At 03:13 PM 12/11/98 -0500, you wrote: <snip> > Formatted and installed Windows 95... Works fine. Installed the >upgrade version of Windows 98, Again, it works fine. So, I don't >have a crisis, I just want to know WHY!! > Should I assume the Windows 98 cd is bad? Something with the >motherboard or video card?? <snip> I was a beta tester with Microsoft and tested countless versions of 98 before it was released to the GP. With about 90% of the builds I tested, I had the same problems as you have just experienced. The best answer I could ever get from M$ was that it was an incompatible driver issue. I experimented with some things and basically narrowed it down to my PCI IDE controller chip. I once swapped everything out to another system. The ONLY difference was that instead of the Intel Bus Mastering chipset, the new MB used something else (can't recall but I believe it was an Adaptec controller). It always bothered me that the 95 driver for this chipset was fine, but the 98 driver was SOMETIMES corrupt or improper. If I installed 95 and upgraded to 98 I never had a problem because 98 would use the driver that was already installed. Go figure! HTH Eric Curious about the people moderating your messages? Visit our staff web site: http://nospin.com/pc/staff.html