True. I'm very fond of my Asus motherboard. I started with an Iwill mb and I didn't much care for it, so I bought one of of the new (at the time) BX motherboards. I did my homework and came up with the best I could find. About the TNT. I've never used a TNT in WinNT, so that may be the difference between me and you. The TNT is on my win98 machine, and the Banshee is on my NT machine.

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>>>There are plenty of people who shy away from the ATI Rage Pro chipset that I use in my Win98 box; earlier Rage chipsets have been problematic, and ATI is -awful- about releasing new drivers. OTOH, it's fast enough for me, has integrated video capture, TV tuner, SVGA and NTSC output, and decent enough 3D acceleration for when i want it. I'd like to upgrade to the newer Rage 128 chipset, with built-in MPEG2 decoding, so that I could scrap my DVD decoder coard, but they cards are too pricey, and the drivers are a bit too new at this point for me...
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>>>>>>>>>>I have VFP 5.0 running on Dell Dimension 450 Mhz with Windows NT. Everything works fine.
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>>>>>>>>>Thanks for the info...so it's certainly not speed alone causing the problem...
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>>>>>>>>G'day Bruce,
>>>>>>>>My partner just got a new fast computer. Couldn't click on Project tags. Turned out to be the super-you-beaut Diamond Viper video card.
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>>>>>>>Don't tell me - it was a Viper V550...
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>>>>>>>I've had problem intermittently with both that and the STB Velocity 4000, both based on the nVidia Riva TNT chipset. I'm using the AT and matrox cards now, with much more stable results, at a slight expense in frame rate under Quake II and Unforgiven.
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>>>>>>Yes , a Viper V550! You asked me not to tell you that:-). So I guess that wasn't related to your problem?
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>>>>>I dumped both the Diamond and STB cards; I'm using the ATI All In Wonder Pro on my Win98 box at home, and the Matrox G200 in the NT boxes, and the problems seem to have gone away. The Diamond card in particular was uncooperative at best, and left some nasty droppings in the registry that had to be cleared out by hand before the Control Panel applet was usable with another card. I had some similar lockup problems with the STB card (in all fairness, the install wasn't 100% clean, following right on the heels of the Diamond card) and I switched to the ATI card from there, since both the Diamond and STB cards are based on the same chipset, and I have a whole lot of stuff in my 98 box that it might not be getting along with. The ATI card has been very good to date; the only real problem came when I installed WaveTop beta 2.0 (a data reception service that works in the background off cable broadcasts) which gave me some fits with my LAN. The problem was pretty clearly with WaveTop,
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>>>>>I switched to using ATI's TV display applet instead of Microsoft's Web TV, dropped WaveTop, and have had no problems since. The Matrox cards have been rock-sold from the start, but didn't have the extra toys I wanted (the ATI has video capture, TV in and out on the card, and decent acceleration for games; the Matrox is a little less 'feature rich').