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News regarding the combination Matrox G400 - SoundBlaster Live when used
with an ALi V based motherboard (like Asus P5A).
This particular combination makes the computer hang everytime a 3d
application or game is used. ALi is working on a new Win2000 AGP miniport
driver. As a temporary solution you might use the attached patch, which I
got from ALi support. Here are the instructions:

1. Install Matrox 5.00.007 beta drivers (which oddly run much faster than
newer ones)
2. Create a DOS boot diskette
3. Create a blank disk and copy the patch on this disk
4. Boot the computer with the dos boot disk
5. Switch diskette and run the patch.
6. When Windows 2000 starts you can remove the diskette

This fixes Direct3D for me, but Half-life 1.0.1.6 crashed in OpenGL.
I have bus mastering enabled (in Matrox PowerDesk) and "K6 write allocate"
as well as "Frame buffer posted write" disabled in the bios, as recommended
by ASUS and Matrox.

My system:
Asus P5A rev. 1.04 bios 1010 beta 2
AMD K6-III 450 MHz
128 MB PC-100 RAM (2x64)
Matrox G400 32MB DH 300 MHz bios 1.5.022
SoundBlaster Live! with LiveWare for Windows 2000 WDM drivers
Windows 2000 Professional English build 2195 with latest updates

Best greetings
Seba

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