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In article <1+ER+FAgaRV3EwZc@urban75.demon.co.uk>, Mike
<mike@nospam.demon.co.uk> allegedly scrawls wildly
>In article <7j31jq$5am$2@quince.news.easynet.net>, Harry Broomhall
><haeb@haeb.noc.easynet.net> penned
>>
>>  Well - I have to say that I have recently bought one of those cards,
>>and am delighted with it.  Your problem may stem from something else,
>>perhaps your motherboard.  I don't know the XPS400 so can't comment on it.
>>How old is it? 
>
>About six months... it's a Pentium 400 and has already had no problems
>running a Diamond AGP card.

presumably you have disabled the AGP ports and set to boot from PCI.  I
had a hell of a problem with my Matrox Mystique/Rainbow Runner that
never seemed comfortable with Win95 and socket 7 boards.  The Matrox
cards are the worse I've known for conflicts, although I have to say
it's perfect in Win98 and with a slot1 board (Gigabyte BXE).  However,
what you must do is ensure the card grabs an IRQ at boot up, so set the
BIOS to assign one, if it hasn't got one, you won't be doing anything.

I found a clean install of both hardware and software the best way to
sort out problems, as sometimes the residue of previous installations
causes problems.

Stu 
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Stuart Brown