I also tried using Windows ME instead of Windows 98SE out of despair, but I get the same results there. I could try Windows 2000 or Windows XP, but I honestly really don't want to do that as that way I will lose the ability to use my sound card in DOS-games. Does anyone of you guys know how to fix this issue? I'm looking forward to hearing from you soon,
Thank you for your reply. Version 45.23 of the driver was released before the GeForce 4 MX4000 was released, so this version will most likely not support my graphics card, correct me if I'm wrong. I've tried all NVIDIA driver versions that support the MX4000 by now. With different results, but no matter what version I use, the PC will never boot when the driver is installed.
Did you disable the onboard video in the BIOS, set the default video to either PCI or AGP, and is the MX4000 a PCI card or AGP? What it also sounds like is a resource conflict somewhere causing the system to lock up for no reason. I'd suggest removing one card at a time, yet keep the video card installed, a 256MB RAM stick, and check and see what happens.
I've tried all your recommendations so far, as for the graphics card, but nothing had worked so far. I have tried every single graphics driver for the GeForce MX4000 by now; 56.64 causes the computer to freeze on the bootscreen after reboot, 61.76-71.84 results in a blank black screen after the bootscreen after reboot, 77.72-81.85 will give me a message after reboot that the setup is configuring my hardware, but it will never get pass that message and 81.98 destroys the OS completely. The BIOS is really shitty; I do not have a lot of options and there is no way to unlock the hidden BIOS-options. I did manage to set the "Plug & play boot options" to "External AGP". I think this setting disables the onboard SiS650 graphics. @bjwil1991 it's an AGP-card.
Before I found out about this, I tried disabling the hardware acceleration option for the graphics card in Windows ME. Though this would fix the freezes and black screens on boot-up, this still didn't fix my problem, as I was getting a protection error every time with driver version 71.84 and lower and with driver version 77.72 and up the OS would crash during boot-up.
I used the same drivers that worked for me previously with my original build on Windows 98 & ME. I tried using both Windows 98 & ME, but I get the same result with either of them. During the driver installation Windows freezes up and later crashes entirely. If I use Windows New Hardware Wizard the system fails during the last part of the installation and if I use C-Media's setup utility the driver seems to install just fine. After reboot however, the system fails when Windows is installing the new hardware. The system then crashes and reboots without using the sound card driver (Code 11).
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