maggie and horatio:
thanks for the suggestion regarding cmos.
on reflection i decided to take that leap of faith. it worked!!
after i got into cmos, etc., i discovered for unknown reason, the partitions were corrupted; i had to re-partition all over. hate to tell you how many times. thanks for bailing me out.
horatio, thanks got sticking w/me; am genuinely appreciative.
there is no end to problems. now something else and maybe someone out can chip in. i thought i had an old monitor because i can only get 16 colors (640x480). when i click "display" there is only one option, which is 16 colors. when my new monitor here, it does the same thing, one 16 colors.
my soyo manual says "make sure that you have installed the SiS AGP driver." i cannot find it on soyo's cd (that came with the mobo), nor on the cd that came with the video card. any idea where i go to get this SiS AGP driver? thanks.
Wes