I don't know If there is another way to check it, since I haven't involved my self into old hardware for quite some time and I don't remember all the details when we use to check for issues like that.

Unfortunately, i was wrong. It crashed after 10 minutes of use. In safe mode, the system shows no conflicts.... I think I'll try step by step confirmation, to check it out abd let you know. If by the way yoy gjt an udea, gladly il hear it.

Yes. I think I've solved it. I've switched the BIOS' PNP OS option to true and then I also selected that the system should update the system configuration. So far no artifacts and no freezes/crashes. I don't think that is that odd, considering the age of the machine it's just that I haven't faced a …

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2020-11-09, 14:45: Is the device manager showing any irq or resource conflicts? Can't access device manager, system freezes a few seconds after booting the OS

@dionb I have tried what you said, all resources handled by bios, clean install on Win98, chipset drivers, VGA drivers and the problem persists. The drivers are installed the colors are good, what I notice is some graphical anomalies on the top border of each window. Then the system freezes or …

Sounds like a PnP resource conflict. Who's managing PnP resources, BIOS or OS? Also, VGA is generally the second driver you want to install (after motherboard chipset), doing it after all the others is asking for problems. In any event I'd remove all non-essential cards (SCSI, NIC, MPEG decoder) …

Horun wrote on 2020-11-08, 16:41: Which Matrox driver version are you using ? 6.8.2 This was the last driver released for Windows 98 that supported MGA G200

Hello all! This is my first post to this forum and as far as I can tell, this is an amazing site! On a retro build I recently put together, I have an HP motherboard with Intel 440ZX chipset, Slot 1 Pentium !!! cpu @ 500Mhz, 128MB SDRAM (dimm) and an onbard Matrox MGA G200 graphics chip with 8mb of …