When i try to boot beos 5 PE, The monitor goes off. I'm getting the BeOS welcome statup screen after that nothing, The monitor automatically turns it self off. I think this is due to incompatibility of my VGA card. I'm having a SiS 6326 PCI card. any idea? I'm running a PII 450; 64Mb SDRAM ; 4MB VGA ; 20GB HDD ; Ess 1938 PCI audiodrive ; Intel 440BX Motherboard. Downloading 5.0.3 will work? (BeOS)

Check the hardware compatibility list at Frizbe to see if your video card is supported. That's the best idea I have, since I never encountered your problem. Lots of Luck Bob

Do you see Icons? If so which one does it stop on? Also what else do you have computerwise? CPU/board hd ect.

I'm getting all the icons in the BeOS startup display. (The purple coloured screen with the BE logo) It doesn't stop at anything but it turns my monitor off. My sys. configuration is given in the first message. PII 450Mhz ; Sis 6326 VGA 4MB PCI; HDD :- 2 physical drives 4 GB; 20GB Intel 440BX pro system Board; ESS 1938 PCI audio drive; 48X creative infra CD-ROM drive. BeOS is installed to 20GB HDD which have 4 GB free.

I think I had that chip in an AGP computer and it worked with beos but I had a lot of trouble with getting linux driver. Frixbe.net reader reported full useage too. http://hardware.frizbe.net/info.php?product=401&category=28&sub=26 Do you have an AGP port on that board? The only thing I can think of is that your AGP port is being enabled? Anyway, use safe mode when booting to beos. at loading be or when you just see the icon screen press the space bar and choose safe mode option. See if you can boot at all that way. Remember to turn off PNP if you can in bios.

Thank you for your help guys. Now I'm working with BeOS. Yours Sincerely, NMT