Diamond Viper II 32 Meg AGP Video Card

[chilenooo]

I don't know if this is an advance topic or not....

I got a problem,
Need help,

I got this Diamond Viper II 32 Meg AGP Video Card (TV OUT) for my system...

I got a Pentium III computer, 800MHz, pretty nice...

I tried installing this new card on the computer, and everything is cool until it ask me to reboot....when it does...I get a blank screen with the "time" cursor in the middle....My computer does nothing after that...it's basically dead....
I don't know, but I installed the latest driver for the card...got it from the website....(i had the cd also, but it didn't work)....

Looking for suggestions.
thanks

[incognito]

oh boy.

These cards are now cheap (us$50ish)...
the 2d is shart as a tack evan at high resolution...
and the TV out is really super.... (even on a 32-inch screen)
The DVD playback is five-star...

But they are *plagued* with driver problems.

I would re-start in safe mode, and adjust the video settings to
a lower resolution-- I seem to remember havings problems
with the diamond drivers at certain settings.

There is an updated (like a year or so ago) driver set at
http://www.s3graphics.com
I'd download and install what I found there.

As long as you don't want to play any 3d games, this is a
nice card after you get it running. I found the drivers way
too buggy for stable operation in most games.

All of my experience with this card was in win2k.

[wildcatfan1978]

The card isn't to bad if you aren't a huge game player....if you play quake 3 engine games (rtcw, quake 3, others) or unreal tournament it absolutely rocks. But you need the newest drivers (which really aren't that new) or it sucks for everything. Also if you do play unreal make sure you use the MeTaL api.....

[chilenooo]

Thanks for the info,
I am going to try again,
I went to the site and I found the driver dated from october 2k,

I downloaded the zip file, and I'm stuck...there is no "install" or setup icon,

Sorry again...but HELP!!

thanks

[incognito]

First, you need to uninstall your old drivers, or at least switch to the
windows default vga/svga drivers. There should be a readme/howto
in the drivers you downloaded from diamond that tells you how to do this.

control panel->settings->advanced->adapter->properties->driver->uninstall
or update driver in win2k, it's slightly different in every version of win.

Unzip the newer S3 reference drivers (yes, I think oct of 00 is the latest--
pathetic!) and remember the directory what you called the dir.

Then install the new driver the same way you uninstalled the old one:
when you add new hardware or change the driver, don't have windows
search, pick "choose from a list" "have disk", etc, and then navigate
to the directory where you unzipped the newer driver, and select the
file shat shows up there. Windows should do the rest.