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sdkfz
09-13-2002, 08:00 PM
My managers home PC only boots to the same screen you get if you F8 during boot up, if you select normal boot at this point it finishes fine. I am trying to avoid the drive to look at it.

Known issue: He lives in Malden Mass. which has had 8-12 roaving power outages a day for a period of a month so he has been hit a few times for sure. I had him get an APC UPS with software to shut the machine down to avoid this problem in the future.

If it boots fine after selecting normal (it has been a while since I was on 98 so the terms might be wrong) is there a way to skip this dos screen and have him do straight into windows? or is a reinstall the best option due to the possible weirdness from the power outages?

Thank you in advance

His machine is a local store build and is roughly a:
P!!! machine about 1 Ghz
512 MB pc133 ram
ATI 32 mb video card
DVD
CD burner
WIn 98 SE

Cricket
09-13-2002, 08:04 PM
Hi sdkfz,

Have him check in msconfig> advanced tab to see if the option to start at the boot menu is checked. If it is, have him uncheck it.

:) Cricket

sdkfz
09-15-2002, 05:36 PM
Cricket,

To quote my manager's e mail in response to your forwarded answer "IT WORKED!!! Thank you."

Thank you