working.  It was two weeks after I got the
board until my system was stable enough to use.

Someone else said that there were problems with the Mach32 board,
but that the mach64's were great.  I cannot from experience either
confirm or deny this.

In the last few days, I have been setting up a system (Zeos Pantera)
and HAVE experience problems, including problems setting up the Diamond
Stealth 64. Unfortunatly, my friend who had no problems with his
Diamond Stealth is out of town, and I can't ask him what he did to make
it work.

>>If you want to buy a whole system (as opposed to piece-parts),
>>look at Zeos
>
>Again from experience Zeos, Compaq and The usual chain brands (PB, Acer, etc.)
>should be avoided.  Zeos and Compaq do non-standard things that cause all kinds
>of problems.  Look at Dell, or piece your own system together.

Dell is very good, But I have had few problems with Zeos, the pricing
is very good, and the service plans are good.  The Zeos system that I
am setting up now came with a BusLogic SCSI controller (I had specified
Adaptec, but purchasing screwed up) that has a problem with booting from
an HPFS drive.  I finally figured out that the CD version of Warp that I
was installing uses an old BusLogic driver and onece I replaced it with
the new driver that comes with the board, all disk problems disappeared.

We used Dell extensively on a contract in France and have very few problems.
From my own perspective, I always piece thogether my own systems, But when
you are buying 10 or 20 units at time for a client, piecing them all together 
would be a full time job (and not the one I signed up for).

Mike Laris
mglaris@pic.net