This is unrelated but: So I need to hard reset windows 98se like 5 times to progress through the driver update process after reboot to be able to go through the dialogs with either the mouse or the keyboard. I tried to launch ms-dos version of memtest86+ to verify the mems, but it would just never …

An XP install can be good for helping you sort out issues; I will need to update my Bios for XP, I get a STOP which translates to "ACPI is broken" and something about PCI devices; I don't remember if the riva 128zx is on an PCI to AGP bus, still manages to display the BSOD; Same BSOD message each …

Riva128 - I dunno... The 71.xx series nVidia driver will probably be waaaay too new for it. That card is so old, it predates the TNT-series, which predate the first GeForce. https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/21931/en-us/ If you are saying that this driver could be completely broken …

So far I've been using Windows 98 se, (with the usb patch, so windows me+98 hybrid). The problem is the usb patch makes windows 98 se a lot less stable, explorer.exe crashes sometimes the system is unable to be shutdown when explorer.exe hangs(once desktop crashes, it's basically over). I had to …

Okay so I set: "16,1600,1200" together with RefreshRate "60" and that seems to have worked(because just to torture me, even if I set 60hz in advanced adapter settings, it will default to automatic "-1"). how do I close the thread?

I tried modifying HKEYLocalMachine/ /CurrentControlSet/Services/Display/ / from "8,640,480" to "8,800,600" as well as "16,1024,768". The problem I've is as follows: The Riva128zx driver I got doesn't support custom timings(not that I know of). It has a flag for 2 timings modes DMT && GTF. But it …