The Tips in detail

 "My Diamond Viper 550 Card does not work!"

A lot of people reported that the Diamond drivers are, well, "not the best thing to have". Most problems should be solved by using the nvidia-driver instead: »The Viper 550 is ok but you will have to get the "Detonator" drivers for the TNT chip from www.nvidia.com to use OpenGL with Max.«

According to Diamond's Site has a lot of information regarding thier GCs. You can download Nvidia's Detonator 2 drivers for the Riva TNT-2 chipset from Nvidia's site.