I am reposting this to try to keep it on the current list, rather than in the archive. 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, QuickView 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!

Probably a stupid question, but have you tried un/re-installing the IE5 package? (Other tan when you got the new mb)

Another stupid question, did you install the correct drivers for the video card?

Sy, I'm afraid to reinstall the whole package. When I did the first reinstall I lost all my mail that had been sent/received since I first went to IE5 in mid February. Bruce, Yes, I am using the correct drivers with my new card and was using the correct drivers for my older ATI Mach64 card. And - if I were using wrong drivers - wouldn't the problem show up when using Netscape, Opera, etc.?

I also (unfortunately) have an ATI Expert98 card. I had the same problem with certain programs and IE. The problem you describe is due to poorly written drivers. Go to the ATI web site and download the latest driver package (w82560). It is billed as a "beta" release, but it is the only recent driver release not to look like crap. Turning off the font smoothing also seems to cure the problem somewhat.

actually i have the exact problem and i'm baffled too i've done this so far but no change. 1. format drive 2. install win98 3. install drivers for card 4. install latest drivers for card 5. install media player 6. run media player 7. block graphics , streaming down and across screen. 8. i can sometimes luckly get out of it but i have the mess all over the screen then it halts and crashes system. 9. i've got indefense installed but it doesnt detect any viruses. 10. clear cmos many times. i think my motherboard/card is messed up i need to buy a new mainboard, thats what i found out, i can still operate windows with a basic 2d 1mb card but i cant run any video or any game which has fmv !!!

Followup: I have installed the new ATI drivers as suggested by a walleck, but no help on Windows Media Player or on the viewing of still photos with IE5. I did get to see a clean RealPlayer file. I notice that the Media streaming files I see the garbage on are MPEG 4 format, so this may be a clue. But to not even be able to see a clean photo on CNN or the New York Times really blows my mind!