Hello, Paul.

 PR> Anybody got any experience using a Diamond Fire GL 1000 Pro video card?
 PR> It uses a Permedia2 chipset.  I've seen some curious things, not sure
 PR> what it means.  I could switch to a Diamond Viper 550, but I don't know
 PR> if that's any better.

I have one of those here, but so far I haven't given it a home, so don't
have any real experience with using it.  Stencilling on back of board is
just as you wrote above.  Fine print on a white sticker on back of this
one has "Fire 1K PRO AGP 8MB S3,"  so I was thinking it had an S3
chipset. Sticker on a "bios-looking" chip on front has "V1.54" on
it.  Main chip is about 1" square, with a little aluminum heatsink glued
on, so I can't see top of the chip.

Unfortunately, it looks like Diamond Multimedia's website
(www.diamondmm.com) has disappeared off the face of the internet a few
months ago.

So what are you seeing that looks curious?  I think there were probably
a lot of compatibility problems in the early days of AGP (looks like
the card is from 1997), and I remember that Roy T's Intel 440LX
mainboard had a number of mainboard chipset compatibility issues with S3
chipset vidcards.

- - -  JimH.

... "Bother!" said Pooh, as he tried to make used-stuff work with
used-stuff.
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