nv4_disp.dll driver stuck in infinite loop.

[caravel]

It wasn't with Ubuntu - at that point in time, I don't know if it even existed, and if it was, nobody'd heard of it. I think my experience was with some RH (no Fedora back then, either), and Win2k, and I think it was lilo, not grub (which might make a difference).
Believe me, I'm aware that windows overwrites the bootloader, because I've been through that myself several times, but I'm just not sure how to reconcile that memory I have where it didn't - just that one time. Oh well, maybe it's just a sign that Alzheimer's is kicking in early.

lilo like grub resides in the mbr, and this what windows OSes rewrite on installation, so there should be no difference in this regard. grub is better in that the stage1 of the boot process is located in the mbr but the rest is on your ext2/ext3 or whatever partition usually in /boot/grub, so if it get's nuked by windows you can restore it more easily without having to rewrite the whole thing again, though with lilo you just kept a copy of you lilo.conf file and just did "lilo" and that would rewrite the mbr again.

Hmmm... It's so simple actually now that I think about it that I might find a bit of space for a Win9x partition on my existing drive and just write it into menu.lst, it's not as if a 9x install takes up much space either.

-Edit: I've been looking through the driver archive and can't find anything much older than the ones I had downloaded. Tried messing with hardware acceleration slider. MTW now seems to respond to CTRL+ALT+DEL now and again instead of BSoD. RTW exactly the same problem.

I have a feeling that whatever I do with this in XP it will always be the same due to my motherboard and the fact that all the Nvidia XP/2K drivers cause this issue old and new. Win98SE using the last drivers for the 6 series cards (81.98 w9x)seems to be the only possible solution left.