I recommend this utility to help relieve Blue "Screen of Death": http://nospin.com/pc/pcs05-012.html I used this on my Win98SE system, worked great! You wrote: Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 12:05:44 -0500 From: Bill Wilson <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: game freeze Addition, maybe unconnected.. At startup, rarely, I get a BlueScreen, error in vxddrv....with some untrackable codes (according to MSN, 'untrackable") I press a key to resume, THEN I get a black screen with blue rectangle in the middle, red lettering with the words OUT OF RANGE...only way out of this screen is ctl-alt-del hit twice...no cursor present _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. The NOSPIN Group provides a monthly newsletter with great tips, information and ideas: NOSPIN-L, The NOSPIN Magazine Visit our web site to signup: http://nospin.com