>NT4 video drivers run at the i386 Ring 0, that is, the core OS can be corrupted by a bad driver. Download the latest one if you haven't already.

That's what occurred, evidently. Good idea - I'll look into a driver update. This is a rather early 17-inch, at least 5 years old. I hope it's not another drive-wipe, I've already had 3 of them under NT :)

>I once ran into a video driver issue that couldn't be resolved except with a drive wipe - it was an original nVidia driver for an early Riva128-based card.
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>One thing you can try is to install NT with plain-Jane VGA, then install SP6, then try setting up the hardware-specific video driver... or do driver first, then SP6.
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>Once NT is set up with a good driver, it's way better than 9x... I encourage you to stick with it.

The real problem here is a wider one...I'm having problems with *one* NT machine & monitor here, and it's not my primary machine, anyway. But over the Bureau, we have a zillion different types of hardware, that all run pretty well under Win 95 with various patches that've taken years to get perfected. I'm rather concerned having this much trouble with one machine, if we expect to move 1200 machines to NT in a fairly short time...I don't think it's going to work well, at this point.