My Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 is newly formatted with W98se. For the purpose of fixing this video problem, no other software is installed except the internal Intel LAN driver and the Trident CyberbladeXP video accelerator driver. Problem: After the format and the LAN and video install, the first thing I do is open Outlook Express, and it locks up the computer immediately, every time. Browsing with IE will lock up too, on the first site you go to. If I reduce the acceleration setting (in the performance tab) down to none or the first setting, it's ok. But the second setting, or the full setting, locks every time. And of course it's ok in safe mode. I've tried IE 4.0 and 5.5, and I've tried every Cyberblade driver I could find, including the CyberbladeXP driver from both the Toshiba sites, and from Driverguide.com. The drivers that did not specifically say "Cyberblade XP" usually ended up never getting past the "Trident Chipset Not Found!" error. To be sure the problem was not with the LAN driver, I changed to a pcm card which connected to the LAN fine, but, Express and IE still locked up immediately. I have not been able to use the configuration discs, because they only have the option of "disc one" for W2000, and "disc two" for NT (I'm using 98se), and because they do not give the option of only installing applications (that button is greyed out). The only other configuration options are to do a full install which include (I presume) the OS, which would not be 98. Note: I don't think the XP in "Cyberblade XP" pertains to Windows XP... since this computer came out in 1999 or 2000; they just happened to name the accelerator "XP" back then. Note2: The TridentMicro.com site does not seem to list the Cyberblade XP drivers (or any drivers) anymore.

did you load the motherboard driver david

Here's the 98se video driver: http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_dtlViewDL.jsp?soid=107365&moid=1073792275&BV_SessionID=@@@@1524458032.1106539409@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccceadddjgkikdjcgfkceghdgngdgnj.0&ct=DL and the Toshiba Utilities for 98se: http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_modItemList.jsp and a few more drivers: http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_modItemList.jsp Skip

ddp59: Motherboard driver?... I assume you mean the video driver... which would be yes. That's where the problem is. SkipCox: Yes, that is the driver (for 98se) with the problem. And that's also where I got the one for 95 and 2000, which I tried and which worked, at least on a test basis. Who knows if they'll continue to work once applications need them. Interestingly, after trying the one for 95, I then tried the proper one (for 98) again, and it worked. But I did not trust it, and reformatted again, and am starting out now with the one for 95.