This happens on ladybird build 14 on both win2000 and win98.

There are two exceptions in the bugs, let's call them exception 1 and 2.

Exception 1 is observed when:
Second monitor is 256 color, primary moitor switch from 32 bit to 24 bit.
and when the Second monitor is 32 bit color, primary monitor switch from 16 bit to 256 color.

Exception 2 is observed when:
Just by switch the primary monitor from any higher resolution to 256 bit, the exception is sometimes showing without terminate the applicaiton.

The third behavior is the system dead, mouse just hanging on the screen, user have to reboot the system. But I have not find the routine of it, it seems happen randomly.

There are two different exceptions that were thrown, I will just put them in the same bug report.

The video card on the primary monitor is:Dell D1025TM on ATI Technologies Inc. 3D RAGE PRO AGP 2X
The second video card is the same as the third one which is:Dell 826fi on 3dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo3
The first exception:
An unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM.
Unexpected Signal : EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION occurred at PC=0x6d08a464
Function name=Java_sun_java2d_loops_DefaultComponent_ByteIndexXparToArgb
Library=G:\test\jdk1.3.1\win\jre\bin\awt.dll

Current Java thread:
        at sun.java2d.loops.GIFAcceleratorLoops.LUTxparToIntRgb(Native Method)
        at sun.java2d.loops.LUTxparToIntRgb.TransparentBlit(GIFAcceleratorLoop
java:380)
        at sun.java2d.loops.RasterOutputManager.performTransparentBlit(RasterO
putManager.java:1272)
        at sun.java2d.loops.RasterOutputManager.compositeSrcDst(RasterOutputMa
ger.java:644)
        at sun.java2d.loops.RasterOutputManager.renderImage(RasterOutputManage
java:479)
        at sun.java2d.SunGraphics2D.renderingPipeImage(SunGraphics2D.java:2067
        at sun.java2d.SunGraphics2D.drawImage(SunGraphics2D.java:1626)
        at sun.awt.windows.WGraphics.drawImage(WGraphics.java:437)
        at sun.awt.image.ImageRepresentation.drawToBufImage(ImageRepresentatio
java:716)
        at sun.awt.windows.WGraphics.drawImage(WGraphics.java:392)
        at GCCanvas.paint(ScreenTest.java:162)
        at java.awt.Component.update(Component.java:2009)
        at sun.awt.RepaintArea.update(RepaintArea.java:337)
        at sun.awt.windows.WComponentPeer.handleEvent(WComponentPeer.java:200)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:2663)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:2497)
        at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:339)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEvent(EventDispatchThread.java:
3)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:84)

Dynamic libraries:
0x00400000 - 0x00405000 g:\test\jdk1.3.1\win\bin\appletviewer.exe
0x77F80000 - 0x77FFA000 C:\WINNT\System32\ntdll.dll
0x77DB0000 - 0x77E0A000 C:\WINNT\system32\ADVAPI32.dll
0x77E80000 - 0x77F35000 C:\WINNT\system32\KERNEL32.DLL
0x77D40000 - 0x77DB0000 C:\WINNT\system32\RPCRT4.DLL
0x78000000 - 0x78046000 C:\WINNT\system32\MSVCRT.dll
0x6D420000 - 0x6D4ED000 g:\test\jdk1.3.1\win\jre\bin\hotspot\jvm.dll
0x77E10000 - 0x77E74000 C:\WINNT\system32\USER32.dll
0x77F40000 - 0x77F7C000 C:\WINNT\system32\GDI32.DLL
0x77570000 - 0x775A0000 C:\WINNT\System32\WINMM.dll
0x75E60000 - 0x75E7A000 C:\WINNT\System32\IMM32.DLL
0x6CA60000 - 0x6CA68000 C:\WINNT\System32\LPK.DLL
0x66650000 - 0x666A4000 C:\WINNT\System32\USP10.dll
0x6D220000 - 0x6D227000 g:\test\jdk1.3.1\win\jre\bin\hpi.dll
0x6D3B0000 - 0x6D3BD000 g:\test\jdk1.3.1\win\jre\bin\verify.dll
0x6D250000 - 0x6D266000 g:\test\jdk1.3.1\win\jre\bin\java.dll
0x6D3C0000 - 0x6D3CD000 g:\test\jdk1.3.1\win\jre\bin\zip.dll
0x6D020000 - 0x6D128000 G:\test\jdk1.3.1\win\jre\bin\awt.dll
0x77800000 - 0x7781D000 C:\WINNT\System32\WINSPOOL.DRV
0x77A50000 - 0x77B45000 C:\WINNT\system32\ole32.dll
0x6D1E0000 - 0x6D21B000 G:\test\jdk1.3.1\win\jre\bin\fontmanager.dll
0x6D340000 - 0x6D348000 G:\test\jdk1.3.1\win\jre\bin\net.dll
0x75050000 - 0x75058000 C:\WINNT\System32\WSOCK32.dll
0x75030000 - 0x75044000 C:\WINNT\System32\WS2_32.DLL
0x75020000 - 0x75028000 C:\WINNT\System32\WS2HELP.DLL
0x78280000 - 0x7828C000 C:\WINNT\System32\rnr20.dll
0x77980000 - 0x779A4000 C:\WINNT\System32\DNSAPI.DLL
0x777E0000 - 0x777E8000 C:\WINNT\System32\winrnr.dll
0x77950000 - 0x77979000 C:\WINNT\system32\WLDAP32.DLL
0x777F0000 - 0x777F5000 C:\WINNT\System32\rasadhlp.dll
0x77830000 - 0x7783E000 C:\WINNT\System32\RTUTILS.DLL
0x72800000 - 0x72846000 C:\WINNT\System32\ddraw.dll
0x728A0000 - 0x728A6000 C:\WINNT\System32\DCIMAN32.dll
0x6D2C0000 - 0x6D2DB000 G:\test\jdk1.3.1\win\jre\bin\jpeg.dll
0x77920000 - 0x77942000 C:\WINNT\system32\imagehlp.dll
0x72A00000 - 0x72A2D000 C:\WINNT\system32\DBGHELP.dll
0x690A0000 - 0x690AB000 C:\WINNT\System32\PSAPI.DLL

Local Time = Tue Jan 30 11:34:23 2001
Elapsed Time = 197
#
# The exception above was detected in native code outside the VM
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.3.1beta-b14 mixed mode)
#
# An error report file has been saved as hs_err_pid1024.log.
# Please refer to the file for further information.



The second exception:
Exception occurred during event dispatching:
java.lang.ClassCastException: [B
        at java.awt.image.DirectColorModel.getDataElements(DirectColorModel.java
:772)
        at sun.java2d.loops.TextRendering.toIndexed(TextRendering.java:243)
        at sun.java2d.loops.drawStringIndexed.DrawString(TextRendering.java:2786
)
        at sun.java2d.loops.RasterOutputManager.drawString(RasterOutputManager.j
ava:2932)
        at sun.java2d.SunGraphics2D.drawString(SunGraphics2D.java:2245)
        at GCCanvas.paint(ScreenTest.java:146)
        at java.awt.Component.update(Component.java:2009)
        at sun.awt.RepaintArea.update(RepaintArea.java:337)
        at sun.awt.windows.WComponentPeer.handleEvent(WComponentPeer.java:200)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:2663)
        at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:2497)
        at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:339)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEvent(EventDispatchThread.java:10
3)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:93)
        at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:84)