My system: PIII733 ASUS CUV4X-E mobo with VIA694X chipset Radeon VE graphics card ATI all in wonder sound card Windows ME 128-512 Megs of (Micron) SDRAM (various configs of RAM does no help) 3-Com 905C ethernet card I can destroy a picture in photoshop or Indesign all day long but as soon as I go on the internet my system either: 1. Freezes (mouse might move but not clicks) 2. Screen goes black 3. Goes black and reboots 4. Freezes and the screen is taken over by a pattern of mixed colors 5. Freezes and vertical bands of 2 or 3 colours take over the screen I've the latest DirectX, WinME updates, VIA drivers. Any ideas?

By the latest version do you mean Direct 8, if, Oh dear, that was a mistake, Sould never have been released especially for |ME Speedy

Is it just Internet Explorer, or all of your Internet programs (AIM, Netscape), that are giving you problems?

try to repair IE.... search for previous posts, it was described there how to do it, i think you have to to to system properties, add remoove programs, chose IE end it should give you an option to repair it... but check better for the exact procedure.... or try to uset the "great" system restore to the time when you did not have that problem... btw, how did it started?... can you identify any program or hardware you added... or any change you made to your computer? Regards Miro

What kind of modem do you have? And as already asked, do other browsers or internet programs still work?

Dear me, I've done it now... Decided to format my OS drive and install Win98SE. I had to reboot several times while installing the software and drivers for my devices etc. Now I can't even browse my files or access my network more than, oh 7 or 8 double clicks and it freezes up every time. It's just completely useless. I haven't had a spontaneous reboots mind you, but the freezing is like my PC is possessed by some psychotic asnaesthetist! Yikes! I'll remove the 3Com NIC (3C905C-TX). Maybe another format is in order first though... or else the cat gets sacrificed...

I think you need to do some reading about o/s installations,