I had W98 and IE5 up and running well on an old Quantex system w/P100 processor. In May my old MB died, so I had a new one installed with an AMD K300 processor. I ended up by having to reinstall W98/IE5/all Microsoft updates and most of my program products. Since then I can't get IE5 to show me a decent image of a newspaper photo, movie clip, or much of anything. Still images show vertical intermittent lines of what looks like missing data or small imbedded squares of what looks like messed-up data, like raindrops. These same images appear just fine when viewed with Netscape, Opera, QuicView Plus, etc.. Windows MediaPlayer and RealPlayer G2 are almost unusable. The screen crawls with blobs of messed up data that comes and goes in amount of screen coverage. This happens in either live streaming or replay of saved clips. Both of these products are at the very latest levels. Vivo player works perfectly, however. I even replaced my old ATI graphics card with an ATI Expert98 card, but no improvement. I am completely baffled!

It's not the motherboard. When you install Windows, it does not install the drivers for your video card. It also does not set the monitor model to your's. It usually sets it to STD VGA and 256 colors which gets windows up and running. Look in Display/Properties/Advanced Set the monitor model to the one you use and then change the video adapter(driver) to the one for your card. Set the # of colors also. Reboot and things should be okay. If not, change to Std Vga, reboot and go through it again, sometimes you have to switch the procedure around. Make sure that there are no conflicts in Device Manager also.

Bruce, Sorry, but the system is using the correct ATI drivers for an Expert98 card. I have tried various refresh rates, color densities, and screen sizes with the same results. Also, if the graphics driver were at fault, why would Netscape or Opera show a good picture rendering on CNN Interactive, say, while Internet Explorer 5 shows the indications I described in my first message?