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- From: calloway@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Frank Calloway)
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 14:30:12 GMT
- Subject: Re: Re: Diamond 24X: Best SVGA card value...if it works!
- Message-ID: <56950024@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO
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- That's Diamond, all right. I've been cursing their buggy drivers all
- the while I've had my Stealth card (I'm currently using Orchid drivers
- because Diamond can't seem to produce anything that works). When I
- first noticed the problems, I called Diamond's technical support and
- the person I spoke with verified that the drivers were buggy and said
- he didn't know when new ones would be available. (Diamond's standard
- excuse it to blame Binar, the folks who write the drivers for them.)
- When I expressed concern that I might have to buy another card just to
- get something that worked, his response was, "Whatever it takes to get
- the job done." The next release of drivers was no better than their
- predecessor. (I've tried 1.0 and 1.1 for Windows 3.1.)
-
- Guess which brand of video card I'll make a point of *not* buying again?
- They seem to make good hardware, but their support is non-existent.
-
- Frank Calloway
-