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by grakenmol

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My Win98SE machine is having issues during the boot sequence at the moment. When restarting, it displays all the right signs, and makes all the right noises up until where the desktop picture is installed. At this point, the HDD stops spinning andthe system hangs. It doesn't do this all the time, just on odd occasions.

Does anyone have any ideas as to why this happens?

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by thechas

The most common causes for startup stops are poor video drivers, too many programs loading at startup, and bad registry links.

1. Make sure that the drivers for your motherboard, and video card are the latest.

2. Run msconfig from the run box on the start menu.
On the startup tab, uncheck any program that you do not need.

2a. Download and run AdAware from www.lavasoft.de
This program removes most spyware that advertisers install on your PC.

3. Boot into safe mode, and run scandisk and defrag.

4. Use a registry checker such as Norton WinDoctor, or V-COM Fix-It

If all else fails, check out the start-up shut-down trouble-shooting guide at www.aumha.org

Chas

by grakenmol

Thanks for your hints..
Norton Utils was the last program installed and i'm wondering whether that is causing some of the issues?
grakenmol@hotmail.com

by b_pope

Possibly the power supply is going bad, does anything else shut off at same time the hard drive stops spinning such as fans.

Replace the hard drive cable or at least make sure it's not loose.

by gordy_miller

If running Mcafee antivirus on 9x machine, remove
the lines refering to it in the autoexec.bat.
It should startup normally.

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