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Gerry Goodrich wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 04 Aug 1997 15:09:02 -0700, Scheldon Pereira
> <srper1@student.monash.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> >Has anyone been able to run Win95 VerB with their Mystique card?
> >Is so, can you tell me what version of Powerdesk you are running?
> >

I am running Win95 OSR2 (version b) and a Matrox Mystique 220. Recently 
I had to reinstall everything from scratch and got royal screwups from 
the MGA PowerDesk. 3.60 shipped with my card and I also tried 3.61 which 
I got on floppy from Matrox at Comdex.

Are you using 3.63? If you did a search for Matrox 3.63 drivers you 
would find about a billion posts describing problems with these drivers. 
I think the general consensus is that 3.61 is the best currently.

My problem only occurred when Windows Dial up networking was installed. 
Win would boot almost to the startup desktop and then freeze with 
horrible aqua coloured lines all over the screen. Restarting brought it 
up in safe mode using VGA drivers and rebooting from there would allow 
the system to load normally, but it meant about 15 minutes and 3 boots 
just to turn on the damn computer. Remove either Dialup networking or 
PowerDesk and the problem went away.

I fought for ten hours with this weirdness. In my (admittedly atypical) 
case it was way quicker to start again. I blame it all on Bill.

Since this was a fresh install I eventually just strarted again from 
scratch and did a custom install of Windows instead of the incredibly 
weird "typical" installation. (Typical? It does not load useful things 
Dialup Networking or Windows Fax but does load Hyper Terminal and a 
billion other things?) So I was able to load all of the Windows 
components I would or thought I might use and then when done with setup, 
install the Matrox drivers. 

Depending on your BIOS you may be able to fix things there as the 
previous post noted. In AMI BIOS, for example there is an option to 
"assign IRQ to VGA adapter" or something like that. I gather that this 
can prevent some hardware conlicts. In my case it gives my Mystique IRQ 
11 every time in BIOS. I think it is a little trickier to manage in 
Award BIOS, but my other machine with Award BIOS has an STB card in it 
and I can't remember having any problems with it.

I don't know if that is of any help, and I'm no expert in anything other 
than frustration with Win95, but if any of this sounds familiar you 
might want to try some of these things. 

> >I had problems getting it to work. I am presently running 3.61. I
> >managed to get windows starting where previously it used to hang or give
> >me an error message saying my video hardware was not configured
> >properly, etc.
> 
> Mystique drivers have severe problems woth SOME systems. It seems luck
> of the draw (Prlun and Pray).
> 
> 2 issues
> 
> 1) The busmastering issue is due to lack of IRQ assignment. You may
> have to play with the systems BIOS to get it to update the PnP irq
> assignments stored in COS. Also the Mystique has an IRQSET applet
> which helps some folks, didn't help me.
> 
> 2) Display adapter not configured.... Install OSR2.1's USB suiplement.
> Go to Altavista Adavanced and search for USB and OSR2 and Update
> 
> Matrox indicated they are working on their own fix but don't have one
> yet.
> 
> geryr
> 
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