In article <373301c4694d$a0151130$(E-Mail Removed)>, "Todd"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>I have a problem with getting a black screen with total
>freeze up on my HP Pavillion that I installed a PCI NIC
>card on that's running Win98SE. I know it's something
>related to the NIC card and possibly the display adapter.
>I have never had this problem when I did not have somthing
>connected to the NIC card. It always happens when there's
>a transfer happening through the NIC card.
>
>I don't wish to update the display adpater because I did
>that once and it had some kind of conflict with Norton AV
>and my comp display went into safe mode and I did not know
>how to correct the problem. I actually reformatted the
>HDD and used the system recovery disk with the old driver
>to get rid of the problem.
>
>Anyone having black screen freeze up like me?
Download and install the latest Win98SE driver program for the NIC.
If that doesn't solve the problem, un-install the NIC in Device
Manager, shut the computer down, move the NIC to a different slot, and
let Win98SE re-install it.
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