I posted this on the Lightspeed site but figured I post it here as well as I'm desperate for an answer.
This seems like a never ending saga but I'll give you the complete run down and sorry in advance for the length of this posting.
It all started when I installed my new AIW 128 32MB PCI card on Christmas day. I have a Compaq Presario with the LX440 MB and a 333 PII processor. I was previously using a Monster 3DFX (original)pass through acelerator ard and the "on the motherboard" ATI Rage Pro chip. When I installed the card I removed the Monster card (Not sure if I totally uninstalled this correctly and I'll explain that in a minute) and disabled the unboard video via Compaq's Instructions (change to VGA adapter - shut down - add new card) and installed the AIW card. I used the 6220 drivers from the ATI site versus the drivers on the install CD.
Now here's the problem. After rebooting D3D games will not run until I first run DirectX Diagnostics and it takes the diagnostics 3-5 minutes to open. Under the Direct Media tab I noticed there were still mm3dfx.drv, mm3dfx16.dll and mm3dfx32.dll listed. The AIW card was properly listed as the primary card but the 3dfx listing still I believed was a clue to my problem. I went into the registry and found a Diamond section under the HK_LOCAL software key and I deleted it. I also renamed the mm3dfx.drv. In device manager I had also noticed an unknown device listed so I removed it and then rebooted. After the reboot I checked the device manager and saw that the unknown device stayed gone so I ran DirectX Diagnostics to see how I stood. This time it said Windows was building a driver information database first and still it took 3-5 minutes to open. Lo and behold the unknown device was re-added by the Diagnostics program. Grrr.
ATI can't help me and I logged a support item with Microsoft and of course they're no help either.
I suppose I could live with the work around and run DiarectX Diagnostics every time I reboot but it's real annoying as you might figure. I sure hope one of you can offer a suggestion to fix the problem. Of course there's always reformat and start over but I have too much stuff to lose in that process. I'm saving that as a last resort.
I'm real sorry about the length of this message but figured a complete background would be necessary.
Thanks.
Bob
Fullwave2
This seems like a never ending saga but I'll give you the complete run down and sorry in advance for the length of this posting.
It all started when I installed my new AIW 128 32MB PCI card on Christmas day. I have a Compaq Presario with the LX440 MB and a 333 PII processor. I was previously using a Monster 3DFX (original)pass through acelerator ard and the "on the motherboard" ATI Rage Pro chip. When I installed the card I removed the Monster card (Not sure if I totally uninstalled this correctly and I'll explain that in a minute) and disabled the unboard video via Compaq's Instructions (change to VGA adapter - shut down - add new card) and installed the AIW card. I used the 6220 drivers from the ATI site versus the drivers on the install CD.
Now here's the problem. After rebooting D3D games will not run until I first run DirectX Diagnostics and it takes the diagnostics 3-5 minutes to open. Under the Direct Media tab I noticed there were still mm3dfx.drv, mm3dfx16.dll and mm3dfx32.dll listed. The AIW card was properly listed as the primary card but the 3dfx listing still I believed was a clue to my problem. I went into the registry and found a Diamond section under the HK_LOCAL software key and I deleted it. I also renamed the mm3dfx.drv. In device manager I had also noticed an unknown device listed so I removed it and then rebooted. After the reboot I checked the device manager and saw that the unknown device stayed gone so I ran DirectX Diagnostics to see how I stood. This time it said Windows was building a driver information database first and still it took 3-5 minutes to open. Lo and behold the unknown device was re-added by the Diagnostics program. Grrr.
ATI can't help me and I logged a support item with Microsoft and of course they're no help either.
I suppose I could live with the work around and run DiarectX Diagnostics every time I reboot but it's real annoying as you might figure. I sure hope one of you can offer a suggestion to fix the problem. Of course there's always reformat and start over but I have too much stuff to lose in that process. I'm saving that as a last resort.
I'm real sorry about the length of this message but figured a complete background would be necessary.
Thanks.
Bob
Fullwave2