cloudcroft
Technical User
When I boot my Windows98 machine, it appears to load for a second, then pause, etc. For instance, when it goes through the sequence of counting down the total amount of ram installed, it will count 4-5 MB of ram, then pause, then 4-5 more, then pause, ect, until it has counted through the total. It does this sort of thing through the whole process. When I hit escape to strip the Dell logo screen from the screen so I can see the boot process, the logo screen disappears a little at a time, pauses, then a little more. The power went off this morning for a second, then came back on, and the machine rebooted. I went into setup to see if I could see anything, and it takes 11-12 seconds for setup to respond to a keystroke while navigating through setup. But once Windows 98 boots up, everything seems to be fine. Any ideas?