Very strange. Did you remember to remove the old drivers before installing the new ones?

Have you tried re-installing the video driver again, maybe from a different source?

Also re-install direct X. It simply wont do it if it doesnt need to.

It's not the battery, that's just your bios backup, you would see a different set of symptoms if that was the case.

Human Interface Device -    HIDCLASS.SYS

Doesn't mean it's your mouse or joystick, it just means that was running when the failure occured I think. But isolate them off the system one at a time, just in case.

Internal Power Failure - EEEEK! That's power on the mainboard unless the op sys is reporting wrong (quite possible).

(hmmm, USB device Power? Corrupt USB drivers? Bad connector?)

It's time to pull things apart and put them carefully back together. Have a good look round in there. Could be dust on the connectors of your hardware or a bad contact, Remove your cards- RAM sticks as well, and replace them with care. See if it helps.

A bad CDrom drive causes chaos, remove the power and IDE cable from your CDrom drive and see if the problem is still there.

If you have two ram sticks, try one at a time, to ensure it's not one of them.

Most probably, it's the op sys with corrupted files, but hardware is fairly easy to isolate, so it's really up to you what diagnostic path you take or what you are comfortable with. (many people baulk at fiddling with the internals!)

If you can't isolate a hardware failure, then it may be time for a system restore, repair to the op sys, or a reformat / re-install. If it still persists then PSU or mainboard is sus.

Why are you using 53.03 and 53.04?  I've been using the 61.12 betas for weeks now and love them.  Just curious if the older ones are better?

You have my sympathy lol.

The IDE cable is the big flat ribbon cable that connects to your Hard drive and cdrom drives, the only other cables to them is the power connector. (but there could be a small, thin, 2 wire audio cable for audio cd playback on the cdrom drives...... if that slips off you won't hear the audio cd play).

Try like I said above, it sounds like a loose ram stick to be quite honest, but it could be a few things.

Be scientific and do 1 thing at a time in a process of elimination, until the problem stops, then you have your culprit.

It could still be a software prob of course.

I'm glad you sorted it with a checkdisk, it's odd it didn't run automatically to fix it. Hope it doesn't happen again.    

If it's running fine then just dust it, no need to pull things out of slots etc.

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I've got a "thing" about up-dating video drivers... ...!
My one is certified 45.23 for my n-Vidia Ge-Force 4 Ti 4200/Win '98 system.
It's an old one, but works fine and is stable, with Direct X 9.b, so I leave well alone.. ...!

Cheers all...!

Paul.

P.S. if you run Win '98 SE, (like me), you will be well used to the "Blue screen of death"...
I can spend many happy hours sorting the various problems out...never a dull moment... ...!
LOL...LOL...LOL...!

Well I think I have finally traced sown my problem.
Doesn't seem to be the Defrag program, all wires and cables inside are secure, it seems to be caused by me M$ (go figure) Force Feedback joystick!
If I boot up the computer with the joystick pluged into the USB port I'll get the Blue Screen stating "Internal Power failure"!
If I boot up with it unplugged she boots up just fine. Tried it both ways, and also ran the Defrag program to see if it had anything to do with it and it only happens when I try to boot up with the joystick plugged in.
Ever hear of this problem???