Hi All,

I have a friend's Gateway PC dumped on me. It had died, and he asked me to
fix it. It turns out, the machine hasn't died, but the monitor had.

I plugged in a new monitor and halfway thru booting, I get an error message
"Protection error. You need to restart your machine".

Occassionally it would boot to Windows 98, but then I would get three or
four BSODs on the trot, then it would just crash.

I fixed the old monitor, and plugged it in - no problem. Started up, shut
down, started up again.

I tried the new monitor again and got exactly the same problems as before.

I have never come across a monitor having such a detrimental effect on
Windows - has anyone else come across this problem, and if so, any
suggestions?

Thanks very much.

Mav