Originally posted by: Insidious
Sounds like it pukes when it tries to use your video card in 2D graphic mode....
have another you can try in it's place?
Also might want to try clearing your BIOS settings and load failsafe defaults.
Only stress test I know of under DOS would be memtest86+. If it works, you know you have a good memory controller, CPU (well, some of it) and RAM.
-Sid