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Screen Saver freezes computer
A bit of a bumpy ride, as towards the end I screwed up my display settings and got the system to boot to a blank screen ANYWAY fixed that. Got the Matrox drivers back and LO there I was - where I had been a few days ago - everything working... Started to change settings etc then GUES WHAT.

Mouse freezes
The only way to correct the problem is go into control panel. click the display icon. click the settings button. change settings to 250 colors. I that seems to work. Everytime I have it in this setting, my computer will never freeze. I do believe that it could be the video card. I am going to buy more video memory

Windows 95 Freeze In high colour modes
Try disabling the AGP Fast Writes in your advanced display settings. If you still have problems, also try to reduce the AGP 8x setting down to AGP 4x. Hopefully this should work, it did for me. Also, for whatever strange reason, in time, I have returned these settings to the original numbers, and UT2K3 still works.

Font Preview Display Causes Wp9 Freeze
Kelly theri...@cajun.net microsoft public win98 display general Hi Steve, See if any of these options help: Deny Access to the Display Settings http://www.regedit.com/detail/167.html Hide the Display Settings Page http://www.regedit.com/detail/171.html Hide the Display Appearance Page

System Freeze-Up
Your most recent suggestion to reduce the "hardware acceleration" in my display settings seems to do the trick. I have been using PP9 DCE for about five hours over the past few evenings without any problems. Since I am not using PP9 DCE in my occupation (CAD Administrator for Lockheed) but for my hobby (an

Home Home Down Freeze up
Display settings are at 1024 by 768 at 32 bit color quality. I have a Gateway EV700B monitor with a GeForce2 MX 100/200 video card. It always freezes when I try to use it. Any suggestions? Bill Bertram "Debra Earle" <newsgro...@intranet-works.com> wrote in message news:3CF6691B.9556AD16@intranet-works.com.

system freezes.
Whenever we call up the Display Settings, it says we have a hardware conflict, but setting the individual hardware to free resource settings freezes up the computer, and we have to reboot the whole thing. Any help would be greatly, greatly appreciated. :) Thanks. COMPUTER | CONTROL PANEL | DISPLAY | SETTINGS

WP Freezes Opening Docs & Printing
Next I went into the display settings, clicked the Advanced button, clicked the Direct3D tab and slid the slider bar for Main Settings all the way to the left (performance). Strange thing is that the games freezes at slightly different points each time I try !!! Any suggestions please ?

My system freezes (I too installed SP2)
Turn down your color depth in Control Panel/Display/Settings. 2. Turn down your graphics hardware acceleration, all the way in Control Panel/System/Performance/Graphics. 3. After that my computer freezes up. I definitely can not continue normally. I have to cut the power, to get it to restart again.

No display you say?
PattyL "Rich L." <Rich...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:012c01c1714d$9439a1f0$19ef2ecf@tkmsftngxa01... I have an old Gateway with Windows 95. When I set the display settings to anything except "16 color" the computer freezes when I go on-line through my dail-up modem. Any idea on a fix for this?

IE freezes when paging down & content not complete
... HDD's 384 M ram ATI 128 Rage Fury Pro 32M ViVo ASound sound card Have tried both Win98SE and Win ME Display settings 1024X768 VRefresh 75hz Newly built system. System freezes in 10 seconds to 5 minutes, most times display remains as is (no black screen), mouse cursor is movable but can't select with it and

IE 6.0 closes suddenly - ebay offered solutions do not work..
Windows completes bootup and displays a message box stating: "There is a problem with your display settings. The adapter type is incorrect, or the current settings do not work with you hardware." The only button displayed is OK. After clicking OK the Display Properties window appears with the Colors set to "16

This message after computer freezes
siborg sib...@ntlworld.com microsoft public windowsme display My display settings have frozen on 16 colours and will only display 480 X 600 screen size and there are no more options I clicked on to try and change the size but there is only the 16 colour one in the drop down window, all the others have disappeared.

Monitor settings problem
Try reducing, and even turning off hardware acceleration at control panel, display settings, advanced, performance to see if that stabilises your system. Under certain circumstances (xml pages) IE may freeze or crash: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811812 -- Hyperlinks are used to ensure answers remain

PPT2K Freezes in Slide Show Mode...HELP!
This bug check comes from corrupt video display settings or some program has messed up something terribly on the system. MS's Knowledge Base article Q162577 says this about this bug check. "This problem occurs when you install an application called Remotely Possible by AVALAN Technology.

PP9 DCE freezes at OLE
Turn down your color depth in Control Panel/Display/Settings. 2. Turn down your graphics hardware acceleration, all the way in Control Panel/System/Performance tab/Graphics button. 3. Use the default mouse pointers nothing animated or in color. 4. Use smooth scrolling, in IE, go to Tools/Internet Options/Advanced

Display settings freezes in settings menu.
Add any fonts selected in the desktop display settings. jdm wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. I set my Diamond 3D 2000 to no acceleration. newsgroup so all can benefit from the questions & answers) ** jdm wrote: WP9 sometimes freezes up the whole system while browsing through the fonts while picking one to use.

Computer Freezes
Turn down your color depth in Control Panel/Display/Settings. 2. Turn down your graphics hardware acceleration, all the way in Control Panel/System/Performance tab/Graphics Anytime any multimedia function is activated, my system completly freezes up. Ctrl, Alt, Delete will not work. System has to be restarted.

Dudley, and any Nvidia Vid Card users
Turn down Hardware Acceleration, then go to the desktop display settings and try the different options for High and True Color (16-bit vs 24-bit vs 32-bit). You might also try changing As soon as you go into full screen slide show mode and try to advance to the next slide/build, the whole workstation freezes.

Windows 98 Start-up!
Also, make sure display driver is correct. 3- Control Panel-System-Performance-Advanced Settings-File System- Set "Typical Role of this Computer" to The screen and all processes will freeze up for a few seconds sometimes. Other times it will lock up all together where even hitting ctrl+alr+del gets a blue