I have recently setup a triple boot system on my friend's computer as follows:
C:\ = Win98 FAT32.
E:\ = User files FAT32.
F:\ and G:\ XP Home NTFS on each.
Monitor is on DVI with latest digital drivers.
All clean instals on newly formatted partions. Loaded the latest drivers for MOBO, Graphics,and all MS updates.
There is an intermittant problem after POST when the Boot menu is displayed, it sometimes is unreadable, the screen is full of pinkish broken lines and the fonts are so big that only two lines of the menu fill the screen. As soon as the chosen OS starts to boot the problem disappears. This happens about 50% of the time and only to the Boot menu the other 50% of the time there is a clear, rock solid menu.
When there was just the single OS on a single NTFS partiton no Video problems at all.
The problem must be directly related to the Boot menu event, the Bootloader files are on C:root. I am not sure how to tackle this, is it a setting in the BIOS? since this is controlling everything prior to the Boot menu appearing.
This is an annoyance, certainly not a show stopper, but I would like to eliminate it somehow.
Thanks in advance.
Toolman59
C:\ = Win98 FAT32.
E:\ = User files FAT32.
F:\ and G:\ XP Home NTFS on each.
Monitor is on DVI with latest digital drivers.
All clean instals on newly formatted partions. Loaded the latest drivers for MOBO, Graphics,and all MS updates.
There is an intermittant problem after POST when the Boot menu is displayed, it sometimes is unreadable, the screen is full of pinkish broken lines and the fonts are so big that only two lines of the menu fill the screen. As soon as the chosen OS starts to boot the problem disappears. This happens about 50% of the time and only to the Boot menu the other 50% of the time there is a clear, rock solid menu.
When there was just the single OS on a single NTFS partiton no Video problems at all.
The problem must be directly related to the Boot menu event, the Bootloader files are on C:root. I am not sure how to tackle this, is it a setting in the BIOS? since this is controlling everything prior to the Boot menu appearing.
This is an annoyance, certainly not a show stopper, but I would like to eliminate it somehow.
Thanks in advance.
Toolman59