Monitor problems

First check the display and see if it is set to SVGA,
Open Device Manager and check for exclamation marks next to Display Adapter,if you click on the Display adapters and see if the video card is installed on the computer
Using the restore disk reload the video drivers,or look at the manufacturers web site and download the drivers to support the operating system

Since this is a new PC, it has newer hardware than the drivers on your W98 are designed for.

I doubt that you will be ablr to download W98 drivers from Dell.

You will need to identify the chipset on the motherboard, video, sound card, modem, and any other devices on the system.

To aid in identifying the hardware, download and run the PCI Information utility from this site,
http://members.hyperlink.net.au/~chart/pci.htm#craig
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Or use Belarc Advisor from www.belarc.com

Then, download the drivers. For links to the mfg web sites, go to www.driverguide.com

Install the motherboard chipset drivers.
Then directX 8.1 (Microsoft)
Then the video driver.
Followed by the drivers for the otherplug in cards.

You will need several of the updates for W98 from the Microsoft Windows Update page.
Make sure that you get the large Hard Drive cache suplement.

Note: W98 does not support more than 511MB of RAM, and may have trouble with drive partitions larger than 32GB.

Chas

As an it manager i've always a video card in spare.To save time .Delete de video card in W98
take it out of the computer.Put another one in it
from wich you have the drivers .
Then when you're system is working search for the drivers of your newer videocard.