SDL, That, and your electrical outlet might not have been properly grounded and/or you might have been experiencing very high atmospheric temperature and humidity. I used the exact card you were talking about for 3 years on a P2 233. I think I finally messed up the motherboard/pci buss by improperly connecting a usb connection - but it may be ok now that I removed the improper connection; It WAS a tremendous excuse to upgrade to a P4 using a TNT2 M64 W/32 meg. A friend has a couple of old vga monitors he's not using - I might try to get the old one going again if i can talk him out of one of those. ... If I get a chance to get morrowmind cheap I'll give it a try - It'll have to go a long way to beat half-live though. ... So anyrate after considerable tweaking I realized that I need to set my monitor settings in relation to blue as there is no hardware setting for that on my (cheap) 17" Pixie monitor - I'm still a little off but I'm closing in on it. I think higher contrast and brightness and lower red and green on the hardware settings, is a start and then adjust down on the software starting with blue and working up to red. - TJ