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#Upgrade Problems

    17-Oct-94 00:32:14
Sb: #Upgrade Problems
Fm: Cheryl Hoff 76360,421
To: Autodesk
A few things experienced upgrading from a 486DX2 to a Pentium 90: 3DS3 will give the error message "xmsg_rd: 6 error loading message 33.9 from compiled message file" The fix? Deturbo when installing 3DS3–the question: will I have any other difficulties due to the speed of the CPU (I didn't get a Pentium to run the cpu at 1/2 speed)? The other difficulty is in getting the Viper PCI card to operate from the Vesa compatible drivers supplied with 3DS3; I get another error message. I have searched the Diamond documentation; I can't even be sure that the 3DS3 supplied driver "Viper P9000" is the correct one for this video board. (Diamond did supply a driver for 3DS2-it doesn't do much for me with 3DS3)–Has anyone out there run into this before? I do not want to "settle for" the Diamond 'vprmode vesa' command; I want at least what I used to be able to get with my simple Tseng ET4000–fair color, reasonable number of resolution selections. With "vprmode vesa", I am getting mediocre results from a card that promises more. It's late, I'm getting frustrated. (if you'd ever done a motherboard replacement with a P90, you'd understand) Please help! Desperate!