I have just reinstalled Windows 98SE on a new Albatron board with Intel 4 dual Pentium and a little over a gig of ram. I have repeatedly switched out cards and 98 doesn't like the drivers for either of them. I have gotten the latest drivers, but I had previously had another hard drive on this computer with Win2000 and the Geforce 4 mx440 worked well with it; prior to that I had another card - an Elsa Gladiac MX - on Windows 95 (another hard drive). Now, I can't get either one of them to load up. I have installed and reinstalled several times. Once in a while it will install the drivers, but when I get rebooted it gives me a message saying my adapter is not configured correctly, etc. Then it gives me a choice between two monitors, which for some reason Win98 finds (I only have one). Does anyone have any ideas about what could be wrong here? I am absolutely stumped and quite frustrated at this point. Thanks.

When you want to install a new driver program ,the previous one must be uninstalled.The drivers for Windows 95,98,98SE or ME are one group and the drivers for Win 2000 and XP another group:you don't mix the drivers outside these 2 groups.The drivers from an older version can be used if you don't find one for a newer version of the OS.For example you upgrade the operating system to Win 98SE and may keep the older drivers from Win 98.In your situation the Win 98 SE seems to be the main legacy thing present on your computer and a potential source of unusual errors.Give some thought about using Win XP and its drivers.Good luck.

Nancy Boot to safe mode(it loads the default windows drivers and nothing else). Press F5 during boot. Then go to device manager(System in control panel). Remove all drivers for display adapters and monitors. Shut down and install the components you WILL be using,(monitor and video card). Reboot and windows will find the new hardware and either install the drivers for them or ask you for the disk that has the drivers. You should be good after that. Post back and let us know.

I think you may be running into the problem of too much memory for Win 98. 512 MB is the max unless you adjust the max cache. If you have 2 sticks of 512 MB Ram try using only 1.

Both Stump and Wizard-Fred are correct. The memory thing is from MS itself, and with too much memory you will get all sorts of weird messages. I finally took all my memory out over 512 Mb and haven't hasd those messages since. Good luck. :)

Your computer is over-specified for W98se; too much RAM and W98se will not recognise dual processors.