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I'll explore the directx lead. Thanks. In the meantime I found another possible problem. I found the following conflict that is new on my computer. Could this be part of the reason I have a problem with the S3 graphics card?
IRQ 16 S3 Graphics ProSavage Compaq
IRQ 16 NEC PCI to USB Open Host Controller
I should add that I had a lot of problems with the mouse and keypad when this problem started. Frequently, after waiting 3 minutes for it to boot, I would find that either the mouse or the keyboard did not work, and would need to reboot again. You can imagine how much fun it was to reboot a machine several times at 3 minutes per reboot on a machine that crashed frequently!
I moved the mouse and keypad to different USB ports and removed the second hard drive. The system is now usable. The crashes are far less freqquent, the boot takes about 1 minute instead of 3, and the mouse always works. But it still slow in booting and quircky in operation. I think I now have the mouse and keypad on the USB card mentioned above.
All this on a new computer that is less than 1 year old.
Any suggestions?
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