Does this system by any chance have two display adapters installed -
possibly one on the motherboard and a separate card as well? If so, remove
the secondary card and also go to the BIOS setup during the boot and be sure
to choose correctly whether the display adapter in the system is AGP or PCI.

You can probably get more information from the Dell web site on what
hardware was included with this system.

PattyL


"bigec" wrote in message
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When I try to boot in safe mode I get no display. The light on the
monitor
stays amber. But after I let it do the lengthy boot it gives me the
"initialized the adapter message" I think it gets to the screen where I
can
boot to safe mode but I just cant see it.
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bigec in louisiana


"Ron Badour" wrote:

Can you boot in safe mode? If so, I'd go to control panel, system,
device
manager and delete the display adapter. Reboot and see if Windows will
boot? If so, load the proper display driver.

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Regards


Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
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"bigec" wrote in message
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im trying to revive a dell optiplex gs+ running win 98 and after
laborious
booting it finally comes up with the black/white msg "windows has
succesfully
initialized this display adapter - go into control panel select
settings
and
finish configuring or some other verbage to that effect" then it just
sits
there with the cursor on the bottom and will not go any further. Is
this
a
display issue or a corrupt OS issue??
Any help would be appreciated.
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bigec in louisiana