Windows 98 problem

[undyingking]

Anyone out there remember the happy days of Windows 98 SE? T's pc has a problem -- it boots up apparently OK, but freezes within about a minute of finishing populating the desktop. In safe mode, though, it's fine. I've done the obvious things like turning off all the startup gubbins, but no joy. Seen this sort of thing before?

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[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Hmm, an intriguing update on this: with all the stuff turned off as described below, you can now do quite a bit on it, but it seems that it freezes when it's called upon to display warning or error dialogs.

[mr-snips.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Possibly a display card problem. You could try:

1) Set the video card to VGA (basic functionality only) from safe mode. If this fixes it in normal mode, try reinstalling the video driver.

2) Unplugging the video card and plugging it back in.

Good luck! :-)

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Turns out to have been a hardware problem, fixed at least for now by removing and reseating everything... the startup behaviour was a bit of a red herring!