I have this computer, a Pentium III 500 MHz with 512 MB RAM and a nVidia GeForce 4 VGA card. I installed Windows 98 SE, and everything went fine, until the final system booted up for the first time. Win98 found my PnP Monitor, a Samtron 76E, and tried to find a driver, and when it was searching for a driver, it just crashed. This happens now every time I try to boot Windows. When I reformat and reinstall the hard drive, it happens just the same. When I remove the AGP card and use the integrated VGA chip instead, the system searches for a VGA driver and crashes. It seems like the system hangs every time it tries to install a new hardware driver. I am running Linux on the same maching (I'm planning to make it a dual-boot machine), and there haven't been any problems with Linux yet, everything is just fine, so I don't think that there is any hardware damage. The system still has ISA slots, and I'm using two ISA cards. Could it be an IRQ collision problem? Maybe I should try assigning other IRQs or remove the ISA cards...

Sounds like you have to decide which video system you want to run with and then search for the drivers that are applicable. This download should help nail the drivers necessary (but this will vary with whatever you have invoked): AIDA32 The onboard video will probably need chipset and video drivers, the add-on card will probably only need video drivers. Go with whatever works. My feeling is it would be the nVidia GeForce 4 but see what other advise. DerekW

The ISA cards 'could' be causing a problem. They lock up IRQs that cannot be shared, like PCI devices. I think removing them is worth a shot.

Does it work OK before you install the nvidia drivers? If so, as Derek mentions, I'd think it's those drivers. Go to their site and look for an upgrade. Or remove it and reinstall windows with the on-board adapter.