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Font Preview Display Causes Wp9 Freeze
Tom Porterfield tppor...@mvps.org microsoft public win98 setup Probably the display settings are not compatible with the monitor. If you can't get it to boot with the known good It just freezes on the Windows 98 logo screen otherwise!! Any suggestions?!?! Thanks -- Posted via CNET Help.com http://www.help.com/

Show freezes on certain slides
Go to My computer Control Panel Display Settings Advanced Performance Move the slider bar down from "full" to "none". You will not even notice the difference, but the computer will notice it, being allowed to refresh at a much lower acceleration rate. It can work wonders. Keith Mason.

Display Freeze
I checked the display settings ( at this point the monitor turned off on its own) I had not done anything at this point that could have caused this. So I tried to reboot only the computer froze leaving me to turn off incorrectly . Now when I try to check the settings for display I get a message that says error with

Display settings freezes in settings menu.
I then remembered that I was still in 256 and went into settings to change it. TOTAL FREEZE!!! I'd have to guess that it was Mathblaster that hosed me since I was able to change settings after installing previous game. I now have to go to the registry to change display settings which is far from ideal (though

mouse freezes during normal operation
Rowland McDonnell real-address-in-...@flur.bltigibbet uk comp sys mac I've just had a system freeze while shutting down (big whoop) and, on rebooting, The monitor complained that it couldn't handle it, and the whole plot reset to the previous settings. Very odd. I asked for `All' display settings to be shown,

ATI 128 Rage Fury Pro 32M System Freezes
Freezes before any contents is loaded) * Fiddling with the BIOS. * Setting the display settings by using the keybord and guessing the settings. I've also tried googling for similar problems but no luck, and no I am all out of ideas. Any others out there who might know of a super shortcut keycombination or something

freeze-up when inactive
I have progressed to where I don't get a total system freeze but I attribute this to removing some of the symbol set fonts used by CorelDraw and others. However, I still get strange font Still searching - John Mc. What kind of display settings do you have, and how many fonts are installed on your system?

Multimedia freeze up
(6) One thing might be to try Safe Mode, to see whether it freezes there. If not, then it is likely something in the Startup Group or a 32-bit Normal Mode driver doing it. So, for a while I thought maybe the DVD had changed some display settings, or fouled up the screen saver, or something.

How do I restore my desktop Settings?
My Pc sometimes freezes up. The only solution is to Crl +Alt+ Del to get it to soft re start. This usually happens on clicking on an icon but sometimers during the start process of the PC or a Phil If that doesn't work alter the performance settings in your display settings and turn down hardware acceleration.

File handling Freeze-up
E-Falcon can often 'look' different to you when it's first run because E-Falcon does NOT carry over your Falcon 4 display settings from the 'normal' Falcon 4! and in fact you don't have a 3D card whereupon Falcon likes to go the freeze and crash route and it can be a drag to tinker with its program innards to

SimCity3000 freezes up on Fury?
If it really is a display problem, Win98 should boot normally with a generic VGA 16 color display. You should be able to reinstall drivers then. Alternatively, I believe safe mode also allows you to tinker with the display settings. You can change the display type to a Generic VGA setting and reboot.

System freezes when Start button pushed
I have tried to check my display settings. I go to Start- then Control Panel,-then Display-then Advanced and then it freezes. I get an error message saying 'cannot run rundll32.exe' . I have tried rebooting, tried Norton WIN Doctor. Nothing has worked. Should I reinstall the ATI software?

Display freezes after leaving a game and rejoing the zone area
John B. j...@earthlink.net microsoft public win98 display general I am using a Sony 21 inch monitor with display settings 1280 X 1024 Pixels and Hi Color 16 bit. When I scroll pages on the web the display quite often freezes but the computer is still running because it can be accessed on my network.

Far Cry STILL freezes
How to Troubleshoot Hardware and Software Driver Problems http://support.microsoft. com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q322205 Try running the DirectX Tool: Start/Run/Dxdiag, Lower Hardware Acceleration (Display/Settings/Advanced/Troubleshoot/Hardware Acceleration). -- All the Best, Kelly MS-MVP Win98/XP-Shell/User

Has anyone had shutdown freeze problems?
... Features : Direct Draw 1.00 Software version : 5.20-C9K Display Settings : 'High Colour 16 bit' 800x600 pixels I have 96 MB of Ram on PC plus, 4 GBytes of hard drive. When using Net Meeting (after a couple of calls - 2 mins - 10 mins into the programme) my system completely, 'freezes / Locks-up' and 'hangs'.

NFSHS FREEZE FIX WELL IT WORKED FOR ME AND SOME OTHER PEOPLE
I just recently upgraded from Windows ME to XP and now my computer keeps freezing up. Anyone know how to fix this problem? Does it have anything to do with the display settings? I thought I might have read that somewhere that an update was used to fix the problem. Thanks!

Dead Monitors Aren't Much Fun
The only way I can use PC Anywhere and have my computer boot up is if I change the display settings to 16 colors, which stinks. The computer shop tried all sorts of video drivers with no luck. The only thing that seemed to work was to delete the program. I have Win95, the service tech thinks there may be some old

New MoBo now Windows freezes
Put your refresh rate(in video display settings, advanced) on default. Hope this helps. Barry wrote in message ... Every Time I log on start a game and we play everything is fine.... (Rainbow 6 / Combat Flight) As soon as we are done playing or I get bounced from aa game. The game closes my display freezes and I

wierd sound/freeze/damaged file
You clearly have printer driver & display driver problems -- have you updated those? Have you updated DirectX? Have you dumped the zillion-or-so background programs that Compaq computers tend to load on startup, that suck the life out of your systems? Have you restricted display settings, fancy screen-savers,

Monster 3D II Problems - Freezes
I am using a Sony 21 inch monitor with display settings 1280 X 1024 Pixels and Hi Color 16 bit. When I scroll pages on the web the display quite often freezes but the computer is still running because it can be accessed on my network. There is nothing I can do but reboot. If the display setting is changed to 256