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I just got my Black Magic card a week ago. It runs fine but I had problems
with the Black Magic installation CD. 

My system (Gateway G6-400 running WIN 98) would only see the install cd as 
an Audio CD. Then when I tried to access it, I get a error said that no CD is 
in the drive. I have never had any problems with any other CD. The only way
I got it to work was to turn on the "Active Desktop" Then it would read it but
it took 10 times as long to access than any other CD.


In article <199807120522...@ladder03.news.aol.com>, 
andre...@aol.com (Andrew5777) wrote:
>I have two problems:
>1)  My CDROM drive is exhibiting odd behavior.  In one program it locked up
>when the program went to access the CDROM.  In another, a game called
>Sanitarium, sometimes the video gets real choppy.  The drive will be reading,
>then will just stop for a couple seconds, start, stop, start, etc. as if it's
>not using the buffer correctly or something, maybe used up it's memory and not
>re-using i (a guess, because I'm not a computer engineer).  It's nerve racking.
> It's a Mitsumi 32X (and it's noisy as hell...sounds like a damn turbine engine
>when it's accessing).  Any ideas?
>2)  The drivers for my Black Magic 3D Voodoo2 video card keep vanishing.  I'll
>shut down my PC (properly), then next time I turn it on, they're gone.  I go to
>the display properties screen, and the Voodoo2 tab is gone, and none of my
>software can detect the card.  Oddly, the card is still listed in the device
>listing and is apparently working properly according to Windows.  I have to
>remove it, re-install the display drivers for the card off the CD, reboot, at
>which point Windows detects the card and asks for some 3Dfx DLL to be installed
>off the same CD, reboot, and generally it's working again.  However, next time
>I use my PC, they're gone again.  My primary card is an ATI Xpert 98 AGP, and
>I'm using the latest release of DirectX 5.  Has anyone else had similar
>experiences with this?  What am I doing wrong?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>-Andrew