I had similar problems. Moving the hardware accel down would make it go
away. The cure was to obtain a different graphics card, in my case. There
were no updated drivers for my old card and it just would not do the trick
anymore.
The nice part is, you can get a decent graphics card pretty cheap. My bet
would be that would fix your problem.
Heirloom, old and did it for me

"SSJ04 Mewtwo" wrote in message
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I have an ATI rage fury pro/xpert 2000 pro display adaptor, at least
that's
what the device manager tells me.

On occasion, during warm reboots, the machine will lose the display
driver
during the reboot. It'll get past the Windows's screen and when the
desktop
is supposed to start loading, the screen is black.

Rebooting again will make the system go into the startup menu after the
Windows splash screen. It doesn't matter which option you choose because
it'll go straight into safe mode. Once it loads the wallpaper the display
properties will come up and I can change to high color 16 bit. After the
prompt to restart the machine will act fine again and I can resize the
desktop and change it to true 32.

This issue has gone on for years now. It'll happen more often if I change
the hardware acceleration past 0%.

Checked ATI's site but no updated drivers.

Thanks in advance.