Graphic card driver problem?

[Graeme]

Hi All

The following scenario has happened three times in the last year. Twice over
the last three weeks though.
The system is an Athlon XP1600+, 256M PC133, Win98SE, Norton 2000
(subscribed and updated), GeForce2Ti, 80GB 7200 (loads more info available
if needed).

Power on the PC, and after it goes through its normal booting windows
procedure, just when you'd expect the login window to open, it says "safe to
power off now".

The first time this happened I thought it was a virus. But the solution
seems to be; boot into safe mode, remove the display adapter from device
manager, then restart. The PC finds the GD2Ti, installs the necessary, and
restarts ok.

The question is, why does this happen?
TIA for any pointers.

 

[Smith]

My Nvidia card had trouble with Win98. I went back to the 41.09 drivers and
all was well. They have them on the Nvidia site if you want to give it a
try.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/win9x_archive.html

Smith

 

[Graeme]

Thanks. I may go back a few versions, although I remember sticking at my
current version due to another problem.