Display Adapter, Video Adapter, video card--all the same thing. It's just that a
video/display adapter doesn't *need* to be a card--it might be "onboard", part
of the motherboard. Here's what I suggest:

Download the updated drivers file (actually an entire video management suite)
from he
http://www.nvidia.com/object/win9x_77.72.html

Save it to your Desktop where it's easy to find, then run it.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User

"Rose" wrote in message
...
I am communicating on my other computer. Is the video adapter drivers the
same thing as the videio card drivers? Yes you can run some things on the
computer but they don't look right because the colors are set too low from
being in safe mode. Something about it happened to the colors when the
computer would only operate in safe mode. I did right click on my computer,
Properties and Device Manager tab to see what was under Display Adapter and
it said NVIDIA GeForce4 MX4000. I think you would call it a plug-in card
because when we installed it we plugged it into the motherboard. I don't
know how to install the sofware off of the CD. I put it into the CD drive
and nothing comes up on screen. Otherwise I am frustrated that this site
almost always says that it is "temporarily unavailable."

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

OK. Well, what you almost certainly need to do is to reinstall Display
Adapter
(Video Adapter) drivers. Question is, how to do that? You say you can't run
any
programs. Then I take it that you are communicating with us using another
machine? You can't even, for instance, right-click on My Computer, then click
on
Properties, then on the Device Manager tab? Can you access the devices that
way?

Also, do you know what make/model your video adapter is? Is it "onboard", or
is
it a plug-in card? I'd normally suggest Everest Home Edition, from
www.lavalys.com, to properly detect and identify your hardware, but if you
won't
be able to effectively run it on that machine, that would be a problem if you
truly can't run anything on the machine as it is.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User


"Rose" wrote in message
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Dear Mr. Terhune,
If I perform a normal startup the system starts successfully and shuts down
properly. The display settings do not perform properly in that when you
click on "Display", "Settings" it goes blank and doesn't allow any settings
to be set. You have to hit control-alt-del to restart windows from the
beginning because it gets hung up there. I can't run any programs because
the color setting is too low from when it was in safemode before this
normal
startup. It's a good fast running 2.8 ghz computer, just a bad dicision to
save money to put win98 on it and it's not that old.

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

OK, Rose. What I've been trying to get to is that the Config.sys issue may
be
a
red herring--may have nothing at all to do with your problem.

Again, if you perform a Normal Startup, with everything enabled in
MSCONFIG,
does the system start up successfully? Does Display Settings perform
properly?
Does it shut down properly? Test several times. I think we're chasing
phantoms,
here. I'd like to return to ground zero and follow your steps more
closely.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User

"Rose" wrote in message
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Yes Mrs. Terhune, there is a config.sys tab. Nothing in it though.


"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

Just to make sure, run MSCONFIG from the Start\Run box. Is there a
Config.sys
tab, and if so, is there anything in it?

If you do a Normal restart now, does the problem return?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User

"Rose" wrote in message
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Yes I did Step-by-Step from the startup menu. There is a config.pss
file
that is empty and a couple of config files with no extension. One is
blank
and the other has "MIDI Instrument Definition" written in it. There
is a
couple of text config files, one with instructions the other is huge
having
to do with a game I think. If you want me to use Dos to find the
config.sys
file, hmmmm I don't remember my Dos commands. I used the "Find"
option
in
windows. Thank you so much. Is there anything else I need to do
that
you
can think of?

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote:

What do you mean by "diagnostic startup"? Did you use "Step-by-Step"
from
the
Startup Menu. or did you use settings in MSCONFIG (System
Configuration
Utility), or what?

Reason I ask, is I'd like to know what's in your CONFIG.SYS, but it
may
have
been renamed to CONFIG.TSH or something else. Suggest you look for
any
C:\CONFIG.xxx where xxx is any extension. Use Notepad to open them
and
Copy/Paste the contents of each here.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User

"Rose" wrote in message
...
I ran the diagnostic startup to bypass configsys file and that
fixed
the
problem with hanging up at startup, now when I click on Control
panel,
Display, Settings the screen goes blank and hangs up win98. Are
there
any
answers to this mystery?