lemming

grub is the boot manager, you don't have to boot grub... 'halt' is available on grub commandline, but can also be inserted into the boot menu (make it default with timeout, to shutdown automatically). On every recent machine I know, grub's 'halt' shuts down the machine completely. Only on very old machines without APM, halt won't work.

I'm done with that card. I've reverted back to my old MX440. The 7600GS will go to eBay.... wasted enough time on that... but: Thank you, all folks here, for trying to help me!

Changing AGP settings in the BIOS had no positive effect. But: if I disable display hardware acceleration, after installing the driver but before it gets started the first time, the PC does no longer freeze after booting. It's not possible to enable the acceleration afterwards (freezes again), and all nvidia tools have to be banned from autostart permanently (otherwise it also freezes). But at least, I can set the resolution to 1280x1024@32bpp, the native resolution of my LCD. Now that the PC doesn't freeze any longer, I was able to take a closer look on the display errors that unfortunately still occur. I've taken a screenshot (http://files-upload.com/files/507334/7600gs_distortion.bmp, sorry for the crappy webspace). In the first line '101730...' you can see the original distorted text; it looks like smeared. The second line shows, how this error is increased, when the content (window) got moved around the screen a bit. I'm still not really happy....

The card works fine with linux, so I don't think it's a hardware related problem. Yep. Fresh downloaded. Any hints on the value? I tried now a different mainboard: MSI K8T Neo2-F V2.0 with a Athlon 64 3000+ (also AGP) Exact the same error: as soon as the GeForce driver is enabled, the PC freezes after the next reboot. Needless to say, that with the MSI mainboard linux also works fine with this video card. I have only a few windows 98 programs left, and none of them needs 3D. Is there any possibility to run win98 with this card in a plain 2D mode with 1280x1024 and at least 16bpp? The W98 programs unfortunately need direct hardware access, so I can't use a virtualized system.

I tried both. Made no difference. PC still freezes after reboot.

I tried that version. The Installer worked basically, but told me it couldn't find any nvidia device and aborted. Then I told windows to fetch the driver from that installers directory, which worked (copied some files etc). But: as soon as I restart windows with the nvidia driver activated, it freezes after the first appearence of the mouse pointer. I changed from LCD on DVI to a CRT on VGA with no effect. I disabled the various nvidia programs from the autostart (via msconfig). Then booting worked. But the display settings are 800x600@16bit, and as soon as I start any nvidia tool (no matter which one, even display properties crash), the pc freezes and the display is shut off (to power save mode). At the 800x600 mode there are display errors, too (some dotted stripes and distortions). All driver versions I tried, showed the same picture, as soon as I got them installed, the PC froze (and switched the display off) after booting. With a MX440 card, the driver works without problems. There should be no hardware problem, because when using linux, the PC works fine. I think, if there were wrong settings in the BIOS, they would affect linux, too. (In my BIOS there is no option to disable BIOS cachings as described in the readme). I'm using a fresh installed windows image with only the necessary motherboard drivers installed, so there should be no problem caused by other drivers. Are there any updates, that I should install (on a raw WIN98SE) before the display drivers? Are there any other drivers, that I can try? It would be a good start to use at least 2D functions with 1280x1024. I don't need 3D acceleration that badly on windows. I'm at my wits' end now. Has anyone ever successfully installed a 7600GS on Win98SE? regards, arthur PS: I'm using a K7VT2, Athlon XP 2100+, 512MB DDR RAM and a few HDs

I have exactly the same error (empty dialog boxes with OK buttons only). Where can I find "ZakMcKracken's version"? (Installing manually leads to lockup after booting...) regards, arthur PS: I'm trying to install a 7600GS on a WIN98SE (with AGP 4x)