nVidia ref driver suddenly turns my screen blank and partially froze my computer HELP!

[Varborta]

My computer has problem with the nVidia ref driver I have a geforce2 GTS oem board. It cant take the driver, it only takes 16color with 640*480 resolution. And, whenever I turn it up any higher like 800*600 which thats when nVidia driver kicks in then computer would go blank after restart or if I just crank it up there it would eventually freeze BUT, the mouse still alive.
I've tried all kinds of driver
I have directx 8a
tried
6.5
6.72
10.50
10.80
7.52
6.49
I also changed the monitor to plug and play monitor and it still doesnt help. My monitor is viewsonic e-771
all of them came up the same result everytime I set it to desire color and resolution(actually I tried couple different resoution or color) and the window tells me to restart the computer and upon going into the normal window mode it just turn the monitor blank.


Following is my setting
win98se
Directx8a
T-bird 800
MSI K7tpro
Geforce2 GTS
Crucial Ram 128meg 133 cas2
Viewsonic E-771 monitor

 

[Varborta]

Does anyone here knows what to do???

I am sick and tired of using 16color in huge 640*480 resolution

 

[DARRIN]

Are you removing your old driver before installing new one. Remove it from add/remove programs. Then go and change your display adapter to standard vga then reboot. Then install the new drivers.