ok it boots fine, but when i get to the desktop is what is screwy, it wont show in one veiw its more chopped and only the first slice is show over and over. so anyone know how to fix this?

I wake up at 6 o'clock every morning, no matter what time it is.

Seems like it might be your video refresh speed is out of whack. I think you can try a ctrl-alt-shift-f12 first or try the preferences menu to change video setting. ?

well, i tried the ctrl-atl-shift-f12 thing, it shows a bar go down and then pop back at the top, not a solid one jus like those ones that are annoying on old tvs, but doesnt do anything, also if i had to install my video driver on win98, would i have to in BeOS??

I wake up at 6 o'clock every morning, no matter what time it is.

BeOS video drivers aren't available for many graphic cards. And many of the ones available were written by third-party programmers who didn't have the full specs for the cards' internal workings, so there can be problems.

Can you boot correctly in VESA mode? If so you can try changing the settings and rebooting.

-Bob

VESA??? whats VESA mode??

I wake up at 6 o'clock every morning, no matter what time it is.

VESA is the most basic graphic format, built into most graphic cards. That's what you see booting Windows in safe mode, I think. To get VESA mode in BeOS, press the space bar as BeOS is booting.

If that works, you can download a free utility called Vesa Accepted to force BeOS to boot in Vesa mode every time without entering the setup utility.

Best Luck,
Bob

Window and BeOS can't use each others anything.
Which beos version are you using.
Tell us more about your machine.

Well its BeOS 5 PE, Well you can go to Compaqs site and look up Presario 7478, and itll tell u all the specs except i have a 40 gig instead of a 30. so can i play any of the good games on BeOS, like starcraft, or games like that?

I wake up at 6 o'clock every morning, no matter what time it is.

Go to bebits dot com for games and see.

To help you a bit here is a long winded letter. Think of an OS the ham in a ham sandwich. The bread on one side is your computer and the other bread side is your game. BeOS, linux, windows, dos is your ham.
Ok, basically an operating system converts application data to machine data. An OS is between what the machine understands and an application. Since the OS is between each then it must understand both sides. An application like a game must be able to talk to the OS one one of the sides. Most games and applications are written for an exact OS. Now some are "ported" or re-written to talk to other OS's true. Now comes in the idea if an "emulator". Some applications called emulators allow mini-OS's to run within an OS. What you need is a game that you want to play that runs on BeOS.

thz ill try it

I wake up at 6 o'clock every morning, no matter what time it is.