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Win98SE lockup on boot.

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I just did a fresh install of Win98SE on a friend's computer. AMD K6-2 400Mhz, FIC VA-503+, 128MB PC100 RAM, Quantum 4.3GB HDD. When you turn it on it starts to boot, finishes counting up the RAM and then stops. If you hit Ctrl+Alt+Del, it re-boots and restarts properly. Any ideas?
 
Is it freezing up at verifying DMI? You should probably load the defaults in the BIOS. Sounds like it's either not recognizing the HDD or it's bad.
 
It recognizes both HDDs but not the CD-ROM which is master on the secondary IDE channel and doesn't even get close to verifying DMI. When I hit Ctrl+Alt+Del, it starts over and runs through the complete boot-up sequence just fine, as if nothing had even happened. Sounds almost like the cold boot problems some folks have been having with the MSI K7T Pro2A MoBos. Any other ideas? I don't see it as that big of a problem, but my friend is starting to whine about it and I'd like to solve this problem, if for nothing else, to at least shut him up. I'm about ready to tell him to buy a Gateway and take his pissing and moaning to Gateway country.
 
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