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I'm using BootIt NG 1.75 to run multiple operating systems on a Pentium III Tualatin system with an ASUS TUSL2-C motherboard and voodoo 5 5500 AGP video card. Everytime I try to change any setting under BootIt NG, the computer stops responding. Sometimes the program doesn't load at all. I tried using another TUSL2-C mobo, another Voodoo 5 card, another CPU with a lower clock speed and updating the program from version 1.75 to 1.86 but I still got the same problem. When I tried using a different AGP card, the program ran perfectly. Under Windows there is no problem, everything works perfectly.
Is there anything I can do or should I use another multiboot program?
Is there any multiboot program similar to BootIt NG?
Give a chance to the Trance.

Grub is a common one. Kind of depends on what you want to boot to. Most systems have web pages about them and how to dual boot or multiboot.
Syslinux or isolinux I think can be used.
There are even simple ways to just change the active boot partition.
My guess is the way the vesa works or even how the loader changes from the old dos system (forget that name) to the way the newer systems work. Bigreal or something like that.
See also bios settings. Sometimes video cache and other video settings might cause that.
"Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, are in my top 10

There are a lot of boot managers, to make a suggesting on what one may work best for you need to know just what OS'S you are booting and # of hdd and there partitions. And if you want a free or $$ one. Do you have a floppy drive ?
plop,gag,xosl,grub are ones I have used.
plop -installs into the first track of hdd, permits hdd to have more then 4 primary partitions but only 4 can be in the MBR and the others will be seen as unalloted space. Currently use with 6 Windows OS and 2 linux.
gag- installs into the first track, easy to use and insall
xosl-installs into a partition , you can install MS (MicroSoft) OS into a primary partition then copy it into an extended partition and make it bootable with out any primary partitions on hdd (I do not recommend this). Best use is MS OS's on primary and linux on extended partitions.
All above can hide partitions.

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