Try reinstalling your graphics card drivers, and also check your graphics card fan to see if it's clogged, or if it slows down/stops when the trouble starts.
If you are familiar with the inside of...

so which controller is your hard drive on?
windows should have the drivers it needs for a cd driver. are you sure the cables are in the right way?

Catweazle's virus would load at about the same time though wouldn't it?

actually I did, but it still didn't work.

ah well. maybe I'll have to do productive things instead. :(

and assuming I really want to play the game?
It starts unpacking and then says no directX, so there's no easy way round it...

try this:

Boot to DOS
Put the Windows ME disk in the cd drive
goto cd rom drive (ie d: )
Type:
cd win9x
Extract /a *.cab rundll32.exe /l c:\Windows

Hopefully that will work.

I came across this demo of MAXX2 that I used to play under windows 95. I went to install it and it said it needed directX 5. I'm running 7. Is there any way around this? I don't play any other games...

if you install windows first then linux usually detects it and sets up its own multiboot environment - that's the case for Red Hat Linux 9 in any case. Admittedly it calls it DOS, but it's easy...

Is this supposed to be connected to some other thread? Is that the missing link here?

download it: http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=25851

You'll probably have to sign up for a free account. They are a reputable company however, so no worries.

drive c of the slave should have become drive d on your machine with both connected properly.

Are the jumpers definitely set correctly? i.e. one set to master, one to slave?

so your power saving options are set not to go into standby, but it goes anyway?
Maybe you should check for spyware etc:
try adaware free version from here: http://www.lavasoft.de/
spybot search...

you can do it, but it does have a number of complications.
When a pc is first built it will have all necessary drivers for that pc. when you move a hard drive to another pc you end up with the wrong...

Most of them are like that. The only automatic ones I've seen are for flash media etc. My fave: http://www.pcinspector.de/smart_media_recovery/uk/welcome.htm

edit: oh wait. big brother of that...

alternatively go on ebay and buy a small cheap one.

so you pressed 2 on the menu, presed enter, and then typed ext?

If you go to add/remove programs on the control panel you should have the option of creating one. it's on the startup disk tab.

Could there be a fault on the motherboard? - that thing with the mouse...

from: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=286331

To resolve this behavior, either change the refresh rate, or change the video adapter settings.

To change the refresh rate:

1....

from: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q299296

To resolve this issue, replace the Msvcrt.dll file with a new copy from the Windows CD.

1. Restart the computer using a...

personally I'd use a boot disk to get a dos prompt, run fdisk, wipe the drive and start again. Assuming you have a normal windows disk as well as the upgrade.

try a different graphics card.

Check out: http://forums.majorgeeks.com/archive/index.php/t-38843

If you're having slow boot up problems how many drives do you have in there? If you have a two drive cable with a single drive on it you can speed up your boot by right-clicking on my computer,...

are you sure it's rundull32 not rundll32?