I have a suggestion, since this is Win9x. Goto www.litepc.com and have a look at 98lite. Windows gets ever so much better behaved when you scrape crap like IE, Outlook, Active Desktop, and the scripting host off of the real OS. Or upgrade to Win2k (you'd have to hit the computer shows to find it, but it's worth it) or XP. Then goto same site and get 2kXPlite and again yank out some of the bloat. And the video glitch could have been caused, not by driver error, but incorrect layering. VIA chipsets are notorious for it, but just about any system suffers from it to one degree or another. I've had the best results by doing the OS install, then any chipset drivers needed (the whole mess, not selecting just what I think I need and doing other bits as I get ready to install the specific drivers for that device), -then- whatever iteration of Direct X I'm using, then the actual drivers for the video card. That way, the actual card drivers come to rest in the most stable arrangement of DX and AGP hardware drivers you can have. I've solved a lot of 9x video issues with that procedure. And once it's stable, you can usually upgrade DX with little trouble. I make no statements about video drivers...