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!!! HELP !!!

I have read this entire file and tried everything I can.

I CANNOT get my F***ing Trident 8900 card to deal with any of the drivers
downloaded from hobbes.  No matter what I've done, I always end up with
a blank screen after the logo.

One strangeness I've observed -- has anyone else seen this?
When I type DDINSTAL from an os/2 window, it just seems to sit there
for a while.  I bring up another window to look around, and up comes
DDINSTAL.  I've not tried reall hard to figure this out...  Is it normal
for DDINSTAL to take a while to come up?

I've removed the card jumper for 72hz.  I've gone to a full-screen-DOS-
session and done SVGA ON.  (The settings in SVGAData.pmi DID change after
the 72hz jumper removal.)  The pmi file appears to be meaningful -- it
says "Trindent 8900" call over it.  I checked the chip number -- it is
an "C" version.
I've pulled out all other cards (obviously exceppt for the IDE hard-disk
 card), to make sure it's not a strange conflict.  No difference.
I've downloaded all the files from hobbes again, via a different computer,
unzipped, and DIFFed them.  No differences, transmission must've been ok.
I've used DDINSTAL, I've copied the files directly over
\OS2\DLL\DISPLAY.DLL while under OS/2 1.3.
I've installed (and had to uninstall) all the contents of:
  VSVGA.ZIP
  TR256FIX.ZIP
  TRID_FIX.ZIP
I'm on a 486-33mhz, 16mgRAM, 256k cache 70nS, 2 210mg ide drives,
Svga color, trident8900C.  DOS 4.01 FAT partition C:, OS/2 1.3 partition
also on C:, os/2 2.0 partition D:.

Anything I missed?  Please e-mail me at mikel@networx.com.
I will summarize replies here.  Thanks in advance...