windows 98 auto shutting down

Make sure you get the patches for 98....can you prevent the shutdown at all?? If not you may have little choice other than to reinstall. I don't think there is a way to apply 98 patches from the command prompt. You can try booting to safe mode and/or disabling power management in BIOS then running the Windows update from the START menu.

Also if you have installed a network card and/or modem you may want to make sure they have not gone bad. I have had experience with both these items going bad and randomly rebooting systems.

Try booting to the boot menu and take off the timer then leave the machine in that state. If it reboots at that point then it's probably your power supply. I've seen this occasionally and that's what it ended up being. -Corey Hitchcock

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