My guess is that you've got a bad power supply or some such that's cooking your hardware. Before replacing anything else, I'd suggest thay you a) replace that, b) make sure you've got a decent surge suppressor, and c) that your case is well ventilated to prevent stuff from over heating...
-Jason On Tuesday 10 December 2002 11:35 am, flacycads wrote: > Thanks to everyone for the amazing fast and informative info! I should have > no problem in fixing my problems. > > However, I'm still curious as to how or why a Linux nvidia driver install > can foul up win98 beyond repair, and necessitate a win98 reinstall. Or, in > Linux, how did it delete the /etc/X11/XFree86Config-4 file, which had to be > edited to finish the driver install? Somehow, even though the linux nvidia > drivers were apparently successfully installed, the procedure prevented X > from initializing. > > Until I understand that, I'm leary of trying the nvidia drivers again- I > always wound up having to reinstall Linux to get X back. Perhaps the older > 2960's as suggested will work better- I was using the latest 3123's. > > Best regards, > Robert Crawford ========================= "Oook!"
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