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I had the same result when I attempted to add a USB 2.0 PCI card to a legacy computer running Win98 SE. It wasn't the drivers, when I took the card back out it stopped. Have you looked into the BIOS? Is an update possible? It sounds like a pieceof hardware is sending a reset. This is speculative, of course. Perhaps removing add in cards one at a time might reveal that a card has gone south.

I forgot to subscribe before my first response. Sorry. I had the same problem when I put a USB 2.0 PCI card in my old machine. It restarted when it reached the point where Win98 is ready to announce new hardware found and searching for software for the new hardware. The drivers were already installed, so it wasn't the software. If the card was installed it restarted over and over. Once I took the card out it stopped. Have you recently installed a new card, new memory, or noticed a changein behavior in a card just prior to this problem starting? What motherboard are you using? Is a bios update a possibility? It sounds to me like it is faulty or incompatible hardware activating the reset line to the processor.

One possible cause is the power supply may not be providing enough power to your system. You may want to try another power supply.

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The standard question? What has changed? Did this problem "just appear" or did it ocur after some hardware or software change.

C.Barnhorst in his post notes similar problem with PCI card installation.

The fact that you were able to format, re-install, and run Win in Safe Mode would initally seem to rule out the power supply as a culprit.

Have you tried msconfig, and systematically disabling startup software and services?

A miriad of posibilities. What changed from the last time it booted completely? Hardware, software, drivers, patches? If no changes try the drive in another machine in safe mode, if that works start looking for hardware problems. Memory, PS, drive cables. Remove every thing but the video card, add cards till failure, is that a bad card or weak power source.

Your experience is revealing one of the annoyances of windows running faulty device drives. in most cases I found that the video driver is not correct or when it initialyzes the videocard the card colapses in a blue screen if not it reboots the system. That goes for faulty audio or networkdrivers as well. Cause your system to boot in protected mode, change the video driver in standard vga and try to re-discover the exact name and type videocard, download the windows registred drivers and install. If the system doesn't boot properly, try another video-card.

Check the CPU fans as well as the power suppy .Make sure they are running.

check with intel. I had a mate recently had the same trouble with a 733MHZ intel CPU and they agreed that the cpu was faulty and gave him a warranty replacement. If you can't find anything on their website try calling tech support. Intel gives a 3 year limited warranty on their CPUs. so you shaould be able to get a replacement from them