The trade: My FRS pair of radios + cordless phone (both unopened) for used Viper II Z220 32Mb
AGP + used netcard.
The shipping box had a big gash in it. It was uninsured. There didn't appear to be any damage
to the cards therein. No matter what drivers I used, I could not get the computer to keep from
locking up. This locking up would happen within minutes of booting up, if not before all startup
programs had booted.
From my complaints, trader sent me a replacement, a used Viper V550 16Mb AGP. It was shipped
insured. This card was better, but after a couple hours use the screen would just go blank. No
matter which driver I tried, the same thing happened. I even upgraded the card's bios which
increased time between failures, but still video related failures nonetheless.
I am now back to my original SIS 6326 4Mb card which I have been unable to crash before or
after the card changes. Now when my computer crashes, its because of memory leaks from poorly
written programs and my resources going below a certain level; this is normal windows activity
as far as I'm concerned. With the traded cards installed, I couldn't even get to this level
before locking up or screen blanking.
I am in possession of both cards, and trader is in possession of the stuff I sent. Trader
indicates he used the V550 without any problem in his pII-333 running XP Pro. Trader has near
30 heatware evals all positive. Trader has been nothing but positive in his responses to my
complaining.
The target computer has some old ZX chipset mobo running win98se, 384 ram and a celeron 366.
What to do?
AGP + used netcard.
The shipping box had a big gash in it. It was uninsured. There didn't appear to be any damage
to the cards therein. No matter what drivers I used, I could not get the computer to keep from
locking up. This locking up would happen within minutes of booting up, if not before all startup
programs had booted.
From my complaints, trader sent me a replacement, a used Viper V550 16Mb AGP. It was shipped
insured. This card was better, but after a couple hours use the screen would just go blank. No
matter which driver I tried, the same thing happened. I even upgraded the card's bios which
increased time between failures, but still video related failures nonetheless.
I am now back to my original SIS 6326 4Mb card which I have been unable to crash before or
after the card changes. Now when my computer crashes, its because of memory leaks from poorly
written programs and my resources going below a certain level; this is normal windows activity
as far as I'm concerned. With the traded cards installed, I couldn't even get to this level
before locking up or screen blanking.
I am in possession of both cards, and trader is in possession of the stuff I sent. Trader
indicates he used the V550 without any problem in his pII-333 running XP Pro. Trader has near
30 heatware evals all positive. Trader has been nothing but positive in his responses to my
complaining.
The target computer has some old ZX chipset mobo running win98se, 384 ram and a celeron 366.
What to do?
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