HELP please?

[mcoale]

Trying to help my soon to be divorced sister get her new to her Dell celeron 433 (I know far from new) computer and DSL going. I reformatted and reinstalled Win 98SE. So far so good. When I installed the SBC DSL software the video drivers reverted to VGA 640X480 with 16 colors. Reinstalled the video and got the DSL up and running. Immediately upon a restart the video dropped back to VGA and when the system starts and automatically tries to connect to the DSL the system locks up. ALT+CTRL+DEL has no effect the only way to reboot is by disconnecting the power. I'm stumped. HELP please

 

[Sheriff]

You may have an IRQ conflict going on esp if it's a PCI Vid card. Try changing slots.

 

[mcoale]

Video is integrated onto MOBO, will try changing NIC card slot.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: mcoale
Video is integrated onto MOBO, will try changing NIC card slot.

Integrated or no, it's probably still running as a PCI card. Think of it as in the slot that's not there.

Some card combos just don't play nice. I've got a 3com nic that craps itself whenever it's put in a PCI-video system. Runs like a champ under AGP or even ISA though.

- M4H

 

[santaclaus]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: mcoale
Video is integrated onto MOBO, will try changing NIC card slot.

Integrated or no, it's probably still running as a PCI card. Think of it as in the slot that's not there.

Some card combos just don't play nice. I've got a 3com nic that craps itself whenever it's put in a PCI-video system. Runs like a champ under AGP or even ISA though.

- M4H

He is absolutely right.