From: Kev 
Subject: Re: Windows problem ...
Date: 1999/09/13
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> > I Have an annoying problem. It strikes
> > any time, but not all the time, and doesn't
> > go away till I shut down - and it results
> > in my text looking like it does in the picture.
> > (I know it looks like a badly encoded .jpg, but
> > that's what my text will look like! I captured it
> > with PaintShop Pro, which I had to navigate in
> > the dark.)
> > Suddenly my computer will forget to repaint
> > all the text it writes to the screen.
> >
> > I've scanned with Norton AntiVirus with the
> > September 7th definitions and scanned
> > for windows errors with Norton WinDoctor,
> > but found nothing.
> >
> > Does any one know what's wrong?
> >
Sounds like you're using Win95 Display drivers on a Win98 machine, you
MIGHT be using a wrong driver for a generic family chipset of specific
vendor components (Diamond Stealth 3D2000 instead of 3D2000XL, etc...)
or you might have a slight bug with DirectX drivers...Switch Drvs and
see...