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I just recently sold off my Speedstar Hi-Color card in favor of
the new Speedstar 24X.  While I am happy with the improved
Windows performance of the card, that happiness has been overshadowed
by a plethora of system hangs.  I run Windows 3.1 under DR DOS 6.0
with a 80 out of 120 meg's SuperStor'ed on my drive.  Since installing
the 24X, weird things started happening, and they were getting
weirder and weirder.  First there were the hangs every time a 
screen saver came on (either Win 3.1's or After Dark).  Then the
crashes came during WPWin sessions, Terminal sessions (I'm hoping I
get lucky now...), and every Windows app I have.  Things got worse
when I exited Windows and got back into DOS.  Without my touching
any input devices, the system would give me "Divide by zero" error
messages at random time intervals, sometimes as fast as several per
second.  Resetting the system did nothing to help this.

My first reaction was to vacuum out all the dust bunnies that was
practical from my tower case, thinking maybe they were causing
some freaky connections here and there.  That didn't seem to do
the trick.  My next thought was that this was a DR DOS problem,
but I have found that this is not the case.  I borrowed someone's
MS DOS 5.0 and loaded it onto my system (yes, killing my SuperStor
partition and causing me to reload EVERYTHING...).  The hangs
still abound in Windows 3.1, although I haven't seen those funky
error messages at the DOS prompt yet.

None of these things ever happened with my Speedstar Hi-Color
card, which was happily running in my system (386/40 w/64k cache
and 8 meg's RAM).  If anyone has any suggestions, or even just
sympathy, I'd appreciate hearing from you...

Austin
lin@ee.umr.edu