🚀 go-pugleaf

Even if Diamond won't support your card anymore, you might want to try
out the web board at www.bjorn.com.  Dan Kay (sp?) from Diamond tries to
help people during his lunch break.  You might also be able to get help
from other stealth owners.

Henry Michel wrote:
> 
> Just wondering if anyone else is having problems with the K6-2 300.  I guess
> I should describe the problem now.  But first here are the system specs.
> 
> AX59-pro with 64 megs Toshiba(at least the chips) 12ns SDRAM and the K6-2
> 300 running with the 100 Mhz bus.  Memory is running at 66 Mhz.
> Diamond Stealth II with latest drivers and new bios.
> Soundblaster pro (I know, but I'm waiting for a boot-worthy pci sound card)
> Zoom internal dual mode--not the PCI.
> And to top it off, Windows 98.
> 
> Now for the problem.........Lockups.  And not just 'this program is not
> responding'  I'm talking about everything frozen except for the mouse, which
> also freezes after a few seconds.
> 
> Only a handful of programs cause it and I could live without most of them,
> but I would hate to go out and buy some new software and have to add it to
> the list.  So far the following programs will freeze my system.  X
> demo--right before the title appears.  Norton SI(from the boot mag cd)--the
> title appears and stays.  The main window opens and the system is frozen.
> Virtua Fighter 2--the main window opens it's time for a reboot.
> Final reality will run but oddly enough one of the benchmarks, the one
> before the tunnel, won't show.
> 
> I have had the motherboard a couple of weeks longer than the chip and it ran
> fine with a Pentium 233 MMX.  I tried playing around with bios settings and
> went from the 100Mhz bus to the 66Mhz bus.  I have also tried using the
> older bios for the Stealth as well as installing the older drivers from
> Diamonds site.  Oddly enough, when running Final Reality after changing
> drivers all benchmarks showed but the other programs still froze the system.
> 
> Also, I have no problem using games like Diablo and Fallout.
> 
> I'm sure that this is some problem with the Stealth II drivers but am not
> sure that Diamond will be of any help and they don't seem to like to support
> their low-end products.
> 
> So....is anyone having these problems?
> 
> Henry M.