I just switched my monitor refresh rates in w2k from 60 to 76 and it looked fine. When I restarted I got a corrupted pic at about 65-80% along the "progress" bar on the startup screen. I think it continued to load, but all I could see was the top half of the screen and a bunch of red and white vertical bars.

After a bunch of swearing and uninstalling/reinstalling different versions of the drivers in safe mode, I am back up.

My question is why would the settings work when I hit "apply" but then corrupt the startup?