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- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!wupost!darwin.sura.net!opusc!usceast!goyal
- From: goyal@cs.scarolina.edu (Sanjay Goyal)
- Subject: Adaptec 1542B and Diamond 24X problems help !!
- Message-ID: <goyal.726118016@pecan.cs.scarolina.edu>
- Summary: Having problems with Speedstat 24X on ah1542B system
- Keywords: 24X
- Sender: usenet@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: USC Department of Computer Science
- Distribution: comp
- Date: 4 Jan 93 03:26:56 GMT
- Lines: 44
-
- I just purchased a Diamond Speedstar 24X to be used on
- a 386/33 (w/ 8MB RAM) with Adaptec 1542B SCSI controller card:
-
- AMI BIOS Settings: 0 wait state and Shadow RAM enabled.
- Video BIOS: 8 bit BIOS, IRQ2 enabled.
-
- Problem:
- When I attempt to run WINDOWS 3.1 using Speedstar 24X video
- driver for 800x600 in 32K colors, the system behaves strangely,
- Under this mode, sometimes windows never comes up .. it just
- quits saying "Error loading GDI.EXE".
- On other occasions (under same mode), the program manager
- comes up, but it displays error when attempting to
- display the group ... "The Group xxx.grp file is corrupted
- do you want to recreate it ?" ... and when I say NO ... the
- prgram manager does finally come up, but with the groups
- missing. Moreover some of the icons change from color to
- black and white.
-
- If I change to 800x600 at 256 colors it again gives me
- some of the above problems (but it never quits windows
- like it did above).
-
- Under 800x600 16 color mode ... it all works fine.
-
- Tech Support was dumbfounded ... and not very helpful
-
- Oh yes ! and I did try to bring up windows using
- 640x480 (16.7 Million colors) and it displays the message
- "EXTREMELY LOW IN MEMORY" !!!
-
- This is very frustating to say the least ... since I
- bought this card to take advantage of the billions
- and billions of colors it promised.
-
- Any help would be appreciated, so I don't have
- to return it.
-
- Thanks in advance
-
- An e-mail would be greatly appreciated.
-
- Max
-
-