Geesh, that sounds like a Windows 98 system that was upgraded to Windows ME.
Works great for 2 weeks then pray it stays that way! Do you have something
like Precision Time, Gator, Xupiter or Kazaa on your system? It definitely
sounds like a virus or worm like program is in there causing you a bunch of
grief. If a virus scan doesn't reveal anything you might look for some
Spyware program running loose. I recommend Spybot - Search & Destroy (got
the heads-up from ZDNet on this one). It's free, doesn't install any goofy
services or "run-as-service" apps and is regularly updated...plus the best
thing, it works well and is easy to use.

Ron

"Stuart M" wrote in message
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I have a weird and intermittent problem that I guess comes from my nvidia
drivers.

After about 2 weeks of normal use, my pc will boot up Windows (Win98SE)
with
a lower refresh rate and/or a lower resolution. Sometimes I can reboot
Windows and the problem will temporarily fix itself, restoring the proper
refresh rate. Eventually though it will get to the stage where Windows
will
not boot, and I think it is failing at the display adaptor initialization.
Then, Windows will only boot in safe mode.

At this point, I uninstall the nvidia drivers, install the standard pci
vga
graphics adaptor, then reinstall the nvidia drivers, and then everything
works perfectly! But, in 2 weeks time the cycle will start again, as if
the
drivers get gradually corrupted over a 2 week period forcing me to
reinstall
them.

I've tried lots of things but can't seem to track the problem. I've tried
quite a few different detonator versions - new versions, old and
supposedly
reliable versions, the version that came with the card, etc etc. The same
thing happens every time.

My setup is an Athlon 2400+, Shuttle mobo (latest VIA 4-in-1 drivers),
Geforce4 ti4200, Win98SE (fully updated).

Can anyone help me?

tia,
Stuart.