Thanx again Ron, I'm just about to start carrying out your great fixes. One
thing I need to mention to you though. Maybe it will help further.Sometime
last week I'd managed to get into device manager and was trying to update all
the drivers. Then somewhere in the middle, the screen went black and the ff:
error message came up:
Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer.
Press any key to continue..
After pressing 2 keys in succession the ff: error message came up:
An internal stack overflow has caused this session to be halted.
Change the STACKS setting in your CONFIG.SYS file and try again.
I didnt do that but pressed ctrl-alt-del just to restart, but there was no
response from the pc. I could only restart using the power button.
Does this information on its behavior help any further?
Thanx a million in advance.

"Bonzy" wrote:

One morning my Win98SE pc suffered apower surge when powered up; power supply
gave out smoke and a burnig stench. PSU was changed, but windows failed to
boot, it was re-installed without formatting drive C: . It went well but the
display was 16 colour only. Pc has an s3 Trio 3D/2X graphics card only; this
is what monitor feeds on. Win98SE was reinstalled again. This time diplay
showed 16 colours, 256 colours and 16bit high colour only. In device manager,
driver for the above graphics card is installed and no exclamation mark is
seen. It is also stated that "This device is working properly". However, when
I change colour setting to 16bit High colour and change pixels setting to 800
by 600 pixels and restart, it remanins on 16 colours and 640 by 480 pixels.
Also it feezes often and I have to restart pc always. What have I done wrong
or what havent I done? Please help me out here. Thanx in advance.