My PC has suddenly developed a dislike for anything complicated. First the spec: Gigabye 7DX MB AMD Athlon T-Bird 1.3G Creative Geforce 2 GTS 256 DDR RAM SB Live At first Windows 98 would crash randomly shortly after booting. Then it would crash while booting. Eventually I got fed up and wiped Windows and tried to reinstall it. The installation process would last between 10 seconds and 5 minutes then crash with a BSoD or a exception error, usually in kernel or user.exe files. Finally I formatted the hard disk booted from a floppy and tried the install again. Same problem. I then tried running the DOS scandisk off the boot disk and this ran with no problems for 6-8 hours while it scanned my disk. All I can think of is maybe the RAM chip has an error above the DOS memory area or my graphics card is dead in non-DOS modes. Is either of these likely to be the cause and is there a way to tell which one? A nice memory check program maybe? I'll cheerfully replace the faulty part but I don't know which one and don't really want to shell out to buy the wrong one. Any advice help greatly appreciated. :) Cheers. Mike.

The rule of thumb we use in installing nVidia cards is to strip the PC of all cards but video, run the Win install, then install the other cards. nVidias with large video memory need multiple memory locations and multiple resources and if another card is taking one, Win uses the "next best" resource which doesn't always work.