Thanks Tom, I reinstalled Mandrake 7.2 and used the generic Savage 2000 (which I also did on the 1st install) and it is working this time. Don't know what was wrong the 1st time. Wilson On Friday 08 December 2000 20:51, you wrote: > On Friday 08 December 2000 04:55 pm, Wilson wrote: > > Can anybody give me instructions on how to get the Diamond Viper II > > AGP card to work in Mandrake 7.2. I installed it but couldn't get > > the video card to work. > > On what hardware? > S3 chipsets aren't regarded as doin that well with AGP, any OS, but > they use to be fairly good PCI cards. Try setting 'agp aperture' to 4 > in bios. That effecitvely disables AGP sidebanding, more or less > disables AGP altogether. Then it might have a better chance. > > Try it, might work. Otherwise, holler back an specify your > motherboard, ram, bios (video related) settings etc.