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Well I never could solve the problem of the Diamond card (original posting at
end). Narrowed it down to a mother board compatibility problem so I took the
drastic action of buying a new MB and Pentium120!

Thanks very much once again to all who tried to help :)

Here's a summary of the different suggestions to help anyone else that may find
it useful.

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John Rolfe pointed out that having a modem on com4 kills Diamond cards.
(Something that Diamond tech are still slow on checking).

Caveman suggested pulling the sound card out and trying that. Also from Caveman
a complete re-install of Win95 can cure many a problem (sometimes you have to
FORMAT and re-install, but rarely). BTW thanks Caveman! (I tried to mail you but
your reply to is dodgy!)

Chris D. Tersteeg suggested manually assigning the IRQ of the slot containing
the vid Card. He also suggested the MB!

Darren Pardoe suggested removing all cards and (assuming it then works) add them
back one at a time to see which messes up the vid.

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Original posting:-


I'm stuck with a Diamond Stealth 2000 problem at the moment (machine specs at
end of posting).

Symptoms: Whenever trying to access any extended video mode i.e. running Win95
in anything other than safe mode or Quake in video modes above 10 the machine
locks up or re-boots.

I'm running the most up-to date drivers and have the latest Diamond BIOS on the
card i.e. the video cards BIOS not the motherboard.

I've tried everything that I or Diamond's tech support can suggest;

Every possible combination of installing the drivers from the Diamond CD ROM in
95.

Re-installing 95 (before discovering the Quake problem).

Running the generic S3 driver in 95.

Altering the com and Irq of the modem to 3 and 5 respectively (from 4 and 2). 

Sending the card back and trying another (unlikely that both have a hardware
fault and the first has since checked out ok at the suppliers).

Virus checking (desperation!).


The only thing I can't try as yet is a BIOS upgrade since Escom have gone under,
Award say they can't identify the manufacturer of my BIOS and Unicore (who make
generic BIOS as far as I can tell) haven't got back to me in two weeks of
waiting! Anyone know where else I could get an upgrade in the UK? It's Award
BIOS version v4.50G.

I did have one successful boot into 95 (out of about 50!) and everything looked
nice except that as soon as I re-booted the machine it locked as usual.
According to Diamond this does happen occasionally with an incompatible BIOS.

Could you CC my mailbox if replying please, I can't always find time to do all
the things I have to do let alone the things I want to do -like reading the
newsgroups!

Thanks to all who help!

Dave W.



Machine specs:

Escom :(  486 DX4 100 with Via chipset.
16 Meg RAM 128k cache.
Goldstar 15" monitor.
Aztech sound galaxy card.
Zoom 28.8 modem.
Zip drive (not usually connected when trying the Diamond).
HP 540 printer.
Mitsumi 4X CD-ROM.
Several Cover CD's as coasters (have I missed anything? ;)


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