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First post, by schlang

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Hello, I have the weird problem that my Win98 crashes in desktop with my Gf4 4600.
By "in desktop" I mean I'm not playing any games, I'm just doing stuff e.g. Windows Explorer

When the crash happens I see the video output going crazy for a second and then there's no more video signal.
A regular reset doesn't resolve the issue because as soon as the GUI loads the next time it immediately crashes again.
I have to power off the PC to resolve the issue.

I found out a lot already but I'm trying to make sense in it:
- freeze happens at 1024x768 resolution consistently after 1 minute
- it doesnt freeze when I uninstall Nvidia drivers
- it doesnt freeze in safe mode

It gets weirder because it doesnt freeze in games like Unreal or Unreal Tournament (which I run in 800x600).
So I changed my desktop resolution to 800x600 and it hasn't frozen since.

I tried any NVidia driver between 30.xx and 77.xx with the same result.

Anyone has any idea how/why this happens? Thank you

PC#1: K6-III+ 400 | 512MB | Geforce4 | Voodoo1 | SB Live | AWE64 | GUS PNP Pro
PC#2: 486DX2-66 | 64MB | Riva128 | AWE64 | GUS PNP | PAS16
PC#3: 386DX-40 | 32MB | CL-GD5434 | SB Pro | GUS MAX | PAS16

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