I have an Alienware system with a Diamond Monster 3D card. Specs (note: after a crash, I replaced the original MB with the Soyo, also replaced the bad SB AWE 64 with the VIA Tech on-board sound): P2 300MHz w/Soyo MB 192 MB RAM 21 GB HD Hercules Terminator AGP Diamond Monster 3D 4MB RAM VIA Tech on-board audio subsystem Win98 2nd Ed. My original system's HD crashed, so I had to get a new one. I have everything successfully reconfig'd except the Monster 3D. Win98 Device Mgr recognizes it as "Other" PCI Multimedia Video Device, but says no driver is set up for it. I can't find the original CD with the drivers, so I tried downloading the latest from the diamondlegacy website. But when I try to run the exe from that download, it says it could not detect the hardware. Then I discovered that that driver pkg only works with cards that are already installed and running, which mine is not. I've tried upzipping the contents, and using the driver wizard to take what it needs, but although it finds a .inf file, it says something like "no description found for hardware" and quits. I don't know exactly what is wrong. I'm guessing that I need the original driver CD. Any ideas on what I can do to work around this problem? Thank you.

As i understood you don't have the monster graphic card on your machine and you have replaced it with another until you can find a driver for it.So the prog of diamond first checks the existance of the card and then installs the driver.If your problem is that when you put your monster card on it you see a black screen....let your monster card attached and enter with safe mode(by pressing F8 button when your pc starts and says:"Starting Windows 98" try to be fast).Then run the driver's file that you have already download and that's all. If that doesn't work then or you have download wrong driver or you card model is not correct.Double check it! Did i helped you?

As i checked in diamond website there is three! Monster 3D Monster 3D II and Monster Fusion Also tree to unzip the file as you have done and add the driver from Conrol Panel -->Add Remove Hardware-->No,Select from list -->Other devices-->Have disk --> and now point to the disk and directory you have extract the files.

i need the driver for monster 2 3d driver for diamond for the xp version