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problem installing Diamond AGP card
Diamond Monster Fusion AGP
Either this graphics card is a pile of ****e or I'm doing something wrong... I have what I think is a Diamond Monster Fusion AGP graphics card but I can't get it to work properly. I tried to get support but at http://www.diamondmm.com it laughably said: 'On August 26, 2003, Best Data Products Inc. acquired certain trade names and inventory of Diamond Multimedia's SupraMax communication division....At this time, Best Data does not have access to drivers for Stealth, Viper, Monster, or other Diamond graphics cards..In the meantime, customers interested in obtaining drivers for Diamond graphics cards should check third party web sites...' yeah thanks a lot Diamond. At http://home.freeuk.net/tonj/graphics/agp.htm there are pictures of the card if you have a second to take a look. My OS is Win98 SE. I've tried bestnf.zip, vb-w9z-figs-1.04.00.zip, fus95213.exe, fus9X213.exe, m3d1600.exe and mnstr2207.exe. None of these drivers make this card work properly. On reboot into Windows I always get a box comes up saying there's a fault with my display adapter. It will only work on low resolutions at max 256 colours and it should be much better than this. I expect I'm using the wrong driver but I'm finding it hard extablishing exactly what kind of card this is and which driver is correct. Thanks for any help. |
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ps: I've just installed W2K Pro on a formatted HD in a PC with this Diamond
AGP card fitted and it'as working fine. However it shows up in the display properties as a 3Dfx Interactive, Inc Banshee. Under Adapter information it says: Chip Type: 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee DAC Type: 3Dfx Internal DAC Memory size: 16Mb Adapter string: 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee Board Bios Information: no rom detected. Is this just Win2k using a different name? or should I be looking for a Windows 98 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee driver? |
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 20:32:49 +0100, Knowing that it was a Hollywood
invention that lemmings jump off cliffs "net" wrote : Diamond Monster Fusion AGP Either this graphics card is a pile of ****e or I'm doing something wrong... I have what I think is a Diamond Monster Fusion AGP graphics card but I can't get it to work properly. I tried to get support but at http://www.diamondmm.com it laughably said: 'On August 26, 2003, Best Data Products Inc. acquired certain trade names and inventory of Diamond Multimedia's SupraMax communication division....At this time, Best Data does not have access to drivers for Stealth, Viper, Monster, or other Diamond graphics cards..In the meantime, customers interested in obtaining drivers for Diamond graphics cards should check third party web sites...' yeah thanks a lot Diamond. At http://home.freeuk.net/tonj/graphics/agp.htm there are pictures of the card if you have a second to take a look. My OS is Win98 SE. I've tried bestnf.zip, vb-w9z-figs-1.04.00.zip, fus95213.exe, fus9X213.exe, m3d1600.exe and mnstr2207.exe. None of these drivers make this card work properly. On reboot into Windows I always get a box comes up saying there's a fault with my display adapter. It will only work on low resolutions at max 256 colours and it should be much better than this. I expect I'm using the wrong driver but I'm finding it hard extablishing exactly what kind of card this is and which driver is correct. Thanks for any help. Check the Device Manager using Safemode.Click here for why, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/drivers.html Does your mother board require an updated AGP drivers pack? Also for more drivers, http://members.driverguide.com/ums/index.php?action=l username: drivers password: all HTH -- Free Windows/PC help, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/trouble.html It's a G not a J in gmx for email Free songs download, http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/nomessiahsmusic.htm |
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net wrote:
ps: I've just installed W2K Pro on a formatted HD in a PC with this Diamond AGP card fitted and it'as working fine. However it shows up in the display properties as a 3Dfx Interactive, Inc Banshee. Under Adapter information it says: Chip Type: 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee DAC Type: 3Dfx Internal DAC Memory size: 16Mb Adapter string: 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee Board Bios Information: no rom detected. Is this just Win2k using a different name? or should I be looking for a Windows 98 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee driver? If you can get into DOS with debug available: debug enter - (debug prompt) dc000:0040 enter You should see info on vidio card to the right of display. Type "d" enter to see next dump. I have two older Diamond cards, (Stealth and Viper), and they both use S3 SAVAGE 2000. You might try a S3 driver. Virg Wall -- Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. ~ Carl Edward Sagan ~ |
