UPDATE: Attempted SVN bootcd-29650-rel install with same hardware + same results; immediately blanks out after loading SERIAL.SYS driver. <ESC> key will blue-screen then reboot itself. Very well could be a Shared Video Memory issue. And I had such high hopes for ReactOS. I guess I'll just have to wa...

I am experiencing the exact same screen blanking problem. Upon review of other's problems here, I tried installing a dedicated S3 Trio64V+ 86c765 PCI VGA card, which yielded the exact same results. In both cases, my system STILL goes blank right after loading the SERIAL.SYS driver. I had also specif...