Note: Ticking the **preserve your spacing** box makes posts easier to read.
It gives you what you intended
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/post?1186193520
--not this blobby jumble
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1186193520


|Already have taken ALL things out of Start Up in msconfig to get this far
| Steve
|
Good.
I'm still thinking **borked device driver**
--and as a possible cause: **flakey spot on the HDD surface**.
Nuking the old driver and making a fresh copy should answer this.

Have you done a Scandisk/Defrag lately?

It might be useful to know what all you see on the screen before it craps out
(and what you hear).

Something else that might help:
cache of http://answersthatwork.com/Downright_pages/downrights_assorted.htm
++Bootlog.Analyzer


|So there is NO NEED to have a SET path on boot?
|
Not what I said.
There is no need for most folks to run the two *DOS* startup helper files.[1]
Windoze has its own config files.
If text about PATH is being *displayed*, that sounds like DOS.


|[...][Ctrl-Alt]-Delete will not reboot[...]
|Removing all the BS in start up makes boot faster of course
|but the freezing issue has me stumped.
|Once past that[,] PC runs fine for long periods.
|
If you could get the Warm Boot technique to work,
that might indicate a HDD on its last leg.
(Once it gets spun up all the way, everything works OK.)
Does the 2nd try always work?
Does your HDD make any funny noises?

|Will try the mouse change but have doubts.
|
It's a Hail Mary--but it's easy to try because most nerds have a spare.

|Unsure how to shut this off with run.
|
Huh??


[1] I actually *do* run AUTOEXEC.BAT
because I like to have DOSKEY[2] loaded for when I open a DOS Box.

[2] A Command Line editor.

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