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"V W Wall" wrote in message ... net wrote: ps: I've just installed W2K Pro on a formatted HD in a PC with this Diamond AGP card fitted and it'as working fine. However it shows up in the display properties as a 3Dfx Interactive, Inc Banshee. Under Adapter information it says: Chip Type: 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee DAC Type: 3Dfx Internal DAC Memory size: 16Mb Adapter string: 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee Board Bios Information: no rom detected. Is this just Win2k using a different name? or should I be looking for a Windows 98 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee driver? If you can get into DOS with debug available: debug enter - (debug prompt) dc000:0040 enter You should see info on vidio card to the right of display. Type "d" enter to see next dump. thanks for your response Virg. how does one get into DOS with debug? |
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net wrote:
"V W Wall" wrote in message ... If you can get into DOS with debug available: debug enter - (debug prompt) dc000:0040 enter You should see info on vidio card to the right of display. Type "d" enter to see next dump. thanks for your response Virg. how does one get into DOS with debug? Have not used Win2K, but you can always get into DOS with a boot disk with DOS system files and a copy of debug on it. I don't think debug is on some of the standard boot disks, but it's easy enough to make one by doing format /s on a 1.44MB floppy, and then copying debug to it. Virg Wall -- Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. ~ Carl Edward Sagan ~ |
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"V W Wall" wrote in message ... net wrote: "V W Wall" wrote in message ... If you can get into DOS with debug available: debug enter - (debug prompt) dc000:0040 enter You should see info on vidio card to the right of display. Type "d" enter to see next dump. thanks for your response Virg. how does one get into DOS with debug? Have not used Win2K, but you can always get into DOS with a boot disk with DOS system files and a copy of debug on it. I don't think debug is on some of the standard boot disks, but it's easy enough to make one by doing format /s on a 1.44MB floppy, and then copying debug to it. okay thanks I'll try that |
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"V W Wall" wrote in message ... net wrote: "V W Wall" wrote in message ... If you can get into DOS with debug available: debug enter - (debug prompt) dc000:0040 enter You should see info on vidio card to the right of display. Type "d" enter to see next dump. thanks for your response Virg. how does one get into DOS with debug? Have not used Win2K, but you can always get into DOS with a boot disk with DOS system files and a copy of debug on it. I don't think debug is on some of the standard boot disks, but it's easy enough to make one by doing format /s on a 1.44MB floppy, and then copying debug to it. okay, I managed to run debug and it said: 051562LGD ..X. DMonster Fusion Vers. 1:2064803 Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc.....U. .....i 3r.. ']......F. ....Y.....G............... I've tried using this data in google but I still can't find an alternative driver to the ones I've tried already. Whaddya think? |
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On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 20:59:04 +0100, Knowing that it was a Hollywood
invention that lemmings jump off cliffs "net" wrote : "V W Wall" wrote in message ... net wrote: "V W Wall" wrote in message ... If you can get into DOS with debug available: debug enter - (debug prompt) dc000:0040 enter You should see info on vidio card to the right of display. Type "d" enter to see next dump. thanks for your response Virg. how does one get into DOS with debug? Have not used Win2K, but you can always get into DOS with a boot disk with DOS system files and a copy of debug on it. I don't think debug is on some of the standard boot disks, but it's easy enough to make one by doing format /s on a 1.44MB floppy, and then copying debug to it. okay, I managed to run debug and it said: 051562LGD .X. DMonster Fusion Vers. 1:2064803 Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc.....U. .....i 3r.. ']......F. ...Y.....G............... I've tried using this data in google but I still can't find an alternative driver to the ones I've tried already. Whaddya think? Diamond are no more. It's a 3dfx card.You can get drivers here, http://www.driverguide.com/ username drivers password all HTH -- Free Windows/PC help, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/trouble.html It's a G not a J in gmx for email Free songs download, http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/nomessiahsmusic.htm |
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net wrote:
okay, I managed to run debug and it said: 051562LGD .X. DMonster Fusion Vers. 1:2064803 Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc.....U. .....i 3r.. ']......F. ...Y.....G............... I've tried using this data in google but I still can't find an alternative driver to the ones I've tried already. Whaddya think? That's about all you can expect from debug. It can't tell you more than what the vender put in the firmware in the card. It's handy sometimes, 'cause you don't have to open the case. My Viper card read: (Also not much help.) Viper II Z200 BIOS Version 3.1C.09,DMM-01 -5934 Video Memory Copyright 2000 by Diamond Multimedia 02/25/00 Try Shep's suggestion for driverguide.com Virg Wall -- It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer. William of Occam. |
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