Hi: I'm currently unable to boot up my laptop into=20 Windows 98 SE. My laptop has 128 ram and 20 gig=20 hard drive).=20 When I power on the laptop it freezes and gets hung=20 up at the Windows splash screen. The only way to=20 proceed is for me to cut the power supply, power it=20 up again and then wait as it automatically goes into=20 safe mode. From "Safe" mode I'm able to restart =20 back in "normal" mode.=20 Does anyone know what's going on and/or suggest a=20 means of trouble shooting the problem? I've run virus=20 checkers and have cleaned the registry and deleted=20 all temp files on my hard drive with a utility.=20 Thanks for any possible solutions. gil gil Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig> Freelists login at //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi List archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.