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In article <36d6ea12.117307@news.clara.net>, Daveh@ufo.clara.newt says...
> Right first off apologies for the crosspost but this is getting
> desperate.  Quake 2 won't work and I am starting to get the shakes.  
> 
> I have an amdk62 333
> matrox mystique g200
> 64 meg pc100 ram
> 3,2 gig western digital hard drive
> 40 speed cd rom (new today)
> creative pci128 soundcard
> phonicpro modem internal
> realtek 10/100 ethernet card (not currently plugged in to anything)
> and thats it really


I notice you have a Matrox card...

Personal experience, when I first got a Voodoo card I had a Matrox as 
well and the Voodoo would not work properly as you describe. After weeks 
of messing about it turned out that the Matrox was assigning itself to 
memories positions that the Voodoo would try to access when activated, 
the overlap crashing it instantly. Because the Voodoo was not permanantly 
active, it does not report a conflict. Milleniums were quite prone to 
this as well as Mystiques (which was what I had) I understand. This could 
possibly have been caried over into the G200 when used in combination 
with certain other peripheral combinations.

I know this was fixed in Powerdesk 3.82 (for the Mystiques anyway), but 
this is the only thing I can think of that would perhaps be at cause.

In "Control Panel/System/Display Adaptors/Matrox G200/Resources" there 
should be a few memory ranges that you are allowed to alter after 
unclicking the 'use automatic resource' option. If you are really 
deperate and know reasonably what you are doing you could try clicking 
them all up one increment at a time and see what effect it has.

Obviously, make a note as to what the original setting was so you can 
restore it (via SAFE MODE) in the event of a problem and I take no 
responsibility for it if you decide to do so. If we never hear from you 
again tho we'll assume you failed, heh.

The safe way to do this of course would be if you have a spare graphics 
card, even an old ISA cheapie. Slot it in, boot up and if Q2 works fine 
then you know there is a conflict from the Matrox.

Also, Q2 has a variable that must be set for PCi soundcards otherwise you 
may get sound problems, shouldn't make it lock up tho.


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