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I have no clue what could have caused the weird error message you got but I can say it's got nothing to do with the Pentium. More likely, it's something else going weird with your system. Regarding the Viper PCI, I've been using one for almost a year now with no problems whatsoever. The very first Vibrant driver had a problem with it (the one included in the 3D Studio 3 box) but Vibrant got a new driver for it right after and everything works just fine. By the way, this is not a VESA driver. The Vibrant driver "talks" directly with the P9000 hardware making the most use out of it. The fact that when you "deturbo" your systems the stuff runs ok suggests you got some component that doesn't run well at high speed. The most obvious thing is memory. Either dynamic (RAM) or static (cache). What brand is this P90 any way? There are a ton of folks here running P90's with no problems.