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Diamond Speed Star 64: Translate or Design Manager hanging


Record #1718

Product Family:  Software

Product Line:  FPGA Core

Problem Title:
Diamond Speed Star 64: Translate or Design Manager hanging


Problem Description:
If translate or design manager hangs...

-Translate box appears empty or scrolls through information, but never
  completes
-Mouse subsequently freezes and a reboot of the machine is required
-or Translate completes successfully the first time, but Design Manager then
  hangs

Check Windows settings (Xilinx Solution #704), win32s (Xilinx Solution #697)
or (Xilinx Solution #706), as well as screen resolution settings.

Assuming the above and related suggestions do not fix the problem, it has
been observed that the Diamond Speed Star 64 from Diamond Multimedia causes
a conflict between the control tools and the XACT Development Software that
is evidenced by these symptoms.


Solution 1:

One solution has been to go to Windows Setup and use the standard VGA
driver instead of the Diamond Speed Star 64. (Resolution - 640 X 480 - 16
colors)

A better solution, however, is to contact Diamond Multimedia
(http://www.diamondmm.com) and obtain the actual driver for the Cirrus Logic
Graphics Chip being used.  This should provide a fix to the problem and
allow utilization of 1024 X 768 - 64K colors resolution.



End of Record #1718